Thunderbirds plastic model kits are GO!
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- A range of highly detailed plastic model kits of all the popular vehicles from the original Thunderbirds TV show. FAB.
From Bachmann Europe's new plastic model brand: AiP - Adventures in Plastic.
Visit our website to find your nearest stockist and order yours today! www.bachmann.co.uk
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Approximate Built Dimensions:
AiP10001 Thunderbird 1 1:144 Scale
H:250mm W:175mm (wings open) W:95mm (wings closed)
AiP10002 Thunderbird 2 and Thunderbird 4 1:350 Scale
L:215mm W:150mm H:95mm
AiP10003 Thunderbird 3 1:350 Scale
H:255mm W:85mm
AiP10004 Thunderbird 4 1:48 Scale
L:195mm W:78mm H:75mm
AiP10005 Thunderbird 5 and Thunderbird 3
Thunderbird 5:
L:205mm W:125mm H:225mm
Thunderbird 3:
H:115mm. W:37mm
AiP10006 Fireflash 1:350 Scale
L:340mm W:160mm H:85mm
AiP10007 The Mole 1:72 Scale
L:260mm W:70mm H:105mm
AiP10008 FAB 1 1:32 Scale
L:195mm W:75mm H:62mm
AiP10009 Thunderbird 1 Launch Bay 1:350 Scale
L:300mm W:220mm H:155mm
Thunderbird 1:
L:100mm. W:65mm (wings open) W:40mm (wings closed)
AiP10010 Transparent Thunderbird 2 1:350 Scale
L:215mm W:150mm H:95mm
AiP10011 Thunderbird 2 Launch Bay 1:350 Scale
L:300mm W:220mm H:160mm
Thunderbird 2 Pod
L:85mm W:60mm H:45mm
I'm fifty-five and this theme music still gives me goosebumps.
A real life Vindaloovian!
Me too, especially the final part. I'm 61.
@@Markus_Andrew Me as well; I just passed the 60 milestone!
@@francisfierko753 Well done, Francis! Welcome to the Old Geezer Club 😁
Oh yes, 50 years later...!❤❤
These look fantastic. I really hope it leads to some Captain Scarlett models down the line.
That depends is Aoshima did captain scarlet kits. These Thunderbirds kits are a rerelease of the Aoshima brand kits from japan.
Bravo to marketing on this. Outstanding work
They look FAB, of course!
My favorite as a kid was thunderbird 2.
I still have the Diecast models from the early 90's
I feel so happy seeing this video right now 🥰
I've just received my Thunderbird 4 kit... love how it includes lighting kit! this should be advertised as it's a great addition. My Grandad Donald Robertson (Script Writer for Thunderbirds) would have loved these! Can't wait to build it!
I've just received confirmation , that the model of Fireflash i ordered , has been posted . Got aTb2 here already , but it's not particularly good . The nose outline is totally wrong , but it is in it's loading dock . Gonna need some serious work to make right .
I spent ages making and painting the Bandai Thunderbird 2 - looked amazing but sadly after watching ‘Terror in New York City’ I filled it with tissue paper and match heads and set fire to it in the back garden....
I had a Dinky Merryweather Fire engine that pumped real water but sadly I found this wasn’t up to the job....
Can’t wait to recreate with this new release 20 years on :-))
I bet your Action Men had tough lives too Ned 😄
@@MG-id7hl Yes- do you remember you could just give Action Man’s head a sharp tug and it came off completely?? I’d then pop it on the ground and pretend he was in quicksand!
Kids these days don’t know what they are missing:-)
@@NedPooleD818 I totally agree Ned. I don't know how many Airfix planes I shot down in the garden. My sand pit was an eternal building site. The flower beds were a jungle for my soldiers. I built what I imagined with Lego....now even that only lends itself to building what they want you to have. Yep....70s and 80s were brilliant.
Hi ned enjoyed your comments and also the reply from M G . Brought back some happy memories !
Never built a thunderbird model , but always watched it , might give one of these a try . More of a military modeller , tamiya and airfix .
When i look back at the way me and best mate used too wreck our action men , as you and M G have said .
Happy days but now mint boxed action men are collectors items !
Same surname , maybe a long lost relative ?
@@nickpoole3979 Funnily enough cleared out the attic last month and found my old (sadly trackless) Action Man Scorpion- will try and give it a good send off this Bonfire Night!!
Long lost brother perhaps?? Challenge you to a game of Scalextric or Subbuteo or perhaps a race on the Grifters??
THANK YOU BACHMANN, THANK YOU THANK YOU A MILLION TIMES THANK YOU!!!!!
These look awesome!! Only criticism is that my grandson has been using a metal plate ring as a "Zero X" (don't ask why) so it would have been great to have a "Zero X" in the collection. Please start designing it now!!!! Thanks.
Please get somebody like Mega Hobby. Or some retailer in the states so we can all get these kits. I'm sick of Star Wars I want to start the Thunderbirds line. These look fantastic.
And here in Australia. We're *completely* forgotten about and ignored
Fantastic! I've just started the 1/350 TB 2 kit.
