Launching Thunderbird 2 - Introducing Thunderbirds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- In "Introducing Thunderbirds", Lady Penelope and Parker visit Jeff on Tracy Island as part of their induction into the International Rescue organisation. 'Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes' was produced to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's iconic Supermarionation television series - and made use of all the original puppeteering and practical effects techniques to bring the show back to life, with the help of authentic 1960s voice recordings.
Now available on ITV X and Britbox in the UK and on DVD and Blu-Ray in Japan.
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So so good!
Lol ik hou er nog steeds van heerlijk om te zien weer
I watched this show as a kid... LOVED IT!
The dvd/blu-ray of the three new episodes were exclusive to the kickstarter backers who made the making of them possible of which I am proud to say I was one. You may be able to nab a copy on ebay if a backer is selling theirs but they dont come cheap. I would never sell mine, my name is on the list of the backers in the special features section of the dvd.
In 2010 I gave my little godsons the complete Thunderbirds boxset. In the first few minutes of the pilot episode they were mocking the special effects. Three weeks later they'd devoured the lot.
I will tell you this - as a 5 year old, this show was THE BOMB! What I would give to still have my "working" Thunderbird 2 model. As was typical of British television, it never talked down to kids and, in fact, educated through the simple explanations it provided around the many scientific principles involved. Just enough to intrigue a young mind without overwhelming them. Hats off to Gerry and Sylvia Anderson AND director Derek Meddings. I hope they knew, and took pride in, the number of children they inspired.
Love this show. Great memories.
That was a magnificent blend of old and new, seemless. Completely seemless.
When the music explodes at 0.40 as the hidden rock door lowers to reveal Thunderbird 2 my heart rate soars, and the goosebumps flourish under my skin
😮.😮😮❤
Barry Grays instrumentals, and clashing cymbals make this scene perfect for me.
Been a Thunderbirds fanatic since I was 6yrs old, and Im 60 now.
You simply NEVER grow put of this incredible show!
Is it just me, or is Parker holding the binoculars back to front ?
It’s not just you.
Thunderbird 2, my beloved
Did Parker have the binoculars the wrong way around?
Fantastic.. brings back happy memories .
My favourite was fireball XL5, though
These 50th anniversary episodes are very enjoyable to watch and I still love Thunderbirds when I was a kid.
I have to say puppetry is a lot better than the computer animated stuff now it's a lot more personal and even beads of sweat can be put on puppetry looks so real 😊👍👌
although the current Thunderbirds show has less CGI in it than you think, the same miniatures studio that worked on Lord of the Rings built all the sets in the new show
With puppetry, you can see it is all there. And what you see, is the result you get.
@@synaesthesia2010 I think he's referring to the characters and ships themselves, which obviously are CGI mixed with miniature sets. Though Thunderbird 2 crash landing on Tracy Island in the Thunderbirds Are Go episode "Earthbreaker" was actually a model.
I don't exactly know why I love this show but I certainly do!
These are great, keep 'em coming guys! 👍👍
"OI, I can see a lot of green things!" >_
I'm only 28 and grew up with a degenerate father that loved thunderbirds, and even he taught me that TB2 does realistically .. 90 percent of the work.
Will these new episodes be aviallable for purchase on dvd? Have searched for them - not found anywhere.
Great 4min clip, very sleepless
Tremendous.
The inspiration for Team America! F yeah! :-D .... Loved the original Thunderbirds as a child.
Let's hope that we can bring back Thunderbirds in puppets with new episodes based on the audiobook series. These Thunderbirds episode titles are Operation: Asteroids, The Peril in Peru, Terror From the Stars, The Vanishing Ray, Brainsis Dead, Blazing Danger and The Space Mirror.
From what I understand, they don't hold the rights to the audio stories.. Big Finish does.
Next best thing would be doing adaptations the stories recorded exclusively for LPs of other Gerry Anderson shows, like Captain Scarlet.
But even then, they'd have to get an okay to do them like they had to do with Thunderbirds to make these, plus, I don't know if the likes of Stingray and Fireball XL5 got that treatment too, or if it was just Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet that had them.
