Your Top Ten Supermarionation Moments

[MCA Tanker Driver Pete]

I’ve had a wacky idea for a project, which doesn’t involve me making any models for once. I have always been disappointed with documentaries that looked at Gerry Anderson shows because they always concentrated at how the effects were done, never looking at plot, story, characters or music.

That’s why I going to make a mini Documentary about the top scenes from the Supermarionation series (on Youtube) and I’m asking the fans to vote on their top ten favourite scenes.

I would like to point out that when I say “Super-marionation”, I don’t mean UFO or Space 1999 as they where filmed in live action. I also will not include Four Feather Falls (and anything before that) because they were not credited as Super-marionation. I want you to vote your favourite scenes from “Supercar” through to “The Secret Service”, and I do include the two Thunderbird Movies “Thunderbirds Are Go” and “Thunderbird 6” (When I say Thunderbirds Are Go I do not mean the 2004 movie).

It doesn’t matter about whether you’ve watched only three out of the seven different series, just put down which are you favourite scenes. I do want to make it very clear on how I want you to send in your top ten moments.

Top Ten Moments
[1]Thunderbirds/Perils Of Penelope/Shoot Out Scene
[2]Stingray/Tune Of Danger/Troy Trying To Escape Forest Fire
[3]Joe 90/Hi-Jacked/Shoot Out Scene (Joe Vs Colletie)
[4]Trapped In The Sky/Fireflash Landing (Second Attempt)
[5]Thunderbirds Are Go/Rock Snakes Attack
[6]Supercar/Island Incident/Shoot Out
[7]Fireball XL5/Invasion Earth/Fireball XL5 Order To Land
[8]Stingray/Emergency Marineville/Island Bombed By Spearhead Jets
[9]Stingray/The Man From The Navy/Missile Evasion
[10]Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons/Place Of The Angels/Chapman straggles Guard

Please order your list in this way. I have listed my favourite moments from first to last, and noted which series and episode they are from. Please add the series, I can name most episode titles of which series they’re from, but not all of them. Remember to be clear of the moment: e.g. Shoot Out Scene (Joe Vs Colletie). I put the last bit in brackets because there are two shoot out scenes in the episode. So if you only mean one particular bit, make sure you make it clear. If you want to list two similar scenes then list them individually, not together. Do not be afraid to mention character names in order to make your moment clear.

All votes must be in by the 21st of December, after that I will no longer count any thing else, unless you are so desperate to have you vote counted. I will be placing this thread on the Fanderson Forum and the Eagle Transporter Forum, so if you have an account on both, please don’t vote twice. If you wish to change your vote please make it clear to me, either by sending a new post on the thread saying it’s your new one or send me a private message saying you want to change your list.

Well people - start voting.

[MCA Tanker Driver Pete]

See the new trailer where anyone with a Youtube account can vote on their Top Ten Moments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1b_ukI9Psk

[TRK]

Just Supermarionation? Darn! ::tosses aside her huge list of favorite UFO and Terrahawks moments::

10. Fireball XL5/Invasion Earth/The moment just before we see the aliens for the first time.
9. Stingray/Treasure Down Below/Phones and Marina on the torture racks.
8. Supercar/Trapped in the Depths/Mike trapped in a flooding Supercar.
7. The Secret Service/pilot episode/Using the miniturizier for the first time.
6. Thunderbirds/The Uninvited/The shootout in the pyramid.
5. Captain Scarlet/Special Assignment/Scarlet shooting Captain Blue.
4. Thunderbird 6/ Brains losing his temper.
3. Fireball XL5/Flight to Danger/Lieutenant 90 drifting through space while his oxygen runs out.
2. Stingray/pilot episode/First time we see them go to battlestations.
1. Thunderbirds/Desperate Intruder/Brains buried in the sand.

[MCA Tanker Driver Pete]

I would like to remind everyone that the voting ends on the 21th December!
Thats 12 Days Away
So keep voting.

[MCA Tanker Driver Pete]

Last Change to vote people,

Voting Ends

If you live in England 12 O’clock AM
If you live in America 9’O Clock PM
If you live in Australia 12 O’clock PM

[MCA Tanker Driver Pete]

Because of a few slight hiccups, I am still accepting votes until a friend of mine sends in his. So if you haven't voted and you want to, do it now!!!!

[MCA Tanker Driver Pete]

Well people, voting is over, anyone who votes from now on will not be counted.

I am happy to reveal a few things, which were kept secret during the course of voting. You were all under the allusion that I was going to do the Top Ten Moments when actually; the documentary will look at the top 20. In total 39 people voted and all together, causing 210 individual moments to be voted in. Now if we got 210 moments out 39 people, imagine what 20 votes from 39 people would have got me, at least 780 different moments.

But all you people need to do, is sit back and wait for the documentary to come. I will have to write mini essays for school about why each moment got into the top twenty, so visit my Blog Site where I’ll be posting them soon.

And all of you who did vote will be credited on the Documentary.

http://toptwentysupermarionationmoments.blogspot.com/

[Mysteronslayer]

Ok, since voting is now no longer counted I'll just throw in 1 thing.

In the Thunderbird 6 movie where there is the ridiculous laughter at the beginning and the puppets have tears streaming from their eyes... THAT my friends, is supermarionation at its finest!

[CyberMarionette]

In the Thunderbird 6 movie where there is the ridiculous laughter at the beginning and the puppets have tears streaming from their eyes... THAT my friends, is supermarionation at its finest!

Oh god... You had to remind me...

I can't seem to think of any one specific SMN moment, but I like the moments where the puppets seem to defy their stringed natures and act almost human...

Sorry if that seems so terribly generic, but...