Month: July 2025

Nominate a charity for us to support in 2025/6

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Fanderson members can be rightly proud of the donations we’ve made to charities over the years, and now you can help decide who we support for the coming year.

Over the club’s 44 years you’ve dug deep and over £60,000 has been donated to a variety of good causes, including Actors’ Benevolent Fund, Alzheimers Society, Baby Lifeline, Children In Need, Demelza, Diabetes UK, The Film And TV Charity, Guide Dogs For The Blind, Hearing Dogs For Deaf People, Macmillan Cancer Support, Orchid, Silverline, Terrence Higgins Trust, Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Appeal and many more.

Now we’re asking club members to suggest charities for us to support for the year starting December 2025.

Email us at fanderson.org.uk@outlook.com by 1st October with details of the charity (including a link to their website) and why you think they should be supported. We’ll then ask all members to vote for our charity of the year 2026!

New anniversary merchandise – just in time for tea!

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Celebrate anniversaries with a cuppa, then finish the washing up with these exclusive tea towels!

We’re celebrating Thunderbirds‘ 60th, UFO‘s 55th and Space:1999‘s 50th anniversaries with something a little different, and very British – our new range of tea towels!

Choose from Jonathan Baxter’s Thunderbirds montage, Steve Kyte’s classic UFO artwork, or Graham Bleathman’s Moonbase Alpha – from just £12.50 each (UK). Put all three in your basket at the same time and save 15% by applying coupon code TIME-FOR-TEA at checkout. Offer ends 1st October 2026.

  • Log on to our website
  • Click here to go to our Shop page, then put all three tea towels in your basket
  • Add anything else from our Shop that you’d like
  • Click on basket, then apply coupon code TIME-FOR-TEA before moving on to pay. This will deduct 15% off the three tea towels.

OFFER TERMS AND CONDITIONS (in addition to our standing Ts&Cs)

  • This offer is for Fanderson members only.
  • Members must buy both all three anniversary tea towels in the same transaction.
  • Apply the coupon code TIME-FOR-TEA before you pay to get the discount.
  • Members must apply the coupon code themselves to get the discount. It cannot be applied after you have paid, and we cannot apply it retroactively.
  • This is an online-only offer. It cannot be redeemed via the post.
  • Offer ends 1st October 2025

We’re changing to Royal Mail’s world postal zones

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Ensure you’re paying the right postage

With the summer mailing, we’ve started aligning ourselves with Royal Mail’s world postal zones to ensure you’re paying the right postage.

We’re updating our Fanderson Sales product pages over the coming months, so that they’ll reflect this structure by the time of the winter mailing. Until this process is complete, if you see seven postage options for a product, choose the right one for where you live. If you only see our old UK/Europe/Rest of the World options, use the one that you’ve been using for years.

You can always check which zone you’re in by clicking here, or log in to your Fanderson account and check your recent membership renewal.

Keep an eye out for the postman!

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The postman’s on his way with your summer mailing!

FAB Express 110 was posted yesterday to all Fanderson members, and has already dropping through letterboxes! As well as all the Anderson news and your views, this issue takes a FlashBack to TV Century 21, the groundbreaking comic for all 1960s fans of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s productions (and other TV favourites).

Being the summer mailing, it’s also that time when we again invite you all to renew your club membership. Mailed with FAB Express 110 is a short letter that explains how to renew your membership – ensure you do it by 1st October and you can save money with your Loyalty Discount (explained in the letter).

Please note that, from this mailing onwards, we’re aligning ourselves with Royal Mail’s world postal zones to ensure you’re paying the right postage. Your renewal letter details which zone you are in, or you can check for yourself here. We’ll be gradually updating our Fanderson Sales product pages over the coming months, so that they reflect this structure by the time of the winter mailing.

Once you’ve got your Loyalty Discount code*, you can renew your membership from this page. As long as we’ve got your renewal by 1st October you’ll be included in the winter mailing, comprising FAB Express 111 and FAB Annual 2026. Editor Mike Jones is working hard to ensure the new annual is even better than the 2023, 2024 and 2025 issues!

