Likewise, likewise :) There must be millions around the world who would cite Gerry Anderson and his works as an influence on their early years. Man was a flippin' genius. Compare what he did with 99% of "youth tv" today, and I feel sorry for today's kids..
well, it's good in it's own right, the vehicles look great, and the practical/CGI balance is impressive, but the cinematography lets it down, it doesn't have the same authentic feel to it
Never gets old. I will always love Thunderbirds. I remember watching it on Saturday mornings with my brother. I also love Joe ninety and Captain Scarlet
2:16 I can just see how Virgil Tracy pitched the idea for Thunderbird 2's boarding process: "Yeah, so, can we make it so I literally don't have to do anything to get into this plane? Just sort of pour me in there. I don't really care what you gotta do, just make it the most relaxing fucking thing to get into this plane".
And why not? After all, the last thing you want - given all the stress you're about to face - is having to worry and exert yourself just to get into the thing.
Considering how old this series is, and the contents, and how fast technology moves, this was ahead of its time. Reminds me of my childhood memories of growing up. Thanks for the post.
....though I must say I always wondered how those Palm trees were in such good condition considering they were regularly flung violently to the side and then subject to scorching rocket blast
My assumption was don't ask it would spoil the magic of the show, but a sliding mechanism below to line up the replacement couch would do...yes i overthink things and yes im a big fan of the show :P
I am still amaze that a program made with puppets could create such amusement! I remember that we all were expecting the hour for the TV show, including my father. Now I am 56 yo and enjoy this videos.
I had a Thunderbird 2 with a Thunderbird 4 inside it as a kid so naturally those are my favorites! Isn't it amazing all the detail that went into those sets and scenes down to the music? I like how the palm tress bounce to indicate how heavy they are, great stuff, and a great video you put together!
The sequences showing them going from the living room to their craft is a classic. If anyone remembers the TV Show Reboot, they did a spoof/homage to this sequence in one of the episodes. They then went into Sentai mode to get to their ships, and finally had problems merging all the ships into their Giant Robot form until they remembered that this operation requires them to go into split screen mode (where all of the pilots are shown in segments of the screen) and the shout the Merge Command. As an Animé and Thunderbirds fan I got a laugh out of this sequence (which started with Phong issuing the secret code word FAB) since it references so many standard animé Sentai sequences.
Just realised for the first time that T2 and T3 are completely out of scale between scenes. In the hanger they are huge (200-300 ft, which is correct officially), but when coming out beside buildings and trees (compare them to decks, windows and stairs), they are fighter plane size. On the other hand, such is the magic of this show, it took 40 years for me to notice.
I've been the biggest Thunderbird fan for years I am 55 now and then that opening theme song still gives me goosebumps btw Thunderbird 2 is my favorite
These sequences kinda make you wonder what would happen if one of the Thunderbirds exploded during launch. Especially Thunderbird 1, which appears to be 100 feet from the living room. lol
I love how elaborate it all is. You can't walk to your spaceship. You have to stand by a painting so it can lower you onto a slide that brings you straight to the cockpit and then turns into the pilot's seat for your spaceship
Watch for Thunderbird 1's mysterious 90 degree turn between 0:49 and 0:50 that hardly anyone ever notices! (It was corrected in the feature film "Thunderbirds Are Go".) Also for the lemon squeezer, spray painted grey, mounted on the back wall of the hanger at 0:54. Wonderful stuff.
It's minor but you forgot Thunderbirds 4 Launch from Tracy Island (In Terror in New York City, Thunderbird 4 was forced to be launch from base since Thunderbirds 2 was non functional.)
And Virgil having to do a dead-stick landing in T2 after the Navy mistakenly fired on them, complete with fire-foaming ua-cam.com/video/Wm3iV29Cry8/v-deo.html
I dunno if you lot read the radio times, but the next issue is giving us the opportunity to vote for the best programme, category by category. This one has given us a list of child-suitable programmes to vote for. Vote Thunderbirds man!
I had totally forgotten about Thunderbird 3's sofa procedure. I used to find that whole sequence amazing when I was 8. I am now 23. The question is, why do I STILL find it amazing? It's a sofa on a pole! It goes up and down! That shouldn't be awesome, but it is.
