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  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited February 2020 Posts: 25,095
    Remember the old easy to crack VHS boxes from the 80's....
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    One shop I regularly visited had a upright basket in the shop with free to take posters which was cool.
  • cwl007cwl007 England
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    I do remember those cases and I remember that series of releases in the local shop.
    They also had the predominantly silver designs, I especially remember the YOLT cover. It had that strange rarely seen poster of Connery holding onto the edge of the volcano base with nothing but his toes, great poster design back then.
    If anyone owns that particular VHS please put a picture up of it.
  • cwl007 wrote: »
    Memories. Going to the local video rental library in the early 80s to see what was out on VHS felt like a bit of an event. I used to ask for movie posters as an exited little boy, to be politely told no because you'd already been in twice that week to ask.
    The first Bond I saw was TSWLM on TV sometime in the mid '80s. Discovering the rest as I rented them was the best. There was an excitement in having to wait for the shop to get the old ones in for you to borrow.
    Yours mournfully, an old man.

    It was great watching all the old Bond movies for the first time. First one I watched was YOLT in 1997 with at the time another 16 to watch for the first time with one to come out that year in the cinema. Happy days.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    cwl007 wrote: »
    I do remember those cases and I remember that series of releases in the local shop.
    They also had the predominantly silver designs, I especially remember the YOLT cover. It had that strange rarely seen poster of Connery holding onto the edge of the volcano base with nothing but his toes, great poster design back then.
    If anyone owns that particular VHS please put a picture up of it.

    I know the full poster well it's on my pc it's a very bright image and defies physics. Here is the box design, I can't find the actual VHS box.

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    I had the set of the grey boxes I think that was the first set I collected on VHS.
  • cwl007cwl007 England
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    That's the one. Thank you.😀
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    One of my great movie-going memories as a kid was seeing a film and coming out and looking at the lobby cards and poster afterward and recognizing certain scenes and being puzzled at some publicity shots and why I didn't recall seeing them.
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    Wish my local charity shops had that sort of purchases!!!! Nice one! Working in the Cinema business years ago we had Lobby cards galore!!! :-bd
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited February 2020 Posts: 25,095
    RogueAgent wrote: »
    Wish my local charity shops had that sort of purchases!!!! Nice one! Working in the Cinema business years ago we had Lobby cards galore!!! :-bd

    That particular charity shop has been very kind to me with regards to Bond finds :)
    I used to deal in antiques a few decades ago I was much more likely to stumble across rare items back then, if I find anything these days Bond related it feels like a major find.

    Working in a cinema house a dream job certainly back in the day
    BT3366 wrote: »
    One of my great movie-going memories as a kid was seeing a film and coming out and looking at the lobby cards and poster afterward and recognizing certain scenes and being puzzled at some publicity shots and why I didn't recall seeing them.

    I can remember alot of stills from films wondering where that particular shot was in the film. In trailers today it seems a great deal we see never appears in the final cut.
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    Not only today. It happened also back then. For example, we have the deleted scene from TMWTGG, where Bond shouts to Scaramanga : "Is this how you always win ? By cheating ?"

    Speaking of which, I remember, while stepping out of the theater where I had just seen the same movie, the lobby cards for it where still on display. Except that they were around the poster for YOLT, which was scheduled for the next wednesday "children's matinee". Funny, that. And I have another tale about TMWTGG, but 'ill leave it for another time.

    In my Bond collection, the two most special things I own are the press dossiers for OP and TLD, which I got because I was doing a bit of local radio at the time (well, the first one I got for free, the other I had to buy). The first one is really a beauty, comes complete with slides. The other was just text.
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    I also had a friend during my school days who knew somebody who worked in a movie theater and got posters and such. Through him, I got a set of FYEO lobby cards back when it was out and those are still in my collection.

