does anyone have any tips for drawing TOS Virgil? I’m trying to make sure I don’t just draw Scott twice XD or will it be clearer with eye, hair and sash colours?
Okay, all the presents are scheduled and ready to land on this blog at the rate of one per hour starting at:
- 12am, UK, 25 December
- 1pm, Auckland, New Zealand, 25 December
- 11am, Sydney Australia, 25 December
- 7pm, East Coast US, 24 December
- 4pm, West Coast US, 24 December
...and the feed will last well into Boxing Day for Oceania, when the sun comes up on Boxing Day in the UK ,and well into the night 25 December on the West Coast of the United States. So plenty of Thunderbirds Christmas celebrations around the globe :)
Thank you to all the hard-working contributors to TAG Secret Santa and here's to a fantastic Christmas with a dash of the Tracy spirit for all :)
Thunderbird 5 John Tracy
Congratulations! 60th Anniversary!
今年サンダーバードは60周年！！すごいね！おめでとうだね！
スパドラさんが9月1日よりクラ版の再放送を開始してくれまして、久々に見たジョン様が相変わらず麗しかったので書いてみました。クラ版は「ジョン様」って「様」つけちゃう感じだよね。
脳内変換が激しいので公式とは似てませんが。ジョン様は唇がセクシーだと思う･･･。色白のイメージあったんだけど、わりと小麦色だなと思った次第で肌色は濃い目に。（うちのテレビの画質のせいかもだが）御曹司はバカンスで日焼けするのがステータスなんだろと思ったが、そういや実家が南の島だった。
そういえばもう９月･･･今年はサンダバデーのお祭りはあるのかな？
私事で今ちょっと別の創作活動に忙しく、タイムリーにお祝いできるかわからないので、先に祝辞を言わせてもらいます。
おめでとう！サンダーバード！！
Thunderbird 5 John Tracy
Congratulations! 60th Anniversary!
今年サンダーバードは60周年！！すごいね！おめでとうだね！
スパドラさんが9月1日よりクラ版の再放送を開始してくれまして、久々に見たジョン様が相変わらず麗しかったので書いてみました。クラ版は「ジョン様」って「様」つけちゃう感じだよね。
脳内変換が激しいので公式とは似てませんが。ジョン様は唇がセクシーだと思う･･･。色白のイメージあったんだけど、わりと小麦色だなと思った次第で肌色は濃い目に。（うちのテレビの画質のせいかもだが）御曹司はバカンスで日焼けするのがステータスなんだろと思ったが、そういや実家が南の島だった。
そういえばもう９月･･･今年はサンダバデーのお祭りはあるのかな？
私事で今ちょっと別の創作活動に忙しく、タイムリーにお祝いできるかわからないので、先に祝辞を言わせてもらいます。
おめでとう！サンダーバード！！
MAX is treasured. Brains is lying, when he says he’d volunteer the robot for a hopeless mission into the unforgiving vacuum of space. He’s surer than anything that MAX would survive, of course, but that’s not the point.
MAX contains everything. He is a database of everything that has ever mattered to Brains. He contains the blueprints to everything Brains has ever built, every bit of research, all the languages Brains said he’d learn, papers and lectures and every article that’s ever caught Brains’ eye. MAX is made of rescue data, first aid procedures and exactly how hard the rain fell during a flood mission. The backup files for a program called jeff_tracy_search.exe are stored in a section all their own.
And MAX is other things; lines of code in him make up Grandma Tracy’s first successful apple pie. He is sound waves; Virgil playing the piano, quiet, overheard, into the dead of night. A hidden audio track - Brains humming the same tune, days later, hard at work on Thunderbird Two. He’s other data; the gentle pressure of Kayo’s hand against the top face of MAX’s head. The ‘dog tricks’ MAX had to make new program files for.
Then there’s something else, a secret folder, hidden and locked off, zipped and password protected and encrypted for good measure, precious and salvaged from a time long gone.
It needs a password and the specific touch of Brains’ fingers to access. It contains twelve holo-vid files, titled with dates, 14_11_2033.obj through to 14_11_2045.obj.
They made one for each birthday, each year, for all the years he had them. And MAX - MAX is happy to play them.
“Janmdin mubaarak ho! Happy birthday, bēṭā! It’s us, your parents!—
But you know that—
–Yes, yes. And today is your first birthday! A year already!…”
(IT’S MY FAVE BOLLYWOOD NERD’S FICTIONAL BIRTHDAY. trust me, it’s on his tbirds wiki page. i still run off the HC that brains’ parents are prooobably dead, since we’re using 60s birthdays (as shown in ‘breakdown’) then i can roll with his 60s dead-parents-hood.)
THIS IS ACTUALLY SO ADORABLE LOREN!!
Aw I love this!!
Oh my 🥹 oh that got me. Yes, the reason MAX is so unusually empathetic and sweet is he was NEVER just a mechanical assistant. He’s Brains’ heart downloaded and stored safely (and I really hope backed up like EOS is!)
shout out to thunderbirds on this fine thunderbirds day. man i love thunderbirds
this is my offering as someone who has nothing special to post, available for all other fans who havent done a special drawing or fic or anything but also love thunderbirds 👍
wow as soon as i saved this doodle it got desaturated beyond belief but this kid's show is genuinely so fire and yes i am saying that just because i've watched it since the first season released . and they just took it off of amazon prime and i'm deadass pissed but whatever i guess.. i like to think that since gordon relies on virgil to transport thunderbird 4 they get a chance to bond as siblings on tb2 and are definitely tight. virgil 100% wingmanned him so he could get with lady penelope
Thunderbirds Are Go! Art by Bill Storie. Keep an eye on the Fanderson website for details of their FAB Annual 2026