***** When I was in Rome, definitely the Carabinieri, but the rest of them too. I just remember the road between the Colosseum and the Altare della Patria being blocked all of a sudden, and for no reason, other than the police were just standing there looking cool. (There was probably a reason, but I don't know what it was.)
I only noticed it when I got the DVDs a couple of years ago but if you watch the TB1 launch closely you'll see that somehow TB1 must twist round 90 degrees while it travels down the ramp :)
2 was always my favourite but I was always intrigued by 3 simply because it was so rarely used. Still, I have questions: Given that 2 had a vertical take-off ability, as demonstrated on the return journeys, why all that bollocks when it could have been parked outside & Virgil could have jogged out in half the time? And, as for 3, how did they get the settees back into the same exact spot when using parallel lift systems a few yards apart? Enquiring minds want to know!
VTOL takes a lot more fuel than STOVL, basically. That's why those huge new aircraft carriers we Brits are building-not far from where I sit-have "ski jumps", much like the ramps in Thunderbirds, albeit used for a 'rolling takeoff', instead of a static launch.
Parking any of the Thunderbirds fleet in plain view on Tracy Island would defeat the point of International Rescue being a secret organisation. It'd be like Bruce Wayne driving to the supermarket in the Batmobile. As for TB3's sofa switching, maybe the decoy sofa's lift leads to a diagonal rack that moves it into position under the sofa-hole.
Launching diagonally from the end of the runway is much faster, it gives T2 better acceleratoin than going up vertically and then launch the back thrusters.
This is so neat. When we were building the house I wanted to have a chute from the bedroom to get me into the garage and on my bike, like Virgil has to get him into his seat on Thunderbird 2. But my wife...
Question for musicians. Is it intentional that: TB1 launch is in G major and TB2 in A flat (with the 2nd theme in G flat) and TB3 is also in A flat ..... would have thought they would each have their own keys ?? Or it might just be the speed that the music was uploaded ... ??? .... Love the sax solo in the middle section 2:59 !! (Does it possibly hint at a romantic interest, with Tin-Tin patiently waiting for Virgil's return ?? Just an idea ..... !!)
I always wondered how come no one ever followed them back to Tracey Island. And how did they get all the materials to build the base out there in the first place?
I loved the Thunderbirds when I was a kid. But now being all grown up, I just now realized how lazy all the pilots are. None of them appear to do much walking to their rocket planes. They just lay back on a conveyor belt and get pored inside the cockpit. Or they ride the levitation bike and just fly right into the cockpit. Hell, they could be playing checkers in the den and the whole room flies over to the front of the rocket ship and automatically becomes the cockpit. I wonder if they just get into a fuselage and roll down the runway and then the wings of the craft come screaming out of another hanger and catch up with the fuselage and attaches itself. They would never have a craft like that because that would be the ultimate of laziness. I saw Fireball XL5 and it had a similar theme. Seem like they used the same puppets. They were also lazy. Never walk to their rocket ships. I got a blast watching the take offs. XL5 takes of on a rocket sled down a mile track that is curved up at the end like the flight deck on an aircraft carrier. We'll both the rocket and the booster rocket sled fire up at the same time consuming thousands of gallons of rocket fuel a second. It hauls off down this track going every bit of maybe 150 mph. The enormous rocket booster sled launches Fireball XL5 into the heavens and the expensive rocket sled with rockets still blazing cartwheels out into the desert. No water for it. Just crashes and burns at the end of the launch track. You never see no recovery of the booster sled. So here you got Fireball XL5 launching every day and those booster rocket sleds are piling up just a few thousand feet from the end of the launch track. Hell, I seen an episode were the Fireball XL5 still attached to the booster all plowed into the groun just off take off. Now the pilot ejected but his escape seat had no parachute. He floated slowly back down to the ground so softly that he stood up after his seat landed safely. I guess installing a parachute to the chair and running all the puppeteer wires through the canopy was an overwhelming task for the production of this scene. I would never sit down or relax at Thunderbird headquarters because some rocket may come shooting out my backside.;-)
The reason the puppets were never shown walking is that even for an experienced puppeteer, it's next to impossible to make marionettes walk believably. Just ask anyone who's worked with puppets!
