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{{competition
|prize=a copy of ''Thunderbirds are Go Official Guide'' and other goodies
|text=Five people will win a copy of the book, plus two other Thunderbird books AND an official Thunderbirds bag. (You can see a picture below.) For your chance to win just answer the following question:
 
What is the surname of the Thunderbirds?
 
|date=16 September 2015
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It's time to admit that I am old. I remember the first series of ''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema – an episode of that, then a second-run film, both for a quid. They were only ten years old or so then, but at least that proved the franchise was durable. Nothing did that quite as much, however, as the news a couple of years ago that the Anderson estate was to allow a CG updating, bringing a new generation of people to the massed audience. Amid the usual worries about it losing everything that made it special, it actually did pretty well when it aired in 2015 – even with a breakfast time transmission slot. This small(ish) format hardback is, bar the annual, the very first chance to look at an official book concerning the series, and inasmuch as it inspired me to research the return, and certainly accept it as looking a worthy addition to the canon, it succeeds on all fronts.