Great 🤶🎅
I’ve just had a thought…. Why does TB2 even need the ramp when it has vertical takeoff capabilities?
Just like the Harrier VTOL aircraft... It used huge amounts of fuel to take off vertically, but only a fraction to take off a runway or a ramp...
A magnificent video and how they mix the old with the modern but I prefer it to the original, it's much better than what others think
I had the EP record of this when I was a kid. Seeing a video made of it is exactly as I imagined it :)
Are you going to upload Thunderbirds The Anniversary Episodes to TH-cam.
The best launch sequence
TB2 is so counter-intuitive as a flying vehicle that if you stop to think about it this wouldn't work at all. But we suspend disbelief because it's so cool. And remains cool no matter what.
And flies at almost Mach 3 (2k mph). Incredible, with no delta wings.
Even a brick can fly with enough power
Thunderbird one fastest rocketplane and temporary base .
Thunderbird Two giant cargo rescue specialist pod carrier 5,000,000 brake horsepower .
Thunder bird 3 interplanetary recue rocket with roundhouse launch facility .
Thunderbird 4 . Rubber duckey
Has this been redone ? If so - who where when ?????? Brilliant to anyone who obsessed with this as a kid ---- like me
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@@century21films28 COOL
*_I_** ❤️ **_THUNDERBIRD 2!_*
Can somebody tell me why Virgil has to twiddle the steering wheel when TB2 is rolling down the willow straight runway? Are the wheels not on straight? A bit like a supermarket trolley, perhaps ?
Can you show us how Thunderbird 4 gets back into Thunderbird 2?
It's a long paddle back home for Gordon in TB4 I'm afraid. Virgil has only enough Diesel, in that bird, to go out on location and then return to base without hovering around. !!
Technically it was never shown. But it was explained how: basically Gordon reverses TB4 back into the pod via the launch ramp, which he lowers into and it clamps into him, then shuts the door. TB2 then lands into the pod, clamps it into the main ship and does a vertical takeoff from the water’s surface
everything was perfect, except the binoculars were used backward.
They’re not.
Great stuff, chaps! 👍👍
I have ITVX, on my telly, must take a look.
Will this be available in Australia?
That is beyond out control. The rights to Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes are controlled by ITV. If you would like to see them in your region, please contact ITV directly or a DVD and Blu-Ray label that you feel would be interested in distributing them.
Has anyone ever seen the undercarriage of Thunderbird 2? Seems to me it's always taxiing on it's belly. This has been bothering me for decades.
Very small almost hidden wheels...
"and Thunderbird 4 slides into the sea" which is the dialogue cut from introducing Thunderbirds" and how do i know this ? because i plyted that " 33rpm mini album record ( 45 sized) so many times i could quote it from beginning to end....ah they were my childhood days.....The future of engineering and innovation was ours....Thank you for showing us these clips. I tried to buy all these now as dvd's but sadly they appear to be only available for streaming...
The only comment I can give is: where’s the Blu Ray release for North America?
The home media release of these episodes is outside of our control. Please contact ITV or your territory's Thunderbirds Blu-Ray distributor directly to request a release.
(0:59) *Thunderbird 2 Is GO!!!* 💚
From a Metaphorical view. The main series is like the Main course of a meal, and the feature films are a desert course, which makes this story a light starter.
Blimey, h'and luvva duck, guv'ner. When funderbird four came outa that pod fing, I blinked, h'and h'almost missed h'it. H'it moved so blinkin' farst!
All newly made footage? Or a montage of new and remastered original stock?
However you did it, it works extremely well.
Really neat!
Can't beat Supermarionation. For me, being of a mature generation type it's the dogs Boll..ks. I particularly liked the Captain Scarlet/Joe 90 puppets, being of equal body/head proportion , with detail such as stubble or Scars....
F-A-B!!
When thunderbird 4 goes into action & mission is completed, you never see thunderbird 2 collect thunderbird 4. It must be hard encompass the pod without the tailpipe touching the sea !
