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Enjoy the evil lairs! (Full schematics & drawings)

Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
edited December 2014 in Bond Movies Posts: 11,119
I came across these beautiful drawings lairs from the Bond films. Fascinating no ;-)?

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  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Brilliant stuff, Gustav! Thanks for posting.
  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
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    It's great huh? I especially love Piz Gloria. Such a cosy little villa...with the best view ever.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited December 2014 Posts: 23,883
    Oustanding. It's amazing firstly what vision Ken Adam had, and secondly how, in older days when costs weren't so astronomical, what they were able to construct without crappy CGI.

    Sadly, I find the last 3 disappointing, only because the vision did not really come together as well on screen in the movie. We never saw that sky high view of Brosnan taking that jump in TWINE for instance. Blame it on cinematography maybe, but that has been my complaint about the later ones. The David Lean'esque beauty & scale was not there for me.

    Only CR (crane sequence) and all of SF really brought it back to the old days in terms of visual scale IMO.....and perhaps the entire finale (including Janus HQ) in GE.
  • RC7RC7
    Posts: 10,512
    I own this book. A great, great addition to the collection.
  • Mi6LisbonBranchMi6LisbonBranch Lisbon, Portugal
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    I also own this book. My version includes DAD, CR and QoS. Really a very nice (large!!!) bedside table companion!
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    These are excellent! Thanks for posting.
    Sorry, I did not catch the name of the book. What is it? :)
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
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    http://www.amazon.co.uk/James-Bond-Secret-World-007/dp/1405316020/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&qid=1418845401&sr=8-21&keywords=james+bond+books+film

    - is it this one?
  • Mi6LisbonBranchMi6LisbonBranch Lisbon, Portugal
    Posts: 243
    royale65 wrote: »
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/James-Bond-Secret-World-007/dp/1405316020/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&qid=1418845401&sr=8-21&keywords=james+bond+books+film

    - is it this one?

    Yes it is. But here is the link to the more recente version: http://www.amazon.co.uk/James-Bond-Secret-World-007/dp/1405370866/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418847393&sr=1-3&keywords=the+secrets+of+007 buy it. You wont regret it!!
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    RC7 wrote: »
    I own this book. A great, great addition to the collection.

    Yeah me too, just cannot for the life of me which one these images are in? But they are fantastic pictures all the same!
  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
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    I have the Brosnan version! Didn't know about the Craig one :-O

    Can somenone post something of CR or QOS??
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Very cool. I bet many haven t seen this, so bumping it.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    I have that book as well. I was going to create a thread similar to this because I'm really interested in getting photos of the Ken Adam designed lairs.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
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    Absolutely brilliant! I'm buying this one! Is there also something about Tim's entries in it?
  • JohnHammond73JohnHammond73 Lancashire, UK
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    I have to versions of that book but not the more recent version as posted by @Mi6LisbonBranch. Think I shall rectify that now.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    GoldenGun wrote: »
    Absolutely brilliant! I'm buying this one! Is there also something about Tim's entries in it?

    The edition I have has information on everything from Dr. No up to The World is Not Enough. It's a great book.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    edited August 2017 Posts: 7,134
    A must-have apparently, really expanding on the films it seems.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Shark_0f_Largo wrote: »
    I have to versions of that book but not the more recent version as posted by @Mi6LisbonBranch. Think I shall rectify that now.

    Me too. I own @Murdock's version.
  • JohnHammond73JohnHammond73 Lancashire, UK
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    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    Shark_0f_Largo wrote: »
    I have to versions of that book but not the more recent version as posted by @Mi6LisbonBranch. Think I shall rectify that now.

    Me too. I own @Murdock's version.

    Yep. Just ordered the copy posted by @Mi6LisbonBranch. Can never have enough books on Bond.

  • Gustav_GravesGustav_Graves
    Posts: 11,119
    OMG, I forgot I made this topic :O. You must have been browsing quite a bit @Thunderfinger :-D
  • The_DonaldThe_Donald
    edited August 2017 Posts: 170
    I have this book as well. Used to reread it loads as a kid. Good times
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Gustav_Graves wrote: »
    OMG, I forgot I made this topic :O. You must have been browsing quite a bit @Thunderfinger :-D

    Sometimes I revisit older threads, and I thought this was worth a look for newer members.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,183
    Excellent stuff.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    Here's a room on the Space Station we never got to see.
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Good find. That globe thing is reminiscent of the Death Star.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Oh wow, what a shot of nostalgia directly to the brain. I bought that book that contains the opening post images wayyyy back when I was in elementary school. I'm pretty sure my copy didn't contain DAD, but then they released a new version once that was released. I'm eager to dig through my belongings to see if I (hopefully) still have it, was a great collector's item.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    Murdock wrote: »
    Here's a room on the Space Station we never got to see.
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    In the Christopher Wood novelisation there's a special room where Drax's perfect specimens shag in zero gravity that Bond and Holly walk past.

    Wouldn't have minded seeing that realised in the film as some of those Drax birds were very fine.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
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    TheWizardOfIce wrote: »
    In the Christopher Wood novelisation there's a special room where Drax's perfect specimens shag in zero gravity that Bond and Holly walk past.

    Wouldn't have minded seeing that realised in the film as some of those Drax birds were very fine.

    Interesting. I'll have to track down a copy of the novelisation.

    Meanwhile I recently found these neat 3D renders of Dr. No's lounge.
    Credit to the creator here. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/VB2Bn

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  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
    Posts: 3,675
    Please tell that guy to do every Bond lair, haha!
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