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UPDATEDJapanese toy company Bandai will be releasing a large range of toys based on the "New Captain Scarlet" TV series currently airing in the UK. The range will include both small and large vehicles as well as figures. Two small vehicle sets of 3 item will be available, as well as larger vehicles of the Rhino, Stallion bike, Hummingbird helicopter and Cheetah car. There will also be a large SkyBase toy which will work with the smaller vehicles which will include cars and aircraft. The figures will be of Captain Scarlet, Black, Blue, as well as Colonel White and Destiny Angel. Figures will be 12.5cm tall and sell for 5 each.

Photos of the complete range of new toys from Bandai can be found in the Photo Gallery.

The Skybase toy (40) features light and sounds from the show as well as a repair area. It comes with an Angel fighter plane. There will be 2 small (8cm) vehicle sets and will sell for 10 per set. One set will include the Angel, another figter and a truck, while the other set will include the Cheetah, humminbird and passenger jet. There are some larger vehicles in the DX (deluxe) range, with the Stallion Bike and Hummingbird Helicopter, each 15, a Rhino for 25 which fires missils, and a Cheetah car with opening door. Both the Cheetah and the Rhino feature sounds and all 4 DX vehicles are the same scale as the figures. The Cheetah activates different phrases depending on which character you place into it. Cool. Lastly, an "actual size" item is the communicator which looks like a bit like a cell phone and sells for 13. All items should be available in the UK some time in August.

Renowned Music Conductor Charles Hazlewood has announced that he will conducting a 45 minute Barry Gray set at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. This will be taking place at 1pm, on Sunday, June 29th on the Park Stage.

The Charles Hazlewood Allstars will be playing, featuring musicians from Goldfrapp, Portishead, Get the Blessing and Loose Tubes. Francois Evans will also be appearing, playing Barry Gray’s original Ondes Martenot.

An original puppet head of Captain Black has been found and will be going on sale via an auction in London this November. For a picture and more details, follow the link below.

Latest update: Gerry Anderson article on BBC site with new trailer movie! This page contains information about new series Captain Scarlet - the return of the Mysterons. This will be produced as a CGI (Computer Generated Image) TV show, rather than live action or with models and puppets.

This is the text from a funding update for the Captain Scarlet CGI show currently in pre-production in Pinewood. They are seeking additional funds. For further details, check out the Captain Scarlet CGI shares page. This was provided by Margetts.

Carlton International is the UK company who owns the rights to all of the Gerry Anderson shows. In the middle of a January 2004 press release, it is mentioned that the new Captain Scarlet CGI TV show is due to be broadcast in "Winter 2004".

It's a version of the cgi scarlet pilot, different in approach to the official Carlton version.
The CGI version that Carlton made (via it's in house owned Moving Picture Company) is almost exactly like the original series- same suit designs, same faces, just updated a little to reflect todays audience expectations, and a hell of a lot scarier than the original.

This version was made specifically as a motion capture exercise, but possibly also the company wanted to do a sexy looking version of the show to impress Carlton. So they very quickly knocked up this promo. This explains why the voices and faces are not the originals as there was no time to go to that sort of trouble.

TriMedia Entertainment Group and Gerry Anderson Productions plc have signed a deal which allows for US distribution of the new Captain Scarlet CGI series. I suppose we ought to start calling it "Captain Scarlet - The Return of the Mysterons". Full press release below.

There is a website (here) which contains a very interesting 3 page interview with Ron Thornton. Ron is working with the animation team as they produce the new Captain Scarlet CGI TV show. The interview features a number of new images and even includes a 19MB download showing 1.45 minutes of trailer footage. Well worth the download. UPDATE: download removed...