I have just been to a newsagent’s and noticed the Austin London cab on the partwork shelf. First I thought it was a late JBCC arrival, but it turns out that a new partwork is being released: http://www.taxisfromaroundtheworld.com/. I have not had a good look at the model yet, but suspect it is Ixo, because it is very similar to the JBCC model, though it looks much better – no horrible “AUSTIN” logo on the boot, and the rear lights are made of transparent plastic rather than just painted on. At only $4.95 (introductory price) I had to buy two. Will compare them with the JBCC car later – perhaps it will be possible to obtain a better model by combining the two, (with some Code 3 work).
Can't you just swap them over with new licence plates, or are there major differences? Looking at the taxi partwork link, there's a few familiar shapes there - Crown Victoria for one. Is that the UH TukTuk by any chance?
It's completely different, I bought it to try and Code-3 an Octopussy one out of it, but it turned out to be to much work for my young impatient self 8-)
I have just been to a newsagent’s and noticed the Austin London cab on the partwork shelf. First I thought it was a late JBCC arrival, but it turns out that a new partwork is being released: http://www.taxisfromaroundtheworld.com/. I have not had a good look at the model yet, but suspect it is Ixo, because it is very similar to the JBCC model, though it looks much better – no horrible “AUSTIN” logo on the boot, and the rear lights are made of transparent plastic rather than just painted on. At only $4.95 (introductory price) I had to buy two. Will compare them with the JBCC car later – perhaps it will be possible to obtain a better model by combining the two, (with some Code 3 work).
Can't you just swap them over with new licence plates, or are there major differences? Looking at the taxi partwork link, there's a few familiar shapes there - Crown Victoria for one. Is that the UH TukTuk by any chance?
It looks more like UH than Ixo after a closer examination, but it is probably neither. It appears to be quite well designed, but the quality of paintwork and plastics used is rather poor. Will probably not bother changing anything but give it to my daughter to play with! The is a second partwork I've seen by Amercom (after the fighter aircraft one) and it appears to me that it will be just as bad when it comes to finish. The $5 introductory price is probably fair, but would not pay $15 for a model like this. Also it comes on a plinth in a blisterpack - no clear plastic case cover.
To answer Jag's question, I've never figured out who does the cars for the Amercom partworks, although I believe they do have links to PCT, which is Ixo's parent company. PCT also has links to Hongwell, so they might be doing the moulds.
Wow! I think you owe your dad a beer (or several) for helping out with the figures!
Talking about the Stateside layouts, I guess it explains why many collectors over there take the JBCC models out of their boxes. Because we don't go in for layouts so much this side of the pond, the dioramas and bases are a novelty whereas US collectors are no doubt used to creating their own and adding to them. I would imagine the larger scale rail sets in the US are a factor too, with 1.43 scale cars looking good with them, but probably the major difference is the room needed to house these displays. In the UK we're pretty cramped for space, with generally small houses on small plots of land, hence layouts tending to be tiny OO gauge.
Firstly, it does help that Dad just churns out the figures to relax regardless and refuses any and all payment in all forms.
You're definitely right about the layouts regarding both size of the space involved and size of the model trains themselves. I remember using 1950's Matchbox cars Dad had when he was a kid when I briefly dabbled in OO scale. It wasn't the same. With O Gauge, any 1/43 scale car, almost any Dinky Toys or Corgi Toys car, and certainly any Triang Minic vehicle (they're 1/42 scale) is just fine. There's also the "DIY" factor; no matter who I encounter in this hobby on this side of the pond, you can pretty much set your watch by them believing that whatever they can do, they can do better than the manufacturer. It's why you have so much Code 3'ing going on and the large-scale dioramas involving almost any scene imaginable. I literally have a friend who has a guy driving a 1/43 Lamborghini Countach with the door open picking up a hooker as one of his dioramas! Another guy took a relatively hum-drum Franklin Mint Corvair and took advantage of the opening doors by putting a driver figure up front with a converted police officer with pistol figure into a crook holding a gun to the back of his head. Same guy got a custom figure set of a couple in bed without sheets and a guy from an Ixo 1939 Lincoln Continental Convertible watching them with binoculars!
