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- The top Christmas toys for 2015
and we're starting out with the biggest,
and I think the best.
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- This may not be just the largest toy
that we review this year, it may be the most expensive.
It's about $170 and it has to ship from England,
I'll have a link to it down below this video.
Let's take a look.
There's a reason why I think this will be
my favorite Christmas toy for this year,
because, I loved this when I was a kid.
Oh, this is gigantic!
Oh my gosh, have you ever seen
such a large box?
I think this is the back of it.
Ooooh-kaaaay.
- Aaaah!
- I think we're ready to open this, yes indeed!
Thunderbirds are go!
This is the Thunderbird Tracy Island playset.
This looks so cool, doesn't it guys?
- [Roxanna and Ximena] Yeah.
- It's actually the island just as you see here,
with all the places that you can
launch the different Thunderbirds,
and, on the back, I believe the back of the island
looks like this, it's cut out,
so you can actually access the different launch points,
you can find Brain's laboratory in there.
Let me show you the other sides of the box here,
this also comes with a wrist communicator,
with messages for international rescue!
- Woooo!
- Here you can see about preparing the launch,
Thunderbirds 1 and 3, and over here,
about Thunderbird 2, and the acquatic Thunderbird 4.
You guys remember the Thunderbird show?
- [Roxanna] Yeah! - [Ximena] Ish.
- Ok, I showed it to them, it was on Netflix
on DVD back some years ago.
So I was so excited when I saw that,
so, you get two episodes per DVD,
they're about 50 minutes long.
This show is originally from the 1960s.
Yes, so even I didn't see it when it first came out,
but I've heard it's back on, in England,
and New Zealand, maybe Australia.
They have brought back Thunderbirds.
- [Ximena] Yay! - [Roxanna] Wow!
- Not here in the U.S. though.
Here comes an island!
Ok, can I give you the decals?
And the instructions.
Oh, chunks of island here, would you hold onto that, please?
Oh there are some pieces to assemble, it looks like.
- And there's some extructions.
- Ooh, the palm trees are here,
and the emergency device thing.
- It says adult assembly required.
- Ok, I'm not goin' anywhere.
This may be the toy I keep in my room.
Of all the toys we review.
- Ooh, it--
- Wow, look at this!
- Oh my gosh!
- Such detail!
Oh, it's so cool.
- That's where you put the palm trees in.
- Yeah!
Quite a lot of instructions here,
I love the decals that go with it.
There are, what, about 20-some pieces here
we have to assemble, so let us get to work on that.
- Now, apply the stickers to parts B and C.
- Part B.
- Part B, for that one you want to apply sticker 40.
- Three, ok.
- Now, piece C, I mean, yeah, C.
It's like a cylinder piece.
Yeah, that's it.
Now, for that one you're gonna want sticker 41.
20 stickers.
- 20 stickers, let's do it.
- Now, first, apply the sticker that is shown
to sections H and A.
Were you doing something?
- No! (laughter)
- Yes ma'am, good little children.
- Ok, let's start with H.
- We need section H and A, Ximena.
- Which is, yeah.
It goes on top of the base, so we're gonna need
to flip this around again.
- Here's H.
- A?
- Ok, we're actually making some progress here,
but it's taking us a while.
Tracy Island is complete.
Guys, how long did this take us?
- At least an hour.
- Over an hour, just some problems getting things to fit,
it wouldn't click, you push harder, you might break it.
Then we spent 15 minutes trying to figure out the batteries.
It takes three AAA batteries for the sound effects,
and I don't know if there are flashing lights or anything
with the island itself, and then,
it takes three hearing aid batteries
for the wrist watch that you wear
that you get your calls, yes, yes, that,
you're a needed international rescue.
I think it's time to give you a tour of Tracy Island.
Let me grab the camera and we'll give you
the visual tour and show you how everything works.
Ok, zooming in to Tracy Island.
If you've seen the show, you know about this launch point.
There's the house, you can look right in
and see what they're doing.
Actually they don't show the people,
but you can see their furniture!
The swimming pool.
Over here we have another launch point,
then there's one more, where is that aquatic one?
Oh, that's right, right in here!
And here's what really goes on behind Tracy Island,
in case you didn't know.
Here's where Thunderbird 2 launches.
Yes, I still see you there,
and Thunderbird 4.
Thunderbird 1, and over here, Thunderbird 3.
Around the corner we have Brain's laboratory,
with the robotic arm.
Tracy Island looks super cool but what's it missing, guys?
- The ships!
- [Parris] You're right!
Thunderbird 1, 2, 3, and 4.
The characters, anything else?
This is basically what comes with it,
and the wrist monitor, so,
they do have the Thunderbird ships
that you can buy separately, and we did!
