Thunderbirds Interactive Tracy Island Playset

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Tracy Island is the secret headquarters of the International Rescue organisation in the 1960s British Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds and its adaptations. In the original series, the heavily camouflaged island is located in the South Pacific Ocean and is home to the Tracy family, scientists Brains and Tin-Tin, and housekeeper Kyrano. The name "Tracy Island" originates in Thunderbirds comic strips and other tie-ins; within the series, the characters simply refer to it as International Rescue's "base". a b "A Basic History of Popular Toys". toyretailersassociation.co.uk. Toy Retailers Association. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012.

White, Jim (26 September 2005). "Wilson talked of technology – and along came Thunderbirds". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 23 April 2014 . Retrieved 14 September 2023. Fireball XL5 Joe 90 Merch News News Space: 1999 This week in Gerry Anderson news! (October 28th 2023) Bowdin, Glenn A. J.; Allen, Johnny; O'Toole, William; Harris, Robert; McDonnell, Ian (2011) [2008]. Events Management. Events Management Series (3rded.). Elsevier. pp.414–415. ISBN 978-1-856178-18-1. Kamen, Matt (9 February 2015). "ITV offers first look at Thunderbirds reboot's miniature sets". wired.co.uk. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020 . Retrieved 30 August 2020.The buildings on the re-imagined island were deliberately given a " retro-futuristic" appearance, described by production designer John Beard as "based in the '60s and '70s, which is similar to what we were doing for Brazil." [8] Further inspiration was drawn from the work of Oscar Niemeyer and others. [8] The interiors set at Pinewood Studios was built in what Beard described as a "kind of double-'S' shape". He added that "because we're not building the top, it means we can hang the building from the top ceiling in the studio, which we couldn't have done outside." [9] Toys and Blue Peter [ edit ] Spandex suits weren't just invented for stag dos - this American series featured teenagers who would morph into superheroes to battle bizarre baddies.

Live Action (detail) Cutaway Drawings [ ] Main article: History of the Cutaway Drawings (Classic Thunderbirds) The show's popularity probably sparked a spike in national pizza sales too as it was all the characters ate.Fordy, Tom (19 December 2015). "10 Toys Dads Should Buy 'For Their Kids' This Christmas". telegraph.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 December 2015 . Retrieved 26 February 2020. The Matchbox toys were a huge success, the story of Tracy Island is still known today. It’s a shame that the range didn’t continue, for who knows, lined up next to Troy Tempest and the Hood could have been Steve Zodiac and Professor Beaker. Fireball XL5 would have looked amazing and it would have been nice to get an X20 figure to help Titan with his evil schemes… There was always one thing you would name on your Santa letter, talk to your parents about, tell your friends you were definitely getting.

BBC (2018). Here's One I Made Earlier: Classic Blue Peter Makes. London, UK: Kyle Books. p.44. ISBN 978-0-85783-629-8. In 2015, to coincide with the debut of the remake Thunderbirds Are Go, Vivid released a new version of the toy incorporating smart technology. [4] [31] Reception [ edit ]In the early 1990s as the popularity of Supermarionation began its first major revival, a selection of figures, die cast vehicles and play sets appeared in toy shops around the country. Matchbox, although definitely not the first toy company to produce a Thunderbirds related toy, would produce one of the definitive toys of the decade outside a video game.

In addition to the main hangars, other naturally-formed caverns beneath Tracy Island have been adapted to house a compact power plant and a complex of laboratories and construction bays, enabling Brains to carry out research and experimental development to create new rescue devices and vehicles. Teletubbies became a huge hit with the younger generation, who were desperate to get their hands on a plush doll of characters Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po.a b c "Christmas Rush Too Much for Thunderbirds". BBC News Online. 3 December 2000. Archived from the original on 6 May 2012 . Retrieved 1 January 2020. Over the decades, we've seen different themes and variations of the popular toy doll and in the early 90s, it was one of the must-have Christmas toys in the country. a b "Retro-futuristic". Coventry Evening Telegraph. Trinity Mirror Midlands. 2004. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014 . Retrieved 2 February 2014. Blue Peter Makes a Thunderbirds Tracy Island' on BBC Video". videocollector.co.uk. Archived from the original on 8 July 2016 . Retrieved 2 February 2020.