@@scotpens Sometimes on Space: 1999 they had things like motorized desks that could move on a track from place to place, and I always wondered if Gerry and Sylvia Anderson had forgotten that human actors can walk.
There are so many little touches that we notice decades later, in colour and higher definition ...... Simply MUST comment on the 3 books on the shelf of TB3 at 6:07 .... wonder what the titles are ??? Perhaps, Brains' "TB3 Instruction Manual" ??? Or perhaps multi-language dictionaries for rescues in different countries ?? Or some decent fiction novels, just in case it gets boring whilst flying a spaceship to an international disaster ??!!
Is that the only way to get into TB2? Inverted almost upside down? What about Brains & the girl who sometimes goes with them? All upside down entries? What if you ate a big Mexican dinner & suddenly you get a call? *Barf* Or what if you have vertigo?
lol! Yes, I did. I'd feel like a milkshake after that: turned upside down, then right side up, sliding all over the place. Actually, I think it's pretty cool. I know marionettes don't get vertigo anyway. XD
Anyone notice that when the sofa is travelling below the house on rails that Alan & Scott have changed positions but back to their original places when it is under TB3. If you're not sure Scott has black hair Alan is blond. Brilliant show though loved it as a kid
Awesome ! But i still am intrigued by one thing : during TB 3 launching sequence, the 'prop' lounge that comes up to replace the one used by Scott, Tin-Tin and Alan clearly rises from BEHIND them as they go down. So if it is moving on a different plane, how could it possibly fit into the empty space that just appeared?
I love how 1,2 and 3 are so dramatic and long but 4's just like "fuck it, drop me off here".
To be fair, Thunderbird 4 is a small submersible, so it can't have too much of a dramatic take off as it would mostly take place underwater.
Magical stuff, used to be glued to the TV when this was on.....And I would be now even at 52 years of age ;)
Likewise, likewise :) There must be millions around the world who would cite Gerry Anderson and his works as an influence on their early years. Man was a flippin' genius. Compare what he did with 99% of "youth tv" today, and I feel sorry for today's kids..
Thunderbirds, Terrahawks and Stingray for me.
Timeless!! Absolutely timeless!!! Bring it back!!!!
It's being brought back next year in CGI! :D Obviously it's not by Gerry Anderson and it isn't the puppets but this is as close as it will get
LewisBen247 I believe it's going to be a mix of CG and practical with a tip of the hat to the original style. We shall see.
It's Gerry Anderson's son that is doing the new series. Coming out this year on ITV in England. Not sure about anywhere else.
well, it's good in it's own right, the vehicles look great, and the practical/CGI balance is impressive, but the cinematography lets it down, it doesn't have the same authentic feel to it
Never gets old. I will always love Thunderbirds. I remember watching it on Saturday mornings with my brother. I also love Joe ninety and Captain Scarlet
I had all these 4 in scale model toys! My childhood haha! 😂
Me too, I had the Mole as well.
The model makers working for Anderson were amazing. The detail, and all the complexity.
2:16 I can just see how Virgil Tracy pitched the idea for Thunderbird 2's boarding process: "Yeah, so, can we make it so I literally don't have to do anything to get into this plane? Just sort of pour me in there. I don't really care what you gotta do, just make it the most relaxing fucking thing to get into this plane".
😂😂😂😂
The most elaborate thing about these launch sequences is how the craft docks with its pilot!
And why not? After all, the last thing you want - given all the stress you're about to face - is having to worry and exert yourself just to get into the thing.
Pay attention Bond, this is how its done........I LOVE Thunderbirds!
I mean Scott is technically Sean Connery so...
Brilliant, loved the series as a kid favourites 12 and 4 , never fancied being stuck up in 5
I took it for granted as a kid but now it blows my mind that the brother who mans Thunderbird 5 is *completely alone in space.*
Yes true, though I seem to remember a million years ago that 1 or 2 episodes featured Gordon 'relieving' John on TB5, via TB3.
Considering how old this series is, and the contents, and how fast technology moves, this was ahead of its time. Reminds me of my childhood memories of growing up.
Thanks for the post.
