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Places that could be used as villain lair locations

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    The ultimate villain lair, at least for the time being.
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    Good one. This will also do.
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  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,037
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    The ultimate villain lair, at least for the time being.
    Kreml.jpg

    Good one. This will also do.
    beautiful-fountain-in-the-front-of-white-house.jpg

    I agree, at least when the last guy manages to return somehow.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    The ultimate villain lair, at least for the time being.
    Kreml.jpg

    Good one. This will also do.
    beautiful-fountain-in-the-front-of-white-house.jpg

    I agree, at least when the last guy manages to return somehow.

    You are entering a place where there is no mercy…
  • ByRoyalDecreeByRoyalDecree
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    Lairs are too cartoony. neutral ground like in Casino Royale was great.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    Helsinki in general, but especially the Temppeliaukio Church:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temppeliaukio_Church#/media/File:11-07-29-helsinki-by-RalfR-030.jpg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temppeliaukio_Church#/media/File:Temppeliaukio_Church_Interior.JPG
  • goldenswissroyalegoldenswissroyale Switzerland
    edited March 2022 Posts: 4,483
    echo wrote: »
    Helsinki in general, but especially the Temppeliaukio Church:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temppeliaukio_Church#/media/File:11-07-29-helsinki-by-RalfR-030.jpg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temppeliaukio_Church#/media/File:Temppeliaukio_Church_Interior.JPG

    Good choice!
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    I'd like the idea of a mobile lair: a luxury boat, a train like in GE, or a submarine. But what I'd really want to see is a remote medieval castle in say Austria.
  • Since62Since62
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    echo wrote: »
    Helsinki in general, but especially the Temppeliaukio Church:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temppeliaukio_Church#/media/File:11-07-29-helsinki-by-RalfR-030.jpg

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temppeliaukio_Church#/media/File:Temppeliaukio_Church_Interior.JPG

    Good heavens ! Was that built after YOLT was released in 1967 ? It suuuuure looks inspired by the lair in YOLT film !
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    I don't know but I sure was impressed by it when I saw it. And Helsinki in general.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited March 2022 Posts: 4,158
    Don't know if it can be filmed here or if they'd just take inspiration from it but the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Southern Poland strikes me as an interesting villain lair location.

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    Never been myself but from what I understand it's this massive labyrinth and I've heard it described as an 'underground city' in itself, which is such a fascinating idea for a villain lair.
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    Places like that are excellent inspirations for Bond sets! In the end I guess, they would be realized as sets on a stage, with little or no filming at the actual mine.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited March 2022 Posts: 4,158
    zebrafish wrote: »
    Places like that are excellent inspirations for Bond sets! In the end I guess, they would be realized as sets on a stage, with little or no filming at the actual mine.

    Yes, especially with the main villain's quarters/control room or whatever. Most action scenes/stunts would have to be done on sets too. Still, fascinating place. I dunno, I just love this idea of Bond following up leads, ending up in this part of Poland and being told 'Y'know, there's actually a whole underground city run by this shadowy figure that no one knows much about, and he happens to be relevant to your investigations.' Has a sort of Dr. No feel to it.

  • Since62Since62
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    007HallY wrote: »
    Don't know if it can be filmed here or if they'd just take inspiration from it but the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Southern Poland strikes me as an interesting villain lair location.

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    Never been myself but from what I understand it's this massive labyrinth and I've heard it described as an 'underground city' in itself, which is such a fascinating idea for a villain lair.

    Great idea ! Spicy !
  • 007HallY007HallY
    Posts: 4,158
    Since62 wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    Don't know if it can be filmed here or if they'd just take inspiration from it but the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Southern Poland strikes me as an interesting villain lair location.

    poland-krakow-to-wieliczka-salt-mines-best-ways-to-get-there-by-train.jpg

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    Wieliczka-Salt-Mine-Poland-11.jpg

    Never been myself but from what I understand it's this massive labyrinth and I've heard it described as an 'underground city' in itself, which is such a fascinating idea for a villain lair.

    Great idea ! Spicy !

    Salty, surely? :p
  • Since62Since62
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    007HallY wrote: »
    Since62 wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    Don't know if it can be filmed here or if they'd just take inspiration from it but the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Southern Poland strikes me as an interesting villain lair location.

    poland-krakow-to-wieliczka-salt-mines-best-ways-to-get-there-by-train.jpg

    1e4605e18ebe1ef824f539e989c3d8b5.jpg

    Wieliczka-Salt-Mine-Poland-11.jpg

    Never been myself but from what I understand it's this massive labyrinth and I've heard it described as an 'underground city' in itself, which is such a fascinating idea for a villain lair.

