The attention to detail in the models and sets is astounding. Anyone who has attempted to build models will know and envy the skills of the set and model makers. At the risk of sounding like an old fogy, I wonder how many kids now have the patience to spend a week or two building a miniature of anything...
Actually, model building and painting is highly popular right now in a lot of different ages. I started heavily with prehistoric Diorama and Basebuilding in late 2019, when i just got 30. Finally i started this hobby. I wanted it my whole life. Moreover Warhammer (Miniature Tabletop Wargamining. Started in the 80s. Am sorry if you already know al that. But just in case) is a frikkin huge thing all over the world from old Frogs to Kids and Teenagers. Of course, a lot of people are on their Phones in the Internet. Like we are, right now. Not building models. It really is a thing. Models and paintworks have more products in the shelves as ever and the Internet is full of tutorials, communities, videos and forums about model building. Sculpting and so on. And let's not forget the whole world of scale model trains. It is not wrong that most people (not only the Kids!) Seem to marry their Phone (a look into my mirror.. well) and lost the ability to concentrate on something like that. But Model building is so big. And there a are a lot of young People, that blow every Model or Landscape from this show out of existence in Quality and Realism. Materials and techniques came a long way. And filming all that is also a different task. It is easy to see only the Kids that behave so different to what you are used to know or how you grew up. But it is not always the whole picture. Hard to see. Also for me. Same as i have a focus on these topics because i am intersted in Dioramas and models. So i am also not completely able to see it without this Bubble. :D also, this is an emotional topic for humans. Cheers and happy Model Building. If not, why not start with this wonderful hobby. Fantastic for mental health, too :D Best Regards from Germany EDIT: OH! Post is 10 years old :D oops. Hope u are fine :D
Desde la ciudad de México Saludos a todos los seguidores de los Thunderbird yo tengo 60 años y me encantan y me siguen emocionando como cuando los ví la primera vez
🚀04:20. I remember this spectacular scene. Thunderbirds was like to see a MOVIE on big screen. I was always impressed with each episodes. This is the only show from 60 ies always seen in 2020🌐.
Thunderbird 2 was "the Daddy". I had the full TB2 die cast toy in the late 60s with the TB4 pod. Wish I had kept it. I also had Captain Scarletts SPv with firing rockets.
Meccano sold the Dinky toy Thunderbird 2 painted metallic blue at one point and Gerry told the story somewhere that he warned them about it. He said that someone told him that they could never sell it painted green!
me too...i had all Thunderbirds toys and Captain Scarlet cars...even Joe 90s car....but little sister threw them away when i joined the army and my old bedroom became her little sitting room
One of those shows all of us 60's, 70's and 80's children grew up with... I love the whole Thunderbirds thing... hell I even loved Team America World police... Own the box set of the TB series' and love them dearly... the amount of work it took to create each episode was mind blowing... Really glad they all live on generations later!!!
What I LOVED about the original show was that it looked like how I played with toys. Throwing and crashing the toys into the pool. It was the same type of splash that was shown on Thunderbirds, not this perfect CGI of what a splash would look like. I knew they were toys on the show, and it was exactly how I played with my toys. What I don't like about the 2004 movie and the new series, is that they try too hard to make everything look real. I loved the original because it was how my best friend and I played with toys in the backyard. They looked like how we were playing with our G.I. Joes, our Hot Wheels, our Johnny Lightning cars, and our Lego (with our hand made ships, not the new ones that have instructions as to how to make the toy and what it should look like). The show looked exactly like when we lit fire crackers under the tank toys and blew them up. THAT is why I loved the original series.
The 2004 movie was ridiculous. They tried too hard to "futurize" timeless designs that shouldn't've been messed with and the final results looked awful. The Hood was on Tracy Island and the entire fucking movie revolves around alan. Gerry said it was shit, and the movie was a complete failure... serves them right.
Apparently Gerry "hated" John because of the puppet's "flat" expression, and rather cold voice. He was originally intended to fly Thunderbird 1, but when Gerry saw the puppet he wasn't happy with how it looked. Due to the long creative process of the puppets, it was too much hassle to make a new puppet, so they sent him to space instead.
The main problem with Thunderbird 1 is that it couldn't do a damn thing. It arrived at the scene, and then waited for Thunderbird 2 to bring the actual rescue equipment.
It did do a few things occasionally. Remember in that episode End Of The Road where Eddie's truck was hanging over the cliff and Scott positioned TB1's nose cone under the truck to stop it from over-toppling? - of course then TB2 did the rest. Oh and TB1 also fired them rocket things to prevent the large rocks from hitting the vehicle. And there was also the time when the Hood had some film footage of International Rescue ready to show to his boss. Then Scott persued him with TB1 and fired a few bullets to make him give in.