I love how when they go into Thunderbird 3, Virgil just looks down the hole, all like "man, I miss too much. This house is so damn cool"
....though I must say I always wondered how those Palm trees were in such good condition considering they were regularly flung violently to the side and then subject to scorching rocket blast
Kyrano takes _REALLY_ good care of the place.
duely noted
Kind of like the launch gantry was to one side of the space shuttle as it blasted off. It didn't suffer damage from.. oh wait.
THEY FAKE!
Michael Jones
Always beat me how the replacement sofa for the TB3 crew got back up without crashing through the floor.lol Loved this series.
Maybe the hole moves backwards a bit?
My assumption was don't ask it would spoil the magic of the show, but a sliding mechanism below to line up the replacement couch would do...yes i overthink things and yes im a big fan of the show :P
I always thought that about the sofa too!!
I always thought that. In the Haynes motor manual for the thunderbirds, it says there is an arm that moves in into position.
StewartBroadcasting A Thunderbirds Haynes manual? I never knew there was such a thing!
I remember having heated debates with my best friend when I was 8 as to whether thunderbird one or two was the best. Fyi, it's two.
Agreed, Thunderbird 2 for the win!!
La cerie .. Es una ca😨ada .. Pero por alguna razón no puedo dejar de verla 😍
I am still amaze that a program made with puppets could create such amusement! I remember that we all were expecting the hour for the TV show, including my father. Now I am 56 yo and enjoy this videos.
You've got to agree that out of all if the launch sequences Thunderbird 2 had the best.
Just cool! I can remind my childhood with this marvelous video! Thank you my friend!I am 51 years old.
4:40 I imagine Scott saying to Tintin "so, have you ever tryed two at the same time?"
Thunderbird 2 was the best toy I think as you could get all sort of pods to go with it, with Thunderbird 4 along with the mole etc. Happy happy times.
Even though I am 18 watching this gave me a tear to my eye :')
I had a Thunderbird 2 with a Thunderbird 4 inside it as a kid so naturally those are my favorites! Isn't it amazing all the detail that went into those sets and scenes down to the music? I like how the palm tress bounce to indicate how heavy they are, great stuff, and a great video you put together!
there was so much love and attention to detail in these shows...nothing today comes close
One of the many things I like about the new series is that it finally answers the question of how Thunderbird 2 gets the Thunderbird 4 back.
The sequences showing them going from the living room to their craft is a classic. If anyone remembers the TV Show Reboot, they did a spoof/homage to this sequence in one of the episodes. They then went into Sentai mode to get to their ships, and finally had problems merging all the ships into their Giant Robot form until they remembered that this operation requires them to go into split screen mode (where all of the pilots are shown in segments of the screen) and the shout the Merge Command. As an Animé and Thunderbirds fan I got a laugh out of this sequence (which started with Phong issuing the secret code word FAB) since it references so many standard animé Sentai sequences.
Amazing THUNDERBIRDS and music its wooww thanks for sharing !!
My whole childhood in one video
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS. MEMORIES AND MORE ARE WHAT THIS BRINGS BACK. BESIDES THE SEQUENCES ARE SUPER COOL
About 12 years ago when I was 3 I watched this for the 1st time, and I now occasionally still play with my toys at 15
Ahhhh I remember how excited I was getting my thunderbirds island toy for Christmas. Wish I still had it
Just loved Thunderbird's, even my Scott Tracy puppet, came in to the operating theatre with me, during one of my brain operations, to keep me safe..
1 of greatest TV show of all time!
My childhood! 😍
Just realised for the first time that T2 and T3 are completely out of scale between scenes. In the hanger they are huge (200-300 ft, which is correct officially), but when coming out beside buildings and trees (compare them to decks, windows and stairs), they are fighter plane size. On the other hand, such is the magic of this show, it took 40 years for me to notice.
Thanks for ruining the magic, man...
If it annoys anyone else... Thunderbird 1's launch has a mistake. Pay attention to the big 1 and see if you spot it
Epic Jones There are all sorts of mistakes in the serie´s. You have to look thru that to enjoy yhe serie.
Even now in Hollywood are mistakes common,,,
***** Wow man you're really, really into Thunderbirds
The 2 on T2 is small on the ground and big in the air...
