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To celebrate the launch of the range of New Captain Scarlet toys from Bandai, Forbidden Planet in London will be hosting none other than Gerry Anderson. Gerry will be at the shop between 3pm and 4pm when he will be available for autographs.

Naturally, the theme of this event will be to help promote the new series (currently airing in the UK) as well as the new range of toys. Images of the toys are available in the Photo gallery.

The new range of Captain Scarlet toys from Bandai, are described by Anderson as

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Gerry Anderson

This is basically a good news/bad news posting. The good news is that I have finally been able to get the TV Century 21 site updates newsletter active again. The bad news is that despite many hours of effort, I have been unable to ressurect the original subscriber list. Consequently, we have to start again from scratch. So, if you were subscribed to the TV 21 updates email list, you will need to subscribe again, sorry about that. If you were not subscribed, the TV Century 21 site updates email list is a service I provide to send out emails whenever a new post has been added. If there is interest, I may break it down a bit more, so that we have lists related to interests such as general news, downloads, gallery etc.

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Details: Written by: Simon; Category: News; Last Updated: 05 August 2013; Hits: 7898

This was an occasion I had been looking forward to for quite some time. After so little on the Anderson front in recent years, this year had scope to be much better with both the much-heralded new Captain Scarlet CGI series, and the 40th Anniversary of Thunderbirds.

So it proved to be.

Images have now been added. Some documents have been added to downloads and images added to gallery.

Details: Written by: Ralph Titterton; Category: News; Last Updated: 05 August 2013; Hits: 11248

On November 15th 2004 the Captain Black puppet head (see prior news item) went on sale at Bonhams in London. There was a buyer in the room who bid

Details: Written by: Simon Wickes; Category: News; Last Updated: 05 August 2013; Hits: 6385

Good news! GAP has achieved an agreement with Tri-Media Group for worldwide rights to "multimedia deployment" rights to the new Captain Scarlet CGI TV show. The rights are worldwide except for UK, which is covered by Carlton. GAP and Sony already seem to have the distribution rights locked up, so this presumably means Tri-Media have the rights to games, ringtones, desktop images, DVDs etc. See the main content for full press release...

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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.

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Captain Scarlet

Amazingly, the new Thunderbirds movie has fared so poorly in its initial countries, that Universal has pulled the plug on further theatrical releases. This means that if the movie has not yet opened in your country, it may never open in cinemas. Instead, Universal will adopt a "straight to video" strategy in an effort to cut costs and recoup some of the film's expense. Countries likely to be affected include Australia, Asia and South America. I guess the first step to recovery is admitting there is a problem. Now, where did I put Peter Jackson's phone number...?

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Ron Thornton is interviewed in the current issue of Dreamwatch.

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October 2004 sees the release of Team America - World Police from the makers of the TV show "South Park". I mention this because the movie is made with Thunderbirds-style puppets. The makers of this movie did it in part as a reaction to the as-then pending Thunderbirds movie.

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Thunderbirds

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Gerry Anderson will be at Forbidden Planet, Sept 10

TV21 Site Update list active again

Report on the Annual Toy Fair in London January 2005

Captain Black puppet head sells for 15 grand!

World-wide distribution agreement for new Scarlet CGI!

Captain Black head to go on sale in auction

Thunderbirds movie - so good its straight to video

Ron Thornton Interview in Dreamwatch #120

The other side of the Thunderbirds movie universe