Now that I'm a grown up I can't just store things at my parents house forever so they recently dropped of several boxes of my James Bond hoard and I go through them on camera!
Back in 2003, there was a huge James Bond exhibit showing at the Henry Ford Museum here in Detroit. It too had all of the props and the Golden Gate Bridge greenscreen(my cousin and I pretended to stomp on the passing cars on the monitor) and even a climatic scenario of needing to disarm an exploding reactor. Also, both the Vanquish and Jaguar from Die Another Day were on display there, I remember my little brother running past the rope stanchions and getting into the jaguar without us or the staff knowing. LOL Since then, there hasn't been anything like it there, it was truly a once in a lifetime experience.
That Moonraker VHS was the first bond I ever watched, my nan got it me from Morrisons for like a fiver. 🤣 I must have been 6 years old and thought the plane sequence with the accompanying music was the greatest thing I had ever seen.... Fell in love with the series right then. Amazingly Roger Moore was the only Bond I knew and until Die Another Day and I was born in 1994 🤣 cheers Nan.
Honestly, I have always enjoyed The Man With The Golden Gun. I understand its not the greatest Bond, but it is definitely not the worst. I love its lightheartedness and its quick pace.Lee is great as Scaramanga,
Would love to see a poster video. I feel the the best Bond poster is easily The Living Daylights full gun barrel poster. Great tag line: "The New James Bond...Living on the Edge," has great colors with locations and characters from the film, all with Timothy Daltons Bond in the center with a great pose. Love that poster.
I remember seeing that when I was a teen sadly my orthodox parents frowned on movies 🎥 unless they're free on TV. I may have seen that movie or came out of another one when on q summer job in the big city 7 hours away 🤔 it filled me with excitement but I didn't realise it would be a new guy, teen me wasn't much into movie star names unless it's someone super star like burt Reynolds (Ryan's dad of course ) or Christopher reeves or Richard Pryor just kidding I knew Roger Moore, Sean Connery by then lol . Buy i remeber seeing the poster and perhaps the trailer at a theater that summer. Can't remebet what I watched police academy ??
I wasn't alive then but, damn, £200 for less than 20 films, and in VHS so I won't be able to watch them, but that would be something I would waste money on.
8 months to track down 16 videos (Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Walsall, Dudley) with my paper round wages 🤘 £9.99 each 😂 you can pick up a bluray set for £40 now.
Calvin, I felt that wave of nostalgia with the Moonraker VHS. The first Bond thing I ever owned was Live and Let Die on VHS. I recently dug it out and felt rather emotional. I remember watching all the VHS films with my late grandfather as soon as he would purchase me a new one, and we would look forward to piecing together that image on the spine of the video collection. Incidentally, I have every single book you showed in the video and I used to LOVE pouring over The Essential Bond.
I remember collecting those Spy files magazines!! and when I say collecting, I was only ever able to get the first 2 issues from my local newsagent. I don't think they were too popular here in oz. I also used to own the full set of Bond DVD's in up until Skyfall. Then I had my entire collection stolen at my university. Lucky me though.. since then i've started again in blu ray format and i've been collecting the books! Great vid!! AND I love that some of the stuff you had made me remember stuff that I had from waaaay back then (i'm talking bout them Spy Files tins!! Used to keep mine under my bed within reaching distance cause I wanted to be James Bond one day).
Nice collection Calvin. I still have that box for the magazines in my room and fondly remember the amazing 'spy tips' such as covering a container you didn't want anyone to open in vaseline.
This is such a nostalgia trip! I had so much of this stuff! Unfortunately I had to get rid of it during various house moves, now slowly building it back up. My favourite bond book as a kid was one published by DK which had cross sections of famous scenes, gadgets and cars, cannot for the life of me remember what it was called and I have never seen it since
Like you I got into Bond at a young age. Just by accidentally catching an ITV screening of For Your Eyes Only. Previous to that I didn't know Bond existed. But I was hooked straight away, and was amazed when I found there were so many others to catch up on! Like you I also bought any Bond magazine or article in another magazine, as in the pre-internet age we were so hungry for things we didn't already know, you'd buy anything on a whim. This also went for some books. I also have some of my VHS recordings of the films off ITV, as I like to still watch the old ads as they take me back to watching the film as a kid! They really set the scene. Along with some of the wonderfully dodgy editing done by ITV so they could show the film on an afternoon! OHMSS and YOLT also used to get routinely chopped up for time reasons. That cigarette rocket launcher was a genuine surprise to me (I just thought Bond wanted a cigarette) as the earlier scene of Tiger demonstrating it was cut out. As was Aki's murder, as I didn't know SPECTRE were sending assassins into the camp. Also the whole safe cracking scene from OHMSS was cut, just because Bond is reading Playboy!