I've got some other oddball dioramas I've done myself: the guy loading power tools into his Lada 1600 (by Bauer) with Belgian license plates is one. Another guy using a crowbar to open the jammed-shut trunk of his Ford Zephyr (by Corgi) features prominently in my railway station parking lot as pretty much everyone figures he must have issues, including the police officer walking toward him. Then there's the gun shop, which is an ode to my grandfather, replete with 1964 Ford Country Squire and even a Dinky Toys Austin van I converted into a Kynoch ammunition truck (it was in rotten shape). Really, your imagination is pretty much all that limits what you put onto your diorama.
It all sounds amazing - I would imagine if there are big dioramas over there open to the public they must be quite mind boggling, especially when trying to take in so much detail. Do you have 1.43 scale or O gauge slot cars in the US as well?
On another note, this is the upcoming 1.36 Corgi DB5 release for Skyfall:
What's interesting about it (and relevant to the JBCC) is that it is officially 'Skyfall' and has a figure. I'm just wondering whether it's meant to be Daniel Craig and Corgi have a licence to portray him, or whether they've gotten round the whole licencing deal by saying it's Connery in there?
It's the same model they used for Casino Royale, it's a long-haired way-to-brown Daniel Craig
So if the Casino version had the 'Casino' licence plate and a figure, it had to be DC in there surely? They couldn't say it was the 'GF DB5 with Connery' re-released specially for the movie....... 8-)
Hi, although this is my first post I have been following this thread for a number of years, in fact my subscription started around issue 6 or 7, and have found it both fascinating and also very handy for what is in the pipeline regarding this collection so I thought as I'd received some info this morning I'd pass it on as a small way of saying thank you for all the info I've picked up from here. I've received an updated direct debit notification which states that the final issue is now 140 and a payment date of March 2013 so presumably we can expect a number of Skyfall vehicles to put in an appearance. Also, and perhaps more importantly the direct debit amounts are going back to monthly from issues 120 & 121 onwards which according to my letter will be 29/05. Hope this helps
Hi, although this is my first post I have been following this thread for a number of years, in fact my subscription started around issue 6 or 7, and have found it both fascinating and also very handy for what is in the pipeline regarding this collection so I thought as I'd received some info this morning I'd pass it on as a small way of saying thank you for all the info I've picked up from here. I've received an updated direct debit notification which states that the final issue is now 140 and a payment date of March 2013 so presumably we can expect a number of Skyfall vehicles to put in an appearance. Also, and perhaps more importantly the direct debit amounts are going back to monthly from issues 120 & 121 onwards which according to my letter will be 29/05. Hope this helps
Welcome to the thread pecker65, I guess you were one of our 'sleeper' agents!
Thanks for the info, I think it makes the inclusion of Skyfall models a certainty if the series runs to 140. It also sounds like IXO may have already been working on the 120-130 releases in the background whilst sending out re-worked models from existing moulds. So the dreaded Moggy Minor may have already been done.
If SF accounts for 5 models, I hope the remaining number are real gems! (No more Moggy Minors, please Fabbri)
The only decent pic I could find, shows it's supposed to be Craig, though his hair is to dark and he's wearing black gloves.
You know, it would be a real shame if Corgi have the rights to including figures related to Craig Bond movies when the JBCC doesn't. Corgi's 1.36 offerings are mostly just toys compared to the JBCC, so it's really a waste. This is made all the more frustrating when Corgi have the capability of producing really nice TV and movie related cars in their Vanguards range. There's a nice 'Ashes to Ashes' Audi model on the way (sorry to non-UK folks who aren't familiar with Ashes) which shows they could do a brilliant Vanguards Bond range in 1.43 if they put their minds to it. The inclusion of figures, since they have the licences, would be even better. It could also pave the way to a general re-working of other Corgi 1.36 offerings done as proper 1.43 models with figures, such as Bandit's Trans Am, Bullitt's Mustang, Dukes's Charger, Starsky's Torino and more. Rant over. It's hot today and I'm not used to it!