Something that always gnawed at the back of my mind for years until it struck me was those telescopic struts that extend and retract from beneath the wing and seeming disappear up into the engine nacelles.
Apart from the obvious that the length of the topmost of the strut sections could not possibly fit in the space between the bottom of the wing and top of the nacelle, these collapsed struts actually go _through_ the engine itself.
It can be argued that there are no mechanical components there, they extend from just behind the opening and as part of the air intake, it would be empty space. But there cannot be that much empty ducting to supply air to the engine. There has to be part of the engine behind that grille. Even if you contend that it is empty space, then that strut certainly blocks a great deal of airflow at that point given its diameter, not to mention the space taken up by where the actuators would be located to operate the struts.
Sure, it's a TV show, kids show, fiction, but there are small plot holes and then there are big ones and this plot point has a huge over sized strut going right through it.
Not to mention the fact that Jeff states that it needs the ramp to take off due to it being so heavy, and yet not only does it take off vertically using it's jets from the Danger Zone, it uses them when coming in to land, (usually cutting off before actually touching down) and, as seen here, when losing height prior to launching Thunderbird 4... but then just hangs motionless in mid-air!!! What's holding it up??? (apart from fine fishing line 😁) And I am saying this as a HUGE fan who loves the show, but this has bugged me for ages. (I have the same issue with the Falcon in the Star Wars sequel trilogy where they seem to forget it can hover, yet crash lands in 2 of the films.) At the end of the day... who cares, we all love it!
@@EddieDoherty How did I never see that! 😲
@@EddieDoherty Well I’m glad it wasn’t just me who realized it lol
You are all over-thinking it... Your comments about the design are probably correct, but, ffs, it is a children's science fiction show... Normality and sensible designs do NOT have to apply in these shows... I agree that there are major holes in the stories, but... who cares !!! ... Let's just sit back and enjoy !!!
@@richardruff8712 Chill dude and lay off the profanity. You want to make a point, you want to debate, try a civil tongue or shut your hole!
Not only makes sound juvenile but makes you irrelevant.
Is it me, or is Parker looking through the wrong end of the binoculars?
Didnt they show thunderbird 4 taking off on it own from the island, with out Thunderbird 2?
I think that, on only one occasion, did we see TB4 go along the airstrip runway, and zoom into the water, at the end of the runway...
It was in the episode when the Empire State building collapsed whilst being moved to a new location. TB2 was out of commission due to a missile attack.
Not sure about the pod dropping into the sea like that 😂.
Alan would've had concussion 😀
Gordon was the pilot of TB4... Alan was the pilot of TB3... Yes, some of us are still awake !
How did Geoff Tracy get all of the civil and mechanical engineering works done, during the construction phase of the island, without any of the third party contractors even knowing what was happening.
They buried them in a huge pit during the completion party. Torpedoed their boat as they took them back to shore, bricked them up in the walls. Kyrano, Tin Tin and Granny made some nice meals from them. Put them in a special T2 pod and sunk them at sea?
Like what they do with old tunnel boring machines. They drive them past the end point and concrete them in. Even the super rich who buy small blocks in expensive parts of London, for example, to dig down and build 4-6 levels underground get excavators to dig down and after they have finished, it's cheaper and easier to dig an extra 'excavator' sized hole and place it in there, entombing it forever under the bottom floor.
Or Brains turned them into biofuel!
@@tomstamford6837 I suppose that gruesome "prequel" never made it off of the cutting room floor. Nice idea though, since it was a good old fashioned "family" show in it's day. They could, of course, gone for the gold old "amnesia" drink offered by Brains before they all left the island to build their next project(s) elsewhere. I like the Biofuel idea.... I bet the visitors, on an unknowing, "one-way" ticket to the island wondered why the central heating was so intense given it's location in the tropics. !!!
@@ambell Amnesia drink eh? I forgot about that!
I'm less certain about my biofuel theory now. Thinking about it, watching them blast off, they certainly don't have emission controls on those birds.
