While I enjoyed the original show, there is no way that these few people could have built this entire structure by themselves. This is a task that would take decades with hundreds of people working on it
Its likely they got robots helping out, Max is Brains's pride and most adaptable robot but who to say that they don't have other robots for working on the Thunderbirds themselves?
In the original show Brains designed everything (impossible), but outsourced components manufacturing to a dozen contractors so nobody knew what the final project looked like.
@@HALLish-jl5moI expect similar thing happens in TBGO with the GDO serving as people who receive the parts and IR coming to pick them up using TB2, similar to when they need their surplies to keep living
The combining of the Thunderbirds craft is reminiscent of the combined spaceship seen in the anime series reworked for English language audiences as Thunderbirds 2086.
@@ThunderbirdsAreGoLaunchesSince the times we've seen them go into space was for things like satellite repairs and mining rescues. It's probable that space isn't considered as part of any nation so there was no need to change the name. Besides branding sure is a heck of a lot easier if your name stays consistent.
Ich finde die Serie Cool. Hatte vorher Bedenken als ich las, dass man Anime und Puppen vermischt hat. Aber die haben es wirklich gut hin bekommen. Auch die Modele über Wasser und Land. Wie in meiner Kindheit.
@@thenoob883 Thunderbirds 2086 was a later animated collaboration between ITC and a Japanese anime studio. Much like Power Rangers / Super Sentai they rebranded the property from TechoVoyager to Thunderbirds 2086. In that show the various TB craft joints together to form a larger platform to transport everyone to the danger. It's a great show that is loosely part of Anderson canon.
I would really hesitate about robotic arms trying to put clothes on me. OSHA would have a field day from all the workplace safety violations on the island. 😹
Wow this is perfect on so many levels. You respected the original design and yet made it more sustainable on scifi level It's not fault here!! Wowo gain!!!
OK, we get access tube for Scott and TB 1 using the light fixtures. Virgil and TB 2 access is the rocket blast-off picture. Alan and Kayo's TB 3 and TB Shadow access is the couch. Gordon and TB 4 access is the fish tank. But what I wanna know is this? Where is the stinking access area for John and TB 5 when he is back on the island and is needing to get back to the station. Was that ever found out?
The one thing that always drives me crazy is the later shows (and even some third party media such as books) get certain elements of Medding’s incredibly well thought out designs wrong. The big one is Thunderbird 3’s cockpit. As actually designed the Cockpit is in the grey finned section, not the nose cone. There is a circle of portals around the top of the grey section that line up with the cockpit interior. The section with the couch is the big cylinder below it. Everything above that grey cockpit is fuel that feeds down the three arms to the engines, and the docking connector for Thunderbird 5.
Interesting, what is your source? I always considered the finned section as the primary reactor with those as cooling fins. The entry through the base bothered me, as did the giant sofa pole having to go thirty stories underground when they boarded. I suppose having the sofa pass through the center of a cylindrical reactor makes as much sense as having they go up through the fuel tanks when they dock with TB 5...
@@richardbaker5223 The sofa makes more sense when it only has to rise a short distance into thunderbird 3. The Rocket doesn’t stage. It’s SSTO. The passengers in theory should be in the area behind the heat shield. I know at least one book has the cockpit up at the top. But I swear I’ve seen another diagram that made more sense. Just on top of the black finned section is a silver ring with portholes in it. These windows can at times be seen in Alan’s cockpit.
@@andrewtaylor940 With the sofa I was thinking about it's initial descent from the Tracy command lounge to the underground track system to the hangar. You see one giant pole come down with the crew and a replacement go up, that long pole has to go somewhere. TB3 is my favorite craft but GA did not care for it much (hard to write stories for). I watched the show when it was first broadcast and like this new series as well, though I prefer the original designs. GA created this show for kids but was very adult in content. Our heroes carried guns and shot bad guys.
