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December 1998

November 1998

Fanderson set to release Space:1999 CD

The next Fanderson CD will be out with the next FAB issue. It'll be a Space 1999 Year 1 double CD with STEREO tracks of Barry's music, from the multi-track tapes they found at Abbey Road studios. In order to make the recording, Fanderson had to "bake" the tapes, as in warm them up, play them once and record to DAT, afterwards dispose of baked tapes since they cannot be played anymore.

Price will be around £29.00 / $45.00 for the double CD set.

New Bandai Thunderbirds toys...in gum machines!

In Japan, Bandai will be releasing a number of new Thunderbirds toys for distribution through gum machines around the end of November. This image was scanned from the most recent issue of Hobby Japan magazine. The toys are to be packed in plastic bubbles and distributed through large gum machines.

The cost per toy will be 200 Yen. Selection will be completely random, meaning that fate will determine what toy you get when you insert money into a gum machine. It is not clear if the Thunderbirds toys will be by themselves in the machines or with other things. It looks as if these toys may be the Furuta Thunderbirds premium model kits from the early 1990s but it's not clear. Also, the article in Hobby Japan indicated that this was the first wave of Thunderbirds premium toys so others may follow.

October 1998

Seagrams buys Polygram

Its official: Seagram bought Polygram, the owner of the ITC library. They did not buy the ITC library, however. The current rumour is that Carlton Communications is interested.

Thunderbirds and Space 1999 calendars available for 1999

After the success of last year's calendars, Slow Dazzle have created a new set of Gerry Anderson calendars for 1999. There is one for Thunderbirds and, fittingly, one for Space:1999.

Space:1999 original music to be released on CD

Following the success of the Supercar CD, Fanderson has announced they will be issuing a 2-CD set of the music from Space:1999 in early 1999.

August 1998

Original Supercar and Fireball XL5 music released on CD

Fanderson, the UK-based Gerry Anderson fan club has produced a superb collection of Supercar and Fireball XL5 music by the great Barry Gray. This is only available to Fanderson members. From the site:

Superb compact disc album featuring the original recordings of the themes and incidental music composed for Supercar and Fireball XL5, digitally remastered from Barry Gray's master tapes. 52 tracks including both first and second season versions of the Supercar theme song, Fireball XL5 opening and closing titles, "Formula 5", "This Is The Twist", "Batonga Theme", "Zizi's Song", numerous character themes and individual episode scores. (Note: many of these tracks formed part of the scores for the later Gerry Anderson series, including Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and Space:1999.) CD comes complete with 16 page colour booklet detailing the origin of each track.

Running time: 72 mins UK -

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