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The VTL jets intensify! On board the research station, the scientists are holding on for their BrotHERS AS THEY Pilot CUTTING lives! EDGE THUNDERBIRD VEHICLES FROM International Rescue, we are having another sea quake! Over on TB2, Virgil is THE DEPTHS OF THE OCEANS to THE struggling… Increasing thrust to compensate! You need to get a grip on this thing fast TB2 or I’m She flies going under. great HIGHEST reacHES OF SPace – ALL Brains! Station must be made of some kind of composite. I’m not getting Okay, I got it. a lock. C’mon... As long as we attach. keep it stable, it should hold out long enough for FOR ONE PURPOSE: to HELP otHERS Gordon to do the evacuation. Anything I can do IN NEED. to help? As TB2 hovers, TB1 pulls up alongside. 25 21 International Rescue has created a cutting edge base of operation on a remote island in the South Pacific Ocean called Tracy Island. Check out these eight F.A.B. facts… EXPLORE: JOHN TRACY IS HAPPIEST IN SPACE BUT MADE TO ANYONE CASUALLY PASSING BY, A FLYING VISIT TO TRACY ISLAND TO ANSWER THE ISLAND IS SEEN AS NOTHING YOUR QUESTIONS! 1 2 MORE THAN AN EXPENSIVE 3 HOLIDAY HOME – ITS WANT to Know MORE ABOUT THE 1 SECRETS ARE SAFE FROM PRYING EYES! JOHN, YOU ARE HEAVILY INVOLVED IN EVERY MISSION, ARE YOU THE MOST TracY BrotHERS, THEIR awesome THE ISLAND IS EVEN IMPORTANT TRACY ABLE TO CREATE ITS BROTHER? OWN CLOUD TO SHIELD IT 8 FROM ANYONE WANTING REESE FROM DUNDEE TO SNOOP! 2 “No, not all. We all play a crucial role as part of International Rescue. We all VEHICLES, BRAINS’ GADGETS AND bring a different skillset to each mission BRAINS HAS CONNECTING TRACY ISLAND RAW MATERIALS ARE and without these skills it would be A LARGE TO THUNDERBIRD 5 IS A STOCKPILED IN UNDERGROUND much harder to stop The Hood.” UNDERGROUND LAB SPACE ELEVATOR – A VERY CAVERNS AND A HUGE DEVICE, AND WORKSHOP THIN CARBON TUBE THAT SIMILAR TO A 3D PRINTER, WHY ARE YOU DO YOU EVER GET MYSTERIOUS international CONNECTED TO THE VILLA BY ALLOWS A CAPSULE TO DESCEND TO CREATES MOSTLY EVERYTHING THEY ALWAYS SO LONELY UP IN SPACE? AN EXPRESS ELEVATOR. THE ISLAND WHERE NEED, EXCEPT FOOD. THIS IS GROWN SERIOUS? F.A.B. FACT IT THEN DOCKS. ELSEWHERE ON THE ISLAND BY LAURA FROM EDINBURGH THE LOUNGE SERVES AS GROW-BOTS! GEORGE FROM STOKE-ON-TRENT “I often have ten things going on at once THE LIVING ROOM, DINING so I don’t have time to feel lonely. I’m When John is aboard ROOM, COMMAND CENTRE “I have to be in my role in running the Thunderbird 5, he command space station. I’m on the always communicating either with can communicate to CRIMINAL, THE HOOD? THEN FIND AND MAIN TRANSIT people in danger or with the guys HUB FOR THE VAST SYSTEM OF wire with my brothers 24/7. When I a range of 161 million 8 Hangars and launch bays have back on Tracy Island.” kilometres away! TRANSPORT TUBES ACROSS THE 6 check in they know straight away that been constructed on the island8 TRACY ISLAND BENEFITS FROM ISLAND. to accommodate the Thunderbird something’s wrong.” CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY AND HAVE YOU EVER BEEN vehicles. HI-TECH SECURITY WHICH LOOKS DO ANY OF YOUR SCARED DURING A OUT ALL YOU NEED to Know AFTER THE BROTHERS EVER MISSION? ISLAND AND ENSURES REALLY ANNOY YOU? WILL FROM ESSEX CALLUM FROM DEVON THAT NO “It’s okay to be frightened. There are SECURITY HANGARS AND LAUNCH BAYS “Yes, they do sometimes. However, if bad people out there who would love GUARDS HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED ON THE they bug me too much I just threaten HERE! ARE to hurt others. 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