What happened to those much-vaunted ideas? Were they misdirection?

Napoleon Plural

I purposely avoided any information or trailers about NTTD but even so, there were things I thought were going to happen that never did.

1) The director's much-vaunted electrical car for Bond, I think it was an Aston. He made a big thing about this, saying it was a pre-requisite for directing the film. Didn't one even get unveiled at one point?

Well, the Aston Martin DB5 may be a replica in fact but there's nothing to suggest it was done as electrical, ditto the Vantage. There are no other cars - or was the Land Rover electrical? Is there anything in the film to say it was? In fact the former two are classic gas-guzzlers of the kind to be banned from the roads in some countries, aren't they?

2) I could be wrong but I swore I saw vague preview clips of Blofeld being bald in this film, as much like Donald Pleasance in YOLT as they could make him bearing in mind he has a different shaped face. Was that misdirection to throw people off the scent or did I just imagine it - maybe I did.

I'd assumed the AcroJet made a return from a fan poster doing the rounds but that was my mistake for sure - it was a different kind of plane that Bond and the reaffirmed 007 take to Saffy's island.

Movie franchises do occasionally put out misdirection stuff to deter competitors.

Number24

(I could be wrong 😲, but I think ) AM planned to make an electric car, but decided not to.

Loeffelholz

https://www.ajb007.co.uk/discussion/comment/1027325#Comment_1027325

I had read quite a bit about that. But they clearly opted for classics, which I did enjoy.

Revs1972

The director's much-vaunted electrical car for Bond, I think it was an Aston. He made a big thing about this, saying it was a pre-requisite for directing the film. Didn't one even get unveiled at one point?

Did you miss the AM Valhalla in the wind tunnel ?

Gassy Man

While Blofeld was not bald, I did think it was clever the three stooges carrying around his eye were.