Fractionally over two years ago, the Royal Mail produced these 3-d Thunderbirds stamps to mark 50 years of work by their creator, Gerry Anderson who has so recently died.
I do like the PHQ cards that were issued but if I'm honest, I don't like the stamps. They really don't scan very well but the mini sheet I have doesn't even look good to my eyes anyway. It's not like the usual mini sheet but more like a card, in fact almost as sturdy as the PHQ card itself. I do wonder how the individual stamps would fare going through the post office machinery.
And - where is Lady Penelope?
This is a post for Sunday Stamps, now hosted by Violet Sky at "See it on a Postcard!"
This is a set that I totally missed! I probably would have bought these, but how can they do Thunderbirds without Lady Penelope or at the very least her car!
ReplyDeleteI preferred the 'normal' stamps they produced for Thunderbirds although the 3D was an interesting experiment and got a lot of publicity at the time. I always liked the countdown in the intro as I see from your heading so did you.
ReplyDeleteI hope the real stamps show a better 3-D effect than the scan. Interesting, but the normal stamps were better - shame I haven't any of those either
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to say I am unfamiliar with these stamps. And they do not scan well but must look great in person.
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i cant really say anything about the stamps coz the scan doesnt do the justice probably...however, Im not that familiar with Thunderbirds either...wasnt born at the time then and never caught them on TV later, when while as a kid i was just glued to the TV screen
ReplyDeletei am sure they look better 'in person' :) beats the definitives..!
ReplyDeleteyou are right, they don't look all that great as scanned (and thanks for doing it anyway, just so we all could see!)
ReplyDeleteI am also unfamiliar with them, so had to look it up. thanks youtube!
I agree, 3D stamps don't scan well as I have a few, too. Thunderbirds - I thought it sounds familiar but not really. I had to look it up as well. Sad to hear the creator died recently.
ReplyDeleteI think these stamps look pretty cool. It looks like a holographic effect? I know the Thunderbirds, but am not all that familiar with the show, so I quite like the countdown element of the stamps - I think it is quite clever.
ReplyDeleteQuite, where was Lady Penelope?
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing the show here when I was a kid.
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