True fans of '60s sci-fi TV will likely find the new Thunderbirds movie self-defeating - it's live-action, and the whole point of the original show, and of all the era's Supermarionation series from England's Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, was the goddamn puppets. Solace lies in the new double-disc DVD set of Thunderbirds Are Go ('66) and Thunderbird 6 ('68), the original big-screen forays of the Tracy lads, Lady Penelope and all their awesome rescue vehicles (and of course Mr. Anderson's dour obsessions with protocol, patriarchy and indecipherable tech talk). The exquisite design work and miniature sets, the jerky marionettes with eerily lifelike physiognomies, the constant explosions and of course the titular Thunderbird crafts never looked better than in these two grand features. Dig the bizarre dream sequence with Cliff Richard and the Shadows playing the Swinging Star space-club. The assorted making-of featurettes are nice, but the fridge magnets and shimmery punch-out T-birds diorama? Now that's bonus material! » Rupert Bottenberg