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Here it is: Skyfall DB5 from Corgi

brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
edited April 2012 in Merchandise Posts: 1,400
http://www.corgi.co.uk/shop/james-bond-007/cc04310-james-bond-skyfall-car/
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  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/2210/corgi-skyfall/p1
  • brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
    Posts: 1,400
    I know, I did that thread. I thought an actual product shot deserved it's own thread :)
  • KanangaKananga
    Posts: 367
    When is it released? Will Model Zone stock it?
  • brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
    Posts: 1,400
    there's not much on the catalog site- they did a tweet this AM indicating the catalogue had been updated some. no release info.

    http://www.corgi.co.uk/shop/james-bond-007/
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    'Theyve rebadged it you fool'

    Amazing Corgi - good to see youre really pushing the boat out for the 50th anniversary.

    Another reissue of the same DB5 cast theyve been using ever since I was a kid. Theres been the GF 30th in gold, a GE one, a TND one, a CR one and now this. All the same model in a different box.

    God forbid we see any originality in the 50th merchandise.
  • brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
    Posts: 1,400
    Not sure what else they could do with it, since it's the same car as CR. Maybe a box set with the DB5 and the Land Rover, and a History of Bond/Corgi book attached. Corgi, are you listening?
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    =bg= wrote:
    Not sure what else they could do with it, since it's the same car as CR. Maybe a box set with the DB5 and the Land Rover, and a History of Bond/Corgi book attached. Corgi, are you listening?

    Even thats underwhelming - a Land Rover?

    Like your book idea. How about a nice box set of a model for each Bond actor plus a glossy book detailing 50 years of Bond and Corgi (even though that relationship is only 48 to be fair).
    Each car would come in a 50th box with reversible 50th/background from the film packaging. Also included would be a figure of Bond, the girl, villain and henchman.
    So we would get -

    DB5 with an Alps (maybe Fort Knox seeing as Piz Gloria below is a bit too similar)backdrop and Sean, Pussy, Goldfinger and Oddjob.

    DBS with Piz Gloria backdrop and George, Tracy, Blofeld and Bunt.

    Lotus - with an Atlantis backdrop and Rog, Anya, Stromberg and Jaws.

    Volante - Another snowy backdrop not good but has to be for the skis. Maybe change Piz Gloria to the mountain in Portugal at the end? Figures of Tim, Kara, Koskov and Necros.

    Vanquish - An ice hotel backdrop? Does anyone detect a theme emerging here? Figures of Pierce, Jinx (alas) Graves and Zao. Could go BMW for Pierce and have a Hamburg backdrop with Wai Lin, Carver and Stamper but I prefer to keep it a collection of Astons with just the Lotus as the exception.

    DBS - A backdrop outside Casino Royale and Dan, Vesper, Le Chiffre and Mr White.

    All these models already exist so its just a case of some decent new packaging and the figures which would keep costs down for Corgi.
    Ideally I'd like one from each film but thats unlikley to happen and the resulting box set would cost about £200. This one could be made for a nice round £50 I reckon. A cracking stocking filler.

    Also how about re-releasing the OP horsebox set which was only available at the time as far as I know. Alas mine is out of the box and played with and I have lost the horses arse so would be nice to get a brand spanking new one.
  • brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
    Posts: 1,400
    Maybe a small diecast DC figure in a seperate box window, like they did back with the small Drax/Connery/Oddjob figures.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117

    =bg= wrote:
    Maybe a small diecast DC figure in a seperate box window, like they did back with the small Drax/Connery/Oddjob figures.

    Thats right bg why not really think big. Are you sure you arent head of marketing for Corgi?
  • brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
    Posts: 1,400
    well, I could do that job..since I'll be out of one in a month. it would be sooooo easy.
  • largo2largo2
    Posts: 469
    oh well thank you corgi for this effort
    looking forward to waiting till the sales to get it half price !
    IF it is the same boxed car repackaged
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    edited April 2012 Posts: 9,117
    =bg= wrote:
    well, I could do that job..since I'll be out of one in a month. it would be sooooo easy.

    I think anyone could do that job. Basically put the old DB5 model that dates from 60s in a box with '50th anniversary' written on in crayon. Job done.

    Scalextric are taking the same approach. Take the DB5 from years ago and a Range Rover and put it in a box with '50th anniversary' scrawled on in biro. Job done.

    And theres the blurays. Take the same discs that have been around for years and put them in a box with '50th anniversary' etched on the box using the fans blood and tears for ink.

    Does anyone get the impression we are having the piss ripped out of us by EON? Maybe SF will just be 2 hours of the words '50th Anniversary' projected onto a screen and the sound of Babs and MGW laughing as they count their money.

    Any chance we get one original product apart from f*cking SF for the 50th? Just one? Before I am forced to follow EONs head of marketing on the way home and bludgeon them to death with a f**king Corgi DB5.
  • largo2largo2
    Posts: 469
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    =bg= wrote:
    well, I could do that job..since I'll be out of one in a month. it would be sooooo easy.

    I think anyone could do that job. Basically put the old DB5 model that dates from 60s in a box with '50th anniversary' written on in crayon. Job done.

    Scalextric are taking the same approach. Take the DB5 from years ago and a Range Rover and put it in a box with '50th anniversary' scrawled on in biro. Job done.

    And theres the blurays. Take the same discs that have been around for years and put them in a box with '50th anniversary' etched on the box using the fans blood and tears for ink.

