OO7's latest incarnation, SKYFALL, will explode onto the big screen soon. The trailers have started on the telly and there's even a OO7 Eau de Cologne available! One spray for a licence to thrill!
James Bond is the silver screen contemporary of Thunderbirds, SWORD, Major Matt Mason, JOE 90, Billy Blastoff and SPACEX. Fleming's creation was probably singlehandedly responsible for the Secret Agent craze of the 1960's, which led to kids dressed in Man from Uncle's Ilya and Napoleon's Counterspy Trench Coat, clutching their Secret Sam attache case and taking snaps of next doors' cat with a hidden instamatic! I know 'cos I was one of 'em!
Does anyone else like spy toys and will you be going to see Skyfall in your Trench Coat?
Man From Uncle 1966 Counterspy Outfit
by MARX
Woodsy collection.
More to come!
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I can't say why but I loved 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' and 'I Spy' TV series but never became a real big Bond fan. I'll watch the Sean Connery/Roger Moore incarnations on TV and simply leave the rest alone. I don't yet have any spy related toys.
You don't need to buy any of the toys Ed. Just buy the book SPY TOYS. It's stuffed with all the classics like and obscurer stuff like C.A.T and Danger Man. Maybe a starting point is the seminal TOYS OF THE SIXTIES by the brilliant Bill Breugman. there's a cool spy toys section in there. Bill's book gave me back a second childhood!
LOL Woodsy, it's funny you should say that. Sittin' here in front of me is "Spy Toys, A Pictorial History and Price Guide" by Cramer Burks,published by The Windmill Group. I also have their "Boys Toys of The Fifties & Sixties" and "More Boy's Toys of The Fifties & Sixties". Being a rabid collector one never knows when a spy toy may make it's way into my collection.
Certainly will see Skyfall. I think Daniel Graig is the best thing ever happened to Bond since Roger Moore.
Talked to Sir Roger at Pinewood while filming "A View To A Kill" back in '84, yet it was the ever-friendly and relaxed (unlike my young self) longtime 007 press officer Geoff Freeman I remember most fondly of. And I will never forget those Alphabet Boots worn by one Ms. Grace Jones.
Cheers Arto
You spoke to Sir Roger Arto! Wow! What did he say?
And Ed, yep, that;s it, the book by Cramer Burks [great name!]. Get yourself Toys if the Sixties by Bill Breugman. In black and white but its a beautiful softback in glossy paper, Hardley anything not covered and hundreds of photos. He runs Toy Scouts Inc. the famous US tpy dealer from pre-internet days, when catalogues were sent out to interested parties like me!
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Woodsy, I asked Sir Roger where he thought the Bond series was going as a whole. "Louder and noisier, it's all getting louder and noisier", was the answer. Perhaps he was not in the best of moods since he had just fallen through a scenic window of a Parisian bateau-mouche and found himself in a wedding cake!
Cheers Arto
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