The roundhouse was designed by Mike Trim I believe, so he had an indirect hand in the design of TB5...let's give Mike his due, he designed a number of guest and star vehicles (and buildings) in Thunderbirds and the shows that followed. Mike and Derek's work was both fantastic!
I always thought that The Round House looked like Thunderbird 5. I was never sure if it was intentional, or which came first. Looking now, I'm amused that both have white 'Venetian blind' structures on them (in one of the 'Thunderbirds' novels by John Theydon, he has Parker say something to the effect of: "Venice. I could never trust people wot fills their streets wiv' water, an' who sit around all day makin' blinds.") The use of the Round House as guest accomodation must have been odd, though - the silo does have a lid - it's shown in the TV21 'Thunderbirds Are Go!' Tie-in book, and looks like a rock garden. That's not the problem. Being shown round by Jeff or Kyrano, they might tell you that: "This inner wall might get rather warm occasionally", or: "You might get woken up, at any time, to go on a Water Mamba hunt.": "The stereo in here has been known to suddenly play 'The Ace Of Spades', by Motorhead, at deafening volume, any time of day or night, usually at a time when the inner wall gets a tad warm.": "Try not to walk on the circular rock garden under the house at night. The step down into it is surprisingly deep. Yes, it does look like it could be the lid to something, doesn't it?" 🤔 😆😆😆
Thunderbird 3 is portrayed as a massive space vehicle, when Alan and whoever is entering via the chair injected underneath before launch we get a feel for the huge Saturn 5 like scale of the rocket. Yet when launching through the Roundhouse Thunderbird 3 has somehow shrunk in scale by 80%. The whole rocket is only 4 levels tall instead of 40. Anyway all the launch areas had a design back to the craft, it's no big secret.
Talking about the Round House the scale always seemed to be a bit off to me. TB-3 is supposed to be 287ft tall (according to one of the episodes) just 76ft shorter than a Saturn V, yet the Round House is just a single floor and not wide enough to allow an 80ft wide TB-3 to fly through it. I know, worrying about "scale" in a Gerry Anderson show but I build models and these things bother me! 😁
This has always worried me. It was so obvious even as a child when you compared the size of the characters going TB 3 on the settee lift to the size of TB3 then a few seconds saw it lifting off through a relatively tiny guest house.
If you're worried about scale, compare the relative sizes of TB2 and Fireflash in "Trapped in the Sky" and "Operation Crash-Dive"...also how on earth to fit four elevator cars in a pod when you see the first one coming out!
@@explorer806 Always thought TB-2s pods shared similar properties with the TARDIS. Then there's the size of the pool that has to roll out of TB-1s way... 😁
Well, I never thought of that! I always thought TB5 was based on a toroidal transformer: that sort of skinny doughnut wrapped in copper wire. Maybe it WAS a toroidal transformer! I could never quite understand how those two peculiar antennae on top would work. Then again, I believe the Anderson philosophy was "If it looks right, it's right"!
Looking at the pic of TB3 passing through the hole in the roundhouse, there is a black "3" under the Thunderbird word on the side. That 3 is not on the larger models - got the pics in Chris Bentley's book. The main difference is that the large white 3s around the base are a different font on that one, than the one you see in the silo and in space.
Here's a fun reference by a Japanese show pokemon sun and moon anime had a sequence like Thunderbirds 2 parmtrees were some parm tree pokemon fold over to allow another pokemon to take flight when I watch it I kept hearing the drum beat from the thunderbird march
There's quite a lot of imagery borrowed from Thunderbirds and UFO in the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. There's a video on YT comparing the two (similar outfits, character outfit design etc)
The roundhouse is also a superlight drive, it can fly, TB3 connects and once in space go superluminal, once removed the real roundhouse guesthouse flips up again ... TB 2099
When derick meddlings showed dad his designs for thunderbird 5 and he said no did he throw the models on the floor like brains did and that was put into thunderbird 6 ,😂maybe now if it was being made thunderbird 5 could look abit like space dick in Star Trek but smaller ,nice posting I miss Gerry Anderson proud of his work and to say we made it in the U.K.
Can anyone explain how TB3 is the size of a Saturn V in the launch bay but its barely 40 feet tall when it emerges thru the eye of the two-story ring house ??????
The rooms were very very tall. So tall in fact that Jeff had them divided horizontally between series 1 and 2 so that he wouldn't have to keep buying 40 foot long curtains.
Thunderbird 5 was always my least favourite design... I’m not surprised that nobody ever stayed in the round house. Operation “cover up would mean getting all the guests out of the house! What excuse would you have in the middle of the night?
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A true fact, I always thought there was a familiar look for both TB5 and the Roundhouse, even when I was a kid!
The BBC Television centre is in the shape of a question mark when viewed from above
The roundhouse was designed by Mike Trim I believe, so he had an indirect hand in the design of TB5...let's give Mike his due, he designed a number of guest and star vehicles (and buildings) in Thunderbirds and the shows that followed.
Mike and Derek's work was both fantastic!
Mike Trim? Is that the same guy who designed the fighting machines for Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds?
@@scaleddown5367 Yes, it is.
I always wondered this! Brilliant that my suspicions were proven right. Another FAB Fact from this video.
I always thought that The Round House looked like Thunderbird 5. I was never sure if it was intentional, or which came first. Looking now, I'm amused that both have white 'Venetian blind' structures on them (in one of the 'Thunderbirds' novels by John Theydon, he has Parker say something to the effect of:
"Venice. I could never trust people wot fills their streets wiv' water, an' who sit around all day makin' blinds.")