Álright. I once owned the issue on James Bond of the German magazine "Cinema". That was either around A View to a Kill/Never Say Never Again or a little later during the Dalton era. One of the first records I ever owned was a title song compilation whcih included all the movies up to For Your Eyes Only. I owned the soundtracks to A View to a Kill, Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, and my personal favorite of them all: On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I remember playing with a matchbox version of the Lotus Esprit in underwater mode with the fins sticking out. I also vaguely remember playing James Bond with a Walter PPK toy gun. I remember wearing a shoulder holster. That was still in the 80s. Long time ago. I bought some of the Bond paperbacks in the late 90s or early 2000s. Today, I only own some DVDs. Didn't care much for Bond from the Dalton era on until, I think, I found this channel. I hadn't even watched all the Roger Moore Bond movies until recently.
Calvin, watching this was very nostalgic, because you and I are about the same age and I became a Bond fan in much the same way. I had the Spy Files magazines, the old VHS collection (not the full set, some taped off TV) - that exact one of Moonraker which I got in my Xmas stocking in 1999, and I also became a proper ‘fan’ through reading The Essential Bond, which as you quite rightly say was a Bible of sorts in the days before fast internet and helped me develop a critical eye for the films. Many thanks for this clip, keep up the great work.
You're absolutely magnificent my friend! Reminiscing about your youth and all the stuff you accumulated over the years made me smile and reminded me of myself. Brilliant content friend, I will continue to tune in!
Nice video Calvin, there are a lot of familiar books, dvds etc there...and I know how nice it feels to be reunited with some bits of a collection that has been stored with your family. I have a similar situation in that lots of my stuff has been with my parents who live on the opposite side of South Africa from where I am. I recently got most of my stuff moved down to where I live, however I left a set of Ultimate Edition DVDs at their house for their viewing pleasure, and I've kept the Special Editions and the Blu-Rays with me. There are also about 5 or 6 old VHS copies of the Bond films (including a copy of Moonraker identical to your one) that would be fun to bring down to my place.
So SPOOKY watching you pulling out all those books because I have all of the EXACT same ones! Think they were likely required purchases for Bond fans !
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Loved this video. Brought back memories for me as well. I'd totally forgot about the magazines and I've still got the tin around somewhere. The DVD menus are still the best in my opinion.
@@calvindyson Yeah. I find that any movie released under The Masters of Cinema by Eureka is the only one now that still puts in that effort and love. They include bookles with essays, etc and it's great.
I always wondered why you seem to be more merciful on "Moonraker" than most are...now that I realize it was the first Bond film you saw it makes sense. I get chastised because I am too soft on "You only live Twice"...it was my first Bond (Hotel room on a family vacation). You have some really cool stuff and I really love the content on your channel
Great collection there Calvin! Outside of the DVD's and Blu-Ray's, I have a few of the James Bond games (mostly from the PS2 era), a 007 logo hat which I won on a Facebook competition. Got a few posters, including a Spanish Golden Gun wood/cardboard poster from my family. The only prop replica I own is the ring from 'SPECTRE' and I also have a few of the playing cards. As for signed memorabilia, I have 'Casino Royale' signed by Mads Mikkelsen and 'Octopussy' signed by Steven Berkoff.
Calvin, my collection has lots of books (some of the same ones you have), the novels in various and sundry editions, playing card (2 of the decks you've got), most of the Corgi diecast vehicles, several posters, and photos that I took at the "Bond in Motion" exhibition in Covent Garden when we were there for Crimbo 2018. I need to get it all organized.
All I want is that Golden gun of yours ! But : I've got cars from a press released collection they made her when Casino Royale came out with the magazines. - Different books (including the novels but not all of them yet) , magazine from cinema retro about dr.no which is full of informations and pictures, so much to read ! - 2 sideshows figures that I kind of don't care about anymore now that I bought 12 years ago . -The funko pop figures they released , not a big fan of the funko but it was a cheap james bond stuff. - The Bluray collection, no VHS or DVD, I couldn't afford them, I had the movies on the computer before. -The Lego car, I like it for the gadgets even if I think they made it too squared but it was fun to build and Lego doesn't lose a lot of value with time. -2 posters only , postcards I bought at Bond in motion exhibits . -DB5 keychain that I use every day because it's made for that and not to stay in the box. -Bond related t-shirts not very official I think . Writing all of that makes me realize I have some stuff around ahah but I Don't have anything that is out of the ordinary like YOUR GOLDEN GUN !! :)
I don't have any Bond playing cards, but my husband has a set of Live and Let Die tarot cards. I've got that Little Book of Bond as well. All the Pan paperback, too. A shitload of other Bond stuff.
My Bond collection is thus: * All 24 official films. * The unofficial film Never Say Never Again. * 6 Ian Fleming books. * The more recent book Carte Blanche. * A James Bond Encyclopedia. * A book containing artwork from the series.