Remembers me my childhood!
Don't tell anybody you are going to fly horizontal, just do it!
I've been the biggest Thunderbird fan for years I am 55 now and then that opening theme song still gives me goosebumps btw Thunderbird 2 is my favorite
These sequences kinda make you wonder what would happen if one of the Thunderbirds exploded during launch. Especially Thunderbird 1, which appears to be 100 feet from the living room. lol
That's a good point actually ahaha
Oh, don't worry, it's a Gerry Anderson show, nothing ever explodes on those... wait
Great stuff. Love the music that plays during the T2 launch.
I love how elaborate it all is. You can't walk to your spaceship. You have to stand by a painting so it can lower you onto a slide that brings you straight to the cockpit and then turns into the pilot's seat for your spaceship
When I was little, I ALWAYS wanted to be Virgil. TB2 had so much cool stuff, and ALWAYS saved the day, somehow!
I loved this show as a kid!!
Watch for Thunderbird 1's mysterious 90 degree turn between 0:49 and 0:50 that hardly anyone ever notices! (It was corrected in the feature film "Thunderbirds Are Go".) Also for the lemon squeezer, spray painted grey, mounted on the back wall of the hanger at 0:54. Wonderful stuff.
It's minor but you forgot Thunderbirds 4 Launch from Tracy Island (In Terror in New York City, Thunderbird 4 was forced to be launch from base since Thunderbirds 2 was non functional.)
That was always the coolest launch to me!!!
And Virgil having to do a dead-stick landing in T2 after the Navy mistakenly fired on them, complete with fire-foaming
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have to play , for my kids now !! I loved thunderbirds as a kid in the 70s !! I was born 1968 !
Best theme tune ever composed !
Couldn't agree more 😎
Better than the Space 1999 theme and the GOT theme?
Where's Thunderbird 4's launch from Tracey Island?
Fair point, didn't think to include it at the time
Always wondered what would happen if someone got stuck in the pool during the launch sequence!
They'd definitely need rescuing!
Good thing no one ever decide to take a swim when Tb1 launched
at that point everyone would know about the latest distress call and all be in the villa being briefed
+Martin Istaa Good thing nobody was drinking a cuppa in the lounge area when 3 was launched!
Nothing to say,this is design at 60s.genius,my favourite tv show of all times.
I dunno if you lot read the radio times, but the next issue is giving us the opportunity to vote for the best programme, category by category. This one has given us a list of child-suitable programmes to vote for. Vote Thunderbirds man!
no dislikes, thats jizzable, just like this entire series was
T-3の緊急発進を見て 今思いました。３人が座ったソファが地下に降りて行くと “代わりのソファ”が油圧シャフトで上昇して リビングの床に収まります。でもT-3が宇宙から戻ると３人座ったソファも戻って来るから “代わりのソファ”を地下深いピットから 油圧シャフトで持ち上げる必要がないのでは？ 床下付近に仕掛けが有れば足りるでしょう。(“代わりのソファ”用のシャフトは斜めだろうし。)
I had totally forgotten about Thunderbird 3's sofa procedure. I used to find that whole sequence amazing when I was 8. I am now 23. The question is, why do I STILL find it amazing? It's a sofa on a pole! It goes up and down! That shouldn't be awesome, but it is.
This is great ! Thanks for uploading !!
Exelentes recuerdo ..gracias
I always like Thunderbird 2's launch the best
im old enough to remember thunderbirds when it was first shown on tv always loved to guess which pod tb2 would select
Desenhos de minha infância, bela recordação...
this just makes me smile so much!! :-D
Oh my God, The threat respond time took the Whole afternoon!
It's like the Italian police. Sure, they're impractical - but they look awesome.
***** When I was in Rome, definitely the Carabinieri, but the rest of them too. I just remember the road between the Colosseum and the Altare della Patria being blocked all of a sudden, and for no reason, other than the police were just standing there looking cool.
(There was probably a reason, but I don't know what it was.)
I only noticed it when I got the DVDs a couple of years ago but if you watch the TB1 launch closely you'll see that somehow TB1 must twist round 90 degrees while it travels down the ramp :)
Loved this show as a kid...still do actually.....even though the wings on T2 are pointing the wrong way....!!!!