Thunderbird 3 didn't shoot up replacement chairs. In the original, another couch was sent up to replace the one that went down. Although since it went up on a fixed hydraulic pole, it wouldn't have been in the spot.
The launch sequences are awesome, but who in the world decided to turn the Thunderbirds into a combining mecha? And then use TB4 - the submarine - as a space shuttle?
this version of Thunderbirds had a fully developed space industry with convoys of ships in orbit and had one long enough that a previous world war left space mines up there so having a space version of 4 to do more delicate maneuvering makes a lot of sense
I've always felt bad for Thunderbird 2. Everyone else is on elevators or chairs, he's going *headfirst* down on a track at a downward angle and then has to make the physical transition into his vehicle by grabbing a bar over his head, flipping into the vehicle, and then manually closing the door.
Yeah, it doesn't seem fair, or practical. This is even mentioned in the show. "I go down the tube backwards, and you get a nice comfy seat" - Virgil "No one ever said suit ups were fair, Virgil" - Alan
I just find it so amusing see TB1's engines going in the launch. Its not doing anything significant, it would be like strapping a f-15 to a falcon heavy rocket. At least TB2 is a heavy lifter and has significant thrust capability to do that job.
@@superomegaprimemk2 for normal operations yes. Light aircraft, moderate sized engine gives a fast result. But in the scenario in the video, that moderate engine is working along the heavy duty engines if tb2 and 3, not to mention the additional thrusters that seem to be bigger still
Honest question here... what vehicles inside TB 2 container modules? Can TB 2 operates without any container modules? TB 2 to me is similar to Thousand Sunny in One Piece anime because of these modules.
In the original show, yes, Thunderbird 2 could operate without a container. While I don't remember all the containers, #4 always contained Thunderbird 4, and one of the others contained the Mole, which was a digging hole bore of a machine. There were also a set of carrier vehicles with flatbeds in another pod. These vehicles were used to effectively "catch" aircraft with damaged landing gear, and consisted of one control car and two automated cars. As for the other pods, I don't remember. I've impressed myself that I remember this much, as it's been over 20 years since I last saw Thunderbirds
I don't care how rich and brilliant the Tracy family is. Each TB is supposed to be powered by some kind of advanced classified engine. But no country is anywhere close to a rival system? And you can't build that much hardware in a human lifetime without contracting out. Each one is unique, so everything is custom and the price should be through the roof. TB5 is a whole ass space station. TB3 is a reusable orbital launch vehicle. Evidently all of them are space worthy. Just the tether alone from Tracy Island to TB5 would probably be the most valuable object on the fucking planet. It's several hundred to several thousand miles long, appears to be uniform diameter along the full length, and doesn't snap under its own weight. Obviously made of some kind of advance super-material or composite. Forget stealing one of the Thunderbirds. It'll be much easier to go after that tether. Create a situation where the whole family has to meet up on the Island to plan out a big rescue or just wait for a holiday where they get together to celebrate. Then collect a sample of the tether to reverse engineer it. TB5's orbit is easily trackable. From there, careful observation during crisis responses will reveal the orbit used when the descent pod is deployed. From there, it's a simple matter to figure out where Tracy Island is located (assuming that's not public information or easily calculated). And then it's a little advanced math to calculate the corridor to find the tether. Come in with a VTOL craft in an attempt to cut out a section for study. If you can't sever the cable (because it's probably hugely resistant to thermal and mechanical forces), take as many scans and whatever samples you can. If you manage to reverse engineer a product half as good that you can produce at scale, you'll be rich beyond the dreams of Avarice. Even selling some of the research insights to world governments should net you enough money to join the top 100 richest private entities on the planet.
One problem: As shown in the second episode of season 3 public space elevators do exist in the Thunderbirds are go! (2015) continuity! And they more than likely use the same kind of tether that Thunderbird 5 uses for its elevator. This means that launching such a complicated and most likely expensive operation just to steal a piece of TB 5's tether is completely pointless as you can just purchase the tether from some manufacturer that was unnamed in the series!
