Thoughts and ideas about a James Bond World
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I have been listening to James Bond Radio. They were talking about the fact there is a Harry Potter World in England and a Star Trek experience in Disney world. Why not a James Bond World?
What would you like to experience in James Bond World (JBW)? I thinkit should be as interactive as possible.
Here are some ideas, partly based on JBR's thoughts:
Just after buying the tickets you can film your own Gunbarrel and send it to your phone and computer. Perhaps you can rent a tuxedo too (and the ladies can rent dresses)? Next you walk into M's classic office where you are welcomed and get a "brifing", in effect a promo for the JBW and what you can do there.
The Q lab. Here some of the origional gadgets are displayed. Guests can also try copies of them and perhaps new ones that aren't from the movies. The Bond in Motion exhibit should be a part of the whole thing. There guests can also sit down in simualtors of the AM DB5 and other Bond cars like the Lotus Esprit from TSWLM and the AM V8. The interiors look and feel like the real thing, you see what happens outside the windows using CGI. The gadgets can be used.
Other iconic scenes can also be filmed later with sets, props and greens screens, results automatically sent toyour phone and computer. What scenes should it be?
A casino is a must, but with verty cheap chips.
There should be at least one resturant that looks like a resturant Bond visits, perhaps the one on the Eiffel tower in AVTOK. A band plays Bond music.
Many rooms should look like the Ken Adam sets. Perhaps the vulcano in YOLT should be one, with exhibitions and activities around the room. if you walk into the rocket it works as an elevator, perhaps to an exhibition about MR?
The small commuter train from YOLT could also be used to transport guests around the JBW.
More ideas or comments?
What would you like to experience in James Bond World (JBW)? I thinkit should be as interactive as possible.
Here are some ideas, partly based on JBR's thoughts:
Just after buying the tickets you can film your own Gunbarrel and send it to your phone and computer. Perhaps you can rent a tuxedo too (and the ladies can rent dresses)? Next you walk into M's classic office where you are welcomed and get a "brifing", in effect a promo for the JBW and what you can do there.
The Q lab. Here some of the origional gadgets are displayed. Guests can also try copies of them and perhaps new ones that aren't from the movies. The Bond in Motion exhibit should be a part of the whole thing. There guests can also sit down in simualtors of the AM DB5 and other Bond cars like the Lotus Esprit from TSWLM and the AM V8. The interiors look and feel like the real thing, you see what happens outside the windows using CGI. The gadgets can be used.
Other iconic scenes can also be filmed later with sets, props and greens screens, results automatically sent toyour phone and computer. What scenes should it be?
A casino is a must, but with verty cheap chips.
There should be at least one resturant that looks like a resturant Bond visits, perhaps the one on the Eiffel tower in AVTOK. A band plays Bond music.
Many rooms should look like the Ken Adam sets. Perhaps the vulcano in YOLT should be one, with exhibitions and activities around the room. if you walk into the rocket it works as an elevator, perhaps to an exhibition about MR?
The small commuter train from YOLT could also be used to transport guests around the JBW.
More ideas or comments?
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I've always imagined exploring those in real life, in fact I would hide out until after the park closes at night just to really explore without the crowds
I think the Orient Express would be the better train to carry guests round the grounds
if its big enough there'd be room for several restaurants, each with menus from different parts of the world
but be sure to serve Phoo Yuck wine
for rest and relaxation include both the gypsy camp with catfights on the hour, and the harem from ...Spy...
Perhaps they should have an Eiffel Tower resturant and a more fast-food type Piz Gloria resturant?
Scaramanga's fun house should be worked in somehow, and the QE2 MI6 HQ from TMWTGG should be worked into it.