Hi, although this is my first post I have been following this thread for a number of years, in fact my subscription started around issue 6 or 7, and have found it both fascinating and also very handy for what is in the pipeline regarding this collection so I thought as I'd received some info this morning I'd pass it on as a small way of saying thank you for all the info I've picked up from here. I've received an updated direct debit notification which states that the final issue is now 140 and a payment date of March 2013 so presumably we can expect a number of Skyfall vehicles to put in an appearance. Also, and perhaps more importantly the direct debit amounts are going back to monthly from issues 120 & 121 onwards which according to my letter will be 29/05. Hope this helps
Welcome to the chat. I think at the present rate of a model every 4 weeks we should reach number 130 towards
the end of March 2013. (If it was 140 they'd have to speed up the delivery rate or it would go on to about January 2014 at one a month.) cheers.
The only decent pic I could find, shows it's supposed to be Craig, though his hair is to dark and he's wearing black gloves.
The number plate is of the Quantum Of Solace black Aston DBS. So are they using an old photo?
Anyway the only Aston in Skyfall is the old DB5 -BMT 216A which takes a trip to Scotland.
The other cars are Jaguar/Rover by Tata of India.
i.e.- Possibly a Range Rover Evoque with the sloping roofline, and M's black big Jaguar XJL.
Bleuville. "Next week is my birthday-for that Teresa always returns" -Draco in OHMSS.
It all sounds amazing - I would imagine if there are big dioramas over there open to the public they must be quite mind boggling, especially when trying to take in so much detail. Do you have 1.43 scale or O gauge slot cars in the US as well?
Believe it not, nope, we do not have 1/43 scale or O Gauge slot cars. Lionel actually experimented with something close to it maybe 3-4 years back called "SuperStreets", which ran on alternating current off a model train transformer. The wheels were flanged and could travel on O-27 width curves and up. The track sold with the cars appears to be a paved road with a small metal piece running down the center as the third rail. However, SuperStreets failed to catch on, probably in part to the poorly detailed models offered. I do use a ton of their track for my trolleys, however.
Also, welcome to pecker65! Hope one of the extra ten cars is an UAZ-31512 or UAZ-469B, seeing as they were in literally every Brosnan Bond film as well as an UAZ-469B making a VERY brief cameo in TLD.
By the way, are you gonna eat that?
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Any other collectors recieved their #119 Lincoln Continental stretch limousine from Thunderball to find the back panel displays For Your Eye's Only -?? ?:)
[Shame on me I think - it seems it was highlighted on the previous page. 8-) As you were.]
Hi, although this is my first post I have been following this thread for a number of years, in fact my subscription started around issue 6 or 7, and have found it both fascinating and also very handy for what is in the pipeline regarding this collection so I thought as I'd received some info this morning I'd pass it on as a small way of saying thank you for all the info I've picked up from here. I've received an updated direct debit notification which states that the final issue is now 140 and a payment date of March 2013 so presumably we can expect a number of Skyfall vehicles to put in an appearance. Also, and perhaps more importantly the direct debit amounts are going back to monthly from issues 120 & 121 onwards which according to my letter will be 29/05. Hope this helps
Welcome to the chat. I think at the present rate of a model every 4 weeks we should reach number 130 towards
the end of March 2013. (If it was 140 they'd have to speed up the delivery rate or it would go on to about January 2014 at one a month.) cheers.
Bleuville.
Sorry I don't think I worded my initial post to well as that was exactly the point I was trying to make. From the schedule I've received the releases are returning to fortnightly from issue 120 onwards as the direct debit payments are returning to monthly from bi-monthly from 29/05 onwards.
My Lincoln also has the wrong film on the back of the diorama,so It must be throughout the run.I do hope there is some truth in the releases returning to forthnightly intervals,way too long a month, between models for me to wait.I have even resorted to buying the odd corgi model,to get my Bond fix.I was lucky enough to win a very nice Kenworth tanker and LALD Bus on Ebay for sensible money recently,also the free subscription models in unopened, mint condition too.
Anybody notice the price of Bond collectables,seems to have shot through the roof recently?Many of the JBCC models are making far more than the cover price.
