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Published: 2010-08-02 15:54:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 15202; Favourites: 100; Downloads: 1106
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Part two of the series....which is also number 4...obviously...Anyway, here we are, complete with photoshopped Gordon Tracy...using Alan from the movie, because I think he looks closer to Gordon than Alan, as it were.
Nothing else much to add, really.
Gerry Anderson created Thunderbirds
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I just have one problem with this: there is NO way a sub, especially one this size could get up above 100 km/h, let alone 370.
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Also, further Googling reveals that there are rocket powered torpedoes reputed to get up to 370 km/h, and TB4 *is* a rocket powered submarine so....yeah.
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OK, I'll give you that.
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Hm. Must have mistyped. TB4's top speed underwater is supposed to be 160 knots, which is roughly 296 km/h, apparently.
Of course, we all know that the Thunderbirds all have a top speed of 'whatever the plot requires'
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Very nice.
This looks much more functional and "real" than the 60s design; I like the manipulator arms and the wide, "360" foreport
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Thanks - as much as I like the original, it is very much of its time, a good-looking rocket rather than a functional rescue vehicle.
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When are you gonna upload charts of Five and Six? And will you be doing Pod Vehicles and FAB-1 too?
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When I get them all finished. Don't know when that will be. My interest has moved away from Thunderbirds for the moment. Don't worry, I'll get around to them eventually - oh, and yeah, definitely doing Pod Vehicles.
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Absolutely love this. Feels vastly more realistic in design, yet cooler to look at.
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Thanks, glad you like it!
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Really Cool! thanks for Doing My Favorite Thunderbird Machine!
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Keep up the Great Work!
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Neat. 
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Sensible chap. And thanks!
(Here's my thought-processes on said movie, by way of a heavily biased review and a run down of what you're not missing:
Fun opening
Oh good grief, a high school
Ah, burning oil rig – that’s familiar – waitaminute: how can they film International Rescue at work. This is the organisation that chased down a single roving TV journalist in a truck with THEIR FLAMING ROCKET PLANE!
Oh, good, they haven’t completely ruined Lady Penelope and ParkerDEAR LORD WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO FAB 1?!
Ok, TB 1 rolling over TB2, kind of cool
Blah, blah, kiddified family dynamics – skip to the machines
Ok, John getting some screen time and interaction with his dad that isn’t rescue related, kind of good
How does the Hood have minions? He was only really a jumped up minion himself…
WHAT THE HECK?! THEY’VE SHRUNK TB 2!!!
Why are they all going up to TB 5? What happens if there’s another emergency, you dimwits!
Blah, blah, yes, evil people are over-running the island, I don’t care, get to the machines
WHAT. THE. HELL. HAVE THEY DONE TO THE FIREFLY?!
Blahdeblahdeblah you’re the Hood, not Darth Vader blah, blah, blah, ooh, nice entrance for Lady P…wow. Why exactly does she suddenly know karate? Blah, blah, blah, ooooh, look, the Hood’s stealing TB 2!
Well, at least they didn’t muck up that launch-sequence…
Why is he flying TB 2 under Tower Bridge? Why is he knocking that monorail down? Must be a really bad driver…
Blah, blah, blah, blah – damn it, this is boring – where are the explosions?
That has to be the most underwhelming rescue I’ve ever seen on anything calling itself Thunderbirds…
Blah – wait. That’s it?! Good god, people. The machines were barely in it! Did you even bother to *watch* Thunderbirds before you decided to make this dross?)
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Good summary of the film. 5 minutes of Thunderbirds, 85 minutes of Spy Kids. It's a fair enough film in that respect.
The filming of the Thunderbirds was a bit against the principles of the original (and even conflicted with their assertions of secrecy in the film itself) but was a plot necessity for two reasons. 1) As a convincing segue between Alan at school and the opening action (those precious few minutes at the oil rig is what a Thunderbirds film should have been, and was quite awesome) and 2) because of the modern times of the internet and camera phones, having the Thunderbirds not filmed would be even less believable than the idea that an eccentric ex-astronaut billionaire philanthropist manages to convince a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci to build a ton of cool rescue vehicles (on his own) that can out perform any other piece of technology yet not mass produce it to work the world over...
I have to say I liked Sophia Myles as Lady P - especially as one that was supposed to be younger than in the original. Although I don't think the script did her any favours. It was like whoever wrote it decided that the chain smoking femme fatal that had no trouble non-nonchalantly ordering her driver to machine gun people off the road just wasn't Badass enough. Or they may have thought the original was slightly sexist, doing the classic modern Hollywood mistake of confusing the term "strong female character" with "can do martial arts in high heels". Sigh.
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Yes...the karate was...a little jarring.
And yeah, the 'no filming' rule would be a bit hard to enforce...as in impossible. Certainly they didn't through secrecy entirely out of the window, which was something. Still jars somewhat (although, to be honest, the problem might be more that it segues into Alan at school...)
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Unfortunately, yes. In itself, I suppose the movie!FAB 1 isn't that bad...it's just has the burden on not being a Rolls Royce...
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And looking... wrong, somehow. Like every angle was put together in the wrong order and position.
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Looks excellent seeing it from these other perspectives and having an in depth description
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