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[UPDATED] Revised prices to USA to include import duty

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UPDATED 10/9/25

We have had to suspend orders of our merchandise to the USA (postage option W3). As Royal Mail get to grips with the realities of posting items to the USA, they are having to frequently change the processes and prices they are charging. Therefore, until the matter settles down, we are suspended all postage option W3 orders.

Membership renewals are NOT AFFECTED, as we believe the situation will have stabilised by the time of our winter mailing.

World 3 price option now live for members in the USA

On 30th July 2025, the United States government announced an Executive Order which outlined significant changes to the customs requirements and processes for goods being imported into the USA from 29th August 2025. You can read more here.

A key element is the removal of duty-free for low value items. Previously, items valued at less than $800 could enter the USA without having to pay customs duties. Now, these import tariffs (duties) must be paid on top of the postage you already pay.

We had already planned to introduce a ‘World 3’ price structure for members in the USA from our winter mailing, but have no option than to bring this forward, to take into account this unforeseen new duty. With over 400 items in our online catalogue, it will take a little time for us to introduce World 3 to all products, so please bear with us.

With immediate effect, members in the USA must choose the W3 (World 3) option (where available) when ordering from us.

44 FAB Years – are you a winner?

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Are you a winner in our 44 FAB Years celebrations?

Thanks to everyone who took part in our 44 FAB Years celebrations of the world’s only Official Gerry And Sylvia Anderson Appreciation Society! From 1st to 20th August we ran a series of daily auctions and/or raffles to raise funds for charity. Plus, everyone who had bid in one of the auction and/or bought a raffle ticket was entered into a lucky dip draw for one of ten 1992 Fanderson Junior birthday cards.

Are you one of our winners?

Auctions

  • Barry Gray mini album proof – Michael Vincent
  • Captain Scarlet art prints – Keith Jones and Eleftherios Sarris
  • Century 21 Diary – Eleftherios Sarris
  • Countdown To Disaster convention brochure – Lyndsay Jones
  • Danger Zone Script Book – Keith Campbell
  • Design File 2 – Keith Campbell
  • Space Precinct stationery – Stephen Bushell
  • The Investigator DVD – Will Squires
  • Thunderbirds stationery – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 6 – Will Squires
  • FAB 7 – Paul Spearman
  • FAB 8 – Sam Townend
  • FAB 9 – Will Squires
  • FAB 10 – Sam Townend
  • FAB 11 – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 12 – Ian Haworth
  • FAB 13 – Paul Spearman
  • FAB 15 – Paul Meads
  • FAB 16 – Ian Burgess
  • FAB 18 – Sam Townend
  • FAB 19 – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 20 – Sam Townsend
  • FAB 21 – Sam Townend
  • FAB 23 – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 24 – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 27 – Lyndsay Jones
  • FAB 29 – Sam Townend
  • FAB 31 – Mark Wrighton
  • FAB 33 – Lyndsay Jones

Raffles

  • Captain Scarlet And The Power Of The Mysterons mini-album CD – Mark Wrighton
  • Captain Scarlet art prints (unsigned) – Mark Wrighton
  • FAB Yearbook #1 – Mark Wrighton
  • Stingray colouring book – Keith Jones
  • UFO Script Book – Mark Wrighton

Our Lucky Dip winners of a Fanderson Junior birthday card are: Eleftherios Sarris, Ian Haworth, Keith Campbell, Lyndsay Jones, Mark Wrighton, Paul Meads, Paul Spearman, Sam Townsend, Stephen Bushell and Will Squires.

We’ll be in touch with all our winners in next few days to arrange payment, then the prizes/auction lots will be mailed as soon as possible.

Thanks to Najmie Allette, Stephen Brown, Catherine Ford, Sally Ground, Maggy Harris, Simon Harris, Lynn Simpson and Tom Wingate for their generous donations. If you have something that you’d like to donate for our future fundraising efforts, please get in touch at fanderson.org.uk@outlook.com with details.

Fanderson members have an amazing track record for raising money for good causes. 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, Diabetes UK, The Film And TV Charity, Guide Dogs, Hearing Dogs For Deaf People, Macmillan Cancer Support, Orchid, The Silver Line, Terrence Higgins Trust, Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Appeal and many more.

We’ll be finalizing the amount we’ll be donating to Demelza at the end of November. In the meantime, you can add to the total by buying one of our charity donation items.

Finally, there’s still time to nominate a charity that you’d like us to support in 2025/6.

Nominate a charity by 1st October 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: