This Video Features a Teeny, Tiny Little Island

"KirkyV" (KirkyV)
02/06/2015 at 12:07 • Filed to: International Rescue, Thunderbirds

If you're British, and were a child at some point, you should probably watch it. Anyone with an appreciation for fine physical model work, classic science fiction, or children's television will likely get something out of it, too.

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I'M SO EXCITED!

DISCUSSION (12)

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > KirkyV
02/06/2015 at 12:16

I'm so conflicted, I loved the Thunderbirds but don't like the new CGI treatment.

I also, as a grown man, still want to own a tracy island.

KirkyV > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
02/06/2015 at 12:28

While I'm disappointed that they won't be using puppets for the characters again, I find it absolutely remarkable that they're using actual, physical models for the sets, and a combination of physical stuff and CG for the vehicles. I'd originally thought that it was all going to be CG, like the - surprisingly decent - new Captain Scarlet.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > KirkyV
02/06/2015 at 12:33

Yeah the sets do look great. I'll be checking it out either way.

I just have a bad taste in my mouth with CG after visiting home a while back and realising the Thomas the tank engine episodes my little brother was watching were all CG. Not sure when they made the switch, but when I was a kid I loved the show for the excellent scale models.

KirkyV > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
02/06/2015 at 12:36

Oh, yeah, I had a similar experience with my nephew a while back. Thomas just doesn't look right.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > KirkyV
02/06/2015 at 12:55

It doesn't, but CG's cheaper so it's going to get more and more common I guess.

Svend > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
02/06/2015 at 12:58

I think Fireman Sam and Postman Pat are both CG now too.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Svend
02/06/2015 at 13:01

I need to buy my brother all of the classic versions of these shows on DVD, so he can see how much better they were.

That reminds me, they made a CG Bob the Builder too and it looked bizaare.

Svend > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
02/06/2015 at 13:17

Times are changing too much for me. I want a few things to stay the same forever just to remind me and prove they were real. Hell the other day I was looking at a Wifi kettle that you don't need to get up to turn on and when your alarm call goes off it asks you whether you want to to boil and has four different temperature settings.

I'm going to go sit in the corner of my room and rock back and forward for a while. BRB.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Svend
02/06/2015 at 14:17

Do not want. I'm not allergic to tech but that's just strange, why does it need a temperature setting other than just boiling?

Other tech I find strange is the new smart watches that connect to and control your phone. Why do you need a remote for something that's right there in your pocket?

Svend > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
02/06/2015 at 15:23

It's got four temperatures for heating milk, heating water for green tea, water for coffee and water for black tea.

Kinja'd!!!

I know right, what's with that? The phone is right there in your pocket as you say. So the watch says you have a message but then you either reach in for the phone to read the message more clearly or to reply to the message. At no point have a ever needed to read or reply to a message with the speed of a ninja. Or they tell you how many steps you've done, and how many calories you've burnt off and so on and so on. I have never at (okay maybe a few times) wondered how many steps I've taken during a day or how many calories I've burnt off or what my heart rate is.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Svend
02/07/2015 at 17:41

You heat milk in a pan or a bowl so it's easy to clean afterwards. Having to scrub the kettle kinda negates the simplicity of remotely controlling it...

The whole calorie monitoring thing is mostly bunk anyway, almost all consumer tech is pretty innacurate at reading that stuff. People don't seem to realise health isn't all about hitting certain numbers on a watch, it's about feeling better.

Tech can't solve everything.

Svend > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
02/07/2015 at 18:20

I guess heating milk to only 65 degrees isn't that hot to require much in the way of cleaning.

I think many people use technology to justify themselves or to seek approval from something that they have power over but actually has power over them.