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Thunderbirds grossed $28,283,637 worldwide, and with an estimated $57 million budget, [28] the film was a box office bomb. Frakes attributed the film's commercial failure to a combination of stiff competition from its contemporaries Shrek 2 and Spider-Man 2 and its poor critical reception. [ 29 ]
In the 2004 live-action film, Thunderbirds, FAB 1 is still pink and powered by a six-wheel drive. Its glass canopy is tinted, and it is now capable of flight as well as travel on land and sea. Prior to flight, the car's boot panels open, exposing the gas turbine engine ; the wings then extend from the undercarriage .
This episode marks the first use of Thunderbirds ' regular ending theme music: a modified version of the instrumental that accompanies the launch of Thunderbird 1 in "Trapped in the Sky". [13] The incidental music for "Pit of Peril", composed by Barry Gray , was recorded on 24 April 1965 in a four-hour studio session with a 22-piece orchestra.
The character also appears in the film sequels Thunderbirds Are Go (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1968), the 2004 live-action film Thunderbirds and the CGI remake series Thunderbirds Are Go. In the world of Thunderbirds , Penelope is employed by the secret organisation International Rescue as its London field agent.
Tim Bevan, producer of the 2004 film, called Tracy Island "one of the main characters of the original Thunderbirds series". [8] Rob McLaughlin of the entertainment website Den of Geek named it the seventh-best secret base in film and TV but challenged one particular design aspect: "There's the small matter of the ever-present risk of a great big rocket ship appearing out the bottom of [the ...
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The second Thunderbirds movie is not that different from the original 1966 offering—bald bad guy The Hood's up to no good, lots of stuff gets blown up, the Tracy brothers scramble to save the world and, yet again, we don't get to see anywhere near enough of the very cool Thunderbird 2.
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