@@ThunderbirdsAreGoLaunches there must be a undersea giant tunnel to transport them with nasa like assembly vehicles, thunderbird 4 must of gone into thunderbird 2
She’s in it, just not in these scenes. David Graham was also back as the voice of Parker. Sylvia Anderson (the original Lady P) starred in a Series 1 episode as Penelope’s great aunt.
What exactly was the point of combining all the Thunderbirds together (including 5) to send into deep space, when 3 alone could do the job?🤷♂️ Supposing there was other disasters on Earth whilst they were away? 🤔
I doubt even Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk combined could fund half of these structures. Maintenance and repair costs alone would be astronomical and for the Thunderbirds to do any of this alone without backup crews would be virtually impossible.
I didn't watch "Thunderbirds" as a kid, so this makes absolutely no sense to me. They go from a volcanic island in their individual ships to an artificial island where they're all combined into one ship and launched into space. There, they dock with a space station and warp off to an asteroid field where their ships separate in order to ... harvest ice? Are they trying to reverse global warming by dropping ice into the polar regions?
In this part of the Thunderbirds are Go storyline, the Tracy brothers lost their dad (Jeff Tracy) in the Zero X incident. It was believed to have been destroyed in a confrontation with the Hood and Jeff Tracy. However, on a rescue, they found part of the Zero X buried somewhere in the sea. It was discovered that the Zero X had a big secret--a Faster Than Light (FTL) drive. The Zero X was activated by Jeff Tracy, and the Zero X wasn't destroyed..it is somewhere in space. A signal from a long range ship picked up a signal from Jeff Tracy, and after removing the control chip within the Mechanic, the Mechanic helped design and build a ship that would integrate the Thunderbirds into a FTL ship that would go and attempt the most important rescue of them all.. The rescue of their father, Jeff Tracy.
Interesting. Why not just build a new fantasy vehicle? And why are the Thunderbird submersible or atmospheric vehicles in space. They are not made for it. Just build thunderbird 7 interstellar resources rescue interplanetary trasport. Thuse new toy.
What this remake series was missing all the way through it was the John Barry score. The music used in this show was just too generic and uninspiring. The original Barry score was absolutely perfect. Unless there were copyright issues, I can't imagine why the producers didn't use the original score.
@@ACtheLegend Sorry, I did mean Barry Gray. I don't know why they didn't use the Barry Gray score, you could be very right about the reason being the licensing costs, that would be the most likely reason. But certainly not because the score wouldn't fit.
@@ellesmerewildwood4858 oh no it absolutely wouldn't have fitted, it was composed for an entirely different pace of show from another era, I've tried a few edits as an experiment and it's just horribly jarring. Nick and Ben did a fantastic job with the new score, I play those CDs as often as Barry's ones.
Imma be honest, this “SCRAMBLE” method is too slow… What I’d improve is to make the deployment much faster. Like, it’s an EMERGENCY, they should have been ready as soon as fighter pilots. All vehicles already fueled, all suited up quickly, and all vehicles much closer. Imma be sincere at this, all members from Delta Squad of Power Rangers SPD (and the original Japanese team) deploy way faster than here on emergencies
@@ACtheLegendThe two old Thunderbirds movies (Thunderbirds Are Go, Thunderbird 6) were British films made by the same people who did the original show. I think @teaandmedals might be referring to the 2004 Thunderbirds film, while largely filmed in the UK and with a lot of British cast members, was an American film. It was directed by Jonathan Frakes (of ST:TNG Riker fame). It didn’t do too well.
Lazy and wont walk down a hallway? You don't need a conveyor belt driven chair to go everywhere. So lazy, and the overdone spinning locked down panel to get the Thunderbird 1 was just awful. Just open the door and walk through
That is the same sequence used for the original thunderbirds. Without that there would be complaints. It would make more sense for there to be a series of elevators. Thunderbird 3 would need a lift of some kind to reach the hatch.
