SeanConnery007The Bond Archive - London, EngPosts: 169MI6 Agent
Some very interesting models to come.
I'm most looking forward to the TLD Aston Martin V8.
Not keen on the duplicates though of,
Aston Martin DB5 and Lotus Esprit
There are some strange ones too;
CR - Range Rover
OP - Willy's Jeep
MR - Hispano Suiza
TND - Daimler Limo
TLD - Lada 1500 Police Car
LTK - Maserati Biturbo
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superadoRegent's Park West (CaliforniaPosts: 2,656MI6 Agent
Looking forward to the AMs from OHMSS and TLD, Tracy's Cougar, the Bentley, and some of the offbeat ones like the Triumph Stag and the LALD pimpmobile. Finally, a Daimler Limo in that scale that's not worth over $250 on eBay!
"...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....
Looking forward to the AMs from OHMSS and TLD, Tracy's Cougar, the Bentley, and some of the offbeat ones like the Triumph Stag and the LALD pimpmobile. Finally, a Daimler Limo in that scale that's not worth over $250 on eBay!
Yeah- I'm looking forward to all of those- the Bentley should be rather nice to have, and the FYEO red Lotus looks lovely! I find myself looking forward to the Stag too!
It tails off a bit towards the end- I'm surprised we get the DB5 so many times and yet no sign of the white FYEO Lotus Esprit Turbo; and 'Range Rover Convertible' in Casino Royale? I think not!
I have just received issue 5, the 2cv, and also the Renault 11. Haven't received issues 2 - 4 yet though. Mine came in a carboard box and hence no damage to models or magazine. Looks like you guys complaing about packaging worked.
Edit: Just taken them out of the boxes and noticed the 2CV box has a little crack.
Wow. I'm receiving everything in one go. Today I received the Jaguar XKR, the Toyota 2000GT and the Goldeneye Tank. Still missing issues 2-4. So I hope these arrive soon or i'll have to chase them up. Absolutely no damage on this package although the box had got a bit damaged. I can imagine if it was in a bag and not a box it would have been ruined.
Well I had no idea the partworks going on sale in the UK would be this extensive, they look great. Shame they kicked off with the rubbish DAD cars though, who wants that?
Guess I can pick them up in WHSmith well enough. Wouldn't want to get them all, but most of these are just how I'd devise them in terms of background/location.
From Issue 8 onwards they won't be on the shelf. Subscription only.
Well I had no idea the partworks going on sale in the UK would be this extensive, they look great. Shame they kicked off with the rubbish DAD cars though, who wants that?
Guess I can pick them up in WHSmith well enough. Wouldn't want to get them all, but most of these are just how I'd devise them in terms of background/location.
From Issue 8 onwards they won't be on the shelf. Subscription only.
Damn- that's the one I want, too! Do you think you can order individual ones over the net?
hello guys, i've just registered because i'd like to comment on this collection.
i've collected model cars for years, mainly F1 cars as that is my main passion, although i buy the odd roadcar now and then.
i'm not a huge fan of Bond movies, i've seen them but am not as clued up as you all will be. i'm just a casual fan really.
i was interested in this collection from when i first saw the ad on tv, and bought the first one and liked it. the magazine was a bit thin for my liking, but it's not practical to send a novel with each model every 2 weeks so it's about right for a part-works collection.
for most of you the info contained in the mags is probably nothing new (as some have commented earlier in this thread), but for a casual fan like me, they provided some good insights into what went on during filming etc.
while i'm not blown away by the quality of the models, i understand we can't expect Minichamps-quality cars for £7.99.
i bought the first 7 issues from my local WHSmith, i'd go there every other thursday to pick up the latest issue. when it was time for issue 8, they didn't have them stocked in the usual area, so i asked a member of staff if there had been a problem with their delivery, or if they had all been sold. she had no idea so i concluded they'd probably stopped stocking them, and that if people were interested, they'd have probably subscribed by issue 8 anyway.
i'd have preferred to buy each one from a shop, as i noticed that the condition of the magazines varied, some were bent and scuffed, others were perfect, some of the car cases were also scuffed inside their packaging, so buying them myself, i could find a good condition copy. while buying issue 2, i asked the checkout girl if they'd be getting all the issues (i didn't know how many that would be at the time, i thought maybe 25-30). she said she thought they probably would, but they obviously didn't stock them after issue 7.
