My James Bond MicroMachines
Donald Grant
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These MicroMachines by Galoob were available at Suncoast video. If memory serves, they came out around the time of Goldeneye and were originally available for $19.99. I picked up the second set for $12.99 on sale. To my knowledge it was the first time that the Moonraker Glastron boat and the Moonraker Hispano Suiza had been released as a Bond tie in in any scale. When my little guy saw them this evening he wanted to open one of them. A cool little set.
DG
DG
So, what sharp little eyes you've got...wait till you get to my teeth.
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
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Thank you for sharing the pics DG - I got some of these too
Really ? I could have sworn these also came in Bond packaging. Maybe it was just in packaging that was similar then ?
texas007 - I think Suncoast Video is now fye. I think I picked them up somewhere on the East Coast while I was still sailing in the Merchant Marine. I think that voyage also took me through the Panama Canal to Hawaii, Guam and Saipan. No problem sharing, I have so much Bond stuff that showing it here also helps me to catalog what I have.
Sir Miles - I think you're right. I think the set was also available as three separate issues, the Goldfinger set, the Moonraker set, and the TSWLM set.
As I said above, I just picked them up because I thought they were cool and some of the vehicles had not been seen before. My initial intention was to open one, and keep the other for my collection, but I never did.
DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
At the time I thought that all these cars were meant to be James Bond cars, the Bentley from FRWL and the Sunbeam Alpine from Dr. No, although I wondered why the car was red.
Later I noticed that a red Sunbeam Tiger (the same car as the Alpine but with a Mustang 260 V-8) was featured in "Get Smart" - and the old Bentley is probably Steed's car from "The Avengers" rather than Bond's. However, the blue Z3 is clearly from GoldenEye and was not available elsewhere.
I almost picked one up, and later I wished that had because on the secondary market they going for $35.00 and up.
Still I made up for it with the Johnny Lighting Bond cars that were out during 1999-2002.
I have a small collection of the Johnny Lightening Bond cars too, but I don't think I got the full set.
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
Galob brought out 4 sets of JB Micro Machine Sets , Goldfinger, Moonraker,TSWLM and a Boxed set that comprised all 3 sets and included an additional Bond figure . When they lost the licence they came out with ( as already stated ) a super spy's set . I was lucky enough to pick all these up when in Norway , all sets shown on my website. Have also seen most of these out here in Malaysia & Singapore , cannot off hand remember where but will do some searching.JBA