    Great idea ! Spicy !

    Salty, surely? :p

    You are quite right ! I thought salt to be a spice, but, not coming from a plant, while it is a seasoning, it is not a spice. A thousand apologies...Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail. For everything, after all, there is a season.........ing.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Since62 wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    Since62 wrote: »
    007HallY wrote: »
    Don't know if it can be filmed here or if they'd just take inspiration from it but the Wieliczka Salt Mine in Southern Poland strikes me as an interesting villain lair location.

    poland-krakow-to-wieliczka-salt-mines-best-ways-to-get-there-by-train.jpg

    1e4605e18ebe1ef824f539e989c3d8b5.jpg

    Wieliczka-Salt-Mine-Poland-11.jpg

    Never been myself but from what I understand it's this massive labyrinth and I've heard it described as an 'underground city' in itself, which is such a fascinating idea for a villain lair.

    Great idea ! Spicy !

    Salty, surely? :p

    You are quite right ! I thought salt to be a spice, but, not coming from a plant, while it is a seasoning, it is not a spice. A thousand apologies...Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail. For everything, after all, there is a season.........ing.

    Nice Bond like puns, everyone. It reminds me of the original version for Richard Maibaum’s DAF. Blofeld would have fallen into a salt grinder. It seems like they revived the idea in a way for LTK, for Dario’s death. Salt mines would still be great for a future Bond adventure.
  • Since62Since62
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    The megalomaniac villain, intent on cornering ownership of most of the salt in the world) shades of QOS and water: "To whom belongs all this salt ?!!? Mine ! All mine !" .....wow, I really had to stretch for that one...
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
    edited March 2022 Posts: 3,789
    Las Casas Filipinas De Acuzar, Hotel De Oriente, Philippines
    The villain's mansion

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  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
    edited March 2022 Posts: 3,789
    Buzludhza Monument in Bulgaria
    Need I say More?
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Bank of International Settlements, Switzerland.
  • Since62Since62
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
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    Bank of International Settlements, Switzerland.

    And not the only bank that serves truly and really, every day, 24/7 365 as REAL villains' lairs...
  • Since62Since62
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    Oh...duh...not just for the architectural features, but that already was your point, eh ? Doh !
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    MI6HQ wrote: »
    Las Casas Filipinas De Acuzar, Hotel De Oriente, Philippines
    The villain's mansion (I removed the image links in the quote)
    I sure hope the producers will not choose to actually film the next Bond film in a country led by a real mass-murderous dictator like Duterte.
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
    edited March 2022 Posts: 3,789
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    MI6HQ wrote: »
    Las Casas Filipinas De Acuzar, Hotel De Oriente, Philippines
    The villain's mansion (I removed the image links in the quote)
    I sure hope the producers will not choose to actually film the next Bond film in a country led by a real mass-murderous dictator like Duterte.

    So sad to hear it @j_w_pepper
    Don't worry, let's hope for the election this year.
    I wish Bond will go to the Philippines, maybe in the future.
    So we can have Duterte as the next bond villain then?
    I didn't like Duterte too, I'm really longing for his replacement.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    MI6HQ wrote: »
    Buzludhza Monument in Bulgaria
    Need I say More?
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    That is completely mad! Love it! :-bd
  • Since62Since62
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    Would cleaning the steps of the grass growing through be feasible ? It surely is a REMARKABLE and UNIQUE building ! It is not high up enough, and the vertical "partner" would not fit, but other than that it has something of a Piz Gloria appearance
  • SilvermothSilvermoth Australia
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    I’m dying to see them film in australia so I would love to see them set a lair here[img][/img]7-D8-FAAF7-AA32-4944-869-D-F6-A2-F3-FCDF93.jpg
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Nice. But I think we already had a sort of lair beneath a waterfall.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Looks like a nice place but not typically Aussie. I mean you could film it and it could look like somewhere in the Americas. All these years Bond hasn't visited here I feel the locations should reflect classic Down Under. Opera House, Daintree Rainforest, unique rock formations in the outback.

    The villain has converted the Ettamogah pub into his lair, and upon Bond's infiltration, escapes to the tin rooftop where his getaway vehicle awaits. Not the jalopy, but a talking cockatoo wearing boots.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Nice. But I think we already had a sort of lair beneath a waterfall.

    Well yeah, forty plus years ago. Back in the 20th Century, even.

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