Thunderbirds are go?

[FJRider]

Mmmmm...Lady Penelope.
If I was a string puppet, I wouldn't mind gettin tangled up up in that

Just worry about the person pulling your strings now ...

[scumdog]

I've got a '66 Thunderbird - does that count??

[awa355]

I've got a '66 Thunderbird - does that count??

Does it come with a real Penelope?? And, from your southern base, a blow up sheep doesn't count.

[scumdog]

And, from your southern base, a blow up sheep doesn't count.

Sorry you feel like that - now give me back the blow up sheep and get back on topic...

[Stylo]

Sorry you feel like that - now give me back the blow up sheep and get back on topic...

This guy is the the man,

Not sure if blow up sheep were around in his days ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx412jDfjNc

[GrayWolf]

Oh C'mon Hitcher... Thunderbirds??

Lets get REALLY Nostalgic......

This, I can JUST remember... gerry's first puppet show Supercar Late 50's very early 60's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snh1b7h2sMA

Then IMO the 'progenitor' to Thunderbirds..... from the early 60's Fireball XL5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83yku222hBI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G-GSTpmkcw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkifemD1vyY

[unstuck]

Oh C'mon Hitcher... Thunderbirds??

Lets get REALLY Nostalgic......

This, I can JUST remember... gerry's first puppet show Supercar Late 50's very early 60's


Then IMO the 'progenitor' to Thunderbirds..... from the early 60's Fireball XL5

Damn you must be OLD.

[Paul in NZ]

Erm - I remember both of those and even had a model Fireball XL5....

[GrayWolf]

Erm - I remember both of those and even had a model Fireball XL5....

oh hell, I was about 4 when Fireball came on TV.. and had the model as well, and a supercar model!!! dammit I AM OLD

[Paul in NZ]

I was released in 63 through 65 and I'm pretty sure we didnt have a TV then so I think I must have watch reruns or else it ran later here say 67 or so (I was 10 in 66)

I liked Fireball XL5 better than the Thunderbirds as like everyone else I was mad on spacecraft and the whole mission to the moon think. Its a damn shame our heroes aren't the pushing those boundaries any more.

Supercar was OK but what about 'Stingray' and 'Captain Scarlet'? Again - XL5 was my fave but Stingray was second...

Evil masterminds, proper bombs with flashing lights and a counter so you could tell it was a bomb and complicated evil plans.

[Zedder]

Sorry you feel like that - now give me back the blow up sheep and get back on topic...

Blow up sheep? Reminds me of that song, doesn't it go something like: "Is this the way to a Merino?... Sheep Marie who waits for me..." etc.

Anyway, a '66 Tbird is bloody cool SD, almost as cool as the TV Thunderbirds, Stingray and all the rest.

[ellipsis]

...in '66 my mum hired a tv so she could watch the Queens tour of NZ...it ended up being a permanent fixture...I was 8-9years old...my younger bro and myself were not allowed to watch it for more than an hour or so a day, if that...Dr Who was the only thing I cared to watch, and I peered at it through my fingers, 'cos It was so fucking scary, I thought...Troy Tempest and his aquatic bit, Marina were also high on the list, I was a little freaked by the gilled monters in their sub that were always lurking behind a rock waiting to do damage or worse to Stingray...I hid behind the sofa if I could get away with it to watch Patrick MacGoohan?, The Prisoner, run around on the beach being chased by those big balloons or balls...never could understand what it was about, but I was hooked on it...when I was caught, which was always, I got a slap and sent back to bed...our neighbour a few houses up the road was a spoilt tomboy and had the Thunderbird plastic models and the Lady Penelope's Dinky car model...I was more in awe of those things as we had sweet fa more than a stick or a discarded broken Matchbox car in our toy collection...

[Paul in NZ]

..Dr Who was the only thing I cared to watch, and I peered at it through my fingers, 'cos It was so fucking scary, .

Oh shit yes.... Compared to anything we had ever seen Dr Who was pant wetting scary. Crazy when you look at it now but yes - I hid behind the sofa on more than one occasion. Those Daleks used to scare the 7 bells out of me...

[Tigadee]

Looks like old Scott has been hitting the Grecian 2000 a little hard there.

You seen how he moves, a little alcohol helps him feel a little less wooden...

[unstuck]

Oh shit yes.... Compared to anything we had ever seen Dr Who was pant wetting scary. Crazy when you look at it now but yes - I hid behind the sofa on more than one occasion. Those Daleks used to scare the 7 bells out of me...

Yep, me too. Exterminate Exterminate.