When I was younger and had space for things, I would have loved these models. Unfortunately, I am awful at constructing plastic kits. Perhaps one day I'll find some of these assembled and weathered on an online auction site and buy them.
Nice to see manufacturers doing something different.
I can see you updating your diorama with some of these :)
@@jayrap94 Unfortunately I've sold the model now, and on to other projects. Cheers.
I agree with the other comments that it would be great if they were all to the same scale. Nevertheless, they look great and the video was very well done - the theme tune just took me back 50 years!!!
Same scale is a problem as TB4 would be impossibly tiny or TB5 would be impractically large depending which one you compensated for.
@@ACtheLegend Thanks! I hadn't appreciated that much difference between those two.
These look FAB!
It would be good to have one set at the same scale too. Perhaps 1:350 to match the TB2.
That'd be nice.
We can hope that the TB3 and 5 set are close enough to get by- exact Thunderbird specs being somewhat open to interpretation...
But between that and the launch bay sets, hopefully we'll get the full fleet.
I was thinking that too. TB1 will appear to be twice the size it should be if displayed beside TB2 or TB3.
Also why TB4 and the Mole are to different scales when they should both be similar sizes, having to fit inside a pod.
They look awesome, just wish I was good at putting models together.
Give it a try, you will only get better.
I remember a Thunderbird 2 kit remaining for a year or longer in the plastic model section of one of our local five-and-dime stores in the 1960s when I was a kid. The box art mesmerized me, but since I had never seen the show and did not know quite what it was, I never bought it. A friend later explained the series to me, but I did not see any of the shows or movies until I was well into my 30s. As a side note, my favorite craft was Thunderbird 6, a de Havilland Tiger Moth.
My god these look amazing. I hope you do a TB3 hangar kit too and more of the transparent ones!
If they are indeed as close to the originals as suggested here AND affordable they are GO as far as I am concerned!
Great clip; I wasn't aware of this product line. I love the throwback video, that does not rely on digital magic.
I'll have some of that!!
I love watching this show yes I knew as a kid they were puppets but I really love the vehicles all the background the island everything cuz I knew somebody had to make it I still watch one of the shows once in a while and I'm 63 Thunderbirds are go!
Great Set Of Models, FAB!
🚀🚀🚀THUNDERBIRDS was created in 1965 and they have still sold THUNDERBIRDS miniatures aircrafts and pods in 2021.
So.........., now that International Rescue are showing their Thunderbirds machines, I will now inform the Hood.
Having recently built the Aoshima Fireflash kit and the Imex TB-2 kit,plus having a Bandai 1/48 TB-4 kit in my stash these are all reboxed kits.
At least they will be available to a wider market once again,but new tooled kits are not on the horizon anytime soon i think.
this would be a fine addition to my collection
In the 60's I had the steel ones ...
And Me
I've still got them in some shape or form and I often (partly) refurbshed them. One must simply be creative! I actually scratchbuilt my best looking TB1! www.brassee.com/scalemodeling.html :-)
@@marcbrasse747 nice looking !
@@pim1234 Glad you liked it and thanks for going through the trouble of having a look.
I had the Dinky metal Thunderbird 2 with the little plastic Thunderbird 4 inside the pod.
Fantastic!!! 🏆⚒️🇬🇧
Excellent news!
These appear to be the Aoshima kits that are coincidentally being reissued in Japan.
If so I would recommend those who purchased the De Agostini Thunderbird 2 partwork should consider purchasing the 1/144 Thunderbird 1 since this kit was issued by De Agostini in Japan as a 1-shot partwork to accompany Thunderbird 2.
Btw There is an disagreement in the stated scale for Thunderbird 3 (AiP10003) as this shown correctly as 1/350 at the start and incorrectly as 1/144 later on.
Ah, but can there be a correct scale for fictional models? :-)
@@Poliss95 Haha true - especially with Anderson productions.
Oddly in this instance the height is stated in 'Give or Take a Million'.
Here Jeff says it's 287 feet!
Just don't discuss it's colour... :)
Hi Neil. Well done for spotting that error. We have now blurred out the erroneous scale to avoid any future confusion.
Now we need some Terrahawks ships....
It would be great if they were All available in various scales to each other. I would make a cameo roll for them on my OO scale model railway layout. Maybe if they were all G scale then I'd build a FAB dedicated diorama for them.
Oh that would be. FAB
@@helenbailey8419 Fcukib' Awesome Babe... LOL
These look fantastic... but I'm a little sad they couldn't do all 5 in the same scale.
I've always wanted a set of all 5 Thunderbirds in a consistent scale.
I also hope they manage to get the rights to Thunderbirds Are Go as well.
1-4 you can get in the same scale, with the TB1 Launch Bay being 1:350 scale and the TB4 you get with TB2 also being 1:350, along with the Mole and FAB1 with the TB2 Launch Bay.
I think doing TB5 as 1:350 would be a little overkill sadly haha
@@ExplosiveCookie Yup. Would be nice to have all five, but TB5 would probably end up about £120 quid. Hopefully it'll be close enough to fudge it in a display.
