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American Reacts to Thunderbirds: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/90ds7fus9dedlbp3sno1p/American-Reacts-to-Thunderbirds.mp4?rlkey=6lpnf0a00ya8vq9ze2w4qnlna&st=93an02s6&dl=0

[@whovianhistorybuff]

The 5 Tracy sons (both in screenwriting and in storyline) are named after project mercury astronauts Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Gordon Cooper and Alan Sheppard.

[@mancuniangamecat8288]

You can see this was massive influence on Team America.

[@georgeowain]

Fun fact. The first few episodes, including this one. Were originally only 24 minutes long. But after the guy (name I can’t remember), who was funding the series. Watched the promo of this episode. He decided that they needed to lengthen the episodes to 50 minutes to flesh out the story. As he felt with the high production costs, these seemed more like mini movies than just a simple episode. As a result, the attempt to get a man aboard to disarm the bomb was included. As were additional footage for the few episodes already complete. Sadly, despite the shows popularity, and Gerry Anderson’s intentions to continue producing the show. The financier demanded that now scrap the show. And produce something new. Hence the creation of Captain Scarlet.

[@BenBanjo87]

Fun fact: The Tracy brothers were named after the first five astronauts in space: Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Gordon Cooper and Alan Shephard. In the Thunderbirds timeline, Jeff Tracy himself was one of the first astronauts on the moon, but sadly abandoned his career to care for his sons when his wife died in a major accident...which prompted Jeff to set up International Rescue!

[@ianfrancis417]

Anyone mention that the 'Special Effects Director' was one Derek MEDDINGS and the guy who had the failed rescue attempt was also called Meddings.

[@millerhxc]

They messed up the continuity near the end: They do "operation cover up" when the doctor comes in, changing the portraits to just be the boys in normal clothes, but when you cut to 2 of them sitting down playing chess, like at 50:44. You can see that the portraits above still have them in uniform.

[@ENX-React]

I think the implication was that it was rigged to go bang when the landing gear was deployed on descent at the destination airport. No landing gear deployed, no boom. So instead of using the landing gear, just stick some giant industrial roller skates under it instead to act as replacement landing gear. Although if it became dislodged because the tape failed then it could go off anyway (but didn't, because Thunderbirds win, obviously!)

[@georgercop]

I don't think that's quite it - they put the landing gear down on the x-ray flypast. It was placed, essentially, in the shock absorbers, so that when the system was compressed with the impact of landing normally, that is what would trigger the bomb. Landing on the elevator cars doesnt put that stress on the shock absorbers, as the force of landing isnt travelling the right way, so the bomb wouldn't go off.

[@ENX-React]

@@georgercop Ah, well spotted, that sounds like a more accurate answer!

[@phillipbishop5419]

I loved this show when I was kid bring back so many memories. I loved fact bomb did not go off but I was thinking if this was real emergency by time international rescue arrived they be all dead surely? Might be overthinking it lol. Definitely would like to see more

[@AH-be6bu]

John really had a bleak existence. Floating around in space all by himself his entire life, and his family only contact him when they want something doing urgently. Poor sod.

[@whovianhistorybuff]

In the lore john is only up there for a month at a time, once a month Alan pilots Thunderbird 3 up to TB5 and docks, once there TB3's power generator charges TB5's Atomic batteries, replenishes its consumables and Alan takes over as space monitor while John pilots TB3 back to earth, he is then the pilot of TB3 for the month and they then swap again.

[@joecrammond6221]

legend has it rescues are pretty slim when John is on Earth meaning he plays very little active role in the series, thank god the 2015 reboot does it better

[@rtaylor7384]

This show was great. I glad your watching another show of my childhood and Yeah they are all family run by Jeff Tracy and his children except Brains and Lady P.