And their ground vehicles belch so much toxic looking black smoke... makes me wonder! It's a wonder those model makers and cameramen didn't end up with miner's lung.🤔😆
But one more thing.
I always get a laugh when they talk about being a 'secret' organisation and how Scott, in particular, got especially bothered about cameras, yet they all went around calling themselves by their real names. Who wouldn't know about the famous astronaut Jeff Tracy, who walked on the moon, became the richest man in the world and philanthropist or about his sons and what they looked like?
In case anyone else is reading this, I am not taking this too seriously, but it is fun to ponder these things. Except for the belching exhausts that is.
@@tomstamford6837 Also don't forget that if, as Lady Penelope did, you smoked a cigarette on the end of an extension, that was perfectly OK ! Even Jeff Tracy had an ash tray on his desk that doubled up as a comms device. I bet all of those Tracy brothers ended up "6ft under" due to asbestosis, silicosis, or even myxomatosis (if Grandma served up that odd rabbit pie from time to time). As for the black smoke, that's what you got for running on diesel (once called the "clean fuel of the future" if memeory serves). On the theme of fuel, how long did it take to refuel Thunderbird 2 at the nearest petrol station. A bit pricey these days. I bet that's pushed up the price of a "call out" to some hapless, low-income, fool, stranded on some mountainside.
@@ambell I admit to my age when I say I was a little kid when I saw it, though it was created before I was born... but until I watched it again in recent years I never realised just how huge T2 was. It would be quicker to refuel the space shuttle external tank than it.
Actually, I noticed them Tracy boys also got stuck into the tobacco quite a bit as they sat around the piano. Which makes me wonder now... poor Tin Tin, the only female on the island with all them dudes around.
All these chats makes me want to write a bit of a send up episode for the fun of it. Though I do have respect for the Andersons and Thunderbirds, also UFO and Space 1999, even if they sometimes scared the bejeezus out of me!
Funny, I always thought T2 was capable of 5000 mph. I must be getting old.
Frank.
It is a children's science fiction show... Normal physics don't need to apply...
@@richardruff8712
Dear Richard,
I'm unsure what physics or the target audience has to do with T2's speed. The figure I quoted was from either a TV21 annual or comic. As I said, my error may simply be a product of old age.
Frank.
@@frankberry6220 I truly believe that, when kids watched it, we all believed everything, then, as we became grown-ups, we started to question everything... But now, I totally accept that it was, in fact, a weather balloon that landed at Roswell !!!!!!!
@@richardruff8712
Dear Richard,
Personally, I'm of the opinion that any aliens capable of inter stellar flight would give us a very wide berth.
Frank.
@@frankberry6220 Yes Sir, I totally agree... Any aliens ( with an iota of common sense ), will take a look at the idiotic humans on this planet, and will decide to go away, and maybe come back in a few hundred years... Hoping that maybe, just maybe, we will have grown up enough, to join the Federation of Planets... Lets be honest, we humans, are just too damned stupid at the moment... Possibly the Vulcans are keeping an eye on us, and deciding to keep well away, for the foreseeable future...
IF Virgil drives Thunderbird 2 and then drops into the water in Thunderbird 4, how does Thunderbird 2 stay in the air?
Gordon pilots Thunderbird 4.
Gordon seemed to be missing from the launch sequence. Perhaps he was already in TB4 because it was a short demonstration flight…
@@iamgk1 Gordon must suffer from a lot of back ache given the drop of that pod from such a height. !!
@@ambell Padded seats !
These days I suppose Tracy Island probably comprises self contained flats for those with enough cash.
Jeff Tracy bought the island, when he retired from NASA... He wouldn't risk the public learning about all the secrets hidden within the island...
Slight niggle. Jeff says TB2 needs the ramp to take off because it's so heavy and yet it never needs a ramp to take off from the rescue site when the job is done and it's heading home.
Well, by that stage, half of the fuel must have been used up, so TB2 would have been much lighter, and could have used the VTOL method...