007 monopoly Poster of all 24 films Spectre ring 2 007 pop figures All 24 films Poster book Comic book Dr No Action Figure Cologne Playing cards Moonraker Special Edition dvd Skyfall dvd Skyfall dvd 2 Moonraker, casino royale, goldfinger novels Die Another Day diecast car Spectre car Hot wheels Quantum Of Solace wii game Goldeneye wii game Chocolates And more coming
I really love your collection ! Wish I had the money to expand my collection (which contains only three novel (blofeld trilogy) , the bond movie collection and a lego aston martin db5)
This was great. I think we’ve all had similar nostalgic experiences going through our collections over the years. My childhood bible was Rubin’s JB Movie Encyclopedia. I too started with VHS and have made the various releases and book editions my main focus as there is a surprising amount of variance in some of the video transfers. I laughed out loud at that tv magazine because I still have a random old one I saved from years ago. Since you’re heavily into the Bond games I think you’ll be thrilled with TWINE N64. It’s the dark horse favorite of Bond games because so few ever played it and it was an N64 late release. The graphics and controls are first rate for the system. While the single player campaign isn’t the greatest and can be extremely frustrating, the game comes alive in the multiplayer and is without a doubt the best Bond multiplayer of all time. Great weapon variety, some truly great maps and great controls that fix the Goldeneye quirks. The golden gun mode is phenomenal. This is the game I take to parties or do tournaments with as it is much easier to introduce new players to and runs much more smoothly than Goldeneye.
I have one of those TV Times' there were five different covers but like you I only bought the Connery one. I own an Aston Martin from 1964 complete with the Korean and the Lotus from 1977 in its original box.
Not quite sure why I got the Connery one given Moore is my favourite Bond and I thought Brosnan was the best of the five back then... Very glad I did though, his cover looks the best in my opinion.
It's always nice to go through old stuff and then spend way too much time being nostalgic about it XD. The Special Edition DVDs are still my favourite because of the covers, booklets and custom menu's for each film, but what on earth did they do to all of the Roger Moore pictures lol. I mean I thought The Spy Who Loved Me cover one was bad, then I watched Moonraker yesterday (yes, I'm still going through them all lol) and that picture of him on the booklet, well that is what you would get using early naughties Photoshop I guess. Cool collection though, enjoyed the video as always :)
We were obviously of a similar age, I had the 007 spy files magazines, (I'm sure I got a pen that had a built in microphone) with the magazine I also had Bond magazines that you actually got a model car with each magazine, each issue told you about the car but it wasn't just the cars you would expect some used by enemies or played little role ! The other items you have obtained are pretty neat ! I have some of those also haha 😋
I collected all the Spy Files magazines back in the day, still got them! I used to cheat on the quizzes that were on the back so I'd always get the good answers like James Bond, the Aston Martin DB5 and the Jet pack
My James bond experience started with Goldeneye and my father told me there was going to be a bond marathon on tv because 'tomorrow never dies was being released. Of course the marathon started with Dr no and I was like "This is not so good" and walked outside but the more I saw random bond movies the more I got interested. My collection to date is not as epic as yours Calvin Dyson, but I do have a few things I will keep forever. I just told one of my friends the other day that 'die another day' is not my favorite bond but it is my most celebrated bond, I have the special edition DVD, the 1/18 scale Aston Martin, and two theater posters of it.
Is it just me or does it seem like EON has massively dropped the ball in terms of merchandising? It seemed like Bond was everywhere during my childhood in the early 2000s - I had pretty much everything Calvin showed off!
One of my favorate bond things was a large hardback book by DK called 'The secret world of 007', it's a great book you should see if you can get one. Also have you ever visited the Beaulieu national motor museum? They had loads of amazing bond exhibitions over the years with the cars and other props. You should check it out in case they still have any of them
@Calvin Dyson where did you get you get that 24 movies poster I'm 12 and just started a James Bond collection and I saved $6.12 dollars and it s expensive to ship can you tell me where you got that?
Fun video Calvin..some really cool items there - brought back a lot of memories of my collecting days as I had many of the items you have. Didn't have the replica gun though. Some items I couldn't afford. Most of my collection had to go in a house move including nearly all the original posters signed by dear Desmond... Q which I sold on ebay. Lovely man. I've stll got 4 that he signed. Had a really nice trading card display mounted and signed by Lois Maxwell. Met several of the Bond actors the only Bond I met was Roger Moore on his theatre tour. Had those videos and that DVD set and the books on the films. Still have the poster book I kept that because I had a thing for posters. I thought that might be worth something in future years..but I just looked and it selling for £3.50. One thing I regret losing was a cinema display for The World is Not enough it was like a giant vinyl double sided poster with giant portaits the main characters that ran along the spare room of my old house it was awesome. It saved me on wallpapering and paint. When you got bored of the pic I'd flip it. I didn't have that magazine though..that was for younger ones like yourself.
