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Old 03-06-2012, 08:58 AM   #1
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Default Thunderbirds are Go

Just a bit of lighthearted reading , who watched this show as a kid ?

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Old 03-06-2012, 09:03 AM   #2
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What do you mean who watched this show as a kid.... I am 41 and get up every Sunday morning at 6.00 am to watch it:P
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Old 03-06-2012, 09:07 AM   #3
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The models were extremly impressive... and most of the time they were blown up!

What more could a kid want then to see models blow up?? lol
(usually led to the destruction of several matchbox cars)

If the manual makes it here id grab one!
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Old 03-06-2012, 09:12 AM   #4
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The models were extremly impressive... and most of the time they were blown up!

What more could a kid want then to see models blow up?? lol
(usually led to the destruction of several matchbox cars)

If the manual makes it here id grab one!
$27 posted from the uk brand new on eBay. I think I'll be grabbing one!
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Old 03-06-2012, 10:43 AM   #5
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What do you mean who watched this show as a kid.... I am 41 and get up every Sunday morning at 6.00 am to watch it:P
me too & im 53 had all the models & so did my mates .one mates parents had a bowling team they called it the thunderbirds & had tb1 embroidered on the back of their shirts they were good times
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Old 03-06-2012, 10:49 AM   #6
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I love Thunderbirds.
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thats cool , I have the DVD box set
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Got the whole series on DVD as well as an assortment of books posters and memorabilia
The thunderbirds was our generations star wars
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Old 03-06-2012, 12:17 PM   #9
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I use to watch thunderbirds with my dad when I was a kid!

Still have my Tracey Island set with die cast TB's 1,2,3 and 4 at my parents place!
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Old 03-06-2012, 01:39 PM   #10
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I'm buying that book!!!!!

I've got the boxed set of DVD's, the complete series, which I picked up for about fifty bucks a few years back. I also found in Target on a discount table the complete set of Captain Scarlett, which was the later series by Gerry Anderson...a bit more adult in that it had a lot of action and they didn't shy away from killing off bad guys, and the figures were a bit more properly proportioned (without the "big heads" of the Thunderbirds marionettes as technology had improved).

Never too old for the Thunderbirds!!!

If you sniff around Ebay, you can occasionally pick up the old Dinky toys...I managed to find Thunderbird 2, and more importantly, Lady Penelopes Rolls, complete with figures of her and Parker. You can also get all the repro replacement parts to restore them from other sites if anything is missing.
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Old 03-06-2012, 01:42 PM   #11
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i still have the island and ships in abox somewhere...
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Old 03-06-2012, 02:27 PM   #12
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Haha! I used to watch them a lot. Still pretty cool!
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Old 03-06-2012, 05:19 PM   #13
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Still watch them now with the kids. The two movies are my personal favorites!

Managed to pick up a couple of models last year. One is a die cast replica of Zero X and the others are a large scale T1 and T2.

But the most impressive of them all is a massive 2 foot long Thunderbird 2 model, complete with electric legs, lit cabin, and a list of options such as pods, vehicles, etc including a RC Mole that you can drive out of the pod after you raise T2's legs! Made by a Japanese company called Takara. Google it! Also there is video on YouTube. Worth the look if your a Gerry Anderson fan.

As is www.eagletransporter.com. The model builders on that site are obsessed!! Making replicas of the vehicles based of screen grabs and pictures!

Might go crack open that T1 model......
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Old 03-06-2012, 06:01 PM   #14
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Even some of us girls used to watch Thunderbirds. I loved it as a kid. Bought Jack the DVD set when it came out.

I think the manual is so cool and would be a great talking point.

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Just looking at the Hayes (UK) website and they have tones of non-vehicles books!

Military, Rail, Sea, Computers... oh dear.. If i keep looking too much ill order more then just the Thunderbirds book!
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omg omg omg

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OMG X 100 http://www.haynes.co.uk/webapp/wcs/s...1713&langId=-1

looks like some online shopping is on the agenda for me

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I notice they have an aussie website where you can order stuff from as well, but doesnt show the full range of books???
May have to ask them
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OOHH! My birthday's coming up!
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but sadly there is no manual for a type 40 TARDIS
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but sadly there is no manual for a type 40 TARDIS
Unfortunately not.

Also unfortunate there's not one for a Midbulk transport, standard radion-accelerator core, classcode 03-K64, Firefly.
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Captain Mal Reynolds. I would go anywhere with and or you.
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Still watch them now with the kids. The two movies are my personal favorites!

Managed to pick up a couple of models last year. One is a die cast replica of Zero X and the others are a large scale T1 and T2.

But the most impressive of them all is a massive 2 foot long Thunderbird 2 model, complete with electric legs, lit cabin, and a list of options such as pods, vehicles, etc including a RC Mole that you can drive out of the pod after you raise T2's legs! Made by a Japanese company called Takara. Google it! Also there is video on YouTube. Worth the look if your a Gerry Anderson fan.

As is www.eagletransporter.com. The model builders on that site are obsessed!! Making replicas of the vehicles based of screen grabs and pictures!

Might go crack open that T1 model......
I had a look a that TB2 that elevates
Got to get me one of them
How cool are they
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but sadly there is no manual for a type 40 TARDIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtWUrJU46M8

i know you said that because you want to build your own tardis



Those fictional Haynes manuals must be a real money spinner.
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i know you said that because you want to build your own tardis



Those fictional Haynes manuals must be a real money spinner.

actually I had downloaded the plans for one a while back and the sound effects.
Its on my list of things to do... was planning on putting it infront of shed door as an "alternative" entrance to shed!
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I went to a Toy Museum in the UK in the late 80s and just missed a Gerry Anderson Expo, but they still had a bit of gear there. I bought the Souvenir Program(still got it) and picked one up for a mates brother who was mad on them, his car rego at the time was TBIRD2.
Just remembered the theme for my 35th was "Thunderbirds are go", did a cool invite.
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i know you said that because you want to build your own tardis



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true but that one has no time rotor . I want a real TARDIS with a faulty chameleon circuit
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true but that one has no time rotor . I want a real TARDIS with a faulty chameleon circuit
Can you name the other things the Doctor's Type 40 appeared as (other than Police Box) - without using Google?

Hint - the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) did manage to get the Chameleon Circuit working for an episode ;)
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the episode was attack of the cybermen, iirc it was an organ and a stovein that one it was in a junkyard
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