Thunderbirds 1, 2, 3 and 4 Launch Sequences
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- I searched around TH-cam for a while and found that no one had uploaded the lauch sequences of Thunderbirds 1, 2, 3 & 4 so I thought "I may as well do it myself"
OMG I DIDN'T EXPECT THIS TO GET 750'000 VIEWS THANK YOU EVERYONE YOU ARE AMAZING!
Edit (2020): After 3 long years TH-cam has allowed me to make this public again!! This was my first viral video and honestly sums up my childhood. Thank you to everyone that still supports me!!
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.
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...
I had all these 4 in scale model toys! My childhood haha! 😂
Me too, I had the Mole as well.
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
The model makers working for Anderson were amazing. The detail, and all the complexity.
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 😍
....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
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.
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.
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...
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!
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 :')
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.
4:40 I imagine Scott saying to Tintin "so, have you ever tryed two at the same time?"
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
Amazing THUNDERBIRDS and music its wooww thanks for sharing !!
i was always so jealous of anyone that had the whole island with all the Thunderbird's,
was always on my Christmas fuck it i know what im getting this year and i do not care that i am 23 years old
You run out of ideas on what to get on Christmas when you're an adult anyway. So yeah. Fuck it!
Haha I agree I'm taking thunderbird 2 and 4 in the bath for a water mission hahaha
I have searched for 25 years & I never did get a hold of that Island.
I know your pain.
I saw a remake of it the other day but thunderbird 2 is very different
Alick Akrotiri I could imagine.
there was so much love and attention to detail in these shows...nothing today comes close
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.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS. MEMORIES AND MORE ARE WHAT THIS BRINGS BACK. BESIDES THE SEQUENCES ARE SUPER COOL
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.
1 of greatest TV show of all time!
Don't tell anybody you are going to fly horizontal, just do it!
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"
Oh my gosh, the nostalgia wiith this music.
I always loved that Thunderbird 2 Virgil slide thing.
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.
My childhood! 😍
My whole childhood in one video
Always wondered what would happen if someone got stuck in the pool during the launch sequence!
They'd definitely need rescuing!
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
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..
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!
Ahhhh I remember how excited I was getting my thunderbirds island toy for Christmas. Wish I still had it
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
Remembers me my childhood!
Best theme tune ever composed !
Couldn't agree more 😎
Better than the Space 1999 theme and the GOT theme?
Great stuff. Love the music that plays during the T2 launch.
have to play , for my kids now !! I loved thunderbirds as a kid in the 70s !! I was born 1968 !
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
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!
When I was little, I ALWAYS wanted to be Virgil. TB2 had so much cool stuff, and ALWAYS saved the day, somehow!
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.
I loved this show as a kid!!
Nothing to say,this is design at 60s.genius,my favourite tv show of all times.
Exelentes recuerdo ..gracias
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.
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!
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
no dislikes, thats jizzable, just like this entire series was
I loved this show back in the late Sixties and early Seventies and always thought of them as heroes but having watched this again I've come to the conclusion that the Tracy kids were just spoilt rich kids.
Scott Tracy: "Dad, can I have a rocket? A silver one with a red nose cone. But when I board it I don't want to have to walk, I want to be able to just stand on a hydraulic walkway."
Mr Tracy: "Well, OK son, I'll see what I can do."
Alan and John Tracy: "If Scott's getting a rocket then we want a rocket too. But we want an orange one with huge thrusters on the fins! And we don't want to walk, we don't even want to have to stand to board it, we just want to sit down on a big sofa all the way from the house until we're inside the rocket."
Mr Tracy: "Gee, I don't know boys, that sounds a bit ........."
Virgil Tracy (interrupting his Dad): " OK then, I don't want a rocket, I want a transporter. A big green transporter with detachable capsules to carry my toys around in. And I don't want to have to walk or stand or even sit down when I want to get on it. I just want to lie down the whole fucking way!"
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
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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Ever notice it never rains on the outdoor scenes.LOL Love the music.
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...
Desenhos de minha infância, bela recordação...
fantastic ... wonderful post
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.)
Launching Thunderbird 5 must have been quite impressive as well... it's kind of huge.
OMG this takes me back
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。)
this just makes me smile so much!! :-D
1:29 "In Case of EMERGENCY use Ejector Door ..... Keep Clear" !!!
Phew ...... thank goodness Brains thought of putting that sign up !!
Today was a heartbreaking day for me. My Favorite Thunderbirds dvd with Pit Of Peril on was found scratched!
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
The first time I ever saw Virgil going down that chute? Thought it was the coolest damn thing I ever saw....
Loved this show as a kid...still do actually.....even though the wings on T2 are pointing the wrong way....!!!!
if only there were more people like you...i would spend so much less time correcting people
This is great ! Thanks for uploading !!
I had the thunderbird toys !!! I used to play with them while watching the show
Me too haha
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 :)
i have all apart from thunderbird 5 and i think that it was/is amazing!
How did Virgil get back to the lounge from Thunderbird 2 after an operation. That was never shown.
He reversed his actions
Looking back, some of the stuff is hilariously unnecessary but it's still iconic so I can't complain.
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
I am about to go on a ThunderBirds episode marathon FAB.Wish me luck.
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.
04:39 Tintin's face..."Uh, guys, what the hell is going on?"
this is showing the launch process. Did they ever showed the landing (putting back) their plane into its hangar ??
Awesome, best by a long mark.
This beats the new one by a long shot.
And notice how Alan and Scott switch places. Going down alan on the left, scott on the right. Then when decending the other way round. Then when going up into TB3 there bak in the first position :) but who cares really. It was the launch that the kidz were interested in ;)
@Joshua Westover, good catch!
If this show ever comes back, they should have 3 more machines. Change tb 4 into a full size submarine, tb5 should be a giant rescue copter or Ospry, tb6 should be a passenger/rescue plane. New vehicles like a rescue/medical rig, over sized mech suit
If you're an Anderson fan, check out the Kickstarter for Gemini Force One - supporting a new Gerry Anderson project!
THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!
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.
Where's Thunderbird 4's launch from Tracey Island?
Fair point, didn't think to include it at the time
This is still better than the cartoon
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.
Is Virgil compensating for something?
Thunderbird 4 waz my favourite. And can u believe it Gordon Tracy 4 the characterz :)
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.
I want a "Why not watch this video in reverse" on every video.
+Whybother123 hahaha if only i had the time and effort to do that lol
I used to love this show as a Kid - but I have to ask - how on earth do they manage to get changed from their civvies to their uniforms so quickly?
mad skillz lol
:) Searching, I found this on imdb.com: "When the launch sequence of Thunderbird 2 was shot, pilot Virgil Tracy was shown being taken to the craft in civilian clothing. When the completed sequence was cut together, he was seen to have mysteriously gained a uniform. To provide continuity, a scene was later shot and added showing his uniform appearing in the cockpit."
They had automatic clothes changing machinery, like Batman and Robin when they slid down the Batpoles.
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 ..... !!)
my childhood heroes