Wow quite a lot of stuff I have too I have: An RC Aston Martin Vanquish 007 Racing, TWINE, and License to Kill games Two sets of Ultimate Editions DVD sets. VHS box set From Russia with Love novel by Pam over 55 years old. Also tickets to the John Barry Memorial Concert signed by Fiona Fulliton and Timothy Dalton. The 007 Magazines ( with full cards) And finally when I was at school I made myself a homemade golden gun which I recently found. Oh those were the innocent days
I never collected much in the way of props or posters but I have a lot of the same reading material as yourself. I collected the Spy Files and have one entire set still in the wrapping. I have the Essential Bond book (same edition up to TWINO) and remember they often gave gave their opinion - I believe they claimed that Tomorrow Never Dies was a better film than Goldeneye 'on almost every level' and remember thinking that was a bold claim! I actually picked this up before I'd watched every film in the series and used it to pinpoint the films I wanted my parents to buy for my birthday (on VHS of course!) Also have The Art of Bond.
Man, i got rid of all my 007 VHS tapes when I got all the movies on DVD, then again got rid of the DVDs when I got the Blu-Ray collection. I also had a an Action Figure that I have since lost into oblivion... I have some of the 007 comic books (Vargr and Eidolon) and a number of soundtracks still though.
I love finding random 007 stuff stored throughout the house. It's always a nice surprise to open a box and find something Bond-related that I didn't remember I had. I had Moonraker on VHS but the actual tape itself had the label for Octopussy instead. I miss those days! ^_^
I had the movie poster book and I think a different James Bond-them Empire magazine, and still have the Legacy book (though mine is slightly damaged), The Essential James Bond (had 2, maybe even 3), and playing cards- all gifts. Had a few calendars over the years too, and me and my brother had remote control cars from Die Another Day (that we couldn't really use because they shared a signal so we kept controlling one another car, not to mention there wasn't really much space where we lived). Also had the films on VHS, but currently have the DVD collection in a silver suitcase (and the Craig ones separate, along with 60s Casino Royale and NSNA; have Casino Royale on DVD and Blu-Ray). Had a couple of the games too. I have a book you don't have that I recommend called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which is an unofficial look at the Bond films up to Brosnan (or mine is) including 60s Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again, goes into some depth about the production history of each film, and ends with them ranking things like plot, action, girls, villains, dialogue Bond himself etc and finally a rating (although they give Licence to Kill a bad rating because while they think it's a very good film, they don't think it's a very good Bond film). Makes for a good read, and also where I learnt that one of the early censors for the BBFC who gave Bond the go-ahead was a dude called Trevalyn, which must be where 006 got his name from.
I love the Golden Gun & case. My collection is surprisingly to me quite lacking as a "die-hard" fan: Aston Martin DB5 Corgi Car Lotus Espirit Corgi Car Dvd box set in the 007 tin that ends with TWINE Tomorrow Never Dies trailer poster DB5 Key ring That Bond on Bond book Yeah that's it!
Hello Calvin ,In my collection of James Bond is the100th Anniversary Ian Fleming novels ,and John Gardner continuation novels ,James Bond 50th DVD Blue ray movies . Corgi Astin Martin DB5 Goldfinger #261 I always enjoy watching yours and David Zaritzki's Bond Experience video's Thank you Craig Cornish Cambridge Ont Canada .
hey calvin, i may be a little late with this, but has anyone recommended richard madden (bodyguard, cinderella, GOT) as a potential next bond? i think he'd nail it.
Calvin im starting to get into bond!!! My dad is getting the 23-film set on wednesday!!! Im so excited!!! Which one should i watch first? Im a big fan by the way! Can you rank the bond actors?
Fantastic! Well, I would recommend going through from the start to the end, but, if you wanted a top 5 that I would recommend for a first time viewer, then; Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me, GoldenEye, Casino Royale
One of the better James Bond books I have is the James Bond Archive (Taschen, 2016). Massive. It came in its own cardboard suitcase when I bought it. And it includes an actual celluloid cell from Doctor No.
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No rare photo of Sean Connery signed by Roger Moore? It’d be worth $150.
One of the best jokes of the simpsons imo
I have a photo of George Lazenby signed by Barry Nelson. Is it worth much?
@@obscureentertainment8303 I see your Lazenby/Nelson picture and I raise you a photo of Daniel Craig signed by David Niven.
Back in 2003, there was a huge James Bond exhibit showing at the Henry Ford Museum here in Detroit. It too had all of the props and the Golden Gate Bridge greenscreen(my cousin and I pretended to stomp on the passing cars on the monitor) and even a climatic scenario of needing to disarm an exploding reactor. Also, both the Vanquish and Jaguar from Die Another Day were on display there, I remember my little brother running past the rope stanchions and getting into the jaguar without us or the staff knowing. LOL
Since then, there hasn't been anything like it there, it was truly a once in a lifetime experience.
