Thunderbirds: Thunderbird One | Vehicle Breakdown 

Can't wait for Firestorm. Recommend you do a collab with them on their new vehicles.

Hey Dan, you familiar with Century 21 Tech talk? Wonder if you could to a crossover episode, would be great to bring some of your audience to them

I love Thunderbirds. Could you maybe please do all of the Thunderbirds, both from the original as this one is and the 2015 "Thunderbirds are Go". Or maybe just mention some of the differences between the 2 groups of Thunderbirds. Thanks for always having a high level of production on your videos

Atomic Thrusters...that’s not goddesses damned horrifying at all. *hides under bed while waiting for the coming radiation sickness and baldness*

Fireball XL5 next??

Unless it falls into the wrong hands.

@@Corvus__ yeah, like the military

@@bp_cherryblossomtree723 I was thinking terrorist hands, or the hands of some sort criminal or crook. At least the military could use it to fight for there nation.

The Thunderbirds still have a better track record than “Gross Vehicular Homicide” Batman.

There's a reason they delete video tapes...

It's my favourite, reminds me of the Eagle from Space 1999. The flowing lines though give it a classical look, it's a pretty ship. Not a utilitarian design, but still very practical in its layout. And you could easily imagine it as a interstellar ship, a freighter with some sort of FTL in the thick crossbar. Well at least I did with my die-cast model as a kid.

Oh god yes! The TB2 is my favourite!

And then there is thunderbird 3....which is red or soemthing.

The Thunderbirds, iirc, were 1 (see above), 2 (modular equipment transport), 3 (space launch vehicle), 4 (submarine, typically transported by 2), 5 (orbital platform), and 6 (biplane). On the subject of vehicles from retro T.V. series, I'm sure many viewers would appreciate seeing Spacedock's take on the ships of Blake's 7, Lost In Space series and movie, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Airwolf, Street Hawk, KITT from Knight Rider, and Viper.

Gerry Anderson designed all the vehicles for Thunderbirds as well as Space:1999. The VFX were ahead of their time!

Right? It's depressingly unique to use space-age or later technology for something as humanitarian as rescue work in fiction. Like, the Thunderbirds as an organization were essentially superheros who only used what they could do to help, even when they quite evidently had the resources to engage in and win military conflict at least on the small scale. But the organization is pacifistic and apolitical. And the person most likely to engage in physical conflict was a female James Bond. For a Cold War American tv show with all these wizz-bang ascetics, this was amazingly progressive. The people making this show were smart, and had an interesting perspective about what ends technology should be serving, even if they weren't popular at the time.

@@morganrobinson8042 hay, i really agree with what your saying but the show is British, they just used american voice actors to give it more appeal over the pond. Something you might like to hear is that Jerry Anderson was really progressive in all his shows, to the extent of the studios having to hold him back at the time. its why all of the pilots in Captain scarlet were female, i wish i could find one to link to but there are some really good interviews on in if you can find them.

@@tomeden479 It's a shame he wasn't the one in charge of the Thunderbirds reboot, he was going to gender-swap two of the Tracy brothers.

@@morganrobinson8042 The characters of the Tracy family in Thunderbirds are indeed American, but the show itself is very much British: Gerry and Silvia Anderson (Creators), AP Films (Production), ITC (Distribution) and ITV (Network) were all British.

*Gerry

@@IroniChristian i hope he does other Gerry Anderson vehicles like cloudbase and stingray.

@@venomgeekmedia9886 Captain Scarlet was always my thing

@@IroniChristian yeah same. it's really interesting thinking on it with modern eyes. the mysterons and earth engaged in less of a war of nerves and more a war of terror.

