Thunderbirds.....just how FAB was it for you?
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MiniMan64 said:
That looks fairly faithful to the original.
It does - which suddenly makes me think - what is the point of the new series if it's just a CGI recreation of the original? It would be more interesting to see "Thunderbirds Begins" (with a Thunderbirds/Stingray crossover), or "Thunderbirds - The Later Years" (with a Thunderbirds/Spectrum/Mysterons crossover).Halmyre said:
kowalski655 said:
Wasnt the film with Bill Pulman a sort of early Thunderbirds?
Film? What film? (waves hand) There was no film. You can go about your business.
( Though to be fair there wasn't anything wrong with the hardware in the movie, just everything else was crap )
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king interesting
You have just destroyed millions of people's memories of fantastic Sunday afternoons and Saturday mornings.
Eric Mc said:
You need to read up on the technology involved. If you do you will understand why the puppets looked like they did and why they changed shape and size through the successive series.
Anderson had no love or interest in puppets. He looked on himself as a serious film maker but it just so happened that the first series that he had commissioned as an independent film maker was a for a children's puppet series called "Twizzle the Broomstick Man" for Granada TV. Two further puppet based series were commissioned, "Torchy - The Battery Boy" and "Four Feather's Falls"
Anderson took the work because he needed it.
When Lew Grade of ATV (the ITV franchise station for the Midlands) expressed interest in more puppet series, Anderson was reluctant to continue unless he could come up with some ideas that would make working with puppets easier.
The "genius" moment was to set the next series in the future, where people would move everywhere on hover-bikes and other floating devices, negating the need to have his puppets walk in that unrealistic puppety style.
The other idea implemented was slaving the movement of the puppets' mouths electronically to the voice of the actors supplying the voices. This process was labelled "Supermarionation" and Anderson came to hate it because the extra wiring required for the solenoids that worked the puppets' mouths frequently shorted and brought proceedings to a halt.
In the early series, it was the mechanism for the moving mouths that kept the puppet heads large. From "Captain Scarlet" onwards, a smaller mechanism was used which allowed the puppets to have more realistic proportions.
So, the next series put into place was "Supercar", followed by "Fireball XL5", "Stingray", "Thunderbirds", "Captain Scarlet", "Joe 90", "UFO", "The Secret Sevice" and finally "Space-1999".
The whole Anderson edifice then collapsed due to an acrimonious split with his wife and co-producer, Sylvia Anderson.
That more or less knocked him out of action for almost a decade before the appearance of the lamentable (in my view) "Terrahawks".
That's really fAnderson had no love or interest in puppets. He looked on himself as a serious film maker but it just so happened that the first series that he had commissioned as an independent film maker was a for a children's puppet series called "Twizzle the Broomstick Man" for Granada TV. Two further puppet based series were commissioned, "Torchy - The Battery Boy" and "Four Feather's Falls"
Anderson took the work because he needed it.
When Lew Grade of ATV (the ITV franchise station for the Midlands) expressed interest in more puppet series, Anderson was reluctant to continue unless he could come up with some ideas that would make working with puppets easier.
The "genius" moment was to set the next series in the future, where people would move everywhere on hover-bikes and other floating devices, negating the need to have his puppets walk in that unrealistic puppety style.
The other idea implemented was slaving the movement of the puppets' mouths electronically to the voice of the actors supplying the voices. This process was labelled "Supermarionation" and Anderson came to hate it because the extra wiring required for the solenoids that worked the puppets' mouths frequently shorted and brought proceedings to a halt.
In the early series, it was the mechanism for the moving mouths that kept the puppet heads large. From "Captain Scarlet" onwards, a smaller mechanism was used which allowed the puppets to have more realistic proportions.
So, the next series put into place was "Supercar", followed by "Fireball XL5", "Stingray", "Thunderbirds", "Captain Scarlet", "Joe 90", "UFO", "The Secret Sevice" and finally "Space-1999".
The whole Anderson edifice then collapsed due to an acrimonious split with his wife and co-producer, Sylvia Anderson.
That more or less knocked him out of action for almost a decade before the appearance of the lamentable (in my view) "Terrahawks".
king interestingYou have just destroyed millions of people's memories of fantastic Sunday afternoons and Saturday mornings.
Edited by eybic on Friday 13th March 10:02
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