having read that they'd take payment for 2 issues at a time, and finding out it was a 40-issue collection, i decided to subscribe from issue 9, so i'd pay for 9 & 10, then 11 & 12, etc. all the way to 39 & 40.
in the meantime i had to find issue 8 to fill the gap, so bought it off ebay. it looked good in the listing, but the seller packed it reall badly, so the magazine was all bent and creased, the model was fine though.
i checked my credit card account online, and saw that GE Fabbri had charged me £7.99, so i assumed they had changed their policy and were now charging for just 1 issue at a time. but then a few days later i was charged £15.98 for 2 issues, so had payments pending for 3 issues at once.
i rang customer services to ask if they could cancel the £7.99 payment and asked if it was a mistake, because they should be charging £15.98 for 2 issues once a month. the guy said that as i had started from issue 9, payment for only 1 issue would be taken, then the next 2 issues would be charged together, so it wasn't a mistake.
he said that the computer system calculated how many issues to charge you for, depending on which number you started your subscription from. he said that if you start on an odd number, you be charged for 1 issue first, then 2 at a time after that. i told him that would lead to a final payment of £7.99 for issue 40. he disagreed, saying it wouldn't.
i again told him that yes it would, because if they're charging me for issues 10 & 11, then at the end payment would be taken for 38 & 39 together, then payment for a single issue (40) would be last.
it took him a minute to understand that the computer system was wrong, then he agreed with me. he said it was just the way the computer worked it out. i told him that it wasn't the computer's fault, it was whoever programmed it who was at fault, because they had messed up the programming.
i purposely subscribed from issue 9 to make sure i'd be charged for 2 issue at a time till the end, if i had known they'd messed it up like this, i'd have started from issue 8, meaning i wouldn't have had to buy the issue 8 off ebay that was creased and bent...
(but i suppose it's correct in one sense, it can't run in pairs from issues 1-40, because you can't subscribe from issue 1 if you don't know about it in the first place. people buy issue 1 from the shop, then subscribe from issue 2 if they want, so then the payment would go 2&3, 4&5, 6&7, 8&9 etc., then issue 40 on it's own at the end.)
i received issue 9 with model in a box about 10 days after subscribing, and the Little Nellie model came on the same day, although in a separate box on it's own (why they didn't put Nellie in the same box as the BMW Z3, i don't know).
then a week later, i received another box with just the Renault 11 taxi inside. the day after, i received issues 10 and 11 in a single box, now they're using their brains, sending 2 issues out at once in one box saves boxes and postage costs for them.
issue 11's magazine hadn't been laid in the box properly, so was bent and had taken the shape of the corner of the box, not very clever of the person who packed it.
so far no broken or cracked cases (touch wood).
i think they should send 2 issues out every fortnight, nearly 2 years is just too long. having just received 2 issues, i don't now if i now have to wait a month for the next 2, or if they'll arrive in a fortnight.
anyway, thanks for reading, if you haven't fallen asleep yet
I have received 2 issues every fortnight. To start of with I received sometimes 1 and sometimes 3. This was down to the free gifts. They must just be sent out as and when in stock. From now on I receive 2 issues at a time. Give them a bit of time and it will all sort out and you will get 2 at a time.
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I'm most looking forward to the TLD Aston Martin V8.
Not keen on the duplicates though of,
Aston Martin DB5 and Lotus Esprit
There are some strange ones too;
CR - Range Rover
OP - Willy's Jeep
MR - Hispano Suiza
TND - Daimler Limo
TLD - Lada 1500 Police Car
LTK - Maserati Biturbo
Yeah- I'm looking forward to all of those- the Bentley should be rather nice to have, and the FYEO red Lotus looks lovely! I find myself looking forward to the Stag too!
It tails off a bit towards the end- I'm surprised we get the DB5 so many times and yet no sign of the white FYEO Lotus Esprit Turbo; and 'Range Rover Convertible' in Casino Royale? I think not!
Edit: Just taken them out of the boxes and noticed the 2CV box has a little crack.
From Issue 8 onwards they won't be on the shelf. Subscription only.