Sad that IXO couldn't get the rear lights on Lincoln right US car collectors are sending warnings round already so people don't pay too much on ebay. Unlike the Taxi where you could see how it would make things cheaper doing what they did the rear bumper and light had to be made specially for the 64 Lincoln so why get it wrong? Looking carefully at pic you could cut down the light I guess since it comes too far back on bumper as well as being too large but it would be a lot of work...
Just been looking at Skyfall rumours to see what might comprise the new 10 assuming thay are all Skyfall and I can see:
Aston Martin DB5 - I think IXO are about the only producer without one in their range though they have done a DB4. I think it inevitable this will appear even if Eaglemoss buy in from UH or Norev as long as they can put something in unique to Skyfall even if only a backdrop of the burning manor. Land Rover Evoque - Jaguar Land Rover are doing lots of product placement and I am sure IXO will be happy to have one for other ranges anyway Land Rover Vogue SE - Used in an action sequence and again one IXO can sell on in other market places so likely to be done Land Rover Defender - Apparently one is used in a chase and IXO already have some castings... I can hear the groans at the back Jaguar XJL - Please, please, please. A lovely black example was caught during filming.... New Beetle - Loads were shipped to China for a stunt so pretty inevitable I guess if dreary
I would also put some money on a Chinese Taxi or villains car since Bond is driven from the airport and there is a chase. IXO probably has some local models it can raid or buy in from another producer. Who knows we may even get a Chinese Buick!
So that is seven or eight models even without knowing what the bad guys are driving/using which could easily take it up to 10.
I wonder when we will know what 131-140 will be.... Anyone have any other ideas??
Sad that IXO couldn't get the rear lights on Lincoln right US car collectors are sending warnings round already so people don't pay too much on ebay. Unlike the Taxi where you could see how it would make things cheaper doing what they did the rear bumper and light had to be made specially for the 64 Lincoln so why get it wrong? Looking carefully at pic you could cut down the light I guess since it comes too far back on bumper as well as being too large but it would be a lot of work...
Just been looking at Skyfall rumours to see what might comprise the new 10 assuming thay are all Skyfall and I can see:
Aston Martin DB5 - I think IXO are about the only producer without one in their range though they have done a DB4. I think it inevitable this will appear even if Eaglemoss buy in from UH or Norev as long as they can put something in unique to Skyfall even if only a backdrop of the burning manor. Land Rover Evoque - Jaguar Land Rover are doing lots of product placement and I am sure IXO will be happy to have one for other ranges anyway Land Rover Vogue SE - Used in an action sequence and again one IXO can sell on in other market places so likely to be done Land Rover Defender - Apparently one is used in a chase and IXO already have some castings... I can hear the groans at the back Jaguar XJL - Please, please, please. A lovely black example was caught during filming.... New Beetle - Loads were shipped to China for a stunt so pretty inevitable I guess if dreary
I would also put some money on a Chinese Taxi or villains car since Bond is driven from the airport and there is a chase. IXO probably has some local models it can raid or buy in from another producer. Who knows we may even get a Chinese Buick!
So that is seven or eight models even without knowing what the bad guys are driving/using which could easily take it up to 10.
I wonder when we will know what 131-140 will be.... Anyone have any other ideas??
I reckon your predictions for any Skyfall models are about right. Not sure about groans for the defender, Land Rovers like this are massively popular in the UK so it would no doubt do well outside the Bond fanship here, especially being unusual (a half-cab). I think personally EMFabbri would go for 5 or 6 from SF leaving a mystery group which might either be rounding up numbers to 140, so 'any old thing from existing moulds will do', or they might consider some of the most popular requests. Maybe a smaller scale Kenworth and LALD bus, they seem to get the loudest shouts, and many here wouldn't mind if they weren't 1.43. Either way, they have our forum 'wishlist' to choose from.....................
Jaguar XJL - M's service car
Land Rover Defender - Bond/Eve's car in the turkey PTS
Range Rover Vogue - MI6 staff car
Audi A5 - Henchman's car in turkey PTS
Aston Martin DB5 - Bond's personal car
Yes Im still here, and yes my subscription models have arrived safe and sound. In all really happy with both.
