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00:01 CROWD: 5!
00:03 CROWD: 4!
00:05 CROWD: 3!
00:07 CROWD: 2!
00:09 CROWD: 1!
00:11 COMM: Next year is the 50th anniversary of
Thunderbirds, and fans from across the globe are getting involved in the celebrations.
00:21 CROWD: Thunderbirds are go!
00:25 BRIAN: I'm Brian Getz, I'm 30-year-old and
I'm a professional balloon artist.
00:30 COMM: In his career Brian has built many incredible
balloon sculptures. But now he faces his biggest challenge.
00:38 BRIAN: I'm building Thunderbird 3, the tallest
sculpture that I've ever made, it's gonna be thirty feet tall, it'll be eleven feet
wide at the base and we're gonna use around fifteen hundred balloons.
00:53 BRIAN: We are building thirty foot tall rocket
ship, as if something could possibly go wrong.
00:58 COMM: And the sculptures size isn't Brian's
only worry, as he also has to co-ordinate a team of twenty volunteers.
01:06 BRIAN: Everybody just got to work and in just
a few minutes I'm gonna switch them over to actually blowing up the pieces for the rocket
itself.
01:13 BRIAN: Everything is going according to plan
and I'm really excited.
01:16 COMM: But without precedent for a build of
this magnitude, no one is sure if it's even possible.
01:22 BRIAN: We've been going at it for nine hours
and this is the last piece, let's go ahead and put her in.
01:30 BRIAN: There we go.
01:34 COMM: With the Thunderbird successfully completed,
what do the public think of Brian's creation?
01:38 MAN: Oh yeah I was a big fan, I used to watch
the show all the time, I recognised it right away.
01:42 WOMAN: Yes this is the biggest rocket ship
we've seen out of balloons huh? BOY: Yeah.