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Thank you and rest in peace.
RIP, dear Mr. Anderson.
Yes heard about this and also it sad to see a visionary person like Gerry Anderson passed away. His work impact not only UK, but both US and Japan.
On a brighter note the BBC news got Brian Blessed on the phone yesterday afternoon to share his memories of Gerry. "Newsreading lady, you're not going to get a word in," I thought. And I was right.
http://www.fanderson.org.uk/
Sad times indeed. Did you ever meet the great man?
Wonder what he thought of that.
Yeah, and he was working on a CGI thunderbirds before he died.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who made Team America, saw Thunderbirds and thought it would be fun and easy to use puppets for the film. They say now that they'll never do a sequel because making the film using puppets was so hard.
Well worth tracking down - 2002's New Captain Scarlet was in many ways an improvement on the 1967 original.
Unlike, say, Gene Roddenberry's credits on the Star Trek movies from Wrath of Khan onwards, Gerry was a very hands-on Producer on this project, which he was very proud of. Unfortunately, the network he made it for, ITV, pissed it away, which was a terrible shame as Gerry had built a new team which was ready to make more CGI productions.
But what will always live in my memory is my love for Thunderbirds as a kid back in the 60's and getting the entire set of the JR21 toys aswell as the costume. See link to view the toys I once opened on Christmas day...
http://www.thunderbirdsvintagetoys.co.uk/JR21ThunderbirdsPhoto.htm
I also recall seeing Thunderbirds are Go at the cinema as a special treat. Thanks, Gerry, for the great memories and making growing up so much fun in the Sixties. RIP
I didn't like Thunderbirds as much though, when I eventually saw that. Couldn't live up to a TV show about a badass, invincible, alien fighting puppet.
Ah nostalgia.