Ever notice it never rains on the outdoor scenes.LOL Love the music.
OMG this takes me back
I had the thunderbird toys !!! I used to play with them while watching the show
Me too haha
2 was always my favourite but I was always intrigued by 3 simply because it was so rarely used.
Still, I have questions:
Given that 2 had a vertical take-off ability, as demonstrated on the return journeys, why all that bollocks when it could have been parked outside & Virgil could have jogged out in half the time?
And, as for 3, how did they get the settees back into the same exact spot when using parallel lift systems a few yards apart?
Enquiring minds want to know!
So TB2 can be loaded with the appropriate pod needed for the mission.
VTOL takes a lot more fuel than STOVL, basically. That's why those huge new aircraft carriers we Brits are building-not far from where I sit-have "ski jumps", much like the ramps in Thunderbirds, albeit used for a 'rolling takeoff', instead of a static launch.
Parking any of the Thunderbirds fleet in plain view on Tracy Island would defeat the point of International Rescue being a secret organisation. It'd be like Bruce Wayne driving to the supermarket in the Batmobile.
As for TB3's sofa switching, maybe the decoy sofa's lift leads to a diagonal rack that moves it into position under the sofa-hole.
***** There are some really nice animated videos on YT showing the New Queen Elizabeth class carriers.
Launching diagonally from the end of the runway is much faster, it gives T2 better acceleratoin than going up vertically and then launch the back thrusters.
How did Virgil get back to the lounge from Thunderbird 2 after an operation. That was never shown.
He reversed his actions
This is so neat. When we were building the house I wanted to have a chute from the bedroom to get me into the garage and on my bike, like Virgil has to get him into his seat on Thunderbird 2. But my wife...
THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!
Always wondered what kept Thunderbird 2 from rolling off its stand during launch!
Probably brakes on the wheels that it uses to get to the ramp
Question for musicians.
Is it intentional that:
TB1 launch is in G major and TB2 in A flat (with the 2nd theme in G flat) and TB3 is also in A flat ..... would have thought they would each have their own keys ?? Or it might just be the speed that the music was uploaded ... ??? ....
Love the sax solo in the middle section 2:59 !! (Does it possibly hint at a romantic interest, with Tin-Tin patiently waiting for Virgil's return ?? Just an idea ..... !!)
If you're an Anderson fan, check out the Kickstarter for Gemini Force One - supporting a new Gerry Anderson project!
Today was a heartbreaking day for me. My Favorite Thunderbirds dvd with Pit Of Peril on was found scratched!
+Azure_Mallone Sounds like a good plan 😂
1:29 "In Case of EMERGENCY use Ejector Door ..... Keep Clear" !!!
Phew ...... thank goodness Brains thought of putting that sign up !!
fantastic ... wonderful post
The first time I ever saw Virgil going down that chute? Thought it was the coolest damn thing I ever saw....
Launching Thunderbird 5 must have been quite impressive as well... it's kind of huge.
04:39 Tintin's face..."Uh, guys, what the hell is going on?"
@Joshua Westover, good catch!
i have all apart from thunderbird 5 and i think that it was/is amazing!
I always wondered how come no one ever followed them back to Tracey Island. And how did they get all the materials to build the base out there in the first place?
I am about to go on a ThunderBirds episode marathon FAB.Wish me luck.
Awesome, best by a long mark.
this is showing the launch process. Did they ever showed the landing (putting back) their plane into its hangar ??
This beats the new one by a long shot.
if only there were more people like you...i would spend so much less time correcting people
Is Virgil compensating for something?
