BOND IN MOTION- Exhibition closure

propcollector22

A friend sent me the screen shot on Monday to let me know the Bond in Motion museum was at the end of its Time
I had tickets for last year after the film was originally due out, to see all the new NTTD cars, and we all know how that story ends.
I’ve put a link it to a couple of these cars and a couple of pics, but if anyone has any others please add them, at least I know I can look on here to remember this amazing place.

P.S. if anyone who works there reads this, I am more than happy to look after any of your displays for you!

http://londonfilmmuseum.com/

https://youtu.be/-x8lQJWojeU
https://youtu.be/DTLlaSJVF_A
https://youtu.be/2Jyz_6wl2ME

BOND IN MOTION- EXHIBITION CLOSURE
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT
LONDON FILM MUSEUM

The Bond in Motion exhibition has now come to the end of it’s time at the London Film Museum. In January 2014, production began on the Bond In Motion exhibition in partnership with Eon Productions opening a new chapter in the London Film Museum's history. Thanks goes to everyone who was part of the Bond in Motion Exhibition!

chrisno1

That was a great exhibition.
I had pics but when my house was burgled I had them all snatched away with the laptop & usbs. I have the brochure still.
I had no idea the exhibition was still going.

Smithers500

It was a real treat to visit and was a must every time I was in London. The only drawback being it was fairly dark so you couldn’t get great shots of the exhibits.

Napoleon Plural

Sorry chrisno1 but someone nicking the usbs as well is a special type of scumbag.

Wish I'd seen that but never got around to it.

I wonder where the exhibits are now?

emtiem

This news did seem to go around Twitter and Instagram earlier this week, but I thought they announced their permanent closure months ago- before the summer or so.

Smithers500 wrote:

It was a real treat to visit and was a must every time I was in London. The only drawback being it was fairly dark so you couldn’t get great shots of the exhibits.

Yes, it was a lovely exhibition but the lighting was never great. Particularly on the DB5 which had a horrible flat blue light on it which did the bodywork no favours.
Still, it was full of lovely things. I didn't see the NTTD display as I thought I'd leave it until after the film, which was obviously foolish in retrospect!

Napoleon Plural wrote:

I wonder where the exhibits are now?

Some belong to Eon, so I imagine in storage somewhere; some are owned by private owners so on their way back to them I guess.

Smithers500

Out of interest, when did the NTTD exhibits move in? I was in London end of February last year but was keen to get home early so didn’t go, might have gone had I realised they were there.

chrisno1

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Sorry chrisno1 but someone nicking the usbs as well is a special type of scumbag.

You're not wrong !!!
All my Fan Fiction, my reviews, photos, work correspondence, my Jon Drago novels (three of which were unpublished), all my poems. I have almost everything on hard copy, but its taken me a year to get around to typing it all again. Plus Covis and being unemployed again. 2020 was not a good year for me.
My mates said, "Didn't you store it in the cloud?" but I'm old school and I thought backing up onto a 'working' and a 'back up' USB would be fine. As you say, what the hell are they going to do with the USBs? There wasn't even pornography on them !

Back to topic...
I found the brochure last night and had a lovely reminisce - I remember I virtually swooned when I saw Tracy's Mercury Cougar XR7 - a beautiful, low slung, sleek late sixties bird-puller. Wonderful

emtiem

Did anyone go to the Paris Motor Show exhibition of Bond cars in '96 or so? That was the first time I saw a really impressive collection, although quite a few were replicas.

Napoleon Plural

Yes, I caught that. Good stuff, I remember the DAF red Corvette (that's it, isn't it) with the coffin prop. Also the Sunbeam from Dr No. Not aware some were replicas.

On a side note is the James Bond Car Collection still going? It went on forever, I imagine they'd bring out another Aston Martin DB5 but with a NTTD diorama.

emtiem

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Yes, I caught that. Good stuff, I remember the DAF red Corvette (that's it, isn't it) with the coffin prop.

Mustang? I don't recall the coffin.
I guess considering the Mustang at Bond in Motion was supposed to be the original (and in a pretty terrible state) the one in Paris was maybe a replica.

Napoleon Plural wrote:

Also the Sunbeam from Dr No. Not aware some were replicas.

Yeah there were a few; annoyingly they weren't labelled either. I was never sure if the OHMSS DBS was the real one or not, for example. I think they probably had quite a few from Cars of the Stars, which would generally be real.
The biggest clue was the LALD bus: it had the top removed but it was only the roof and not the whole top floor, as in the film!

