bigbud:
Sure can be alot said and shown about Ian Fleming's British Secret Service agent James Bond. Code name 007. Most of us have thrilled to Bond's exploits on the big screen, read the novels and purchased the merchandise....big-time. Fleming started this all off in 1953 with the novel Casino Royale. Bond was originally meant to be extremely normal, uninteresting and downright dull. A secret agent that things just happened to. From 1953 till his death in 1964 Ian Fleming wrote 12 Bond novels and 2 short stories. His first novel adapted to film was Dr. No in 1962 a mere 2 years before his death. Bond has a run of 22 Eon Production films with #23, Skyfall, due out this October 2012. Fleming himself envisioned David Niven as the perfect screen Bond. In 1967 Niven was Bond in a non-Eon film adaption of Casino Royale. I remember seeing Casino Royale that year and didn't particularly enjoy my secret agent in a parody of the serious Bond I had thrilled to. For me, Sean Connery will always be THE Bond, with Daniel Craig a second. Just my opinion and taste. Anyway, starting in 1962 a seemingly never ending array of merchandise has accompanied the Bond films. Show your UMA friends what ya got or just comment on what Bond facts and fictions you want to share........let the fun begin!.... Buddy
Here's pretty much a definitive Bond pose. The movie still is From Russia With Love 1965
Hepcat:
--- Quote from: bigbud on August 02, 2012, 05:13:35 PM ---...let the fun begin!.... Buddy --- End quote ---
Good opening post for a topic that should be a lot of fun!
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Mord:
Come on, Buddy, don't tease. You have some AMAZING Bond stuff. Let's see 'em!
Flower:
Buddy:
I'm a big 'Bond' fan but I've always heard/read that George Baker was Fleming's first choice for Bond.
The Dam Busters led to a string of roles, many with a military bent. Baker had been Ian Fleming’s first choice to play his debonair secret agent, James Bond, but was unable to take the part because he was tied into a contract with a rival studio. He still had a handful of dealings with 007, though: in You Only Live Twice he cropped up uncredited as a NASA engineer; in The Spy Who Loved Me as Captain Benson; and as the genealogist Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
bigbud:
Hey! I want to see you guys-us (is that a word?) 007 stuff! What kicked this topic off was Bizarro Jeff's lament for his lost 007 Aston Martin...over on the Give Me A Gun thread. I believe this is the battery op he was referring to........This is truly one of the finest tin toy multi-function toys from the 60's. Fashioned after James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 of Goldfinger fame. This is the m101. There are questions as to the actual maker, but most believe it was produced by Durham Industries Japan. The Aston Martin is 11" long with a 3 battery wired control box. The actions are wonderful. First off, the Aston is a bump-and-go.....in other words when it comes in contact with an object (usually a baseboard or wall) the wheeled mechanism underneath spins allowing the car to drive off in another direction. As you can see in one of the photos the control box operates Normal run, the machine guns and the passenger ejector seat. When you turn on the machine guns two plastic flashing gun barrels poke out of the front grill area making a rat-a-tat sound and the bullet proof shield comes up off the trunk deck. The front bumper also extends in a ramming like action. The ejector button does just what you'd expect....throws the pistol holding passenger out of the car through the roof! The interior of m101 is beautifully tin litho'd. Just a truly exceptional battery op toy!