    The next summer he offered posters for Blade Runner, The Road Warrior and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and maybe a couple others and I didn't get any of them. I would've liked to have worked in a cinema back then too. I think there was some kind of directive from the National Association of Theater Owners of something that advertising materials were required to be destroyed. Maybe some of our veteran members can help clarify that.
  • edited February 2020 Posts: 1,708
    In Italy they didnt have lobbys , they had smaller posters called fotobustas

    I believe i first saw AVTAK vhs art in Sweden early 90s - i dont think id seen it yet , i was mesmerized by it.......great memory
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Sorting through some old LP's (or vinyl to our younger members!) These fell out of one..! Have great memories of these wonderful events...
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  • ggl007ggl007 www.archivo007.com Spain, España
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    Lucky you! I remember me reading this in Spain...

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    ...almost 30 years ago!!
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    ggl007 wrote: »
    Lucky you! I remember me reading this in Spain...

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    ...almost 30 years ago!!

    I know! How time flies! I bet a lot of members weren't even born when these events were taking place!
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    ggl007 wrote: »
    Lucky you! I remember me reading this in Spain...

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    ...almost 30 years ago!!

    007 magazine is a quality mag. Have all the early issues and the newsletter mags (they were one of the first to have photos from LTK)
    Still going, I have just ordered their latest, a tribute to Craig's era!
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
    ggl007 wrote: »
    Lucky you! I remember me reading this in Spain...

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    ...almost 30 years ago!!

    007 magazine is a quality mag. Have all the early issues and the newsletter mags (they were one of the first to have photos from LTK)
    Still going, I have just ordered their latest, a tribute to Craig's era!

    Yeah, the LTK issues were packed with great photos. Still have them.

    I might have to order that Craig issue!
  • cwl007cwl007 England
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    Do you still have to be a member of the fan club to get the mags or can you order then on their own these days?
  • edited February 2020 Posts: 7,417
    cwl007 wrote: »
    Do you still have to be a member of the fan club to get the mags or can you order then on their own these days?

    Think you can just order them from their website. They usually send me an email to say next one that's available!
  • cwl007cwl007 England
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    Thank you Mathis1. Haven't read one since the old days, I should check it out.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited February 2020 Posts: 14,571
    Celebrating the Craig era with some acquisitions from each film:

    Miami airport scene
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    Agent Fields did have handcuffs
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    Bond's ID tag and obit
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    Phones belonging to Bond, Moneypenny, and her promo phone from the Sony advert
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    Items seen on M's desk in No Time to Die
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    @QBranch, awesome work. You really put your heart into it.
  • cwl007cwl007 England
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    Love stuff like that. Nice work
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Thanks guys! Much appreciated.

    Here's one from YOLT, a complete and readable 1966 Hong Kong Standard newspaper made by my friend Rob. This thing is better than the real screen-seen prop, as it incorporates the Bond article rather than it just being glued on top like in the film.

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Very nice. Where do you keep all this stuff? Do you have a separate room dedicated to it?
  • cwl007cwl007 England
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    I'd love that newspaper, I'd have it in a frame on the wall. Can Rob be my friend too.😅
  • marketto007marketto007 Brazil
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    How and where do you get this great stuff @QBranch ?
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Celebrating the Craig era with some acquisitions from each film:

    Miami airport scene
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    Agent Fields did have handcuffs
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    Bond's ID tag and obit
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    Phones belonging to Bond, Moneypenny, and her promo phone from the Sony advert
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    Items seen on M's desk in No Time to Die
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    "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." Nice little end to Bond's obituary that I didn't know was on there before. Thanks!
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Very nice. Where do you keep all this stuff? Do you have a separate room dedicated to it?
    I tried to limit it to the spare room, but now it has taken over the loft and my bedroom!
    cwl007 wrote: »
    I'd love that newspaper, I'd have it in a frame on the wall. Can Rob be my friend too.
    Haha ;) If you really want one though, I could ask if he intends to make more.
    How and where do you get this great stuff @QBranch ?
    Cheers Marcos! The phones, guns, cuffs, book and casino stuff are from ebay. Newspaper and torch bomb key ring from fellow collectors. The rest are my replicas.
    "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." Nice little end to Bond's obituary that I didn't know was on there before. Thanks!