Gerry made me laugh with his disapproval of TB5's design and John Tracy in general. It's like: "I stuck him up there just to be mean to him" lol Only joking Gerry, I love you. i still wish you was with us now
+Johnno9989 Just a couple of degrees sway to the side in any direction, on just one launch, for any reason, and an engine pod of Thunderbird five bumps against the clubhouse deck, the reverberation bounces the entire vehicle back down, It hits the launch pad, the hydrazine and fuming red nitrate fuel spills from ruptured tanks, immediately bursts into a huge fireball, and tracy island goes up with a gigantic flaming blast!
I fly remote control airplanes so I have a little understanding of aerodynamics and it looks to me like Thunderbird 2 could really fly it's a giant lifting body, just needs powerful enough engines! this is way before NASA experimented with lifting bodies
They named the thunderbirds international rescue characters after the Mercury 7 Astronauts. Like Scott is named after Scott Carpenter, and so on, Virgil (Gus) Grissom, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper, and John Glenn.
The rumour has always been that he hated John because Sylvia requested one of the puppets look like Adam Faith, who she had a massive crush on, and Gerry was jealous of this so hated the puppet as a result.
If I could redo Thunderbirds, Thunderbird 5 would be a network of 3 unmanned satellites located in geostationary orbit at 120 degree intervals, a la Arthur C Clarke's idea, with a downlink to Tracy Island, where John or any of his brothers could sit in a secret radio room, monitoring the world's communications without having to be exiled to space.
I don't remember that Gerry Anderson hated the character of;John Tracey.I'm a little too young to remember.Never the less,Gerry 'had a use''for that character!Yeah,let's stick him up in Thunderbird three!Oh well,at least it was a good show!I'm a ''bit picky''when it come's to show's,now-a-day's.And,here's hoping the new ''Ufo''movie will be ''on top''of the viewing scale like the original was.We can only hope it will be good!Bettyloulee
In the new cgi series we see tb 5 in space and look what is now used as a lift to bring John up to the station ? Yes the space elevator a idea and invention from Japanese inventors and it seems that they are busy to make that project real. Nope they did not get it from the series for the series were later than the idea for the space elevator !
I'm 23. I spend a great amount of time building all sorts of model kits. I want to do it professionally, it's a real shame they're now somewhat out of favour...
@@oo0Spyder0oo OK well the machines, that is the models used on set weren't built at Slough but the work contracted to Master Models at Colnbrook. www.mastermodels.co.uk/
It was clearly designed for long duration spaceflight. It even had artificial gravity. Checking the wiki, it says the crew were up there for one month shifts, and had a bedroom. Presumably it has a galley and bathroom too.
Possibly...but I have since concluded that the island where TB1 is located is somewhere in the South Pacific...which could explain the distances involved here...
MACHOMISTERYMAN As it must take some time to accelerate and decelerate to and from such speeds I imagine that it can't possibility be at maximum speed for the entire journey so therefore the delay despite the max speed. Also can you imagine how boring it would be if there wasn't that "they aren't going to make it in time moment".
As well as that, they thought it would be more believable as us British never had or will have the resources for such extravagant things like space travel.
As a kid, I was disappointed that thunderbird 3 never had many trips. I did muse that it couldn't have enough fuel in those pods for a launch, especially knowing /watching the Apollo programme. 🤔 hmmm, unless is was a liquid from the main body- haha, lol. Someone build a model plane with the wings going backwards- would it fly ? Lol.
He wasn't winging,cos he drove the seafaring Thunderbird 4,mostly. He was whingeing though about TinTin.And not mopping but moping. (an English teacher and Thunderbird fan writes) But I agree with you.Poor John,What could a puppet do with itself up there alone in space?
+Anonymous Gamer I know, I just loved it and the other marionette shows... Supercar, Stingray, Fireball XL5, etc.... now you can download them, or get a DVD set, and enjoy them all over again...
Didn't like John so he left him in TB5. Could that be one reason that SID in Space 1999 didn't have any humans on board. Get rid of the character and automate the satellite. They could have done that with TB5. It actually didn't need to be manned.
What an imaginative and cool show (I only just learned of it),, but why did the characters have American accents? The narrator (in the glasses) looks like Noel Harrison (as U.N.C.L.E.'s Mark Slate) and the chauffeur like Ringo Starr!! Several of them remind me of Ray Wise (Twin Peaks) . How much FUN?! They are so stud-ly. Thank you for the upload
There was a rocket called the Black Arrow, but I don't know if it could have supported a manned capsule. And if the SABRE engine actually works, the sky is the limit for... BRITS IN SPACE!!!!
