1993: Make your own THUNDERBIRDS TRACY ISLAND | Blue Peter | Childhood Nostalgia

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1993: Make your own THUNDERBIRDS TRACY ISLAND | Blue Peter | Childhood Nostalgia | BBC Archive

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In 1992, repeats of the classic 1960s puppet show Thunderbirds on BBC Two led to an unanticipated surge in demand for Tracy Island play sets in the run-up to Christmas. With retailers and manufacturers unable to meet the demand, Blue Peter stepped in to help, resulting in arguably the most famous and ambitious 'make' in the show's history.
Here's Anthea Turner to show you how to make your very own Tracy Island playset out of a variety of common household objects (and sawdust).
For a full list of all the material you will need, and step-by-step instructions, you can consult this handy Blue Peter factsheet: www.bbc.co.uk/...
Originally broadcast 7 January, 1993.
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@Mr_Kenneth 11 ай бұрын

Possibly the greatest project ever conceived by Blue Peter.

@deanrussell2224 10 ай бұрын

No that would be the fire hazard 4 candle and tinsel coat hanger thing that hung from the ceiling that they trotted out every year ….

@andytraill 2 ай бұрын

Easily is, just is.

@Majorhappysaccount Жыл бұрын

"You're not using that much Foil, it's expensive!" - Everyone's Mum 1993

@edwinsalisbury83 Жыл бұрын

Was aluminium that expensive, oh right the uk was experiencing an economic recession.

@johnking5174 Жыл бұрын

I remember watching this when it originally aired on Thursday 7th January 1993. I was 7 years old. I remember at Christmas 1992 the demand for Tracy Island was HUGE. Our local Woolworths sold them, and my parents were one of the rare ones in our city who managed to buy one for me for Christmas 1992. I was first introduced to Thunderbirds by the BBC 2 repeat run starting in September 1991, it was a huge teatime TV hit for BBC 2.

@scottyunitedboy2925 Жыл бұрын

Same! I was 7 when I first caught those Sept 91 repeats on BBC2, they smartly followed it up with Stingray, Captain Scarlet and Joe 90 and the whole Gerry Anderson craze was reborn for the 90s. We made Tracy Island but I was able to get a fully functioning Captain Scarlet Cloudbase in late '93.

@bostonblackie9503 2 жыл бұрын

All the kids would want to make this! PS: Think of the poor sod who had to make all these models.

@iandeeley9033 3 ай бұрын

The BEST Blue Peter make EVER! FAB!

@csayzn1516 2 жыл бұрын

Remember making this with my son, we sent off for the plans too 😁

@southlondon86 2 жыл бұрын

Wow I remember this! We sent off for the plan

@nh-vb8ij Жыл бұрын

This got a lot of publicity (on BBC of course). Nobody in my school even watch the Thunderbird repeats, although I was only 11 when this aired, so maybe I was too old by then. It was on when I was younger in the 80s but nobody watched it apart from when bored waiting for mum to finish cooking tea!

@user-cr7bu9lk3l 3 ай бұрын

This was my first Tracy island and I’ve just recently bought a brand new 1990’s Tracy Island.

@christophermorton914 Жыл бұрын

Peak television, this was.

@TALKCalgary Жыл бұрын

Everybody said they were going to make it, few tried, and nobody I knew completed it. Although years later I did make a few movie models that became rather popular. Perhaps I owe it all to Blue Peter although I never got a badge :(

@gothamite27 Жыл бұрын

I gave it a good go! I had the basic layout of the island completed but I never painted it. If I remember correctly, the box I used to house Thunderbird 2 was a bit too small.

@kevinprior3549 Жыл бұрын

Probably the best thing Anthea Turner did on telly. Making up Tracy Island with junk!

@BOABModels Жыл бұрын

A couple of my friend's dads made one of these for them. I don't think I knew anyone who had the official toy.

@leeriches8841 Жыл бұрын

I had it! It was bloody brilliant although I still wanted to make this model. Never did though.

@Nihilanth1982 Жыл бұрын

Legendary. When I think of anthea turner this springs to mind. I miss my childhood. 1992 was the peak of it. I then started secondary school in 1993.