    Does anyone get the impression we are having the piss ripped out of us by EON?

    Any chance we get one original product apart from f*cking SF for the 50th? Just one? Before I am forced to follow EONs head of marketing on the way home and bludgeon them to death with a f**king Corgi DB5.

    Good to see they do not take any notice of the fan base on sites like this

    Maybe it would of been a good idea to have a poll by EON to see what we wanted more than anything else and the one thing that came top they could of licensed someone to make it. As a big thankyou to the fan base that has helped the franchise keep going over the years.

  • brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
    Posts: 1,400
    EON would do well to look @ sites such as this one. They're the ones marketing it..but we're the ones they are marketing TO. As of now, if I can, I'll buy the Corgi and leave it in the box, the ON THE SET book, and the CD soundtrack. C'est fini. 007 soundtracks are the only discs I purchase--everything else is iTunes only.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    I'll get the box set of blurays only because they havent released half of them. I'll probably get the Legends game but not till after xmas. Not paying full price for a cheap cash in game.

    In fifteen years George Lucas will put EON to shame.
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,355
    Not bad and it's something I suppose. The first of many from Corgi, I hope.
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
    Posts: 12,526
    Is that it? Cannot see Corgi getting my hard earned cash! Will wait for Sideshow to dish out some new figures!
  • brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
    Posts: 1,400
    yup-that's it. Update:
    CC04310 James Bond 'SKYFALL' Car is due for release in July. What with the car being so iconic within the Bond franchise and featuring in the new film this will be the only Bond model released by Corgi this year for the time being.
  • imranbecksimranbecks Singapore
    Posts: 984
    Can never have enough of the Corgi DB5.. I might just get this one as well!
  • brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
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    My response to those dopes.
    "SO disappointing. You could have really taken advantage of this. A 50 year anniversary comes...once. A nice box set with at least the DB5 and the other featured vehicle, the Range Rover, maybe a diecast figure like you've done in the past to go with it, a book with the history of Corgi and Bond, a few new models never before done. You're simply taken the safe and economical way out. Really sad to hear."
  • Samuel001Samuel001 Moderator
    Posts: 13,355
    Fair point, bg. Let us know the reply you get. Maybe in ten years time Corgi will give us something better? One can only hope.
  • brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
    Posts: 1,400
    has this hit the market yet? I thought I had read early August
  • imranbecksimranbecks Singapore
    edited October 2012 Posts: 984
    I got this one about a week ago... The details on the car seems much more defined than on the previous DB5 models that they have done. Its also the Skyfall car, so it isn't really the same.. Same same, but different as they say ;-) And its totally different from the DB5 they did for Casino Royale which had a different molding on the bumpers for the different number plate and that one was left hand drive while this one from Skyfall is right hand drive.

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  • brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
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    The first time it's been made as a right hand drive? Uh.....what?
  • imranbecksimranbecks Singapore
    edited October 2012 Posts: 984
    =bg= wrote:
    The first time it's been made as a right hand drive? Uh.....what?

    Yeah. Apparently so. They probably forgot that the Connery ones they did were actually right hand drive as well..hahaha.. Maybe what they meant was the "no gadget" DB5, being this one and the one from Casino Royale, first time in right hand drive.. Hahaha.. I don't know..
  • MartinBondMartinBond Trying not to muck it up again
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    And it's missing the gadgets... I really expected more from Corgi, but then again the last decent thing they did is the Director's Cut series...
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    edited October 2012 Posts: 14,594
    MartinBond wrote:
    And it's missing the gadgets
    So it doesn't eject a little M figurine? Highly disappointed.

    I don't buy much Bond merchandise, but I think I'll have to invest in this one as it's a special occasion ;)
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    edited October 2012 Posts: 9,117
    Are they taking the piss or are my eyes deceiving me? Are they seriously saying that number plates, wipers and which side of the car the wheel is on are features so worthy of note you should emblazon them across the box with pride?

    They havent even got the machine guns which are used in the film. Utter disgrace of a collectors item. EON should take the licence off them. 50th anniversary and this is all they can come up with to cash in? Joke of a company - no wonder the country is in recession if business like this are anything to go by.
  • brinkeguthriebrinkeguthrie Piz Gloria
    Posts: 1,400
    Corgi IS a joke.
    But they're the only joke we've got.
  • imranbecksimranbecks Singapore
    edited October 2012 Posts: 984
    You never know, they might just come up with a different model of the DB5 in this scale but with the gimmicks seen in the movie. Anything is possible if they want to milk the 007 fans..

    Anyway, I finally got around to opening it up, so here are some more photos I took of the car as well as some comparison shots between the CR DB5 and the SF DB5....

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    Corgi 1/36 Skyfall Aston Martin DB5 by imranbecks, on Flickr
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    Corgi 1/36 Skyfall Aston Martin DB5 by imranbecks, on Flickr
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    Corgi 1/36 Skyfall Aston Martin DB5 by imranbecks, on Flickr
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    Corgi 1/36 Skyfall Aston Martin DB5 by imranbecks, on Flickr
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    Corgi 1/36 Skyfall Aston Martin DB5 by imranbecks, on Flickr
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    Corgi 1/36 Skyfall Aston Martin DB5 by imranbecks, on Flickr
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    Untitled by imranbecks, on Flickr
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    Untitled by imranbecks, on Flickr

    12 more hours and I'm off to go see Skyfall at IMAX... Can't wait!
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