@@BrainComm487 same scale would present issues as their relative lengths are 90' 250' 287' 30' and 400' for TB1 to TB5
@@ACtheLegend I know, but still.
For a single display, I'd like to have all five.
Great selection..can we have more in N gauge (144) please
Cool👍
Does anyone agree that the fireflash is the thunderbirds version of the Concorde
To me it looks like a morphed out, supersonic Vickers VC-10.
Give him a toot, Parker
awesome all of them. Just a bit pricey is all.
Too bad there are hardly any model shops left in existence. Probably will have to find these on line.
Good to see that these japanese kits are being reboxed for the UK market.
I do have four problems here........
1) does clear TB2 have two pods. The original release only had 1. But can only think that the molds be used are for the clear version of TB2 launch bay.
2) Price ..... The UK price is almost in line with the japanese price, so there is is a incentive to buy here.
3) Price ...... why is TB2 launch bay and TB 5/TB 3 kits at £75. Look around on the japanese sites and these kits are cheaper there so it can be cost effective to import in.
4) Release date ....when. none of the places listed show the kits on pre-order.
Too cool
Hum
I have just recieved FAB 1
To say that I am a little underwhelmed would not be entirely adequate.
Were it 57 years ago and for christmas I was expecting a slightly down-market run a 't-mill push together Hong Kong rip off then I would not be dissappointed - and were this a replica kit of the period then I would have a present to be mildly excited with.
At 2d short of £30 - even now - I might have expected something a bit less tacky and more of something to be the proud possessor there of.
N'mind ay?
Paul
Surely the finished product depends entirely on your skillset, as it does with any kit.
@@ACtheLegend dur...
Nope if these had been promoted as 'Reproduction' then fine - although I do intend to kit bash the thing and turn it into Lady P's silk purse there was a temptation to keep it as an oddity but life is now short and I have a long model bucket list - FAB 1 may find itself left in the bottom of it
@@shrodingerspettingzoo6654 I don't follow, but never mind.
@@ACtheLegend that's a bit sad
Might have to treat myself to one of these
Are these retooled or the same molding as the original Aoshima kits with all the fit issues? They just look like Aoshima kits reboxed.
The Fireflash looks to be the Aoshima kit for sure, even has same stand and tarmac cardstock base sheet.
@@BobBuesking I wonder if they will consider re-release other GA themed kits, would love to get hold of a Skydiver and a Stingray at a decent price.
I agree these look just like the old japanese kits. It would have been nice to get a series of kits with new tooling at a constant scale - say 1/72 . But I would purchase some of these just for nostalgia sake.
According to scalemates these are aoshima rebox. It does say these kits were tooled in 2000 so they aren't that old.
@@kevinmaloney2391 you can never have an affordable set of Thunderbirds at same scale. For the 30' TB4 to be bigger than a fingernail, the 400' TB5 would need to be huge.
We need to make these available in the states I found one supplier. And he's asking $130/USD for Thunderbird 5. I think we can do better.
Fantastic,I must have these 👍 any fireball xl5 kits on the line?
Only thing missing is the Zero-X
These were pretty heavily promoted through the Gerry Anderson CZcams channel (Jamie Anderson's channel, well worth a look for all Anderson fans; czcams.com/users/GerryAndersonTV) early this year when they first released them. They aren't new molds (maybe Aoshima?? - Plenty of details on the web) but certainly look great. Now, if somebody would do an accurate, affordable, good sized Zero-X, I'd be over the moon........
Any 12 inch to the foot scale versions available to help sort out the Suez??
Why is the scale of Thunderbird 3 censored?
retail prices would have been handy
i hope this thunderbirds sets will be sold to netherland
Not that I really want the full set of these and have added up the total for the full set from the Gerry Anderson Store, but the full set would cost £663.89, does not include glue and paint.
They forgot about the Zero x, the Thunderbird 6 and the crablogger. Totally missed opportunities
And the Firefly.
I love it!!!! 😍😍😍😍 Now make Harry Potter ones!!!
I'm happy to be corrected, but these look like the readily available Aoshima/Imai kits simply rebadged...
When your next announcement summer 2021 I believe
Are these new tools, or re-boxings of Imai and Bandai kits?
What about Stingray next
Why can't the do them in a consistent scale
No retailer in germany 😪😭😪😭
Amazon?
@@helenbailey8419 i hope
F.A.B. Scott.
Are these ex-Bandai kits or new tooling?
Nice.. heres hoping you guys do the CGI reboots down the line
It's a shame they are simply repops of the old IMAI kits. I'd be more enthusiastic if they where at least retooled and more accurate.. Needless to say the old IMAI kits weren't all that great.
Still they are better than nothing.
Same old Aoshima/Imai model kits.
They appear to be different.
@@ACtheLegend You are wrong.
@@moducase source?
are these available in america???????
Looks like repackaged kits from a long time ago but with a stupid mark up in price. I'm sure people that don't know about the IMAI or Aoshima ranges will get those has those kits are hard to come by in good order. But to me It seems Bachmann Europe are having a problem with what to do with all the old acquisitions they have been hoovering up over the past 10 years and trying to scrap back the money spent on company buy outs instead of sorting out the ranges they already own.