TV Century 21

First thing I did once I got off the plane was to run into town to check out all the new Thunderbirds toys. Geez how sad is that? Flew to London. Went into Croydon and found most of the new Thunderbirds toys. Annoyingly, I only saw them in catalogues. No Thunderbirds toys on display and most were out of stock already. Saw a rucksack though, big whoop. Found the 2001 annual and the Brains puzzle book, a colouring book and most of kiddie storybooks in a woolworths. I'll get them soon enough from Amazon UK .

Saw the Thunderbirds DVDs and Space Precinct DVDs very tempting. But again, I was waiting for complete set in November. Got "Total DVD" magazine with TB2 on the cover! and 6 pages on Thunderbirdss. Found a collector mag that mentioned that the London postcard co is doing 2 ltd edition (2500) sets of cards. One is tv21 covers and the other is c21 eps. only available in the Thunderbirds boxed sets. (regretably, they were not in my boxed set :-()

I was looking forward to meeting the makers of the shows and of course, my fellow fan friends.This will be my first Gerry Anderson convention and the first time I will actually see puppets and models in "real life". I brought along 2 still cameras and a video to record the events.