The use of the Round House as guest accomodation must have been odd, though - the silo does have a lid - it's shown in the TV21 'Thunderbirds Are Go!' Tie-in book, and looks like a rock garden. That's not the problem. Being shown round by Jeff or Kyrano, they might tell you that:
"This inner wall might get rather warm occasionally", or:
"You might get woken up, at any time, to go on a Water Mamba hunt.":
"The stereo in here has been known to suddenly play 'The Ace Of Spades', by Motorhead, at deafening volume, any time of day or night, usually at a time when the inner wall gets a tad warm.": "Try not to walk on the circular rock garden under the house at night. The step down into it is surprisingly deep. Yes, it does look like it could be the lid to something, doesn't it?" 🤔 😆😆😆
Thunderbird 3 is portrayed as a massive space vehicle, when Alan and whoever is entering via the chair injected underneath before launch we get a feel for the huge Saturn 5 like scale of the rocket. Yet when launching through the Roundhouse Thunderbird 3 has somehow shrunk in scale by 80%. The whole rocket is only 4 levels tall instead of 40. Anyway all the launch areas had a design back to the craft, it's no big secret.
Probably why they changed it for the movies.
Talking about the Round House the scale always seemed to be a bit off to me. TB-3 is supposed to be 287ft tall (according to one of the episodes) just 76ft shorter than a Saturn V, yet the Round House is just a single floor and not wide enough to allow an 80ft wide TB-3 to fly through it. I know, worrying about "scale" in a Gerry Anderson show but I build models and these things bother me! 😁
This has always worried me. It was so obvious even as a child when you compared the size of the characters going TB 3 on the settee lift to the size of TB3 then a few seconds saw it lifting off through a relatively tiny guest house.
If you're worried about scale, compare the relative sizes of TB2 and Fireflash in "Trapped in the Sky" and "Operation Crash-Dive"...also how on earth to fit four elevator cars in a pod when you see the first one coming out!
@@explorer806 Always thought TB-2s pods shared similar properties with the TARDIS.
Then there's the size of the pool that has to roll out of TB-1s way... 😁
@@randalscott7224 ...after doing its mysterious 90 degree turn coming down the diagonal ramp!! 😁
They're all there but none were so obvious to me as a child than TB3. It just seemed so massively wrong.
Well, I never thought of that! I always thought TB5 was based on a toroidal transformer: that sort of skinny doughnut wrapped in copper wire. Maybe it WAS a toroidal transformer!
I could never quite understand how those two peculiar antennae on top would work. Then again, I believe the Anderson philosophy was "If it looks right, it's right"!
I always found the balustrade fencing near the docking station on T5 an odd design. Not as if you can fall down off the edge in space.
@@nicholasjones7312 The whole docking procedure became a bit embarrassing to me after a certain age.
ThunderBird 5 Is truly the biggest ThunderBird of all!
Literally thought his going to say the roundhouse! Indeed it does. I think we all thought the same thing growing up.
simply genius.
I always preferred Thunderbird 3 and was quite envious of Allan as he hung out with Tintin.
Tintin is a fox. Fact.
@@astroguster5522 You Sir ,have great taste in puppet's.
@@astroguster5522 I thought he was a Belgian Reporter. :]
Looking at the pic of TB3 passing through the hole in the roundhouse, there is a black "3" under the Thunderbird word on the side. That 3 is not on the larger models - got the pics in Chris Bentley's book. The main difference is that the large white 3s around the base are a different font on that one, than the one you see in the silo and in space.
So are you saying thatthe connection with TB1 lemon squeezer is that the craft used lemon juice as fuel?
That would be very ecological.
Here's a fun reference by a Japanese show pokemon sun and moon anime had a sequence like Thunderbirds 2 parmtrees were some parm tree pokemon fold over to allow another pokemon to take flight when I watch it I kept hearing the drum beat from the thunderbird march
There's quite a lot of imagery borrowed from Thunderbirds and UFO in the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. There's a video on YT comparing the two (similar outfits, character outfit design etc)
@@kaledranger18 cool it just surprised me to see the exsecutors bend over like the thunder-parms
The roundhouse is also a superlight drive, it can fly, TB3 connects and once in space go superluminal,
once removed the real roundhouse guesthouse flips up again ... TB 2099
Good to know
The 'Black Knight Satellite' is actually Thunderbird 5. ;)
Alan used a Johnny Seven when he was shooting out of TB2 into Fireflash.
Always wondered why TB5 had a back porch?
When derick meddlings showed dad his designs for thunderbird 5 and he said no did he throw the models on the floor like brains did and that was put into thunderbird 6 ,😂maybe now if it was being made thunderbird 5 could look abit like space dick in Star Trek but smaller ,nice posting I miss Gerry Anderson proud of his work and to say we made it in the U.K.
You may wish to edit the typo on "space dock". Especially in view of how TB3 docks with TB5.
Can anyone explain how TB3 is the size of a Saturn V in the launch bay but its barely 40 feet tall when it emerges thru the eye of the two-story ring house ??????
The rooms were very very tall. So tall in fact that Jeff had them divided horizontally between series 1 and 2 so that he wouldn't have to keep buying 40 foot long curtains.
I watched a UFO the other day, and the nose of Thunderbird 2, was painted Grey, and used as the front of some Plane Alec was flying,
Thunderbird 5 was always my least favourite design... I’m not surprised that nobody ever stayed in the round house. Operation “cover up would mean getting all the guests out of the house! What excuse would you have in the middle of the night?
You've got it all wrong derek didn't design the thunderbird machines, brains did.
The Lost In Space Robot's voicegrid is very annoying.
Very irritating and distracting 'sound-equalizer'bar