I loved the Thunderbirds when I was a kid. But now being all grown up, I just now realized how lazy all the pilots are. None of them appear to do much walking to their rocket planes. They just lay back on a conveyor belt and get pored inside the cockpit. Or they ride the levitation bike and just fly right into the cockpit. Hell, they could be playing checkers in the den and the whole room flies over to the front of the rocket ship and automatically becomes the cockpit. I wonder if they just get into a fuselage and roll down the runway and then the wings of the craft come screaming out of another hanger and catch up with the fuselage and attaches itself. They would never have a craft like that because that would be the ultimate of laziness. I saw Fireball XL5 and it had a similar theme. Seem like they used the same puppets. They were also lazy. Never walk to their rocket ships. I got a blast watching the take offs. XL5 takes of on a rocket sled down a mile track that is curved up at the end like the flight deck on an aircraft carrier. We'll both the rocket and the booster rocket sled fire up at the same time consuming thousands of gallons of rocket fuel a second. It hauls off down this track going every bit of maybe 150 mph. The enormous rocket booster sled launches Fireball XL5 into the heavens and the expensive rocket sled with rockets still blazing cartwheels out into the desert. No water for it. Just crashes and burns at the end of the launch track. You never see no recovery of the booster sled. So here you got Fireball XL5 launching every day and those booster rocket sleds are piling up just a few thousand feet from the end of the launch track. Hell, I seen an episode were the Fireball XL5 still attached to the booster all plowed into the groun just off take off. Now the pilot ejected but his escape seat had no parachute. He floated slowly back down to the ground so softly that he stood up after his seat landed safely. I guess installing a parachute to the chair and running all the puppeteer wires through the canopy was an overwhelming task for the production of this scene. I would never sit down or relax at Thunderbird headquarters because some rocket may come shooting out my backside.;-)
The reason the puppets were never shown walking is that even for an experienced puppeteer, it's next to impossible to make marionettes walk believably. Just ask anyone who's worked with puppets!
You got a good point there. Thanks! F.A.B.
@Ebony Man Me: Like Wacky Races Tracy brothers?
@@scotpens Sometimes on Space: 1999 they had things like motorized desks that could move on a track from place to place, and I always wondered if Gerry and Sylvia Anderson had forgotten that human actors can walk.
my childhood heroes
今見てもワクワクする。
Looking back, some of the stuff is hilariously unnecessary but it's still iconic so I can't complain.
Is there a reason for the TB1 to take off like a rocket when it can take off like a Harrier?
I believe it's so that it can get a faster launch and limited space on the island to hide the aircraft
There are so many little touches that we notice decades later, in colour and higher definition ...... Simply MUST comment on the 3 books on the shelf of TB3 at 6:07 .... wonder what the titles are ??? Perhaps, Brains' "TB3 Instruction Manual" ??? Or perhaps multi-language dictionaries for rescues in different countries ?? Or some decent fiction novels, just in case it gets boring whilst flying a spaceship to an international disaster ??!!
Is that the only way to get into TB2? Inverted almost upside down? What about Brains & the girl who sometimes goes with them? All upside down entries?
What if you ate a big Mexican dinner & suddenly you get a call? *Barf*
Or what if you have vertigo?
Did you notice halfway down, Virgil gets turned around so he enters TB2 feet first?
lol! Yes, I did. I'd feel like a milkshake after that: turned upside down, then right side up, sliding all over the place. Actually, I think it's pretty cool. I know marionettes don't get vertigo anyway. XD
the passengers of TB2 take the elevator. the slide just leads directly to the cockpit
Always wanted a thunderbirds, captain Scarlett and stingray crossover
..Too many strings :P
But still amazing
There's sort of one now, in the 2015 'Thunderbirds are go' one of the Tracy's [I think it was John] watches part of an episode of Stingray XD
***** Yeh i thought that was clever how they did that
sparky10142 Agreed, I hope the new show continues to be great as the episodes go on as well, they seem to have put a lot of work and effort into it.
Anyone notice that when the sofa is travelling below the house on rails that Alan & Scott have changed positions but back to their original places when it is under TB3.
If you're not sure Scott has black hair Alan is blond. Brilliant show though loved it as a kid
Awesome ! But i still am intrigued by one thing : during TB 3 launching sequence, the 'prop' lounge that comes up to replace the one used by Scott, Tin-Tin and Alan clearly rises from BEHIND them as they go down. So if it is moving on a different plane, how could it possibly fit into the empty space that just appeared?
Lo que más me facinaba de esta serie, era que estaba echa a base de Marionetas y miniaturas. Lo cual sin mayor despliegue tecnico era increible.
good luck!
This is still better than the cartoon