The British Museum Had Identical Exhibit In 2002 With Gadget Cars.
That Nightfire music is damn kickin! And cool to see all the memorabilia too. :D
A Bond directors' ranking would make for a nice video, comparing the styles and all.
My list
1. Martin Campbell
2. Terence Young
3. Peter Hunt
4. Sam Mendes
5. John Glen
I agree, good idea
And Tamahori would be at the bottom, right?
My list
1. Martin Campbell
2. Guy Hamilition
3. Sam Mendes
4. Lewis Gilbert
5. John Glen
He did that recently, what a good idea you had 👌
Ohhh that beautiful golden gun in the background😍😍
I'm very glad to be reunited with it!
@@calvindyson I've got my own 3d printed one but it isn't as good as yours I can tell you that for sure😅
Scaramanga would be proud of you Mr. Dyson.
@@calvindyson you should definitely do a Top 10 Bond Movie Posters I would love to see that!!!!
That Moonraker VHS was the first bond I ever watched, my nan got it me from Morrisons for like a fiver. 🤣 I must have been 6 years old and thought the plane sequence with the accompanying music was the greatest thing I had ever seen.... Fell in love with the series right then. Amazingly Roger Moore was the only Bond I knew and until Die Another Day and I was born in 1994 🤣 cheers Nan.
Honestly, I have always enjoyed The Man With The Golden Gun. I understand its not the greatest Bond, but it is definitely not the worst. I love its lightheartedness and its quick pace.Lee is great as Scaramanga,
Would love to see a poster video. I feel the the best Bond poster is easily The Living Daylights full gun barrel poster. Great tag line: "The New James Bond...Living on the Edge," has great colors with locations and characters from the film, all with Timothy Daltons Bond in the center with a great pose. Love that poster.
I actually really like Thunderball's, A View To A Kill's and Skyfall's.
I remember seeing that when I was a teen sadly my orthodox parents frowned on movies 🎥 unless they're free on TV. I may have seen that movie or came out of another one when on q summer job in the big city 7 hours away 🤔 it filled me with excitement but I didn't realise it would be a new guy, teen me wasn't much into movie star names unless it's someone super star like burt Reynolds (Ryan's dad of course ) or Christopher reeves or Richard Pryor just kidding I knew Roger Moore, Sean Connery by then lol . Buy i remeber seeing the poster and perhaps the trailer at a theater that summer. Can't remebet what I watched police academy ??
@@timonsteup2877 loved all but that last one you mentioned especialy a view to a kill
He could just zoom into or over the ones behind him
I love how excited you got looking at all the memorabilia. 😊
Who else thought it was J.W. Pepper as soon as he said “which one has the least usefulness rating?”
I remember when the complete Bond VHS collection box set was £200 from WH Smith those were the days 😊
I wasn't alive then but, damn, £200 for less than 20 films, and in VHS so I won't be able to watch them, but that would be something I would waste money on.
@@CancerGaming56 It was worth every penny at the time!
@@liquidgeorge I know! £200 for films I couldn't watch! I wish I was around then.
8 months to track down 16 videos (Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Walsall, Dudley) with my paper round wages 🤘 £9.99 each 😂 you can pick up a bluray set for £40 now.
What a cool video. That old edition of The Essential Bond in the video was actually my introduction to James Bond. Before i seen the movies. :)
Your content is so consistent and fun right now keep up the good work Mr. Dyson, Calvin Dyson
Calvin I have an essay that’s due tomorrow I need to work on.
Postponing that for fifteen minutes.
You can send my apologies to your teacher haha!
Call it a important moment in cultural history 👍
Ooh, is that a More icon?
Calvin, I felt that wave of nostalgia with the Moonraker VHS. The first Bond thing I ever owned was Live and Let Die on VHS. I recently dug it out and felt rather emotional. I remember watching all the VHS films with my late grandfather as soon as he would purchase me a new one, and we would look forward to piecing together that image on the spine of the video collection. Incidentally, I have every single book you showed in the video and I used to LOVE pouring over The Essential Bond.
Did anyone else read the guide book, "James Bond: The Secret World of 007"? I loved picking that thing up at the library and reading it.
I remember collecting those Spy files magazines!! and when I say collecting, I was only ever able to get the first 2 issues from my local newsagent. I don't think they were too popular here in oz.
I also used to own the full set of Bond DVD's in up until Skyfall. Then I had my entire collection stolen at my university.
Lucky me though.. since then i've started again in blu ray format and i've been collecting the books!