What should they have from the newer movies?
thered have to be gambling in any James Bond theme park
and yes M's field office from ...Golden Gun... would be an ideal theme park experience
somehow or other there should be a liferaft to conclude a day at the themepark, maybe required for guests to get back to the parking lot?
that BodyWorlds exhibit is a real thing, maybe license a few of their artworks I don't believe Piz Gloria served fast food, customers went to a lot of trouble to get there, theyd want to spend time enjoying the view and expect decent food ... in fact, theres a readymade menu right there, the 12 custom meals eaten by the 12 Angels of Death
but, theme park patrons don't usually order champagne and caviar, or any of that other posh food movieBond eats, we would have to find an authentic fast food reference from the films .... Flemings Bond did always eat scrambled eggs, so we could definitely serve allday breakfast
thought of another obvious setpiece: the bigcity amusement park from Living Daylights
The guides/crew in JBW could be models (male and female) who haven't made it yet, dressed in the jump suits that were so popular in many films.
With the driving simulators, VR gun fights, resturants and casino JBW would have a more mature style than other "worlds". Maybe a minimum age of 12 or so?
I mean, the volcano crater is great of course. But imagine it filled with riff raff with anoraks and paunches, posing for selfies and pushchairs with screaming kids. It would damage the effect somewhat and tarnish the films forever.
The nearest we get to all this is actually visiting Piz Gloria in Switzerland or Vaux Le Vicompte nr Paris etc and that is great, and yes you get tourists there, but it would be less claustrophobic than being on sets. But really it's like Soho in London, looks great but when it's filled with shoppers and tourists it can never look as stylish in the 50s where they wore suits etc...
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Then the VR gun fights, car chase simulators etc. can attract the younger crowd.
Anyway, I think the absolute minimum age should be 10-12.
I’m anticipating Star Wars land and if it’s anything like Disney’s Cars Land and the Indiana Jones Temple of the Forbidden Eye ride, I’m sure it will be fantastic. Not being a Harry Potter fan, I nonetheless was impressed with the execution of the HP land in Universal Studios.
When TND came out, a local Six Flags amusement park introduced a motion, immersive POV ride in which people experienced being Bond, running, leaping and then ultimately riding a BMW motorcycle while hydraulic seats mimicked the movements and VR glasses (or was it screen projected in 3D, I don’t remember) put one into the action. I felt it was a cheap ride, instead of one in which the works were engineered for a genuinely sensational and “real” environment.
I, however felt that this was good news for the willingness of the Bond people to venture further in potentially bigger and better attractions and the entire action sequence in TWINE of the helicopter attack on Zukovsky’s caviar factory smacked so much (at least to me) of a desire to replicate that sequence, very similar to the Water World stunt show in Universal Studios; if anyone here has watched this (surely there’s footage in YouTube), you can practically see the TWINE sequence play out in that show. But alas, nothing ever came after that TND VR experiment.
Actually this theme park would have to be an overnight concept, just because theres so many great hotel sets in the movies: Dr No, Diamonds..., ...Spy..., and various others. Renting out such rooms would be a big attraction. And a lot of the typical Bond-style activities we'd want to experience are nighttime entertainment. I mean like the parade in Thunderball or the plane launch in Casino... . But... and if you book a room in the Instanbul hotel set they'll give you a very special film as a souvenir, in DVD, youtube, and old school film reel format. You have the option of unspooling the filmreel in the canal, on the way back to the car, but the youtube video is Forever.
https://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/41077/james-bond-theme-park-what-would-you-include/
Some interesting feedback
Cheers :007)
Great idea about the hotel as a part of JBW! The hotel and hotel room can be themed. Carabian style, Asian style, 1960's style etc. If you want to you can chose a "bugged" room. Then you are given a bug sweeper looking like a shaving machine or something. You get a prize in the morning (or a discount) if you find all the old-fashioned bugs in the room. I like the idea
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Star Wars, Disney on a diff level in this respect. Would have to be a small area / sub part of another park.
Firstly, Bond films now - which a lot of people associate Bond with - are completely different or classic Bond. In a way, there's nothing from any of the Craig films that can be translated to a theme park attraction well. So to get ideas that would work well in a theme park, you've got to look at the classic films.
