Thunderbirds Are Go! Bag winners revealed

We’ve been celebrating the build up to the launch of Thunderbirds Are Go! with a series of competitions to win some very special promotional bags – and now we can reveal the winners!

Produced specially for Brand Licensing Europe, the black bag carries the series title along with a coloured silhouette of a particular Thunderbirds craft. Inside the bag is an A5 flyer and a costume patch, sealed in silver foil. As well as one lucky winner of each bag, two runners up in each competition won copies of the A5 flier.

Congratulations to all our winners – thanks for taking part!

 

Thunderbird 5 Bag competition

Question: In its Kepler orbit, Thunderbird 5 can only ‘see’ part of the Earth. How many sister satellites are needed so that International Rescue has total global coverage?

Answer: Three

Bag winner – Gary Davis
Flier winners – Stephen Bray and Eleftherios Sarris

 

Thunderbird 4 Bag competition

Question: What was Sylvia Anderson’s advice to Nick Tate on being “too Australian” in Space:1999?

 Answer: She didn’t want him to be too Australian as British and American audiences wouldn’t understand him.

Bag winner – Pete Bowman
Flier winners – Sawako Suzuki and Jonathan Baxter

 

Thunderbird 3 Bag competition

Question: Name one of Graham Bleathman’s unpublished cutaways for the Space Precinct comic

Answer: The Rock or Talon Princess

Bag winner – David Power
Flier winners – Sereena Burton and Nikki Mackay

 

Thunderbird 2 Bag competition

Question: Captain Scarlet voice artist Francis Matthews worked with Thunderbirds voice artist Peter Dyneley in which episode of The Saint?

Answer: To Kill A Saint

Bag winner – Patrick Berry
Flier winners – Mark Simpson Wedge and Ian Haworth

Shout! Factory to release Gerry Anderson series on DVD

Fireball XL5 - The Complete Series

Shout! Factory has revealed that they will be re-releasing the complete series of Fireball XL5, Stingray and Captain Scarlet for the US and Canadian market in early 2015. Scheduled for release between January and March next year, each series can be pre-ordered at a discount from the Shout! website:

 

Stringray - The Complete SeriesThe series can also be pre-ordered on Amazon.com, which states the extras that have so far been confirmed for each release:

Fireball XL5

  • Commentary with director Alan Patillo and voice artist David Graham
  • Documentary The Noble Art of Fireball XL5

Stringray

  • Audio Commentary on select episodes
  • Gerry Anderson Biography
  • Making of Featurette: The Thing About Stingray…

Captain Scarlet - The Complete Series

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

  • Audio Commentary on “The Mysterons” and “Attack on Cloudbase”
  • Gerry Anderson Biography and Filmography