Great vid!! AND I love that some of the stuff you had made me remember stuff that I had from waaaay back then (i'm talking bout them Spy Files tins!! Used to keep mine under my bed within reaching distance cause I wanted to be James Bond one day).
Awesome video Calvin. Watch you going through old boxes of bond stuff brought back so many memories. I need to go back home and go through mine.
Love your enthusiasm Calvin. The best thing about this video was your reunion with the Moonraker cassette. :)
Nice collection Calvin. I still have that box for the magazines in my room and fondly remember the amazing 'spy tips' such as covering a container you didn't want anyone to open in vaseline.
Love your Bond stuff. I have lots too! Excellent, adore all Bond 💜
Thanks, Sharon :D
This is such a nostalgia trip! I had so much of this stuff! Unfortunately I had to get rid of it during various house moves, now slowly building it back up. My favourite bond book as a kid was one published by DK which had cross sections of famous scenes, gadgets and cars, cannot for the life of me remember what it was called and I have never seen it since
Being a video game collector I need an outlet so I’m start James Bond just now
Like you I got into Bond at a young age. Just by accidentally catching an ITV screening of For Your Eyes Only. Previous to that I didn't know Bond existed. But I was hooked straight away, and was amazed when I found there were so many others to catch up on! Like you I also bought any Bond magazine or article in another magazine, as in the pre-internet age we were so hungry for things we didn't already know, you'd buy anything on a whim. This also went for some books.
I also have some of my VHS recordings of the films off ITV, as I like to still watch the old ads as they take me back to watching the film as a kid! They really set the scene. Along with some of the wonderfully dodgy editing done by ITV so they could show the film on an afternoon! OHMSS and YOLT also used to get routinely chopped up for time reasons. That cigarette rocket launcher was a genuine surprise to me (I just thought Bond wanted a cigarette) as the earlier scene of Tiger demonstrating it was cut out. As was Aki's murder, as I didn't know SPECTRE were sending assassins into the camp. Also the whole safe cracking scene from OHMSS was cut, just because Bond is reading Playboy!
Álright. I once owned the issue on James Bond of the German magazine "Cinema". That was either around A View to a Kill/Never Say Never Again or a little later during the Dalton era. One of the first records I ever owned was a title song compilation whcih included all the movies up to For Your Eyes Only. I owned the soundtracks to A View to a Kill, Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, and my personal favorite of them all: On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I remember playing with a matchbox version of the Lotus Esprit in underwater mode with the fins sticking out. I also vaguely remember playing James Bond with a Walter PPK toy gun. I remember wearing a shoulder holster. That was still in the 80s. Long time ago. I bought some of the Bond paperbacks in the late 90s or early 2000s. Today, I only own some DVDs. Didn't care much for Bond from the Dalton era on until, I think, I found this channel. I hadn't even watched all the Roger Moore Bond movies until recently.
Calvin, watching this was very nostalgic, because you and I are about the same age and I became a Bond fan in much the same way. I had the Spy Files magazines, the old VHS collection (not the full set, some taped off TV) - that exact one of Moonraker which I got in my Xmas stocking in 1999, and I also became a proper ‘fan’ through reading The Essential Bond, which as you quite rightly say was a Bible of sorts in the days before fast internet and helped me develop a critical eye for the films.
Many thanks for this clip, keep up the great work.
I used to love the 007 spy files. I was aloud to get each magazine (I think they came out fortnightly) and some pick and mix from Woolworths 🤣🤣🤣
You're absolutely magnificent my friend! Reminiscing about your youth and all the stuff you accumulated over the years made me smile and reminded me of myself. Brilliant content friend, I will continue to tune in!
Reading this really put a smile on my face!! Thanks for the comment, Wesley :D Hope you have a great rest of your day!
hearing and seeing your total enthusiasm over your stuff makes me smile :D haha. bit like me and anything to do with The Beatles
Your mom sounds like a sweetheart
She really is!
Those special edition dvds are for the most part what I got from the library when I was 12-14 to see most of the Bond movies for the first time.
So adorable guy, love him!
Awesome collection
Nice video Calvin, there are a lot of familiar books, dvds etc there...and I know how nice it feels to be reunited with some bits of a collection that has been stored with your family. I have a similar situation in that lots of my stuff has been with my parents who live on the opposite side of South Africa from where I am. I recently got most of my stuff moved down to where I live, however I left a set of Ultimate Edition DVDs at their house for their viewing pleasure, and I've kept the Special Editions and the Blu-Rays with me. There are also about 5 or 6 old VHS copies of the Bond films (including a copy of Moonraker identical to your one) that would be fun to bring down to my place.
So SPOOKY watching you pulling out all those books because I have all of the EXACT same ones!
Think they were likely required purchases for Bond fans !
Haha! Does sound that way!
You’ve got a fine collection of Bond memorabilia.