@ForestKicks Жыл бұрын

This kind of ingenuity won us the Battle of Britain

@universal70 Жыл бұрын

Yes if only the Nazis knew that most planes had been made from toilet rolls..

@mechakraken 2 ай бұрын

@@universal70funnily enough that kind of actually happened, they used paper mache tanks in ww2 to trick the enemy

@Jabberstax 2 жыл бұрын

All of those bits that went into making that would cost more than £35!

@reservoirfrog1 Жыл бұрын

£71.50 in todays money 😜

@mch2007uk 2 жыл бұрын

What's that bloke doing on the floor behind anthea

@snufkin84 2 жыл бұрын

Probably John Leslie 😁

@elizabethgibson5116 Жыл бұрын

It's the props guy, you can see her hand down the items to him also when the camera does a close up of the island he will put the other things on the table, as when the camera pulls back you can see more items have appeared on the table, you can see in one part where his hand is in shot above the table for about a second and quickly disappear when he realised the nation could see his hand lol 😆 Blue Peter was a live show so there would be no editing

@universal70 Жыл бұрын

My mother made me a Tracy island Birthday cake!

@elizabethgibson5116 Жыл бұрын

I remember making this but without the tin foil as it was to expensive to buy and we didn't eat yoghurt or cheese spread so had to improvise with cardboard for the hanger and pool and for the grass we used rice, my dad spray painted the rocks and grass too

@leonwilks4114 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic comment😊tough times the 90s but definitely the best ever🎉I was born 84

@RcNerd 2 жыл бұрын

The things works for blue Peter.

@historicmilitaria1944 Жыл бұрын

I've still got my original blue peter plan booklet

@universal70 Жыл бұрын

Looking forward to the episode Build your own Playstation 5

@kevinprior3549 Жыл бұрын

Probably the most famous catchphrase from Blue Peter "Here's what I made earlier"

@elizabethgibson5116 Жыл бұрын

It was "sticky back plastic" that did it for me, I never understood why they never called it sticky tape lol

@scottyunitedboy2925 11 ай бұрын

@@elizabethgibson5116they couldn’t call it sellotape because that’s a named brand and would violate the BBC’s policy on advertising. Perhaps sticky tape was too confusing?

@DavidMarfe 2 жыл бұрын

Anthea Turner what a women

@bellerophonchallen8861 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine the evenings you could spend making things out of flour paste, loo roll tubes and yoghurt pots with her.....

@willman85 Жыл бұрын

The whole 17 minute video is available on KZfaq too, entitled 'Blue Peter Makes a Thunderbirds Tracy Island Complete VHS'.

@letsgocamping88 Жыл бұрын

Somehow they managed to include the authentic tube TV power supply whistle!

@chrisschurke4151 Жыл бұрын

This episode spawned the original version of the Homer Simpson Barbeque meme. "Thats a mighty fine Tracy Island... Why doesn't mine look like that???"

@MeiGunner 2 жыл бұрын

Funn stuff

@rajnirvan3336 Жыл бұрын

I made 2 1 for myself and my cousin all went to plan

@p0p0s 10 ай бұрын

3:04 That's What She Said

@pamelamarch933 2 жыл бұрын

£34.99 was alot of money back then. Dread to think how much now

@southlondon86 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly I remember it being expensive.

@jamesphillips7100 2 жыл бұрын

By the power of the internet £62 😂

@pamelamarch933 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesphillips7100 I would get it

@reservoirfrog1 Жыл бұрын

£71.50 in 2023 money

@reservoirfrog1 Жыл бұрын

@@jamesphillips7100 £71.50 now. Bloody inflation!

@snowdonmark Жыл бұрын

Hold on, there's a person in the floor behind the desk!

@elizabethgibson5116 Жыл бұрын

Brains looks like Elton John lol

@0thediamondsea0 Жыл бұрын

Please upload making the doll swimming pool in the 90s :)

@hieronymus..bosch8532 2 жыл бұрын

Didn't know Elton John was a marionette

@madcommodore Жыл бұрын

Flour + water paste = mouldy toy in a week lol wallpaper paste probably better.

@forthrightgambitia1032 7 ай бұрын

I can confirm this. I made a papier-machier motte and baley castle for school once and within a week it had a distinct odour and had to be chucked in the bin.