Day 7 – CHARITY RAFFLE – You can buy raffle tickets here for this Excavator model, from Thunderbirds. It was produced by Robert Harrop in a limited edition of 200.
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:
Displaying iconic toys, figures and models with the illusion of levitation!
Ghost Stands was established in 2024 by toy designer and collector Matt Jones from Lunartik. They’re designed to be the most inconspicuous toy display stands in the world, enabling you to display your toys and models with the illusion that they’re flying!
Matt says “As an 80s child I was lucky to have many toys, especially Star Wars and He-Man figures. A lot of them were sadly given away by my parents, but since starting Ghost Stands, it’s definitely helped me reconnect to my past and I know with all my toy design knowledge and appreciation, I can finally add value to the toys I played with all them years ago while building a beautiful private collection.”
The range currently features bespoke stands designed for Dinky and Corgi models from Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons, Joe 90, UFO and Space:1999. You can see these and more in their Ebay shop. Stands for Vivid Imaginations, Matchbox and Product Enterprise products are coming soon too.
Ghost Stands are produced from a special highly durable and flexible, thin crystal clear plastic material. Every stand has had hours of engineering dedicated to its development, especially as each toy or model is positioned into a particular dramatic pose when designing. This affects the centre of gravity of the piece and the challenge is to make a Ghost Stand that is well hidden, stable enough to display and easy to clip on to the piece without marking it, damaging stickers or paintwork.
Network lives on as Future Network
The much lamented cult TV and film distributor Network, which collapsed in 2023, lives on again as Future Network has secured many of Network’s old stock and now has a website selling them, with free postage within the UK.
Of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s productions you’ll find:
Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons Blu-ray Disc
Crossroads To Crime DVD
Fireball XL5 Blu-ray Disc
Joe 90 Blu-ray Disc
Space:1999 Year One Blu-ray Disc, DVD, Ultimate DVD
Supercar Blu-ray Disc, DVD
The Protectors DVD
For completists, though not an Anderson production, they have Torchy The Battery Boy series 2 DVD. Also of interest to Fanderson members is Mary Turner and John Read’s The Adventures Of Rupert Bear DVD.
Meet Dee Anderson and Mary Turner!
As part of their ongoing Thunderbirds 60 Years exhibition, Slough Museum will be hosting puppeteer, sculptor and director Mary Turner and actress/singer and daughter of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, for a one-day special on Sunday 23rd November.
The event promises appearances by other guests to celebrate the world of Thunderbirds, with displays and demonstrations of puppets, art and models.
The event is free but due to limited space you’re encouraged to email info@sloughmuseum.co.uk to guarantee a place.
Slough Museum, 72 Buckingham Avenue, Slough Trading Estate, Slough SL1 4PN
Save on mini albums and get Set 11 free!
Our mini albums are a great way spending time with your favourite characters, whether it’s whilst doing the gardening, on a long journey, in bed, or just relaxing. Now, until the end of the year you can get 3 for the price of 2 sets, and we’ll pop in Set 11 free of charge too!
Until 31st December, buy 3 (or more) mini albums for the price of 2 (33% off)! Don’t put Set 11 in your basket – we’ll add that when your order is dispatched. Click here to see our complete range.
Just apply the coupon code CHRISSY-MINIALBUMS at checkout before you pay.
OFFER TERMS AND CONDITIONS (in addition to our standing Ts&Cs)
Puppeteer, sculptor and director Mary Turner and actor, voice artist and writer Keith Alexander were recognised for their contributions to the Anderson productions, and to Fanderson, by becoming Honorary Members of the world’s only official Gerry and Sylvia Anderson appreciation society.
Mary and Keith were presented with certificates at the Project Ford event on 31st October 2025 and will receive free membership of the club.
Great offer for Fanderson members!
To celebrate the latest additions of Thunderbirds 4 and 5, our friends at Corgi are offering Fanderson members 10% of everything in the range of die-cast vehicles from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s productions.
Corgi’s range currently includes Thunderbirds 1 and 3, 2 and 4, 4 and 5, Lady Penelope’s Rolls Royce FAB 1, Stingray, Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle and Angel Interceptor. All six Thunderbirds models are coming soon in an Ultimate Collection too!
To get money off your order just apply the coupon code GERRYTEN when you go to checkout.
See the full range at Corgi.
An exhibition of over 80 pages of original comic art that tell stories about the future of the human race from 1990 to 4000 AD.
This new exhibition at The Carton Museum, The Future Was Then, includes original work from iconic futuristic worlds such as Tank Girl, Judge Dredd, Black Mirror, Buck Rogers and Thunderbirds, and original artwork by legendary artists such as Jamie Hewlett, Frank Bellamy and Sydney Jordan. Science fiction and dystopian comics give us possible visions of Earth’s future, imagining what may be in store for humanity. Will hope triumph, with space rangers taking to the cosmos to explore new worlds? Or will fear set in, with futuristic authoritarian regimes taking hold?
What did comic creators in the past think the future would look like?
Science fiction is a cornerstone genre of comics. The limitless budget offered by a blank page allows artists to create incredible, detailed worlds before our eyes.
Over the past hundred years artists have conjured visions of future police states, intergalactic travel, everyday cybernetic technology, humans leaving Earth and even – gasp – humans using computers on a daily basis. Many creators are influenced by the world around them as they create, leaving imprints of their modern-day in their future worlds. We will explore this in the exhibition through never-before-displayed items from Phoo Action by Jamie Hewlett & Mat Wakeham – a vision of 2004 rooted in the mid-nineties, and a precursor to Hewlett’s later work on Gorillaz.
Have any predictions of the future been right?
Creators have explored ideas and visions of the future for over a hundred years in art and comics and have often been influenced by the events that they are living through at the time. Sometimes you can see how this changes an artist’s ideas in real time – for instance, as probes sent out across the solar system discovered our closest neighbours were uninhabited, artists moved away from fantastical space beasts living on Mars towards uninhabited planets being colonised, or fantastical travel in other universes.
Occasionally visions of the future come true. More often they don’t! Either way, comics give us a way to consider threats and opportunities for the human race, and engage with ideas about our own future.
The Future Was Then opens this Saturday, 4th
Third great FREE Thunderbirds event opens 4th October
Following hot on the heels of their successful Thunderbirds Memories Weekend in 2024 and The Art Of Thunderbirds earlier this year, Slough Museum is staging its third free event for Thunderbirds fans.
Masterminded by Fanderson member Sam Denham, who has again worked with the staff and volunteers at the museum in the heart of the Slough Trading Estate, where Thunderbirds was produced. The Thunderbirds 60 Years exhibition will celebrate the series by looking at the production and design, models and puppets, and will take a peek behind the scenes. It opens on 4th/5th October (10:00-16:00 both days), then every Friday 11:00-1600 and Saturday 10:00-14:00 until 20th December 2025.
Full details are on the event flyer, here.
Slough Museum Trust was founded in 1982 by a group of local people who wanted to create a museum to share knowledge about local and general history, topography and archaeology of Slough and surrounding districts. Their mission today is to build a sense of pride in Slough. They develop imaginative and inclusive projects and displays and encourage people to share their stories and knowledge of Slough as a place of pioneers and innovators. It is the only organisation in Slough that has a remit to collect, conserve and communicate the town’s heritage. They explore and celebrate Slough’s past, present and future.