Also I welcome the rumoured extention to 150. The SKYFALL models all great editions. The Evoque would be nice as would the XJ. Do we really need another DB5 or DBS zzzzzzzzzz. I am disappointed the Aston still is bonds ride in the franchise . I think aston has had its day with Bond and it's time for a new marque.
Unlike the Taxi where you could see how it would make things cheaper doing what they did the rear bumper and light had to be made specially for the 64 Lincoln so why get it wrong?
The rear doors were also poorly done and an obvious carry-over from the '67 L-P Continental. I have a feeling they're trying to get the re-used moulds and partially re-used moulds out of the way, but that begs the question "why not the 220D (W115) or the Scaldia-Volga?" You can re-use these, both of which are passable and even excellent, respectively, with such minimal modifications that you don't have to chop up the moulds. It also begs three more questions...
1) Will we see these two cars, which make the most sense from a manufacturer's standpoint, among the next three models (counting the Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL)?
2) What alterations will be performed on the Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL, which is another "partially re-used" mould? Or will we get an incorrectly badged 280 SE (since Ixo did make this one)? Believe it or not, I'd rather see a CORRECTLY-BADGED 280 SE than a screwed-up 450 SEL. Why? Because it was the car that was physically dropped off the cliff. At least it would have some connection to Bond.
3) If they were having trouble with a '64 Lehmann-Peterson Type 53A Continental, then why didn't they do a '65 Lehmann-Peterson Type 53A Continental? Granted, it only appeared as a result of a continuity error, but then it shared many more parts with the 1967 L-P Continental. It WAS a Bond film car, it WAS the car Bouvar actually got out of, and it would have been so much easier to do without the poorly-done rear lights and doors.
I was giving the 130-140 set some thought, in terms of the JBCC finally finishing at 140. If half of the 10 extension models are Skyfall, what should the remaining non-SF models be? I think the one high profile car that really should have been in the collection and is still missing, is the non-gadget hardtop Aston Martin V8 Vantage from Living Daylights. It would go well paired up with the recent LD Lada I reckon - complete with cello case of course.
I agree with you MovieCarFan,this is one car I'd like to see in its full beauty,even figureless.The Aston DBS from OHMSS has always been one of my favourites in the collection,if the Vantage was up to that standard it would be fantastic.
I agree with you MovieCarFan,this is one car I'd like to see in its full beauty,even figureless.The Aston DBS from OHMSS has always been one of my favourites in the collection,if the Vantage was up to that standard it would be fantastic.
Agreed. I keep my Bond cars in one display case and my non-Bond cars in another room altogether. I have bought a few duplicate cars as some of them I like so much that I have bought a second for my general model car collection. These are the OHMSS DBS, the AMC Hornet, the Mustang Mach 1 and the copper Esprit with the skis. I display my Bond cars on their bases, without the case lid or background. Having the duplicates of these four is a real luxury, as I can take them off their base altogether and enjoy then as models.
If I happen to find an inexpensive model of the Diablo I will also consider buying this as a duplicate, as it's a good model. If there were a gadget-free DB5 or V12 Vantage then I would also be interested in a second one of these, but so far there are not these models. I am resisting the temptation with a few of the others as I don't want two James Bond Car Collections in their entirety, that would amount to madness!
Just a quick commentary on the next issue: even if Ixo does have the 450 SEL falling off a cliff, I doubt it will be angled, and not due to reasons of money, either. Getting the 450 SEL or quite frankly any Ixo car on that kind of base at an angle is actually pretty difficult if we're operating under the assumption that it will be a typical Ixo base and baseplate. To be perfectly honest, I think the best we can hope for, even with figures (and as someone pointed out earlier, even if we're lucky enough to get Roger Moore, not even UH ever did a figure outside the vehicle, so if we get a likeness, it will be on the paper insert), is having the car straddling a crooked-looking fence with the diorama facing downward to force perspective. All in all, even if Ixo does shape up and give us a perfect 450 SEL (I'm keeping my fingers crossed...) instead of re-using a 280 SE mould AND baseplate (thereby getting the wheelbase wrong), this is a difficult diorama to execute, and with expectations pretty low regarding the actual dioramas by Ixo (as opposed to the cars, which have been decidedly VERY erratic), I'm not really expecting much.
