New Penelope, Parker & Brains Designs Released For Thunderbirds!
February 27, 2015 by brennon
We've seen the Tracy family themselves but how about those additional Thunderbirds cast members that make their lives easier? See what you think of Lady Penelope, Parker and Brains now with a new look...
I don't think they're looking that bad! All three of them have been given a bit of a modern face-lift while still keeping the iconic look of the original characters, Brains' big blue glasses for one!
While I really liked Thunderbirds my favourite of these shows was always Captain Scarlet so I don't have the ties that many people had to this show. With that in mind I'm just going to wait and see with this and fingers crossed the animation is spot on. With Weta on board you'd hope they've got this nailed down.
As well as the new designs above they've also introduced the latest addition to the Tracy Island crew in Kayo. You can see her in the video at the top of the page as the new Security Officer for the Thunderbirds.
What do you think of the changes?
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Nice to see Noel Gallagher keeping himself busy
That’s what I was going to say! It must be based on him. Just make sure you master the walk. Just visualise a drunk chimp with a nappy full of porridge and it’s trying not to spill any.
Maybe they’ll do a Mr Bean game and base the mini on Ian Curtis!
p.s., Captain Scarlet was way better. It was really scary in 1973 when I first saw it. Thunderbirds was too nice.
During the dark ages we used to do a sort of CS rpg using 2nd edition Call of Cthulhu. We even had a revolving lamp that could project ‘O’ all across the walls (just for effect). D.x
I just hope that ITV doesn’t get it’s hands on it as they killed the Captain Scarlet reboot due to them treating it with disrespect on Saturday morning kids TV. – Splitting it into 2 parts with a 2 hour gap, playing some of them out of order and the presenters taking the pi** out of it during the introductions.
These look horrible, if they wanted the original look they should have kept the puppets other wise completely new designs needed. I hop they dont go near Captain Scarlet with this direction
As per my post above yours. They already did redid Captain Scarlet and I loved it.
And my grammar in that last post… Shocking.
It’s starting to look really awful
Against all my natural instincts I tried to be optimistic, but If these were sculpts they would not receive a favourable crit from me.
2065. People have evolved to have really thin thighs. Presumably strings have removed the need for the legs to support the body and have atrophied.
And Lady Penelope has undergone some sort of age reversal and has reappeared as a 14 yo.
I don’t know what face cream she is using but I WANT SOME!
just to be clear….
I don’t want to look like a 14 yo girl.
That would be weird. Just take a few years off.
and look like a 44 yo girl
To be fair she was only 26 in the original series.
That is positively middle aged compared to this young slip of a gel! lol
Scarlet was hardcore.
I’m the opposite to Ben, Thunderbirds was my favourite, though I love Captain Scarlet and I have all the original series of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons on DVD.
I am actually rather happy about these character designs. And the animation is looking pretty crisp too.
I just hope we’re not in for that CGI Captain Scarlet they tried a few years ago.