And that's gonna be in tomorrow's video,
on Santa's Pick Sunday, we'll bring those out,
we'll take a look at them, see if we need to assemble them,
see how they work here with the island.
You can also buy a figure of Brain,
but I don't think they have the figures for the brothers.
In any case, let's take a look at how this works.
Over here with the palm trees,
let's see what happens when it's ready to launch.
Now you're gonna push a button inside,
and then let's see.
(mechanical whirring)
(engine revving)
So we got all the sound effects,
so once you have your ship here in position,
you can have it take off, and the sound effects go along,
there were flashing lights in there too, right?
- [Ximana] Mm-hmm!
- [Parris] Pretty cool!
- So, then you know once the palm trees come out--
- [Parris] Yes.
- [Ximena] So then, it comes out here.
- [Parris] Right.
- [Ximena] Then--
- [Parris] I forgot about that!
(mechanical whirring)
- [Toy] Five, four, three, two, one.
(engine blasting)
Thunderbirds are go!
- [Parris] That's what I wanted to hear! (laughter)
Ok, so that puts that back down,
and then to get the palm trees back in position
and restore the camouflage, you just pull that down inside.
Nice!
Now the aquatic one, I think it just rolls out here, right?
There's nothin' involved in launching.
It just rolls out into the water,
we have a little bit of water there, as you can see.
Here we are behind the scenes, Ximena's gonna show me here,
what do you think, for the Thunderbird in the water?
You think the water goes up so it slides down?
- [Ximena] I don't know, I just feel like--
- [Parris] Oh yeah, there you go.
- [Ximena] Yeah.
- [Parris] So it slides out into the water, ok, good.
- [Ximena] Ok, so, ok, and this one.
This is--
- [Parris] The, underneath the pool.
- [Ximena] Yeah.
- [Parris] Ok. - [Ximena] Ok.
- [Parris] Now the ship would be on there, right?
- [Ximena] Yeah.
- [Parris] Ok, and--
- [Toy] Five, four, three, two, one!
- [Parris] Now, we've gotta still open the swimming pool,
or it's gonna come up through the bottom of the pool, right?
'Cause I think that you have to open manually, here.
Ok, now we can see down into the launch bay there,
so let's launch it from inside, and see what happens.
- [Ximena] Oh.
(mechanical buzzing)
- [Parris] That brings it right up,
where the swimming pool was.
Cool!
Ok, and then what about the last one over there?
- [Ximena] Ok, so you know, push the lever down,
and then--
- [Parris] Close the door. (mechanical whirring)
Ooh, nice.
Ok, and then--
- [Toy] Firing ion fusion engines in three, two, one.
- I love it!
Ok, well let's see what would happen,
so go ahead and open the door and then push the button,
for launch.
(mechanical buzzing)
Here.
Now Ximena has the special communicator,
which doesn't have a screen or anything,
it has a flashing light, a button that you press,
and a speaker.
And when you are needed by international rescue
or as international rescue, you'll get a call on this.
So go ahead and push the button and wake it up.
(ringing)
- Hold it up here.
- [Toy] International rescue, this is Thunderbird 5.
We have a situation.
Thunderbird 4, do you read me?
Gordon, come in!
F-A-B, international rescue,
Thunderbird 4 is en route!
- And what's F-A-B, I used to know,
I actually looked that up once,
'cause they say it all the time in the show, F-A-B.
- [Toy] Thunderbird 1, come in.
Time to suit up!
F-A-B Thunderbird 5, I'm on my way!
- More with the F-A-B!
Gotta look that up again.
Now, this will beep, if she doesn't do anything with it,
we found after 30 seconds, it'll start beeping.
And then it keeps beeping every few seconds,
because they're calling you, they need you,
and you have to press the button to answer the call.
(beeping)
- [Toy] Thunderbird 3, this is Thunderbird 5.
International rescue, this is Thunderbird 3, do you copy?
Time to deploy?
- See, now it's cool because it matches up with the toys,
which we will have tomorrow, so you get a call
that they need a launch of Thunderbird 3,
you grab Thunderbird 3, you get it in position,
and you launch it, isn't that good?
- Yeah!
- Really like that.
Thunderbirds' interactive Tracy Island.
What would you think if you got this as a Christmas present?
- Awesome.
- What would you think?
- Wow!
- We all love this, hasn't it been a lot of fun
to play with?
- Yeah.
- It did take us over an hour to put together,
we had the problems with the battery,
the frustration over that,
but it is a really, cool, toy.
If you like Thunderbirds,
I can't imagine you not liking this!
Now what it's missing are the actual Thunderbird ships,
we have those right over here.
If you'd like to learn more about this
Interactive Tracy Island Thunderbird toy set,
I'll have a link to it down below this video.
We'll be back tomorrow with the rest of the Thunderbirds,
so you can see how they work.
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