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Thunderbirds are Go! again.

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It seems that a re-boot of Thunderbirds is happening. A good idea? Time will tell, I suppose.
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I'm skeptical - I only found out about Thunderbirds recently, and Dizzy and I were talking about some other attempts to re-create the show. While I've only seen one episode, I don't think it's capable of being topped :).

(I'd really like to see more now, so if anyone knows where to find the complete series on-line, I'd be greatly obliged :D)
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Captain Scarlet was better than Thunderbirds, I reckon. How well Thunderbirds would translate to CGI... I don't know!
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El Viejo wrote:
Captain Scarlet was better than Thunderbirds, I reckon. How well Thunderbirds would translate to CGI... I don't know!
Never heard of Captain Scarlet, but looking it up it looks similar to Thunderbirds. I still think Thunderbirds is cooler with all the ships, especially since I had a toy similar to this one as a kid which I got at a garage sale back in the early 80's (and of course, not knowing what a cool show it came from :P ). Even as an adult, it was exciting when they were preparing that awesome ship in the first episode 8) (I hate to think about how excited I would have been as a kid watching it :lol:).
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Smivs wrote:
It seems that a re-boot of Thunderbirds is happening. A good idea? Time will tell, I suppose.
I don't know "Thunderbirds", so at first I thought " :shock: hey, what's wrong with Thunderbird? I like my email-proggy as it is!!" :lol:

But since you guys talk so much about the show, I am curious... I guess I'll have to check it out!
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GGShinobi wrote:
... I guess I'll have to check it out!
There seem to be several episodes on YouTube...
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Thunderbird 2 on its way for real?!
http://news.discovery.com/autos/militar ... 130205.htm
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ZygoUgo wrote:
Thunderbird 2 on its way for real?!
http://news.discovery.com/autos/militar ... 130205.htm
Neat article ZygoUgo - seems like a viable alternative, let's see if it can "take off" :).
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Seems like mandoman was ahead of the game 8)
It would make a lot of sense for gas elevated vehicles for planetary lifting duties, up into orbit. Maybe we could do with a few variations of lifter to join the shuttles and transporters.
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I just hope if they reboot it that they do a better job than that god-awful film a few years back.
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Oh, God! Did you have to remind us? :(
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