Thunderbirds.....just how FAB was it for you?
Discussion
Eric Mc said:
MartG said:
Apart from providing the Redstone launch vehicle for the suborbital flights ? 
True.I was thinking of the design of the capsule itself, mission control, the Atlas booster etc - all the other stuff.
onyx39 said:
Bloody hell that looks awful!And from the other videos from the sidebar, now they a new crew member-a woman of course!
Halb said:
Terrahawks would make a fantastic film.
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t TV series!
kowalski655 said:
Which is odd,as it was a st TV series!
Great characters, great enemy, an overriding arc that made sense and was fairly original. It was an ace series and would lend itself to the drama of a film or a new dark series in the like of BSG very well.t TV series!That and Captain Scarlet were just ace.
telecat said:
The thing I loved about the originals were the excellent storylines. The naff puppets (real strings, wobbly heads, real hands and toothpaste caps) were part of the charm because the story made it all worthwhile. I hope the new one remembers this and is like Toy Story, not just an excuse to show how clever the CGI artists are.telecat said:
That looks unspeakably dire! Poor old Gerry must be turning in his grave 
peterperkins said:
telecat said:
That looks unspeakably dire! Poor old Gerry must be turning in his grave This thread is suffering from a little DoctorWhoitis and forgetting this is a kids show. And we are not the kids anymore
Eric Mc said:
I often think Von Braun gets a bit too much credit for America's successes in space. His contribution was important - particularly the Redstone/Jupiter and Saturn family of launchers - but there was an awful lot of the US program that was not dependent on Von Braun or his team.
seriously?yes, he did not design every nut and bolt, but without his direction, most if the stuff would not have been what it was.
about the only major part he did not come up with was the two-part lunar module (his idea was to land the whole 'rocket')
The Saturn V Rocketdyne F-1 engine was very much based Braun design, and is still the largest single chamber liquid fueled rocket ever made.
Not disputing any of that. But the US Space Program wasn't entirely about Apollo - even at the height of Apollo.
The Saturn family of rockets were vital for getting men to the moon. But that is more or less all they were used for.
The real workhorses of the various American space programmes were and still are rockets such as the Atlas and Delta which were based on designs from within the American aerospace industry and owed little to Von Braun and his team.
I wish the US HAD made better use of the Saturn system - but they didn't. It should have been developed into a post Apollo family of heavy lifters - but they abandoned that technology in favour of the Space Shuttle, which in my view was a big mistake.
The new SLS system more or less vindicates the Von Braun approach - but it is based on Shuttle technology rather than Saturn technology.
The Saturn family of rockets were vital for getting men to the moon. But that is more or less all they were used for.
The real workhorses of the various American space programmes were and still are rockets such as the Atlas and Delta which were based on designs from within the American aerospace industry and owed little to Von Braun and his team.
I wish the US HAD made better use of the Saturn system - but they didn't. It should have been developed into a post Apollo family of heavy lifters - but they abandoned that technology in favour of the Space Shuttle, which in my view was a big mistake.
The new SLS system more or less vindicates the Von Braun approach - but it is based on Shuttle technology rather than Saturn technology.
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/anime/34682/the-sh...
Mentions the first Thunderbirds sequel and Star Fleet, the excellent puppet show from Japan.
Mentions the first Thunderbirds sequel and Star Fleet, the excellent puppet show from Japan.
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