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Anyone else collect the Bond vhs tapes

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  • KanangaKananga
    Posts: 368
    TPM007 wrote:
    For the VHS cases that formed a picture, I actually decided to continue the theme after DAD to have Craig in the line-up and carry on with the same style for CR and QOS. I would post them on here but they were lost in the great hard drive disaster of '11. I had uploaded the CR one on the old MI6 forums years ago. But anyway, they looked mighty fine in the collection!

    I have been looking for that CR cover! I remember it! It was great fan art! Did anyone else save it?

  • TPM007TPM007
    Posts: 183
    Kananga wrote:
    TPM007 wrote:
    For the VHS cases that formed a picture, I actually decided to continue the theme after DAD to have Craig in the line-up and carry on with the same style for CR and QOS. I would post them on here but they were lost in the great hard drive disaster of '11. I had uploaded the CR one on the old MI6 forums years ago. But anyway, they looked mighty fine in the collection!

    I have been looking for that CR cover! I remember it! It was great fan art! Did anyone else save it?

    Glad you liked it! If I ever get my Hard drive up and running again I'd happily post it again, as well as the QOS one! Sadly that may not be for a long time - PC World demand a whopping £990 to mend it....
  • KanangaKananga
    Posts: 368
    TPM007 wrote:
    Kananga wrote:
    TPM007 wrote:
    For the VHS cases that formed a picture, I actually decided to continue the theme after DAD to have Craig in the line-up and carry on with the same style for CR and QOS. I would post them on here but they were lost in the great hard drive disaster of '11. I had uploaded the CR one on the old MI6 forums years ago. But anyway, they looked mighty fine in the collection!

    I have been looking for that CR cover! I remember it! It was great fan art! Did anyone else save it?

    Glad you liked it! If I ever get my Hard drive up and running again I'd happily post it again, as well as the QOS one! Sadly that may not be for a long time - PC World demand a whopping £990 to mend it....

    That much to fix a broken hard drive?
  • Monsieur_AubergineMonsieur_Aubergine Top of the Eiffel Tower with a fly in my soup!
    edited November 2012 Posts: 642
    Not sure if this had already been posted but what a collection and boy what a trailer!! Enjoy. There was a similar Connery treatment done also. Note the fantastic sleeves and the energy in the narration. Makes me get so excited even after 19 years.!!! :-)

  • BRENTHETIMELORDBRENTHETIMELORD
    edited June 2013 Posts: 12
    VHS Request:

    I'm looking for the original Warner Home Video (Australia) copy of Licence To Kill. If anyone out there owns that copy, could someone reply to this message? Thanks!

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  • 007_homevideo007_homevideo
    Posts: 1
    I'm a collector of international James Bond 'home video' sleeve art across all consumer video formats marketed since 1982. In fact the picture of the Australia sleeve in the post directly above has been sourced from my online archive (which I don't think I'm allowed to name in the forum).

    An early post in this thread asked a question which amounted to, why bother with VHS? For me it's not about the video format per-se but the sleeves. There's plenty of variety of key-art among the international editions and I defy anyone to find a better 007 VHS release than the 'hardbook' series that was marketed in Germany in 1985.

    If you think of Bond video sleeves in terms of oversized 'trading cards', there's no real difference between the two except there's a smaller number of sleeves in any given 'set'.

    Additional to the global variety (until 1995 and the introduction of the 'standardised sleeve') of artwork, there's the variety of consumer-video formats i.e. VHS, Betamax, V2000 (aka VCC), Video8, LaserDisc, VHD, CED, VCD, DIVx, and DVD. The volume of sleeves available to collect is huge.

    Variety also exists in the media itself, albeit in lesser numbers. For example, the first CED edition of YOLT was actually the infamous 'television edit' which rearranged the opening scenes; German editions of OHMSS use the German-language version of "Do You Know How Christmas Tree's Are Grown" in the soundtrack; early German VHS editions of Thunderball are edited for violence. Plenty more.

    Anyway, just thought I'd update this thread with a different perspective on the collectability of home-video editions of our man Bond.
  • shellybelle1981shellybelle1981
    Posts: 1
    Is anyone interested in a James Bond VHS collection? It's every movie from Dr. No through Goldeneye, and also includes the 1967 version of Casino Royale. That's 18 films total, all in great condition! Let me know, 007 fans.

    I'd be glad to provide more info including photos if there's interest.
  • StirredNotShakenStirredNotShaken Toronto
    Posts: 2,402
    Does anyone have a copy of TMWTGG with the blue gunbarrel dots?
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,356
    I've always wondered why that was changed. Does anyone have any idea?
  • AgentJamesBond007AgentJamesBond007 Vesper’s grave
    Posts: 2,634
    Samuel001 wrote:
    I've always wondered why that was changed. Does anyone have any idea?

    Was it originally that way? I've seen versions with both blue and standard white dots.

  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited November 2013 Posts: 13,356
    On TV, which I assume in the 90's showed the original print, always used the blue dots, so I thought the change occurred at a later date.

    I wonder if there is any information out there on this oddity?
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    Posts: 4,423
    Samuel001 wrote:
    On TV, which I assume in the 90's showed the original print, always used the blue dots, so I thought the change occurred at a later date.

    I wonder if there is any information out there on this oddity?

    Quite. I was watching TMWTGG a couple of weeks ago, on my Ultimate Edition DVD. Originally the gunbarrel dots were blue, but they changed it to white on the UE DVD's.

    I did a quick google search, but came up with nothing. (it just said the gb dots were blue, and on subsequent releases were white, no date unfortunately.)