Just a quick commentary on the next issue: even if Ixo does have the 450 SEL falling off a cliff, I doubt it will be angled, and not due to reasons of money, either. Getting the 450 SEL or quite frankly any Ixo car on that kind of base at an angle is actually pretty difficult if we're operating under the assumption that it will be a typical Ixo base and baseplate. To be perfectly honest, I think the best we can hope for, even with figures (and as someone pointed out earlier, even if we're lucky enough to get Roger Moore, not even UH ever did a figure outside the vehicle, so if we get a likeness, it will be on the paper insert), is having the car straddling a crooked-looking fence with the diorama facing downward to force perspective. All in all, even if Ixo does shape up and give us a perfect 450 SEL (I'm keeping my fingers crossed...) instead of re-using a 280 SE mould AND baseplate (thereby getting the wheelbase wrong), this is a difficult diorama to execute, and with expectations pretty low regarding the actual dioramas by Ixo (as opposed to the cars, which have been decidedly VERY erratic), I'm not really expecting much.
I think you're absolutely right. And as JJS said, the likelihood is probably another gravel road and no figures, unfortunately. Still, for anybody interested in creating their own Code3 damaged Merc being booted off a cliff diorama, it should at least be something to work with.
On the IXO detailing issues, I was wondering if they may be deliberately short-changing on (cheap) partwork models in order to get people to buy more expensive, corrected or better detailed versions from their own ranges. It would make perfect sense from a marketing point of view.
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Can't you just swap them over with new licence plates, or are there major differences? Looking at the taxi partwork link, there's a few familiar shapes there - Crown Victoria for one. Is that the UH TukTuk by any chance?
It's completely different, I bought it to try and Code-3 an Octopussy one out of it, but it turned out to be to much work for my young impatient self 8-)
It looks more like UH than Ixo after a closer examination, but it is probably neither. It appears to be quite well designed, but the quality of paintwork and plastics used is rather poor. Will probably not bother changing anything but give it to my daughter to play with! The is a second partwork I've seen by Amercom (after the fighter aircraft one) and it appears to me that it will be just as bad when it comes to finish. The $5 introductory price is probably fair, but would not pay $15 for a model like this. Also it comes on a plinth in a blisterpack - no clear plastic case cover.
Firstly, it does help that Dad just churns out the figures to relax regardless and refuses any and all payment in all forms.
You're definitely right about the layouts regarding both size of the space involved and size of the model trains themselves. I remember using 1950's Matchbox cars Dad had when he was a kid when I briefly dabbled in OO scale. It wasn't the same. With O Gauge, any 1/43 scale car, almost any Dinky Toys or Corgi Toys car, and certainly any Triang Minic vehicle (they're 1/42 scale) is just fine. There's also the "DIY" factor; no matter who I encounter in this hobby on this side of the pond, you can pretty much set your watch by them believing that whatever they can do, they can do better than the manufacturer. It's why you have so much Code 3'ing going on and the large-scale dioramas involving almost any scene imaginable. I literally have a friend who has a guy driving a 1/43 Lamborghini Countach with the door open picking up a hooker as one of his dioramas! Another guy took a relatively hum-drum Franklin Mint Corvair and took advantage of the opening doors by putting a driver figure up front with a converted police officer with pistol figure into a crook holding a gun to the back of his head. Same guy got a custom figure set of a couple in bed without sheets and a guy from an Ixo 1939 Lincoln Continental Convertible watching them with binoculars!
I've got some other oddball dioramas I've done myself: the guy loading power tools into his Lada 1600 (by Bauer) with Belgian license plates is one. Another guy using a crowbar to open the jammed-shut trunk of his Ford Zephyr (by Corgi) features prominently in my railway station parking lot as pretty much everyone figures he must have issues, including the police officer walking toward him. Then there's the gun shop, which is an ode to my grandfather, replete with 1964 Ford Country Squire and even a Dinky Toys Austin van I converted into a Kynoch ammunition truck (it was in rotten shape). Really, your imagination is pretty much all that limits what you put onto your diorama.