[@KRPTV]

I was once given an acting part in Thunderbirds but I turned it down in the end, too many strings attached!😄😄😄

[@chucklefun487]

😄😄😄😄😄

[@areasquirrel]

I had the toys and the paint has flaked off them over the years, they have a lot of grey spots on them. The interchangeable element meant that Thunderbird 2 was everyone's favourite. And the theme tune... Nostalgia... It's unusual that Blue Peter, the BBC kids show, therefore no commercials, was the one to do the build your own segment, only making sense when you factor in that at the time it was BBC that was showing reruns, not ITV, which ITC was originally affiliated with. It was years later before Neil Buchanan did a very obvious generic ripoff on Art Attack - Design Your Own Fantasy Island. If you recall them from Robot Wars, Plunderbird was originally meant as a pastiche, with the team's official name being the International Wreck Crew, and they had some early success before they changed into one of the show's heels as the standard of most of the other teams improved, and they aptly retired after Plunderbird 5. I remember a commercial that spoofed the intro: "5! 4! 3! 2! 1!" No take off. "Thunderbirds Are Go! Thunderbirds Are Go... Go, Thunderbirds!" Scott's having a tea break. "Have a Break. Have a KitKat." "Thunder... Birds... *GOOOO!* "

[@millerhxc]

There is an array of Gerry Anderson shows you could get into. I used to like Captain Scarlet and Joe 90, although I mainly liked Joe 90 for the theme song. There is also Space Precinct, which is live action mixed with puppetry and animatronics.

[@unanimousowlcouncil7377]

they have a plane with passenger areas in the wings, doing mach 6, yet it never occured to them there would ever be more than one airport in London, its just 'London airport' XD

[@robthemodYT]

Maybe Heathrow expanded to so many runaways the entirety of London is just an airport now. 😆

[@leocollinge]

No way! This is such a nice surprise for me. These remind me of watching them with my mum. Please keep watching them. Stringray and Captain Scarlett were the different shows created with Thunderbirds as an inspiration. They also have 2 of the best and most catchy theme songs.

[@torresilk4277]

Don’t forget Joe 90. Though that’s got child abuse vibes. 😂 I also have a soft spot for The Secret Service which is lesser known.

[@LiskaKitsune]

I think the idea is that the movement of the Fireflash's undercarraige suspension is what would have set off the bomb on landing which is why landing gear up worked. Hope someone remembered to scram the reactor as soon as they were down otherwise everyone would have still been getting irradiated whilst waiting to evacuate. Nearly all of Thunderbirds logic does not hold up to any level of scrutiny. 95% of whats done is because it looks cool and I don't think anyone making it bothered to pretend otherwise.

[@whovianhistorybuff]

I think that's what virgil intended for them when he said "Fireflash from Thunderbird 2, cut engines" "Fireflash, lift port wing, lift port wing.........cut power"

[@Naylte]

00:42 To be specific, puppets with solenoids in them. 01:20 Oh, dear. The remastering removed a layer deliberately included. "Your strings are showing." - Peter Cook 19:12 "PAW Patrol! PAW Patrol!" 21:10 I think you were looking at the pods. 33:37 That's why they call him The Hood. 42:50 That was an error on set that was worked into the story. 49:16 That's how you know it's a real Gerry Anderson work; everything's inclined to blow-up. 52:47 The episodes were going to be only half-an-hour long with ads, but when the execs saw this pilot they immediately called for all episodes to be doubled in length. 53:32 Release order or production order?

[@frazergreen6786]

The OG series, I loved watching the videos of this in the early 00's, ye should check out Captain Scarlet and Stingray as well, those are bangers

[@stephendisraeli1143]

I'm old enough to remember Four Feather Falls, which was the pioneer in this style of puppetry.

[@joecrammond6221]

for a show made in the 1960's with puppets and models, Thunderbirds is quite impressive, yes we can see the puppet strings but that isn't an issue to me

[@CRH957]

Now need to react to Blue Peter Anthea Turner making Tracy Island .