With this mailing we’ve completed the 2024/5 membership year, so FAB Annual 2025, FAB Express 107, 108 and 109 are now available in the shop, if anyone has missed an issue or wants an extra copy.

Whilst we’re at it, don’t forget that we’re running monthly offers on various issues of the old club magazine – FAB. Packed full of articles (much like those in FAB Annual nowadays), you can get a whopping 50% off by buying five or more issues in each offer, together. We’ve only got very small stock of some issues, and others have already gone out-of-stock since we’ve been running these monthly offers. Don’t miss out, click here for this month’s offer.

LOYALTY DISCOUNT TERMS AND CONDITIONS (in addition to our standing Ts&Cs)

  • The Loyalty Discount is offered to current Fanderson members only
  • The Loyalty Discount can only be applied against a membership renewal, as specified in your renewal letter
  • Apply the Loyalty Discount coupon code before you pay to get the discount.
  • Members must apply the coupon code themselves to get the discount. It cannot be applied after you have paid, and we cannot apply it retroactively.
  • Offer ends 1st October 2025

 

Thunderbirds coins from The Westminster Collection

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Thunderbirds 50p coins launched

The Westminster Collection, a leading UK distributor of collectable stamps and coins, has launched a series of Thunderbirds 50p coins. Illustrated by acclaimed comic book artist Lee Sullivan, these brand-new coins have been officially approved by Buckingham Palace to mark the 60th anniversary of Thunderbirds — making them the world’s first 50p coins to feature the legendary vehicles of International Rescue.

The range starts with uncirculated 5-coin set for £37.50, to a painted set of the coins for £75, or a painted Thunderbird 2 in presentation box for £75 too. Or, if you have £375 to spare, you can choose to have your painted set of coins in a presentation box!

[UPDATED] Growing up with Thunderbirds

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Dee Anderson is embarking on a tour of the UK, sharing her memories of ‘growing up with Thunderbirds‘

As the daughter of Sylvia and Gerry Anderson, Dee Anderson, lived and breathed the magic of Thunderbirds and all the other Supermarionation programmes as a child. In this show, Dee presents a heartfelt tribute to the boundless imagination and thrilling adventures that defined a generation.

Gerry and Sylvia’s extraordinary legacy comes to life on stage like never before, inviting you into the world of a child who grew up with Thunderbirds. In her words “It was simply FAB!”

Dates/venues being added as confirmed and tickets become available:

Space and Earth-based adventures in July’s FAB offer

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Space and Earth-based adventures in July’s great offer on the club’s FAB magazine.

Although a large number of members have been with Fanderson for years, and so may have received FAB as part of their membership package, there’s a significant number who have joined since. To encourage that latter group to take a punt on ordering some copies, we’ve got a series of monthly discounts focussed on a specific series. For June, we’ve got a wide spectrum of articles featuring Doppelgänger, The Protectors and Terrahawks.

Thanks to our monthly offers, more members are discovering FAB magazine and telling us “It’s an amazing magazine” or “I never knew how much there is in each issue”. Since we started these monthly offers in January, quite a few issues have sold through. Get your order in now as stock on many issues is quite low – don’t miss out!

Buy any five or more issues of FAB magazine that contain Doppelgänger, The Protectors or Terrahawks content (conveniently, you can see them all by clicking here, here and here) in one transaction, apply the coupon code FAB-JULY-MIX at checkout, and you’ll get a whopping 50% off those issues.

Updated: SIG – Scalextric is green!

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UPDATE 1/7/25 – Pre-order your SPV and SPC now!

Will Spectrum agents beat Parker around your race track?

The popularity of last year’s FAB 1 model has encouraged Scalextric to expand their range with two new slot-racing cars from Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons – the SPV and SPC.

Expected this autumn (but available to pre-order now) the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle (SPV) and Spectrum Patrol Car (SPC) will be exciting additions to anyone’s Scalextric slot-car hobby. We’ve yet to even see pre-production versions but, if their work on FAB 1 is anything to go by, there will loads of happy Scarlet fans later this year. Let’s hope that at least some of the cars will come out of their boxes and take a spin around a track occasionally!