What's interesting about it (and relevant to the JBCC) is that it is officially 'Skyfall' and has a figure. I'm just wondering whether it's meant to be Daniel Craig and Corgi have a licence to portray him, or whether they've gotten round the whole licencing deal by saying it's Connery in there?
So if the Casino version had the 'Casino' licence plate and a figure, it had to be DC in there surely? They couldn't say it was the 'GF DB5 with Connery' re-released specially for the movie....... 8-)
Welcome to the thread pecker65, I guess you were one of our 'sleeper' agents!
Thanks for the info, I think it makes the inclusion of Skyfall models a certainty if the series runs to 140. It also sounds like IXO may have already been working on the 120-130 releases in the background whilst sending out re-worked models from existing moulds. So the dreaded Moggy Minor may have already been done.
If SF accounts for 5 models, I hope the remaining number are real gems! (No more Moggy Minors, please Fabbri)
You know, it would be a real shame if Corgi have the rights to including figures related to Craig Bond movies when the JBCC doesn't. Corgi's 1.36 offerings are mostly just toys compared to the JBCC, so it's really a waste. This is made all the more frustrating when Corgi have the capability of producing really nice TV and movie related cars in their Vanguards range. There's a nice 'Ashes to Ashes' Audi model on the way (sorry to non-UK folks who aren't familiar with Ashes) which shows they could do a brilliant Vanguards Bond range in 1.43 if they put their minds to it. The inclusion of figures, since they have the licences, would be even better. It could also pave the way to a general re-working of other Corgi 1.36 offerings done as proper 1.43 models with figures, such as Bandit's Trans Am, Bullitt's Mustang, Dukes's Charger, Starsky's Torino and more. Rant over. It's hot today and I'm not used to it!
Welcome to the chat. I think at the present rate of a model every 4 weeks we should reach number 130 towards
the end of March 2013. (If it was 140 they'd have to speed up the delivery rate or it would go on to about January 2014 at one a month.) cheers.
Bleuville.
The number plate is of the Quantum Of Solace black Aston DBS. So are they using an old photo?
Anyway the only Aston in Skyfall is the old DB5 -BMT 216A which takes a trip to Scotland.
The other cars are Jaguar/Rover by Tata of India.
i.e.- Possibly a Range Rover Evoque with the sloping roofline, and M's black big Jaguar XJL.
Bleuville. "Next week is my birthday-for that Teresa always returns" -Draco in OHMSS.
Believe it not, nope, we do not have 1/43 scale or O Gauge slot cars. Lionel actually experimented with something close to it maybe 3-4 years back called "SuperStreets", which ran on alternating current off a model train transformer. The wheels were flanged and could travel on O-27 width curves and up. The track sold with the cars appears to be a paved road with a small metal piece running down the center as the third rail. However, SuperStreets failed to catch on, probably in part to the poorly detailed models offered. I do use a ton of their track for my trolleys, however.
Also, welcome to pecker65! Hope one of the extra ten cars is an UAZ-31512 or UAZ-469B, seeing as they were in literally every Brosnan Bond film as well as an UAZ-469B making a VERY brief cameo in TLD.
[Shame on me I think - it seems it was highlighted on the previous page. 8-) As you were.]
Anybody notice the price of Bond collectables,seems to have shot through the roof recently?Many of the JBCC models are making far more than the cover price.
Just been looking at Skyfall rumours to see what might comprise the new 10 assuming thay are all Skyfall and I can see:
Aston Martin DB5 - I think IXO are about the only producer without one in their range though they have done a DB4. I think it inevitable this will appear even if Eaglemoss buy in from UH or Norev as long as they can put something in unique to Skyfall even if only a backdrop of the burning manor.
Land Rover Evoque - Jaguar Land Rover are doing lots of product placement and I am sure IXO will be happy to have one for other ranges anyway
Land Rover Vogue SE - Used in an action sequence and again one IXO can sell on in other market places so likely to be done
Land Rover Defender - Apparently one is used in a chase and IXO already have some castings... I can hear the groans at the back
Jaguar XJL - Please, please, please. A lovely black example was caught during filming....
