Order your TB5 and TB4 die-cast models!
The latest additions to Corgi’s Thunderbirds range can now be pre-ordered from Corgi’s website, and you can read much more about their development here.
Thunderbird 5 – £39.99, expected winter 2025
Author: Parker
Stingray Blu-ray Disc boxset from Via Vision
Via Vision’s BD boxset includes new book
Hot on the heels of their impending Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons release, Via Vision’s new Stingray boxset adds several new commentaries to those previously on Network’s superb 2022 release, a 150-page hardcover book, and the Super Space Theatre movies The Incredible Voyage Of Stingray and Invaders From The Deep – all in one of their legendary hard boxes!
Due for release on 26th November, see full details and order here.
44 FAB Years – are you a winner?
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.
Captain Scarlet Blu-ray boxset from Via Vision
Via Vision’s BD boxset includes new book
This new boxset on VV’s Imprint Television label looks to include everything from Network’s superb 2017 release, adding a new 94-page book and wrapping it all up in their legendary hard box!
Due for release on 29th October, see full details and order here.
We’re changing to Royal Mail’s world postal zones
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!
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
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: SIG – Scalextric is green!
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!
FAB Book Of Free Gifts… with a free gift!
Lucky for some – our 13th FAB Book Of… comes with its own free gift – a reproduction Captain Scarlet file from TV21!
The FAB Book Of… series has been incredibly popular since the book of Dinky toys started it way back in 2010.
Now, we’re delighted that the 13th book is being added to the series – the FAB Book Of… Free Gifts And Promotions. This new 60-page book takes a look at all the wonderful gifts that were given away in comics such as TV21, Lady Penelope and Countdown. For many of us, this will be our only chance to see some of these items – as giveaways, many weren’t designed to last for long, or were simply thrown away after a short while. This book features not just the gifts themselves but also the comics they were offered in, as well as advertising in other publications.
Our new book comes with a free gift of its own – a reproduction of the Captain Scarlet file originally given away with TV21 issue 155.
Click here to order your copy now!
Don’t forget, although Sweet Cigarette Cards Volume 2 has sold out, we still have 11 other titles in the series available. Buy any three or more in the same transaction (excluding FAB Book Of Free Gift And Promotions) and you’ll get 20% off! And we still have stock of FAB Books binders to keep your books safely in.
Free weekend celebrating The Art Of Thunderbirds
Free weekend celebrating the art and design of Thunderbirds
As a follow-up to last year’s very successful Thunderbirds Memories Weekend, Slough Museum is staging another free weekend for fans of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s landmark series, filmed just up the road on the Slough Trading Estate. The Art Of Thunderbirds will feature artwork, models and puppets showcasing the groundbreaking visual design created for the series.
The Art Of Thunderbirds will be open 10:00-16:00 at Slough Museum, 72 Buckingham Avenue, Slough, SL1 4PN on 7th and 8th June 2025. For more information please contact info@sloughmuseum.co.uk