11:45 I've Got The Original 1999 20th Anniversary Special Edition UK VHS Video Release Of Ian Fleming's Moonraker James Bond 007 On Video From eBay Back In April 2016 Just Before Easter And It Was Super Awesome James Bond Home Video Release Ever. Thanks Mate. X
Pierce Broston is my favorite Bond! So I love that you have a lot of his stuff.
Awesome collection, Calvin. Mine is pretty modest in comparison, although I do have an autographed photo of Sir Roger.
This is a great 007 collection. All I have is the Bond 50 Blu-Ray set and my dad's original copies of all the Ian Fleming 007 novels.
Loved this video. Brought back memories for me as well. I'd totally forgot about the magazines and I've still got the tin around somewhere. The DVD menus are still the best in my opinion.
Loved those DVD menus. Back when real effort was put into home media releases
@@calvindyson Yeah. I find that any movie released under The Masters of Cinema by Eureka is the only one now that still puts in that effort and love. They include bookles with essays, etc and it's great.
Some cool stuff there Calvin 👍 I recently got Goldeneye & Tomorrow Never Dies on Laserdisc 📀
I always wondered why you seem to be more merciful on "Moonraker" than most are...now that I realize it was the first Bond film you saw it makes sense. I get chastised because I am too soft on "You only live Twice"...it was my first Bond (Hotel room on a family vacation). You have some really cool stuff and I really love the content on your channel
Great collection there Calvin! Outside of the DVD's and Blu-Ray's, I have a few of the James Bond games (mostly from the PS2 era), a 007 logo hat which I won on a Facebook competition. Got a few posters, including a Spanish Golden Gun wood/cardboard poster from my family. The only prop replica I own is the ring from 'SPECTRE' and I also have a few of the playing cards. As for signed memorabilia, I have 'Casino Royale' signed by Mads Mikkelsen and 'Octopussy' signed by Steven Berkoff.
Very jealous of your Casino Royale signed by Mads. That's so cool!
I'm still super jealous of that golden gun.
Very cool
God the nostalgia of VHS
Nostalgia just means you like the thought of being younger. It's not an actual sign of quality or merit on behalf of whatever triggers said nostalgia.
Calvin, my collection has lots of books (some of the same ones you have), the novels in various and sundry editions, playing card (2 of the decks you've got), most of the Corgi diecast vehicles, several posters, and photos that I took at the "Bond in Motion" exhibition in Covent Garden when we were there for Crimbo 2018. I need to get it all organized.
Great video Calvin mate.
All I want is that Golden gun of yours ! But :
I've got cars from a press released collection they made her when Casino Royale came out with the magazines.
- Different books (including the novels but not all of them yet) , magazine from cinema retro about dr.no which is full of informations and pictures, so much to read !
- 2 sideshows figures that I kind of don't care about anymore now that I bought 12 years ago .
-The funko pop figures they released , not a big fan of the funko but it was a cheap james bond stuff.
- The Bluray collection, no VHS or DVD, I couldn't afford them, I had the movies on the computer before.
-The Lego car, I like it for the gadgets even if I think they made it too squared but it was fun to build and Lego doesn't lose a lot of value with time.
-2 posters only , postcards I bought at Bond in motion exhibits .
-DB5 keychain that I use every day because it's made for that and not to stay in the box.
-Bond related t-shirts not very official I think .
Writing all of that makes me realize I have some stuff around ahah but I Don't have anything that is out of the ordinary like YOUR GOLDEN GUN !! :)
Your collection is way better than others
Blimey I remembered now having a lot of that stuff when it came out
I don't have any Bond playing cards, but my husband has a set of Live and Let Die tarot cards. I've got that Little Book of Bond as well. All the Pan paperback, too. A shitload of other Bond stuff.
Love the collection! And u are adorable!
Thank you for both those compliments :D
Oh man! I'm so jealous! I want those books! I want that golden gun!
Omg the spy files magazine takes me back
I remember those
My Bond collection is thus:
* All 24 official films.
* The unofficial film Never Say Never Again.
* 6 Ian Fleming books.
* The more recent book Carte Blanche.
* A James Bond Encyclopedia.
* A book containing artwork from the series.
007 monopoly
Poster of all 24 films
Spectre ring
2 007 pop figures
All 24 films
Poster book
Comic book
Dr No Action Figure
Cologne
Playing cards
Moonraker Special Edition dvd
Skyfall dvd
Skyfall dvd 2
Moonraker, casino royale, goldfinger novels
Die Another Day diecast car
Spectre car Hot wheels
Quantum Of Solace wii game
Goldeneye wii game
Chocolates
And more coming
I love the spy magazines
Great stuff! MOONRAKER was my first Bond on video, as well.
Solidarity!
Yes! Please do top10 posters!!