Unknown007

This is disappointing but not all together surprising news, would have loved to have visited in London having seen Bond In Motion at Beaulieu think before the Skyfall cars had been added? Would have loved to have seen the Skyfall and Spectre Vehicles although as to when we actually get to see No Time To Die and it's array of Vehicles is anyones guess.

Let's hope they could open something a little more permanent like a permanent Bond Cars Museum - yes I know I'm asking a lot in these times but I'm only suggesting it.

Napoleon Plural

Perhaps set up in London's Vauxhall near the Mi6 building?

Mattia De Varti

I know I'm late for the conversation, but does someone who was there have some better pictures of Lashana Lynch's costume?

In the net I've only found the one Pete Brooker took when visiting the exhibition

emtiem

It's reopening: this time in LA:

https://twitter.com/BondLexicon/status/1435662906826371072?s=20

Unknown007

I went to Bond In Motion when it was at Beaulieu and absolutely loved it, in fact I ended up walking round the Exhibit and the rest of the Museum quite a few times when there, also explored the rest of the Estate and the House including the Secret Army Exhibition (I think that's what it was anyway - can anyone cofirm its the Secret Army?) Anyway I was hoping to have made it down to London when it was there but due to one thing or another - including Covid - I sadly never made it, boy would I have loved to have seen the DB10 from SPECTRE now that was a car - hopefully some day maybe. Unfortunately looks like I may miss the NTTD Exhibit at Beaulieu but who knows I hope to catch up with the Cars post Skyfall in the future?

Lets hope we see the cars and vehicles gathered again in the UK again sometime in the future? Who knows what the 60th Anniversary has in store?

Napoleon Plural

Isn't the Bond in Motion event back at Beaulieu now? I thought I saw it on the news recently.

emtiem

There's a No Time To Die exhit there with lots of vehicles from the film, but the Bond in Motion exhibition with the older vehicles from the previous films is in LA now.

Dodge101

I visited the museum back in 2017. My sister had visited with her family a few months earlier and knowing I was a Bond fan recommended it to me so the next chance I got to visit London I decided to have a whole day just at the museum :).

The entrance was full of natural light. There was a small upstairs area just within the entrance which had a number of displays, mainly early Bond stuff but the main exhibition was down stairs and this is where the main disappointment hits you.... it is so dark. There are just the right number of lights to show off each display and light up the walk paths. The second disappointment is that due to it being dark, if you wanted to take pictures of anything you had no choice but to use a camera flash but here's the thing, flash photography was not allowed (sign in the main foyer telling visitors no flash photography/camera flashes allowed) and there were a number of security staff around the exhibition to prevent people from using flash photography. I tried to sneak a camera flash here and there but each and every time a security guard was there watching me.

Apart from those two disappointing aspects of the museum, the actual exhibition of items was fantastic. I took as many photos as I could get away with without hogging each exhibit because yes, I did get told to move on a number of times by the security staff lol. Also due to the bad lighting it was not possible to get a good photo of many of the small exhibits but the one thing I did like was that only a handful of the exhibits had rope around them to prevent visitors getting to close, the rest you get up close and personal. Many of the cars I was able to poke my head through the drivers window to see all the different types of modifications the film crew made to the interiors of the cars.

Kind of in the middle of the museum was the café. You went from a dark area to a very well lit area and just off to one side of the café was a collection of motorbikes used in the various movies. I stopped to have a coke-cola, large chocolate muffin :) and sandwiches which had I brought with me. After consuming it all I carried with the visit. The one thing I didn't do but regret it now is that the exhibition had a large area sectioned off so you could have your own professionally taken gun barrel picture. I popped in to have a look and there was rows and rows of dinner jackets, white shirts, black ties and black bow ties and many many different types of dresses. From what I can remember the price was more than £20 but it was also less than £60. All I know is that I said to myself that I cannot afford it right now so moved on. Looking back at it now I think to myself, it's not everyday that you get the opportunity to pose as Bond in what is considered a very iconic image of Bond, the gun barrel image. Oh well, such is life.

The last part of the exhibition is the gift shop and oh my word the prices were expensive. It was filled with lots of cool stuff and yes if I had the money I could have spent thousands of £££ :) but as it was, all I could afford was a metal badge that said 'Bond In Motion'. When you left the exhibition, it led you out of the museums back entrance which led directly onto Covent Garden.

I've attached some pictures I took. Please forgive how dark they are, I just was not able to take any with the camera flash because the security guards were always watching me.

Napoleon Plural

Thanks @Dodge101 I enjoyed reading that... I guess I should have gone when I had the chance, London is pretty much on my doorstep. Tied up with an ailing parent at the time, now I recall.