Oolite Bulletins

Just a request from young Solomon (5) for some or all of the Thunderbirds ships. they do look pretty cool, despite their age, and they wouldn't look that out of place i reckon.
following on from the 'age' poll, this could be what's required to get new trainee's signed into the Lave flight school.

jody b wrote:

Just a request from young Solomon (5) for some or all of the Thunderbirds ships. they do look pretty cool, despite their age, and they wouldn't look that out of place i reckon.
following on from the 'age' poll, this could be what's required to get new trainee's signed into the Lave flight school.

Hmmm. Maybe I'm too old, then. How /do/ they look?

Not that I could add them, but I'm curious now...

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Thunderbird 2 could certainly slide into Oolite pretty comfortably...



I always thought it was the best design. The others were just too rockety:

Disembodied wrote:

...The others were just too rockety:

? for what, space?
the oolite equivelent of the model T Foord, maybe?

don't forget thunderbiird 5 either. Its about time number 5 saw some real action.

jody b wrote:

? for what, space?
the oolite equivelent of the model T Foord, maybe?

Pretty much, yes... 1 and 3 always looked to me like fancy chemical rockets. Thunderbird 2, though, could be an interstellar craft. It's probably not what the designers intended, but that's how it's always seemed to me. Thunderbirds 1 and 3 could take you to the moon; Thunderbird 2 could take you to the stars.

Thargoid wrote:

If it's done properly only TB3 and TB5 would work, as the others aren't space-worthy...

Properly, shmoperly! Anyway, only Thunderbird 2 has any decent cargo space, and none of them were jump-capable...

Speaking of Gerry Anderson stuff, the S.H.A.D.O. Interceptor could work OK in Oolite as a small fighter:



and the Eagle could hack it as a cheap, low-tech bulk transporter:

Woah, seeing the pic of the S.H.A.D.O. has just made me remember that i used to have a toy of that when i was small, i'm sure it fired an orange missile out of that pipe thing on its nose, it's a lovely design, i think i've subconsiously ripped it off here:

To give the image in Disembodied's post it's complete model:



Editted as one of the image links broke

Aha! I'd forgotten about the missile... I suspect my pal who had the toy had lost it. Probably it was eaten by the dog (a constant hazard).

He had an Eagle transporter, too: a cargo version with (unless I'm making this up) little barrels of radioactive waste that could be raised and lowered by a magnet on the end of a string. And I think the central cargo section could be dropped too.

The Eagle design would, I think, fit into the Oolite universe (Griff's already shown that the SHADO interceptor works well!). I would see it as a slow, low-tech bulk transporter. If it was unweildy, with a cargo bay of, say, 75 tons, and around the same price as the starting Cobra III, it could make a useful low step for starting commanders to use to build up cash doing milk runs early on in the game.. sort of like a poor man's Python.

i had a Shado interceptor too - the tip of the missile could be removed to fit a cap in there i think probbly the foreunner of "busting a cap in his ass"

remember the shado tracked vehicle had a spin-over roof and rocket too. had the normal eagle, never had the radioactive one, but i just saw in Forbidden Planet a laboratory eagle that i'd never even heard of :-/

had the SPV too. probbly hoyed out several hundred quids worth of corgi/dinky toys over the years

Killer Wolf wrote:

had the SPV too. probbly hoyed out several hundred quids worth of corgi/dinky toys over the years

Haven't we all!

There's a whole host of Gerry Anderson 3D models on display here. Some of them would work well in Oolite, e.g. the Sunprobe from Thunderbirds:



and the spaceship from the film Döppleganger/The Far Side of the Sun:

Thunderbird 4 should work in oolite.
IIRC there was already an elite ship that could sink, swim and fly.