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Damn- that's the one I want, too!
i've collected model cars for years, mainly F1 cars as that is my main passion, although i buy the odd roadcar now and then.
i'm not a huge fan of Bond movies, i've seen them but am not as clued up as you all will be. i'm just a casual fan really.
i was interested in this collection from when i first saw the ad on tv, and bought the first one and liked it. the magazine was a bit thin for my liking, but it's not practical to send a novel with each model every 2 weeks so it's about right for a part-works collection.
for most of you the info contained in the mags is probably nothing new (as some have commented earlier in this thread), but for a casual fan like me, they provided some good insights into what went on during filming etc.
while i'm not blown away by the quality of the models, i understand we can't expect Minichamps-quality cars for £7.99.
i bought the first 7 issues from my local WHSmith, i'd go there every other thursday to pick up the latest issue. when it was time for issue 8, they didn't have them stocked in the usual area, so i asked a member of staff if there had been a problem with their delivery, or if they had all been sold. she had no idea so i concluded they'd probably stopped stocking them, and that if people were interested, they'd have probably subscribed by issue 8 anyway.
i'd have preferred to buy each one from a shop, as i noticed that the condition of the magazines varied, some were bent and scuffed, others were perfect, some of the car cases were also scuffed inside their packaging, so buying them myself, i could find a good condition copy. while buying issue 2, i asked the checkout girl if they'd be getting all the issues (i didn't know how many that would be at the time, i thought maybe 25-30). she said she thought they probably would, but they obviously didn't stock them after issue 7.
having read that they'd take payment for 2 issues at a time, and finding out it was a 40-issue collection, i decided to subscribe from issue 9, so i'd pay for 9 & 10, then 11 & 12, etc. all the way to 39 & 40.
in the meantime i had to find issue 8 to fill the gap, so bought it off ebay. it looked good in the listing, but the seller packed it reall badly, so the magazine was all bent and creased, the model was fine though.
i checked my credit card account online, and saw that GE Fabbri had charged me £7.99, so i assumed they had changed their policy and were now charging for just 1 issue at a time. but then a few days later i was charged £15.98 for 2 issues, so had payments pending for 3 issues at once.
i rang customer services to ask if they could cancel the £7.99 payment and asked if it was a mistake, because they should be charging £15.98 for 2 issues once a month. the guy said that as i had started from issue 9, payment for only 1 issue would be taken, then the next 2 issues would be charged together, so it wasn't a mistake.
he said that the computer system calculated how many issues to charge you for, depending on which number you started your subscription from. he said that if you start on an odd number, you be charged for 1 issue first, then 2 at a time after that. i told him that would lead to a final payment of £7.99 for issue 40. he disagreed, saying it wouldn't.
i again told him that yes it would, because if they're charging me for issues 10 & 11, then at the end payment would be taken for 38 & 39 together, then payment for a single issue (40) would be last.
it took him a minute to understand that the computer system was wrong, then he agreed with me. he said it was just the way the computer worked it out. i told him that it wasn't the computer's fault, it was whoever programmed it who was at fault, because they had messed up the programming.
i purposely subscribed from issue 9 to make sure i'd be charged for 2 issue at a time till the end, if i had known they'd messed it up like this, i'd have started from issue 8, meaning i wouldn't have had to buy the issue 8 off ebay that was creased and bent...
(but i suppose it's correct in one sense, it can't run in pairs from issues 1-40, because you can't subscribe from issue 1 if you don't know about it in the first place. people buy issue 1 from the shop, then subscribe from issue 2 if they want, so then the payment would go 2&3, 4&5, 6&7, 8&9 etc., then issue 40 on it's own at the end.)
i received issue 9 with model in a box about 10 days after subscribing, and the Little Nellie model came on the same day, although in a separate box on it's own (why they didn't put Nellie in the same box as the BMW Z3, i don't know).
then a week later, i received another box with just the Renault 11 taxi inside. the day after, i received issues 10 and 11 in a single box, now they're using their brains, sending 2 issues out at once in one box saves boxes and postage costs for them.
issue 11's magazine hadn't been laid in the box properly, so was bent and had taken the shape of the corner of the box, not very clever of the person who packed it.
so far no broken or cracked cases (touch wood).
i think they should send 2 issues out every fortnight, nearly 2 years is just too long. having just received 2 issues, i don't now if i now have to wait a month for the next 2, or if they'll arrive in a fortnight.
anyway, thanks for reading, if you haven't fallen asleep yet
that sounds good, because instead of taking a year and a bit from now till the end, it'll just be approximately 7 months.