Author: Parker

Save big on soundtracks this spring

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Get a great deal on some of our exclusive members-only soundtracks!

To celebrate the arrival of spring, we’ve got some great offers on our soundtracks – just for Fanderson members:

  • Put either Supercar or Fireball XL5 in your basket and you’ll get the other title free, plus a free Fireball XL5 sticker
  • Put Stingray 3CD boxset in your basket and you’ll get it a special price (UK £36.50 £27.35, E £40 £30, RW £43 £32.25), plus a free WASP sticker
  • Buy Joe 90 4CD boxset in your basket and you’ll get it a special price (UK £30 £22.50, E £33.50 £25, RW £36.50 £27.35), plus a free WIN sticker

You don’t need to do anything special to get these offers (other than add anything else you want, checkout and pay!). The special prices are already in the Shop and we’ll put any free items in your package when we mail it to you.

These offers are until FAB Express 110 is published this summer, or whilst stocks last (whichever is sooner).

Spring has sprung… here comes FAB Express 109!

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Spring has sprung, and with it comes our spring mailing of FAB Express issue 109 – in the post today!

As well as all the Anderson news and your views, FAB Express 109 takes a FlashBack to Space:1999 Mission Of The Darians and a very special day at Pinewood Studios. The magazine’s been sent to all current club members, and new members will also get it in their welcome package along with issue 108 and FAB Annual 2025.

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. Click here for this month’s offer.

Fancy a new adventure?

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Tired of watching the same episodes over and over? Fancy a new adventure? Our growing fan fiction page now features ten works by amateur authors, keen to expand the screen adventures!

All stories have been formatted to A5 page size PDF, making them ideal to read on a tablet (even on a phone!), or can be printed at home. Ranging in length from just seven to a mammoth 364 pages, and covering a range of series, you’re bound to find something to whet your appetite.

If you have a piece of fan fiction that’s based on Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s productions, which you’d like to share with other fans, send it to us (in Word or other text format) at fanderson.org.uk@outlook.com.

New Captain Scarlet 20th anniversary exclusive lucky dip

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New Captain Scarlet is 20 today!

Gerry Anderson’s final production premiered on ITV 20 years ago today, and we’re giving you the chance to celebrate with a very rare piece of series’ ephemera.

Gerry was extremely proud of New Captain Scarlet but was disappointed that the £22m series, which employed (at that time) cutting edge motion capture computer generated imagery (CGI), didn’t get the high-profile launch it deserved. ITV chose to split the episode Instrument Of Destruction part one in two and screen it as part of the live children’s Saturday morning entertainment show Ministry Of Mayhem. Gradually, the series went on to get better timeslots, and through repeat screenings and DVD releases has gained a more appreciative, mature audience over the intervening 20 years. Although the CGI now looks quite dated, fans now consider the stories to be superior in many cases to the 1968 original.

To celebrate New Captain Scarlet‘s anniversary we’ve got 20 genuine NCS business cards to give away (gifted to the club by Gerry when production ended and he shut the office at Pinewood Studios). Just buy something from our Shop today* and add this item, and you’ll be entered into the lucky dip.

*Lucky Dip closes at midnight (GMT) on 12th February 2025. Purchase required in order to cover postage of the business card. Spend does not include Fanderson memberships or Silva Screen products.

Virtual AGM – 1st March 2025

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Fanderson’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held online at 12:00 (midday, Greenwich Mean Time) on Saturday 1st March 2025.

The AGM is a chance for the committee to report on the club’s status, share results of the recent membership survey and respond to members’ questions, thoughts and suggestions.

All current Fanderson members are eligible to attend, and can register to do so by completing this short form. Incomplete or incorrectly completed forms will be ignored. Registration closes at midnight on Sunday 23rd February.

We will send registered members a link to join the meeting shortly before the meeting itself.

[AUS] It’s the marvel of the age – Supercar coming to DVD

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Open hangar doors – Supercar DVD set is incoming!

Australian cult film and TV label ViaVision has announced the release of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s series Supercar, coming to DVD on 12th February! As well as all 39 episodes from both seasons, this six disc set boasts includes audio commentaries by series co-creator Gerry Anderson on Rescue and The Runaway Train.

See the full details and order your copy now here.

Also, albeit not an Anderson production, fans of the late lamented David Graham might be interested to learn that Via Vision is also releasing a 5 DVD set of 70s groundbreaking children’s drama series Timeslip on 12th February too.

Get ready Canada – your FAB Annuals will soon be on their way!

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We’re getting FAB Annual 2025 ready to mail to club members in Canada

Fanderson members in Canada will be aware that we chose not to mail their FAB Annuals in December along with everyone else, due to the effects of the postal strike there. Although the strike was resolved a while ago, we were advised to wait until the huge backlog of post had been cleared and services were back to normal. Canada Post suggested that we should steer clear of January, so we’ll start mailing again to Canada in the next few days, and catch up with FAB Annuals to those who are owed them as part of their club membership.

SIG – Scalextric is green!

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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!

[AUS] UFO coming to Blu-ray Disc down under

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Definitive UFO Blu-ray boxset on positive track!

Release delayed until 23rd April 2025

Australian cult film and TV label ViaVision has announced the release of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s 1969 series UFO, coming to Blu-ray Disc on 26th March! This eight disc set boasts an impressive range of special features, including new interviews with guest stars Jane Merrow and Derren Nesbitt, a 120-page booklet and new episode commentaries by authors and Fanderson members Ian Fryer and Chris Drake, and ITC historians Jonathan Wood and Rick Davy. ViaVision have worked hard to include as many archival special features as possible from previous releases too.

Most interesting is the note that “grading work and updates have been applied to select episodes, correcting specific flaws in the original restoration”, so we can hope this really is the definitive boxset to get!

Although we’re unable to confirm whether this release includes region-coding, when it is applied Australia is BD region B, the same as the UK.

See the full details and order your copy now here.

 

New Thunderbirds toys from Corgi

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Thunderbirds are go for Corgi this spring.

Die-cast manufacturer Corgi has announced a new and updated range of Thunderbirds toys to supplement their Stingray, SPV and Angel Interceptor. The new range includes FAB 1, Thunderbirds 1, 2 (with 4) and 3, and Corgi are at pains to stress the work done to ensure these new toys better represent the vehicles as seen on-screen. Corgi’s blog includes comparison shots, showing the reprofiling done on TBs 1 and 3, plus the better paint job on TB2.

Sadly, though much of this work has been appreciated by fans, over-riding comments on social media have been less than complimentary, particularly citing the rather bulbous FAB 1 (resembling more the life-size car made to publicise Thunderbird 6 in 1967) rather than Lady Penelope’s sleek limousine. Attention has also been drawn to Scalextric’s (another Hornby Hobbies brand) FAB 1 last year that largely managed to get the car right!

The new models are available to pre-order now at Corgi’s website.