    Yes, I'm quite bored if you must know....
  • StirredNotShakenStirredNotShaken Toronto
    Posts: 2,402
    I had an individual copy of TMWTGG (not part of any collection) on DVD and it had the blue dots. So this change had to have happened recently; within the past decade.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited November 2013 Posts: 13,356
    Another UE DVD muck up then. Was this issue corrected for the Blu-ray though?

    Also, why were they blue to begin with?
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    edited November 2013 Posts: 16,359
    I have TMWTGG on VHS, SE DVD and UE DVD and the Gunbarrel Dots were never blue.
    I know in some trailers they were Blue then Roger would walk up to the camera.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,356
    Do you need to check again? It's best to be 100% clear. I'd love this issue clarified.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,359
    Just checked all three. This is what I see.

  • Baltimore_007Baltimore_007
    Posts: 5,634
    I had all the James Bond releases on VHS apart from Thunderball (never owned a copy), and then you had CR, QOS and SF, which were released in the DVD age of things
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,356
    Thanks @Murdock. This is all very strange indeed.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,359
    Samuel001 wrote:
    Thanks @Murdock. This is all very strange indeed.

    This is the first I ever heard of Blue GB dots in Man with the golden Gun.

    However the GB is blue in the trailer.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    edited November 2013 Posts: 13,356
    This is the original version, the one I'd also see on TV during the 90's:



    If only I had an early copy of this film on VHS from the 80's.

    Note the blue turns whiter as they go and the music is different.
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,359
    Wow that's new to me.
  • JamesBond1988JamesBond1988
    Posts: 51
    007_homevideo wrote:
    I'm a collector of international James Bond 'home video' sleeve art across all consumer video formats marketed since 1982. In fact the picture of the Australia sleeve in the post directly above has been sourced from my online archive (which I don't think I'm allowed to name in the forum).

    An early post in this thread asked a question which amounted to, why bother with VHS? For me it's not about the video format per-se but the sleeves. There's plenty of variety of key-art among the international editions and I defy anyone to find a better 007 VHS release than the 'hardbook' series that was marketed in Germany in 1985.

    If you think of Bond video sleeves in terms of oversized 'trading cards', there's no real difference between the two except there's a smaller number of sleeves in any given 'set'.

    Additional to the global variety (until 1995 and the introduction of the 'standardised sleeve') of artwork, there's the variety of consumer-video formats i.e. VHS, Betamax, V2000 (aka VCC), Video8, LaserDisc, VHD, CED, VCD, DIVx, and DVD. The volume of sleeves available to collect is huge.

    Variety also exists in the media itself, albeit in lesser numbers. For example, the first CED edition of YOLT was actually the infamous 'television edit' which rearranged the opening scenes; German editions of OHMSS use the German-language version of "Do You Know How Christmas Tree's Are Grown" in the soundtrack; early German VHS editions of Thunderball are edited for violence. Plenty more.

    Anyway, just thought I'd update this thread with a different perspective on the collectability of home-video editions of our man Bond.

    Hi,
    Big fan of your site, I apologize for not crediting you for the scan where I got the photo copy of the Scan from. I did finally found the VHS copy on Ebay Australia and won a copy of it along with six other titles (including the Australian Pre-Certs of For Your Eyes Only and You Only Live Twice [Sale Version]). I'm currently buying them at the moment and will be waiting for several weeks for them to arrive. As of right now, I'm currently waiting for other Warner Home Video pre-certs of Australian releases to pop up on Ebay (I already completed the Warner UK and CBS/FOX releases at least).
  • 00Beast00Beast
    Posts: 4,762
    I found a pretty odd-looking VHS edition of Goldfinger not too long ago; on the back cover, it has a picture of Bond fighting Colonel Bouvar from Thunderball! Not sure what that's about, but it sure is a bad mistake, hahaha. I like it though- makes it unique and probably rare! I also picked up the 1992 US edition of Thunderball, which is the famous "alternate version" with differences in several scenes and dialogue.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 41,011
    I used to have a bunch of the films on VHS, but I must have given them all away. I still have my original TWINE VHS, which I picked up just about as soon as it came out. I'd exchange it in a heartbeat for my original GE VHS, though.
  • YouHaveAnOddJobYouHaveAnOddJob
    Posts: 136
    The only one I have is Goldeneye and it's in like new condition with the original Gilette ad still inside as well. It stayed unopened for the longest time until as a kid I got the bug to actually watch Goldeneye the movie after playing the N64 game for so long.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 41,011
    YouHaveAnOddJob wrote:
    The only one I have is Goldeneye and it's in like new condition with the original Gilette ad still inside as well. It stayed unopened for the longest time until as a kid I got the bug to actually watch Goldeneye the movie after playing the N64 game for so long.

    That is awesome, I'm very jealous. Nice little collector's item.
  • YouHaveAnOddJobYouHaveAnOddJob
    Posts: 136
    Creasy47 wrote:
    YouHaveAnOddJob wrote:
    The only one I have is Goldeneye and it's in like new condition with the original Gilette ad still inside as well. It stayed unopened for the longest time until as a kid I got the bug to actually watch Goldeneye the movie after playing the N64 game for so long.

    That is awesome, I'm very jealous. Nice little collector's item.

    Yea, it's cool. Probably not worth a whole lot yet, I saw a few new copies on ebay for around 10 bucks if your interested in getting another copy.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 41,011
    I'm a very indecisive person, and I don't really have anywhere to showcase my Bond collectibles, so I'd hate to get it and just have it sit in my closet for no reason. Though, I must say, I'd love to see if my parents still have their old VCR, break out a VHS copy of GE, and relive some childhood memories.
  • YouHaveAnOddJobYouHaveAnOddJob
    Posts: 136
    I have a bunch of old VHS tapes with no way to watch them too. My real gem is the original versions Star Wars trilogy box set. Im hoping one day, they will rerelease the theatrical versions for SW
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