History WesternAnimation / ThunderbirdsAreGo

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''Thunderbirds Are Go'' is the remake of ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''. It began on Creator/{{ITV}} and Creator/{{CITV}} on 4 April 2015 and concluded 22nd February 2020. The original marionettes have been replaced with CGI, although many of the sets and environments, most notably Tracy Island, are models. The series is a UK-New Zealand co-production and features visual effects by [[Creator/{{WETA}} Weta Digital]], [[Creator/WangFilmProductions CGCG]] and Creator/MilkVFX, which look every bit as awesome as you'd expect. The series received a great deal of publicity in the British media, with all concerned insisting that they wanted the new series to remain true to the spirit of the old.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The series, like the original which was set in 2065 to 2067, is set in the 2060s.

The first two seasons are now available on Amazon Video in the United States.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The series, like the original which was set in 2065 to 2067, is set in the 2060s, specifically 2060.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: In the Season 3 finale, after rescuing Jeff and having a graduation ceremony for Alan, International Rescue is immediately dispatched with [[CallBack Jeff answering the call]].]]

* DecoyGetaway: [[spoiler: With a bomb attached to Tracy Island's generator, the Hood plans to make his exit, only to find that thanks to Kayo's misdirection, he's on the neighboring ''Mateo Island'', with the ''backup'' generator set to explode.]].
* DidntThinkThisThrough: At the end of ''Signals Part 1'', Havoc manages to steal Thunderbird 3. However, come ''Signals Part 2'', it turns out she did this out of impulsive opportunism without an actual plan to keep her acquisition, something the Hood calls her out on since he made the same mistake in the past.

* OpenSecret: In the original series, International Rescue is top secret due to the technology they use being far ahead of its time. While the Tunderbirds are still more advanced than most of the world, the technology displayed in this series have caught up where there's not a lot of point in keeping their secret. Several characters will even comment on Jeff Tracy's legacy and there are protocols taken if International Rescue is not available.

* AdaptationalNationality: The Kyranos, including the Hood, flip nationality from Asian to British.

** Speaking of ''Stingray'', Gordon has a miniature RC of Stingray itself swimming around in an aquarium behind the living room. Which appears to be autonomous, as it's shown actively maneuvering it's way around the tank during the brief moment it's seen.

* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In "Slingshot", International Rescue comes to the aid of an asteroid miner named Ned Tedford. Ned reappears in "Under Pressure", having got as far from space as possible by taking a new job on an undersea platform -- which promptly goes wrong, requiring International Rescue to come to his aid again. Ned reappears again in "Undercover" as a "refreshment technician" (tea boy) for the GDF. ''Even then'', things go wrong; during Parker's sting operation, he tries to deliver tea and cake to MissionControl at the ''least'' appropriate time, and accidentally gives a go signal putting a cake down ''on a button'', blowing Parker's cover prematurely and setting the events of the episode in motion. [[ReassignedToAntarctica He's reassigned to the GDF Arctic outpost for his idiocy.]]

** The Zero-X space shuttle is the same name as the Earth to Mars space shuttle used in the [[Film/ThunderbirdsAreGo film of the same name]].

* HotScientist: Professor Moffat in "Heavy Metal", in an {{Adorkable}} sort of way.

* TheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: In the Season 3 finale, after rescuing Jeff and having a graduation ceremony for Alan, International Rescue is immediately dispatched with [[CallBack Jeff answering the call]].]]

** The Zero-X space shuttle is the same name as the Earth to Mars space shuttle from the [[Film/ThunderbirdsAreGo film of the same name]].

* DrillTank: In "Escape Proof", the Mechanic constructs a tunnelling machine that he uses to [[BreakingOutTheBoss break the Hood out of Parkmoor Scrubs prison]]. On his way there, the machine wreaks enough incidental havoc that it attracts the attention of International Rescue.

* GreatOffscreenWar: In "Space Race", there is a mention of a global conflict that spanned from 2040 to most 2043 and even in 2060, there are remnants of the war left such as space mines. (Which is itself a modern update of England's very real UXB [Unexploded German Bomb] problem, dating back from the last days of [=WW2=], and still ongoing today.)

* SomethingTHeyWouldNeverSay: In "The Long Reach", [[spoiler:Jeff Tracy identifies the Hood in disguise as Brains as an impostor because Brains has never called him 'Jeff' to his face, always 'Mr Tracy]].

* StarfishAliens: In the series 2 episode "Deep Search", Gordon and Alan Tracy travel to the moon of Europa to rescue a pair of astronaut vloggers who were trying to discover life there who got trapped in the underground oceans. After the Tracys rescue the duo, they encounter a large green bioluminescent creature akin to a featureless manta-ray. It's also a colonial lifeform, as it's revealed to made up of millions of tiny organisms when scanned.

* StarfishAliens: In the series 2 episode Deep Search, Gordon and Alan Tracy travel to the moon of Europa to rescue a pair of astronaut vloggers who were trying to discover life there who got trapped in the underground oceans. After the Tracys rescue the duo, they encounter a large green bioluminescent creature akin to a featureless manta-ray. It's also a colonial lifeform, as it's revealed to made up of millions of tiny organisms when scanned.
** Then in the series 3 episode Life signs, Alan and Virgil travel to Mars to rescue Captain Lee Taylor and a scientist obsessed with finding life on Mars after the caverns they're in collapse around them. In the episode's epilogue, it's reveled that the probes the scientist sent into a crevasse have discovered an underground lake, in swimming in it are several tiny bioluminescent tadpole-like creatures that swim in shoals.

''Thunderbirds Are Go'' is the remake of ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}''. It began on Creator/{{ITV}} and Creator/{{CITV}} on 4 April 2015. The original marionettes have been replaced with CGI, although many of the sets and environments, most notably Tracy Island, are models. The series is a UK-New Zealand co-production and features visual effects by [[Creator/{{WETA}} Weta Digital]], [[Creator/WangFilmProductions CGCG]] and Creator/MilkVFX, which look every bit as awesome as you'd expect. The series received a great deal of publicity in the British media, with all concerned insisting that they wanted the new series to remain true to the spirit of the old.

Two more seasons have been commissioned, bringing the episode total to 78.