The Foam Stabilization Pod is a Pod vehicle in Thunderbirds Are Go!.
Buildable with both rotors for flight and caterpillar tracks for land travel, the Foam Stabilization Pod specialises in saving structures from collapse using an unknown adhesive that expands rapidly. The substance is fired with two side mounted hoses and contained in four small silos attached to the back.
Overview[]
One variant of the Foam Stabilisation Pod is an air based structural stabilisation vehicle, which has four enclosed rotors on the sides, two foam containers on the back connected to two side mounted hoses. The other variant is a ground based structural stabilisation vehicle, which has two ground travel caterpillar tracks on the sides, two foam containers on the back connected to two side mounted hoses.
Launch Sequences[]
To launch the air based Foam Stabilisation Pod, the operator steps on the platform in Thunderbird 2’s cockpit, lowering them into the module. They then select the Foam Stabilisation Pod configuration. Robotic arms attach the foam containers and hoses to the back and sides, and four enclosed rotors to the sides. Once configured, the operator gets into the POD, and the module bay doors open, ready for the Foam Stabilisation Pod to be deployed.
To launch the land based Foam Stabilisation Pod, the operator steps on the platform in Thunderbird 2’s cockpit, lowering them into the module. They then select the Foam Stabilisation Pod configuration. Robotic arms attach the ground travel caterpillar tracks to the sides, and the foam containers and hoses to the back and sides. Once configured, the operator gets into the POD, and the module door opens, ready for the Foam Stabilisation Pod to be deployed.
Appearances[]
Chain Of Command[]
The debut episode of the Foam Stabilization Pod. It is used twice; first with the rotors installed, and then with the caterpillar tracks instead.
Mission 1[]
A militaristic truck belonging to the Global Defence Force is stuck on a collapsing bridge, and is about to fall far down into the valley with the driver unable to get out. Scott in Thunderbird 1 picked up the driver, and Virgil in Thunderbird 2 held the bridge up so that Alan and Gordon could use two Foam Stabilization Pod's to fix the bridge. The foam seemed to have worked for a few seconds, but strangely, the bridge somehow managed to fall down into the valley anyway.
Mission 2[]
The near completed construction of the giant San Madeena building is threatened by a growing sinkhole. Not only would the fall of the building be chaotic for anyone nearby, but as it shakes and falls apart, the lives of the construction workers within are at stake. Scott, Virgil, Gordon and Alan went together in Thunderbird 2. The Saad Madeena mission was greatly delayed by an encounter with Colonel Martin Janus, and there was no time to waste upon arriving. Thunderbird 2 evacuated the workers, while one Foam Stabilization Pod shot it's adhesive all around the bottom of the building from, courtesy of The Mole, underground.
