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Thunderbirds (2004) tie-in books
Thunderbirds: Thunderbirds Are Go!
It's not easy being the fourteen-year-old son of a billionaire ex-astronaut. Your older brothers get to fly the super-advanced Thunderbird rescue vehicles, but you're not even allowed to touch the control panels Now Alan Tracy has the chance to prove he's got what it takes to be a full-fledged Thunderbird. With his family's lives at stake, he must defeatThe Hood -- a maniacal villain with an evil plan to destroy the Tracys and their Thunderbirds.
64 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2004
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January 25, 2025
This is a great book and if there was a sequel, I think that Transom and Mullion would be members of International Rescue and the Hood would have new head honchos called Havoc and Fuse aka the Chaos Crew
August 16, 2024
I read this thinking it was the junior novelization and was very disappointed by how rushed and undetailed it was, thankfully it turns out that it’s actually a very simplified novel with pictures that’s aimed at a slightly younger audience than the junior novel. The writing is very basic, ‘character A went here and did this thing’ type stuff with no real internal thoughts, which in itself is not a bad thing but is definitely not what I’m looking for when reading a novelization.
There are a few fun details in this version I liked. John is apparently the oldest in this book (usually Scott is the oldest), Alan gives Fermat a pep talk and finishes it off with “And don’t mess it up or everyone’ll get killed. No pressure.” And of course the pictures are fun, though for a few of them I think they could have picked a better frame.
Oh and the scene where Alan and Jeff talk about Alan’s mom is different from the movie. Novelizations usually work off of earlier scripts so there’s a few things different in the book compared to the final events and dialogue from the movie. The mom scene in the movie is really sweet, with Alan asking what his mom was like and Jeff answering that she was a lot like Alan. In this book though he just answers that “She was F.A.B.” Like, thanks dad, what a completely meaningless answer.
Overall a fun but basic covering of the events of the movie.
There are a few fun details in this version I liked. John is apparently the oldest in this book (usually Scott is the oldest), Alan gives Fermat a pep talk and finishes it off with “And don’t mess it up or everyone’ll get killed. No pressure.” And of course the pictures are fun, though for a few of them I think they could have picked a better frame.
Oh and the scene where Alan and Jeff talk about Alan’s mom is different from the movie. Novelizations usually work off of earlier scripts so there’s a few things different in the book compared to the final events and dialogue from the movie. The mom scene in the movie is really sweet, with Alan asking what his mom was like and Jeff answering that she was a lot like Alan. In this book though he just answers that “She was F.A.B.” Like, thanks dad, what a completely meaningless answer.
Overall a fun but basic covering of the events of the movie.
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