Small skyfall radio

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  • TimeyswirlsTimeyswirls Posts: 134MI6 Agent
    Absolutely interested in this
  • LambertLambert EnglandPosts: 1MI6 Agent
    Very interested in one of these
  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    I’d definitely be interested -{
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  • Monsieur Le ChiffreMonsieur Le Chiffre LondonPosts: 148MI6 Agent
    I'd love one :D
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  • ttdriverttdriver Posts: 202MI6 Agent
    Me too! I know this is WAAAY more tricky than a simple metal piece. I'd certainly be in for one if they come available.
  • djoudjou Posts: 72MI6 Agent
    It starts to make people! A motivated creator? :)
  • KristanCreatesKristanCreates Posts: 1MI6 Agent

    I'm currently working on a replica. Does anyone have the dimensions for the screen used prop?

  • Quentin QuigleyQuentin Quigley Terminal One, Hamburg AirportPosts: 1,150MI6 Agent

    I made a dummy one last year, didn't have any confirmed dimensions though, sorry.

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  • pwalsh9012pwalsh9012 UKPosts: 189MI6 Agent
    edited May 2022

    Regards those GPS Radio Trackers. From these two screen grabs it can be clearly seen that Q passes Bond one of the none working versions. You can clearly see an LED. In the the working model you don't see a physical LED as confirmed in the box of trackers seen above. Further more when Bond goes to put the tracker away he slides down the switch and the LED continues to flash. Question, was the flashing light CGI as was the case in the Keychain Bomb in Casino Royale.


  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    edited May 2022

    They all have LEDs in them. It’s just the light reflection in the images makes it look like they are all different, but in reality they actually aren’t. 3 were just static but the switch still moved up and down, the LED light didn’t work, or the aerial pop up. The hero light up versions switches were quite loose and could move up and down without turning the LED off. To deactivate the LED, the switch had to be pulled right the way down. No CGI was used.

    Visually, there was no difference to any of them. It was purely functional. The only way you could tell which were the functional ones was to try the switch and see which worked.

    Originally, the whole side was supposed to swing out and up and the aerial come from the top of that. But they decided it was too difficult and just glued the pieces together and bodged it with the aerial coming out of the bottom of the now static swing arm.

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  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent

    The 2 hero props were the only ones with pop up aerials, the rest were static. So the one that Q hands to Bond must be a Hero. I was told that DC only used one of the Heroes by the prop master on the film.

  • pwalsh9012pwalsh9012 UKPosts: 189MI6 Agent


    I would say its pretty clear the top two don't have LED's or at least not the same as the bottom 3, and the two images-posted previously look to show two different units. One working and one from the lower 3?? has anyone here actually seen them by any chance?

  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent

    Yes, I took the photo, I handled them and took the measurements.

  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    edited May 2022

    I’ve seen and handled working and statics. Honestly Paul, it’s just the image making them look different. I can see exactly what you mean and I’d be inclined to agree with you based on that picture alone But in person they are all identical with the same LED.

    The top one that is out of the recess is actually the working hero. Pete had the propmaster take it apart after he took that picture. It’s distinctive as it has a wobbly thin edge to the top of the switch which can be screenmatched.

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  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent
    edited May 2022

    It's fun that the idea was for the aerial to swing up out of the side, although it looks like it would have to have been designed differently as the top corner would need a curved part to for it to hinge? Which I suppose would have been uglier, and also the operator's fingers would be likely to impede it.

  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent

    The main pieces of the prop were made by two different companies. The main body was made by the same company that made the props and Tumbler from Nolan’s Batman films. They shipped the parts to the Bond propmakers who probably looked at the bits and thought WTF, so went their own route seemingly only using the body. The internals are mental in the way they are designed. Like a Swiss watch. It’s so complicated for such a simple prop. And all glued together with Superglue which makes quick battery change impossible.

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  • pwalsh9012pwalsh9012 UKPosts: 189MI6 Agent

    Well that's that then. If you guys have seen them in the flesh I accept what you are saying...trick photography lol. I guess then once the battery goes flat it can't be changed. They are pretty small so can imagine trying to fit a spring, battery, switch etc into a small space would have been head scratching. 😄

  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent

    Yes, I have a pic of it in bits, obviously that is why your one works 😁

  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent

    I wonder what was going through their heads when they made all those fiddly little parts. It’s genius and insanity all in one.

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  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent

    It can be changed as they are glued, depends if you want to take it apart I guess 😁

    The ones in the archive are probably dead by now as I doubt that Meg will even know that they come apart.

  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent

    It was some young guy that made the prop shop ones as the prop master had to get him to take them apart.

  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent

    The pics that you're showing are just concepts aint they JD ?

  • emtiememtiem SurreyPosts: 5,686MI6 Agent
    edited May 2022

    Yes that makes more sense mechanically! 😊 I like the telescoping (although I'm sure it would have been a nightmare to make! And might have been tricky for Bond to conceal in his pocket 😂). It's a more coherent design visually in fact, with the circular LED being echoed by the pivot. The final one seems a bit of a shame when you see that- the concept is much more considered.


    It's still a pleasing little thing though. You'd think the 007 Store could do a nice little run of them; they're a nice size and recognisable, and a design unique to Bond which a lot of the stuff in the films isn't. Give them a bit of functionality like they're remote shutters for your phone's camera or something!

  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent

    FE were going to make them but decided against it.

  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    edited May 2022

    Yeah.

    If FE did make them. They’d be playing card size 😂

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  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent

    I was told by production that the radio was a homage to the homer in GF.

  • pwalsh9012pwalsh9012 UKPosts: 189MI6 Agent
    edited May 2022

    Work in progress after months of work, these static none working replicas will become available soon in a limited number. I'll put up a separate post when the time is right, probably in 3 weeks, if anyone is interested.


  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent

    Cool, they look good, certainly a good alternative and more accurate that others that are available.

    You do realise that the statics were made in the same way and not engraved ?

    Here is another WIP from my reference, not many being made though and the internals still need making.

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