[@EccentricGentelman]

Thunderbirds was a huge part of my childhood, my fave was always Thunderbird 2. This show is British but it's most important characters are American. The reason being that America had a very lucrative market for tv shows, Britain having such a small potential audience by comparison. But in the 70s, America was dead set against any foreign TV shows. So Gerry Anderson, creator of Thunderbirds, made all the heroes American as a way to make the show more appealing to them. Gerry Anderson created not only Thunderbirds and many other shows but also the medium it was filmed in. He invented supermarionation, marionettes with radio controlled devices in their heads to operate mouths and eyes. They also used camera tricks like filming water and smoke at a slowed down pace to make them and the models seem bigger. One of Blue Peter's most famous make and dos was the model Tracy Island. They did it again when the live action movie came out. Gerry Anderson did not approve of it. He also said he always hated the character John Tracy and loved the fact he could stick him up alone in space every episode. Which I think is odd as not he John Tracy but rarely did the Tracy boys show a lot of character anyway. Also this show inspired a real life humanitarian organization, the International Rescue Corps which helps people in the wake of disaster all over the world. How amazing is that?!

[@MeFreeBee]

My best friend had a Thunderbird 1 AND a Thunderbird 3 but he kept coming over to our house because we had the Thunderbird 2 with Thunderbird 4 in the pod.

[@EccentricGentelman]

@@MeFreeBee To this day it still annoys me that people think Thunderbird 1 is a spacecraft.

[@rtaylor7384]

I also think you should watch the live action film from 2004. It sucks but it fun to watch the rockets and other amazing vehicles and that and seeing Tracy island to. I think that Busted song you saw on Top of the pops was based on it and why they where sing to it.

[@joshuagarnham9703]

This show is brilliant. Please, keep this coming.

[@Timmy6983]

If you going down the Marionette Rabbit hole, you will definitely need to follow up with CAPTAIN SCARLET (and a lesser extent STINGRAY), CS is pretty violent compared to THUNDERBIRDS with a lot of death - but great atmosphere!

[@stephenbryan1776]

Wow this is definitely a childhood favourite of mine.. Always remember seeing the strings but that's how things were back then.. Brilliant show wanna see more reactions like these 😊

[@Saint_Dan132]

this is an unusual one i love it, team America vibes

[@torresilk4277]

Team America has Thunderbird vibes. 😜

[@kkuro7054]

I was hoping someone would climb into the undercarriage and try to talk to the Auto-Bomb about epistemology :( Too soon though!

[@whovianhistorybuff]

Guess the episode 1, 🌁🚀 2, 🏙🔥 3, 🧪🐊 4, 🗽🚢 4, 😭🐺 5, 🎄💰 6, ☀️🚀 7, 🌁💣 8, ⌛💣 9, 🛩🌊 10,👸🖼

[@LiskaKitsune]

How do people seeing this for the first time find the pacing? Countless drawn out panning shots of cool looking vehicles makes my neurodivergent brain happy but I've always wandered if other people find them boring?

[@kkuro7054]

I have only respect for mad aerodyamicists with twin-boom fetishes, but I did find the pacing and repetition of that footage a pacing problem. I mean, it's pleasant to look at -- but might as well be still photography. There's nothing interesting in the composition or editing; it feels like hitting the brakes on the narrative, ruins the tension and tempo. And watching it now, I'm actually surprised at how much tension/suspense this corny old puppet show _does_ manage to generate! :) But appreciating the vehicle design in this show is not a neurodivergent characteristic, trust me :)

[@SeanS102]

I enjoy it because the model work is so good and tactile, very satisfying to watch, but is does become comical at times. Very 60's pacing.

[@bluehairedgirlstudio]

yes, yes, & yes

[@everready800]

Aint been on in ages and the hair is getting long man! Like me when i was your age! 😃👍

[@MrDCWood]

Thunderbirds…a timeless classic! 🫡 So many classic stories. My favourite episodes (as well as Trapped In The Sky) were definitely… Pit Of Peril City Of Fire The Uninvited Sun Probe Attack Of The Aligators You’re in for a treat with the rest of the series, mate. Then I really recommend checking out Captain Scarlet. 👍🏻

[@Saint_Dan132]

not on one hub cmon now