New Beetle - Loads were shipped to China for a stunt so pretty inevitable I guess if dreary
I would also put some money on a Chinese Taxi or villains car since Bond is driven from the airport and there is a chase. IXO probably has some local models it can raid or buy in from another producer. Who knows we may even get a Chinese Buick!
So that is seven or eight models even without knowing what the bad guys are driving/using which could easily take it up to 10.
I wonder when we will know what 131-140 will be.... Anyone have any other ideas??
I reckon your predictions for any Skyfall models are about right. Not sure about groans for the defender, Land Rovers like this are massively popular in the UK so it would no doubt do well outside the Bond fanship here, especially being unusual (a half-cab). I think personally EMFabbri would go for 5 or 6 from SF leaving a mystery group which might either be rounding up numbers to 140, so 'any old thing from existing moulds will do', or they might consider some of the most popular requests. Maybe a smaller scale Kenworth and LALD bus, they seem to get the loudest shouts, and many here wouldn't mind if they weren't 1.43. Either way, they have our forum 'wishlist' to choose from.....................
Land Rover Defender - Bond/Eve's car in the turkey PTS
Range Rover Vogue - MI6 staff car
Audi A5 - Henchman's car in turkey PTS
Aston Martin DB5 - Bond's personal car
Those 5 woul be the most likely.
Also I welcome the rumoured extention to 150. The SKYFALL models all great editions. The Evoque would be nice as would the XJ. Do we really need another DB5 or DBS zzzzzzzzzz. I am disappointed the Aston still is bonds ride in the franchise . I think aston has had its day with Bond and it's time for a new marque.
The rear doors were also poorly done and an obvious carry-over from the '67 L-P Continental. I have a feeling they're trying to get the re-used moulds and partially re-used moulds out of the way, but that begs the question "why not the 220D (W115) or the Scaldia-Volga?" You can re-use these, both of which are passable and even excellent, respectively, with such minimal modifications that you don't have to chop up the moulds. It also begs three more questions...
1) Will we see these two cars, which make the most sense from a manufacturer's standpoint, among the next three models (counting the Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL)?
2) What alterations will be performed on the Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL, which is another "partially re-used" mould? Or will we get an incorrectly badged 280 SE (since Ixo did make this one)? Believe it or not, I'd rather see a CORRECTLY-BADGED 280 SE than a screwed-up 450 SEL. Why? Because it was the car that was physically dropped off the cliff. At least it would have some connection to Bond.
3) If they were having trouble with a '64 Lehmann-Peterson Type 53A Continental, then why didn't they do a '65 Lehmann-Peterson Type 53A Continental? Granted, it only appeared as a result of a continuity error, but then it shared many more parts with the 1967 L-P Continental. It WAS a Bond film car, it WAS the car Bouvar actually got out of, and it would have been so much easier to do without the poorly-done rear lights and doors.
This is how the finished thing could look:
(Apologies, just my attempt at a little bit of humour)
I think it'll be a piece of gravel road without Loque or his bodyguards, unfortunately. You never know, but i'm not getting my hopes up to high
Agreed. I keep my Bond cars in one display case and my non-Bond cars in another room altogether. I have bought a few duplicate cars as some of them I like so much that I have bought a second for my general model car collection. These are the OHMSS DBS, the AMC Hornet, the Mustang Mach 1 and the copper Esprit with the skis. I display my Bond cars on their bases, without the case lid or background. Having the duplicates of these four is a real luxury, as I can take them off their base altogether and enjoy then as models.
If I happen to find an inexpensive model of the Diablo I will also consider buying this as a duplicate, as it's a good model. If there were a gadget-free DB5 or V12 Vantage then I would also be interested in a second one of these, but so far there are not these models. I am resisting the temptation with a few of the others as I don't want two James Bond Car Collections in their entirety, that would amount to madness!
I think you're absolutely right. And as JJS said, the likelihood is probably another gravel road and no figures, unfortunately. Still, for anybody interested in creating their own Code3 damaged Merc being booted off a cliff diorama, it should at least be something to work with.
On the IXO detailing issues, I was wondering if they may be deliberately short-changing on (cheap) partwork models in order to get people to buy more expensive, corrected or better detailed versions from their own ranges. It would make perfect sense from a marketing point of view.