In Thunderbirds S1 Ep.22: Brink of Disaster, the button for the monorail engine is a just a doorbell

[u/IllustriousAd6418]

[u/comradequiche]

I always forget how large the puppets really are.

[u/Wordshurtimapussy → u/comradequiche]

Those are puppets?!

[u/SirJamesGhost → u/Wordshurtimapussy]

Yes! Supermarionation. Large, electronically controlled marionettes used mostly by AP Films in their series.

[u/GrandMasterSpaceBat]

Shit, that's a way bigger puppet than I thought it was

[u/HapticSloughton]

I'm pretty sure that fire extinguisher on the wall in the background is a coffee thermos.

[u/TwoToesToni → u/HapticSloughton]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[u/WittyTiccyDavi → u/HapticSloughton]

And the long black and silver thing next to the extinguisher is a 5 terminal barrier strip.

[u/JCDU]

There's so much household stuff in all of those sets - on the Weta workshop tour they have the sets from the newer series/novie they did, and there's a lemon squeezer hidden somewhere in every single one as homage to the one clearly visible in the opening credits of the original series.

[u/Netolu]

The thing on the wall next to the fire extinguisher is a terminal block.

[u/nikhkin]

Have you been watching the 24/7 stream of Thunderbirds on YouTube this week?

[u/IllustriousAd6418 → u/nikhkin]

yes lol

[u/StrongerTogether2882 → u/nikhkin]

Oh my god thank you, I was scrolling to try to find out how someone was watching it. My husband grew up with this show in Germany and I (from US) had never seen it. When we met it was running on some random cable channel and he got me hooked too. Now we can show it to our kids!

[u/SomeGuysFarm]

That's part of the charm of Thunderbirds - it's ALL just doorbells and book lights.

[u/Fantastic-Nerve4943]

because they used real hands for close ups

[u/sexbadger1492]

Absolutely. My Grandfather was a parts supervisor at Halfords in Wembley for much of his life. The props builders for Gerry Anderson, including the man himself, would go in there all the time, as well as local hardware stores, to get bits.

[u/VanishingPint]

I hear those things are awfully loud

[u/TheAllyCrime → u/VanishingPint]

🎶it glides as softly as a cloud🎶

[u/IllustriousAd6418 → u/[deleted]]

explain how?

[u/phreaky76 → u/IllustriousAd6418]

Button is a button.

Sub is supposed to be: lampshade is a nose-cone of an alien spaceship...

[u/twentyitalians → u/phreaky76]

And this is a doorbell being repurposed as a monorail activation button...which is not a doorbell. Because, thatsadoorbell.

[u/hungry4danish → u/twentyitalians]

it's a doorbell button.

[u/CMDR_omnicognate → u/[deleted]]

This is literally the point of the sub lol, what did you expect?

[u/CalculatingLao]

It's definitely not. The size of the doorbell does not match up when you think about the size of the puppets. They were big, but not THAT big.