    COMMANDER JAMES BOND,
    C.M.G., R.N.
    OBITUARY


    A senior officer of the Ministry of Defence, Commander James Bond, C.M.G., R.N.
    is missing, believed killed, while on an official mission in Turkey.

    Commander Bond saw active service abroad in numerous theatres of conflict.
    Despite unconfirmed and unsubstantiated reports in the foreign press of his often
    controversial means of mission handling, little is actually known about Bond's
    personal life. An unofficial source at MI6 described Commander Bond as a classic
    cold-war warrior; his brief entry in Who's Who is a testament to his discretion, in it
    he named his career only as being in the "HM Diplomatic Service."

    Described by the head of MI6 as "An exemplar of British fortitude", Commander
    Bond's legacy remains a remarkable inspiration to those serving the country.

    James Bond was born of a Scottish father, Andrew Bond of Glencoe, and Swiss
    mother, Monique Delacroix, from the Canton de Vaud. His early education, from
    which he inherited a first-class command of French and German, was entirely
    abroad. A climbing accident, in the Aiguilles Rouges above Chamonix, left the
    eleven year old Bond bereft of both parents. James Bond came under the
    guardianship of his aunt, since deceased, Miss Charmian Bond, whom he then lived
    with near Canterbury in Kent.

    At the age of twelve, the young James Bond passed his entry exams into Eton,
    transferring after only two terms to Fettes - his father's old school, where he
    excelled at boxing and Judo.

    Following active service in the Royal Navy, aboard the United Kingdom's last
    operational aircraft carrier the Ark Royal and the HMS Invincible, Bond
    distinguished himself with the SBS in Iraq and Afghanistan before entering the SIS.

    A colleague of James Bond writes: I was happy and proud to serve Commander
    Bond in a close capacity during the past three years at the Ministry of Defence.
    If our fears for him are justified, may I suggest these simple words for his epitaph?
    Many of the junior staff here feel they represent his philosophy:

    "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

    Commander Bond was unmarried at the time of his death.

    James Bond born 2nd March 1968 died October 20th 2012.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Swiss Gatekeeper's (Varley Thomas) MP40 submachine gun, also used by others in GF/FRWL/MR:

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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    My ever-growing collection of merchandise and props from No Time to Die:
    Black Hot & Cold Water Bottle (500ml) - No Time To Die Edition:
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    Black Leather Card Holder - No Time To Die Edition:
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    Bone China Mug - No Time To Die Edition:
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    Japanese cinema 'chirashi' (mini-poster/flyer) with 8 pages. It has the release date as April 10th:
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    2019-2020 magazines:
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    The French SFX magazine (25 Jan 2020) features a cool ~A2 poster, dated April 8:
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    NTTD t-shirt (unofficial) in graphite w/ white text:
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    Havaianas Top Mix flip flops in mustard, and Science In Sport SIS 980ml drink bottle:
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    M's ID tag seen on his desk back in June last year. ID features a hologram:
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    Tactical gloves belonging to Bond, Nomi and Primo:

    Bond's gloves, with alt commando sweater underneath:
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    Nomi's gloves, with Joint Services Clothing MI6 jacket underneath:
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    Primo's gloves, with all-black AKS-74U rifle:
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    Mini version of the glider blueprints on Q's desk:
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    Old school Nokia phone seen on Q's desk:
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    Swatch Q-Watch blueprints, A4-length x4:
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    Bond's wristwatch - a non-functional mock-up display piece:
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    Watch display stand with NTTD exhibit-style plaque. Can't wait to see what gadget will go inside.
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    Paloma's bottle of Cuban cherry (actually grape) cola, long neck variant:
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    Heckler & Koch MP5K submachine gun similar to the one Paloma uses in Cuba:
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