@@venomgeekmedia9886 I just liked the way the Captain Scarlet was indestructible and Yes It was captain Blue who was always bait

I was thinking the same Thunderbirds

I wish I could see the whole Stingray series. Captain Scarlet was also pretty good. And if you ignored the "no such thing as light-speed" problem, Fireball XL5 was pretty good for its time. And then there was Space Patrol, which also broke new ground in not always depicting aliens as mindless aggressors. I still remember bits of the episode where an alien child (of an alien king, naturally) catches a cold from contact with humans and is in danger of dying because it has no resistance to the disease, so the humans have to pursuade the king to let one of them return to their ship to bring back their cure for the common cold.

The new one is actually pretty great as well

@@DrTheRich There are a few things which I don't like about the new Thunderbirds, but overall I think it's a worthy successor to the original series.

@@melkiorwiseman5234 considering most of the reboots/sequels we get nowadays completely disrespect the old, I think it is pretty impressive. I like the real miniature vehicles of the old show better. But actually I like the 3d characters more than the dolls. They have way more emotions and movement. Did you know that the sets in the new show are real recreated miniatures and not cgi?

@@DrTheRich Yes, I knew that through watching a video here on YT about the making of the new series. I think it was a good decision since it gives some consistency between the "look" of the old series and the new series.

I remember thinking about that, and deciding that they must have some procedure to ensure the pool is cleared before the launch sequence starts.

@@melkiorwiseman5234 yeah, they shout “get out of the freaking pool” over the PA system if they have any guests over. There’s definitely cameras all over the island so it’s pretty trivial for Geoff or someone to just check. Though perhaps something automated might be more elegant; but that’s not really the way Thunderbirds leans.

You wouldn't fly out of it lol, you'd get trapped underneath the pavement inside the still filled pool and drown to death, if not boil to death from TB1's engines as it flies past

Ayyy!

That was so lame but I can't stop laughing😂😂🤣🤣

MadSam ! I’m pretty sure all the Thunderbirds are nuclear powered, but considering how stupefyingly wealthy the Tracy clan seems to be, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve got an off-the-books refinery somewhere.

Terrible mileage Jeff Tracey's Learjet gets, eh?

@@Vespuchian in the new series they're fusion powered I believed

Unfortunately the new series is heavily anti-nuclear. I recall TB3 actually running out of fuel at one point in an episode.

jepp me too. should be stillsomewhere in my basemant XD

Same here!

Yep I had one too lol, think I may still have it in my garage somewhere

The ships were all dicast, they're actually pretty nice

I remember we couldn't afford the whole island but for a birthday my parents and relatives got me the metal ships and me and mum sat and followed a blue peter she'd taped, showing how to make it. It was the best thing.

Wow imagine being this wrong. Thunderbird 2 is clearly the best

CharlesFreck The best a being a cargo plane yes. But Thunderbird 1 is an awesome rocket ship, with all the gadgets and things. And I seem to remember it being used in every episode except one where they had to go into space and only used Thunderbird 3.

@Will Fieldsend

Thunderbird 2 was the one used in all but one episode (The Impostors). TB1 wasn’t used in any of the handful of space episodes plus The Perils of Penelope (it appears but isn’t in the rescue). And TB1 was never the most essential of craft (case in point Day of Disaster), although it got a better showing than most of the Thunderbirds

Jetshot 22 My whole life has been a lie! Haha. Thanks for the info. I still prefer it’s design. I always wanted to be an astronaut but didn’t like red so Thunderbird 1 was my jam.

Fem fyra tre två ett här är Thunderbirds

It's 2086 actually

Century 21 Tech talk: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nMemf96VqOM.html for everyone who loved Gerry Anderson's amazing creations

Khitomer286 Gerry Anderson*

@@tracytron7162 Feel good about yourself now? Really done something good for the world there Well done

Khitomer286 Seriously? I was just politely correcting you. There was no need to be an asshole about it.

​@@Khitomer286 Someone accidently sat on a spike this morning I see.

Seriously! For reference, the International Space Station orbits the Earth roughly every 90 minutes. Thunderbird 1 is travelling at near orbital speeds *in the atmosphere*. She's one hell of an impressive craft to accomplish this.