The Making Of Thunderbirds

the way they walk is sorta silly but they still rock and all the shows themes my dad showed me for the first tme made me laugh the first time i saw the steves face in fireball xl5 i was laughing the next day turned out i pulled something in my stomach form laughing so hard

uh.. I hope you all know puppets are evil and they all come to life at night.

There was definitely toys made for these shows in the late 60's early 70's. I remember my brother had a die-cast metal Thunderbird 2 with Thunderbird 4 that came out of the bottom of it. I can still remember going down to the local corner shop with my mum to buy me a Captain Scarlet 12" action figure. The store owner had to take us in to his store room a few shops along and climb over all these cardboard boxes for around 20 mins until he found it. Good memories LOL

There is a great selection of replica puppets for sale of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 etc at televisionpuppets  dot com

The Parker puppet is brilliant.

OMG! I remember The ThunderBirds!! I loved it. I wanted the toys but they never came out with them or the models.

Hey Im 13 and Thunderbirds is the best thing that happened to me along with Stingray, Captain scarlet, Looney tunes, scooby doo and loads of the other shows

this was on the original video's the one with the cham cham and security hazard

Looks like a good way to get electrocuted to me!

Hey today in Australia this is replayed on TV. Very popular with the next generation of kids, they love it - rockets, bad guys, rescues, explosions - everything a 6yo boy likes on TV... plus so many toys at the toy shops.

Thunderbirds was never that big here in New York when I was a kid in the 1960s. It was popular, but we never had the toys that i recall. I guess this could be explianed that media marketing is a gigantic industry now which we did not have then.