If you want to attract as many visitors as possible, you could only really base any attractions on stuff that is recognisable in pop culture. A Bond fan might be interested in an attraction involving, say, the gypsy camp from FRWL or Scaramanga's fun house, but your average non Bond fan would have no idea what this has to do with Bond.
The difference between franchises that have become theme park attractions, such as Star Wars, is that they are fantasies. There's nothing like what you see in the film; there aren't any Death Stars, there aren't any millenium Falcons. They're fictional creations.
Bond isn't like that. Even in the more outrageous films, the stuff Bond does is hardly theme park worthy. He drives, he fights, he gambles....hardly something you can turn into a ride.
The closest thing you could create is something like the Harry Potter studio tour. However, because the films we produced recently, the props and sets still exist to use. You could re build the volcano lair, but it's not the same, is it? It's not the actual set you see on film. You're walking around a recreation of a fictional place. It might look good, but really, what could you do with a replica of a set? You could walk around, take photos....but unless you're a Bond fan, there's not much appeal in that.
Apparently, it was part of a pitch during the 1980s for a Bond attraction at Universal Studios Florida that "would've been a "fifteen-minute show filled with technological wonders, grand-scale explosions, high-tech transformations, and of course, humor; all the trademarks of the James Bond films." Set in a frickin' volcano lair!" More on these here:
http://www.tested.com/art/465714-brief-ralph-macquarries-james-bond/
http://www.thegoddardgroup.com/blog/index.php/ralph-macquarrie-and-james-bond/
I always wanted to have a ride on that, just London seemed so far away back then ;%
McQuarrie's STAR WARS portfolio was my favourite amongst all the collectible merchandising that came out the year after the movie, it hinted at earlier, alternate iterations of the plot, and his style just looked so damned cool
Many of the chases lend themselves to a ride like a Aston DBS ride in similar format to the Simpson's ride at Hollywood Studios (or is it Universal?)
I thought my idea of 'lands' linked to each bond film like Epcot layout was pretty cool Inc rides to n ach and stunt show in the middle with boats and cars.
Throw in Q branch and real spying section plus new tech ideas and hey presto - maybe a Spy school to earn you 00 status with laser range and tests
Just need a few million to set it up
Cheers :007)
- definitely do your own gun barrel
- maybe like Disneyland has 6 different worlds, you can do the same for Bond world: 60's, 70's, 80's etc or based on actors: Connery, Moore, Dalton etc. Or based on location: Asia sets, American sets, EU sets etc...
- You can make it as a sort of escape room style on different sets. Or like a computer game with missions, but then i real life: Gamble your way out of a casino, laser gun yourself out of a gun fight etc.
Considering the popularity of the 50 years of Bond tour and the Bond in Motion, there is definitely a market for this. Should be fun!
1. Connery 2. Craig 3. Brosnan 4. Dalton 5. Lazenby 6. Moore
which characters would be BondWorld's equivalent?
personally I'd be happy to see Honey Rider lookalikes complete with iconic bikini. The hiring process for this job would be even more controversial than Hooters waitresses. Seriously, the deep tan and muscular physique are more important than the expected curviosity in replicating that character.
and maybe instead of Goofy, it could be Jaws. We must pity the minimum wage employee who has to dress up as Jaws. Not only would children be kicking him because he's the bad guy and sticking live electrical wires in his teeth, but "tough" young men would be trying to show off to their girlfriends by winning a fight with Jaws. This would be a thankless role, but the experience would be incomplete without it.
Bond girls would be almost impossible to do, but villains would be easy. Dr. No, Goldfinger and Oddjob, a bald Blofeld, Tee Hee, May Day and Xenia Onatopp would also be effective. They could go the DAF approach and have multiple Blofelds!
Various Bond girls in costume. I would be willing to be
Irma Bunt.