History Trivia / ThunderbirdsAreGo

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The episode "Inferno" was held back from airing in the UK in 2017 due to the Grenfell Tower incident (where a tower block of flats caught fire) having occurred months earlier. It still aired in Australia.

** Ray Barrett, the original voice of John and the Hood, died of a brain haemorrhage in 2009. As a result, in this series, John and the Hood are respectively voiced by Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster and Andres Williams.

* TalkingToHimself: Both Scott and Alan are voiced by Rasmus Hardiker, and Virgil and Gordon are both voiced by David Menkin.
* TechnicalAdvisor: Generally averted, as this is a show where scientific accuracy takes a back seat to exciting plot if it gets a seat at the table at all. However, the episode "Heavy Metal", a spotlight episode for Brains that depicts his stutter waxing and waning when he's under emotional stress, has a "special thanks" credit at the end of the episode for speech impediment specialist Elaine Kelman.

** [[spoiler:Peter Dyneley, the original voice actor of Jeff Tracy, died of cancer, leaving Creator/LeeMajors to take up the role as the Tracy brothers' disappeared, but still alive father.]]

* NamesTheSame: The 2015 reboot is also called ''WesternAnimation/ThunderbirdsAreGo''.

* NamesTheSame: With the exception of the exclamation mark, this series has the same title as the 1966 film.

** Despite David Graham coming back to voice Parker, he's been replaced by Kayvan Novak as Brains and David Menkin as Gordon.

** Sylvia Anderson cameos as Lady Sylvia Creighton-Ward.

** Rosamund Pike voices Lady Penelope instead of Sylvia Anderson.

* FakeAmerican: Usually (exceptions includes Sandra Dickinson as Grandma and Rich Hall as Capt. Taylor).

** [[spoiler:Peter Dyneley, the original voice actor of Jeff Tracy, died of cancer, leaving Creator/LeeMajors to take up the role as the Tracy's disappeared, but still alive father.]]

** [[spoiler:Peter Dyneley, the original voice actor of Jeff Tracy, died of cancer, leaving Creator/LeeMajors to take up the role as the Tracy's missing, but still alive father.]]

** [[spoiler:Peter Dyneley, the original voice actor of Jeff Tracy, died of cancer, leaving Creator/LeeMajors to voice him.]]

** Ray Barrett, the original voice of John and the Hood, died of a brain hemorrhage in 2009. As a result, in this series, John and the Hood are respectively voiced by Creator/ThomasBrodieSangster and Andres Williams.
* OutOfOrder: Thanks to being shown on ITV on a bank holiday weekend instead of the usual CITV morning timeslot, episode 13 ("Tunnels of Time") aired tenth.
* PromotedFanboy: Creator/ShojiKawamori, the creator of the ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' franchise and also a big fan of the show, designed Kayo's vehicle, the Thunderbird Shadow Plane. Unsurprisingly, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-04-07/macross-creator-kawamori-designs-new-cg-thunderbirds-series-plane/.86850 it looks a lot like something straight out]] from ''Anime/{{Macross}}''.

* YouSoundFamiliar: Matt Zimmerman, the original voice of Virgil, appears as Professor Harold in the episode "Tunnels of Time".

* TheOtherDarrin: Due to the ''Thunderbirds'' TV series dating back to 1965 and most of its cast having retired, being too old, or having died long ago, everyone aside from Parker was inevitably recast:

* TheOtherDarrin: Due to the ''Thunderbirds'' TV series dating back to 1965 and most of its cast having retired, being too old, or having died long ago, everyone aside from Parker was inevitably recast.

* TheOtherDarrin: Due to the first series dating back to 1965 and most of its cast having retired, being too old, or having died long ago, everyone aside from Parker was inevitably recast.

* TheOtherDarrin: Due to the first series dating back to 1965 and most of its cast having retired or died long ago, everyone aside from Parker was inevitably recast.

* UncreditedRole: Though uncredited, the late Peter Dyneley's countdown audio was reused for the opening as well as the in-episode launch sequences.

* UncreditedRole: Though uncredited, Peter Dyneley's countdown was reused for the opening as well as the in-episode launch sequences.

* PosthumousCredit: Peter Dyneley, the original voice actor for Jeff Tracy, succumbed to cancer in 1977. His countdown from the original TV series' opening was repurposed for the opening to ''Thunderbirds Are Go!'' as well as the Thunderbirds' launch sequences.

* TooSoon: The episode "Inferno" was held back from airing in the UK in 2017 due to the Grenfell Tower incident (where a tower block of flats caught fire) having occurred months earlier. It still aired in Australia.

* RoleReprisal: David Graham reprises his role as Parker from the original series.