The 2005 Thunderbirds Annual is the official annual of the brand new live-action (with CGI animation) film Thunderbirds, which is based on the cult 60s children's TV show, and is being released in the UK on July 23rd, 2004. Sir Ben Kingsley plays The Hood, and Bill Paxton (Spy Kids 2, Apollo 13) is Jeff Tracy, but the real stars will be the crafts: eye-popping cars, planes, spaceships and submarines (which have been created with CGI imagery, building on the way they looked in the much-loved TV series, but putting them in exciting new action sequences).

The first spread in this fun annual is a password puzzle - solve it to be granted access to the International Rescue secrets inside There are three top quality photo stories in the book, based on remastered episodes: 'The Edge of Impact', 'Operation Crashdive' and 'Attack of the Alligators' and children can learn even more facts about their favourite ships with the Calling Thunderbird...series. Parker recalls his finest moments in 'Get Parker'; 'Mayhem in Motion' looks at some of IR's trickiest rescues and 'Thunderbirds Are Go ' shows the five Tracy sons in action. All this plus information on the backup team, puzzles and games makes the Thunderbirds Agent's Annual 2004 a fun- and action-packed read for all fans of Thunderbirds.