Sim1review of Thunderbird 6
April 10th 2007 06:16
Top Secret TR-3B
The TR-3B is a top secret US military-prototype aircraft. The project is based round developing an anti-gravity reconnaissance plane.
Well back in 1968 Brains from International Rescue designed an airship which had an anti-gravity capability. On its maiden flight it’s hijacked, disabled and eventually crashes. Stranded precariously on a communication tower Skyship 1 dangles over a missile base.
Thunderbirds to the rescue.
To save the occupants of the airship, which include Lady Penelope, Parker, a few of the Tracy crew and the hijackers, Brains determines that the only logical way is to land a Tiger Moth (eventually designated Thunderbird 6) on the top deck of the stricken craft. My thoughts were hovering towards a helicopter, but hey this is showbusiness.
Anyway, my point with all this is that in the ship Brains built he uses spinning rings to reverse gravity, including a whole lot of technology only a puppet could appreciate. In the ship the US Government built they use one big spinning ring. Their ring involves mercury based plasma and a nuclear power plant:
A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology... The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin, and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption.
In Thunderbird 6 the airship eventually falls off its perch onto the missile site and the ensuing catastrophe changes a relativity significant portion of the landscape.
But no one dies, except of course all the hijackers.
One can only imagine what a whole lot of mercury based plasma and a nuclear reactor tumbling down would do to the landscape of the real world.
But then the TR-3B is top secret so it probably doesn’t exist.
And as far as the Thunderbirds and their Supermarionation, this film is a good lesson in turning something that works in a 25 minute format into a 90 minute format. There’s an art in the stretching. But I have to say; Parker scares me a little and what the hell is Lady Penelope supposed to be – sort of how Paris Hilton would be if she’d gone to school.
Until next time and happy film-making.
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