Japan was rabid for the 1960s British made for USA children's TV show Thunderbirds. When its popularity in the UK and North American was
waning in the 1980s, the Japanese were still keen enough to create an anime version called
Thunderbirds 2086, and produced a ton of model kits keeping the flame alive.
So
far I have come across no evidence that this popularity has been sustained.
However, it may be in Japan that Thunderbirds is not an eccentric, beloved, marionettes-save-the-world British TV show but is actually real. This car park
looks like it was designed by Gerry Anderson. You drive in the bottom on to a
car elevator. Then you get out and the
elevator moves up/down, left/right/ forward/backward to a free spot controlled
remotely by a man in a uniform. If you made it 200 times bigger and put it on
top of a 100 storey corkscrew tower, you have the perfect setting for a Gerry
Anderson episode.
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