![]() ![]() However, it was to find an afterlife thanks to Uemura’s connections at ITC. Unfortunately, the series was not a hit in Japan when it first aired in 1982, with only eighteen of its twenty-four episodes being broadcast. ![]() The series would follow the adventures of the agents of a futuristic global rescue service and their fleet of seventeen rescue vehicles, the Technoboyager craft. This was to be a twenty-four episode animated series by the name of Kagaku Kyūjo Tai Tekunoboijā, or Scientific Rescue Team Technoboyager. Uemura returned to the ideas he had devised while in consultation with Anderson and revised them into a concept that would essentially follow the format of Thunderbirds (a series he enjoyed and had homaged in previous works) as closely as he dare. With the Japanese release of Star Wars however came a sudden urgent need for science fiction on film and television – and one man was ready for it. The idea for the series would undergo much revision (including a new title Terrahawks: Order to Recapture Earth) as various ideas were thrown around, but ultimately the project went nowhere due to the belief among Japanese networks that science fiction was no longer marketable. Aware that his shows had always been very popular in Japan, he met with producer Banjiro Uemura looking to produce a new animated science fiction television series Thunderhawks. While it certainly featured an organisation called International Rescue, a flotilla of futuristic rescue vehicles known as the Thunderbirds, and was even occasionally promoted using the same Thunderbirds logo as the original television show…it was clearly not of the same production stable as the classic Supermarionation series! Instead, Thunderbirds 2086 was a Japanese animated series that had started life as a different show entirely, before being rebranded as a new incarnation of Thunderbirds and then disappearing for good in the space of just over a decade!Īlthough very much a product of the 1980s the roots of the series can be traced back in 1977, to that post- Space:1999 period where Gerry Anderson could no longer look forward to commissions from ITC (following Lew Grade reaching ITV’s mandatory retirement age and his decision to move into film production). Of the 1623 built this is the only one I’ve heard of with the moonroof so if any of you folks have any interest in a low production original bird here it is.Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, Thunderbirds fans would have occasionally found themselves faced with another television series also claiming to be an iteration of Thunderbirds. ![]() I was not a fan of the body style when they were new but really like it now just because you don’t hardly ever see one. This was one of the last birds we bought before my father passed away and I’ve just never really done anything with it except for driving it home from Michigan when we bought it and a few short trips after. It is the plush velour seats which basically feel like a real comfy couch. This car has a factory moonroof, cb, premium sound TRX rims (2 sets, one set Michelin black walls, and one original whitewalls) I think the only option it doesn’t have would be leather. This is a 73000 mile original condition built with all the quality one could expect from a 1980 Ford. So figured let’s try here, I purchased another bird recently and with that I’ve no run out of storage space. I’ve tried eBay, Craigslist etc all to no avail. ![]()
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