Thunderbirds The Abominable Snowman

Posted on by Ian C.

More than 9 years ago I had the chance to see “behind the scenes” of some Thunderbirds episodes being created, specifically what eventually was published as The Abominable Snowman as one of three “anniversary episodes” created using audio recordings from the original Thunderbirds team combined with newly filmed footage to create a full length program!

Those videos have just recently been published for everyone on YouTube:

With The Abominable Snowman now available to all, I feel that it’s ok to put some [more] of my photos from that visit online – when I originally posted, I didn’t want to show too much in case it spoiled anything, but that was quite a long time ago, now …

London at Christmas

Posted on by Ian C.

Unexpectedly we were back in England recently, and spent a few days in London. We did lots of touristy stuff, starting with an evening walk along the River Thames past the Houses of Parliament and as far as the London Eye, when we first arrived …

The next morning we took the same walk back to the London Eye, and rode it for great views over London:

We also walked to Buckingham Palace (it’s not open for visiting at this time of year!):

In the evening we toured Regent Street and nearby, checking out the Christmas lights (we also took of tour bus but the views from that were not great) …

Our last day in London, we visited the recently converted Battersea Power Station, now a big indoor shopping mall, with a lift ride up one of the chimneys for another set of great views over the city! Growing up about ten miles away this building was iconic – fascinating to learn that for the early years it had only two chimneys!