I really love your collection ! Wish I had the money to expand my collection (which contains only three novel (blofeld trilogy) , the bond movie collection and a lego aston martin db5)
This was great. I think we’ve all had similar nostalgic experiences going through our collections over the years. My childhood bible was Rubin’s JB Movie Encyclopedia. I too started with VHS and have made the various releases and book editions my main focus as there is a surprising amount of variance in some of the video transfers.
I laughed out loud at that tv magazine because I still have a random old one I saved from years ago.
Since you’re heavily into the Bond games I think you’ll be thrilled with TWINE N64. It’s the dark horse favorite of Bond games because so few ever played it and it was an N64 late release. The graphics and controls are first rate for the system. While the single player campaign isn’t the greatest and can be extremely frustrating, the game comes alive in the multiplayer and is without a doubt the best Bond multiplayer of all time. Great weapon variety, some truly great maps and great controls that fix the Goldeneye quirks. The golden gun mode is phenomenal. This is the game I take to parties or do tournaments with as it is much easier to introduce new players to and runs much more smoothly than Goldeneye.
I have one of those TV Times' there were five different covers but like you I only bought the Connery one. I own an Aston Martin from 1964 complete with the Korean and the Lotus from 1977 in its original box.
Not quite sure why I got the Connery one given Moore is my favourite Bond and I thought Brosnan was the best of the five back then... Very glad I did though, his cover looks the best in my opinion.
@@calvindyson Was that the entire haul Calvin? The amount of stuff I've accumulated over the years would fill an hours worth of screen time.
I had that same Moonraker vhs too... Mine got played to it's death :)
I love your collection. Mine pales in comparison to yours. Yet, I’d like to show mine off. I do have a few cool things you should see.
It's always nice to go through old stuff and then spend way too much time being nostalgic about it XD. The Special Edition DVDs are still my favourite because of the covers, booklets and custom menu's for each film, but what on earth did they do to all of the Roger Moore pictures lol. I mean I thought The Spy Who Loved Me cover one was bad, then I watched Moonraker yesterday (yes, I'm still going through them all lol) and that picture of him on the booklet, well that is what you would get using early naughties Photoshop I guess. Cool collection though, enjoyed the video as always :)
My mum got me those kids magazines as well for one of my birthdays 😅
We were obviously of a similar age, I had the 007 spy files magazines, (I'm sure I got a pen that had a built in microphone) with the magazine
I also had Bond magazines that you actually got a model car with each magazine, each issue told you about the car but it wasn't just the cars you would expect some used by enemies or played little role !
The other items you have obtained are pretty neat ! I have some of those also haha 😋
11:12 Awesome James Bond Collection Mate. X
I collected all the Spy Files magazines back in the day, still got them! I used to cheat on the quizzes that were on the back so I'd always get the good answers like James Bond, the Aston Martin DB5 and the Jet pack
I used to put talcum powder on my bedroom floor. I collected the magazines when i was in uni
My James bond experience started with Goldeneye and my father told me there was going to be a bond marathon on tv because 'tomorrow never dies was being released. Of course the marathon started with Dr no and I was like "This is not so good" and walked outside but the more I saw random bond movies the more I got interested. My collection to date is not as epic as yours Calvin Dyson, but I do have a few things I will keep forever. I just told one of my friends the other day that 'die another day' is not my favorite bond but it is my most celebrated bond, I have the special edition DVD, the 1/18 scale Aston Martin, and two theater posters of it.
Is it just me or does it seem like EON has massively dropped the ball in terms of merchandising? It seemed like Bond was everywhere during my childhood in the early 2000s - I had pretty much everything Calvin showed off!
I just got my spy files from my mum's house last month!! Brings back so many memories
One of my favorate bond things was a large hardback book by DK called 'The secret world of 007', it's a great book you should see if you can get one. Also have you ever visited the Beaulieu national motor museum? They had loads of amazing bond exhibitions over the years with the cars and other props. You should check it out in case they still have any of them
Hey man that's not fair, J.W Pepper is good for making the audience laugh. That's for makes him atleast 50% useful!
Great vid! Collected the magazines when I was younger too! Remember the voice recorder pen??
I'm actually surprised the pen wasn't in one of the boxes... I definitely had it somewhere!
@Calvin Dyson where did you get you get that 24 movies poster I'm 12 and just started a James Bond collection and I saved $6.12 dollars and it s expensive to ship can you tell me where you got that?
Fun video Calvin..some really cool items there - brought back a lot of memories of my collecting days as I had many of the items you have. Didn't have the replica gun though. Some items I couldn't afford. Most of my collection had to go in a house move including nearly all the original posters signed by dear Desmond... Q which I sold on ebay. Lovely man. I've stll got 4 that he signed. Had a really nice trading card display mounted and signed by Lois Maxwell. Met several of the Bond actors the only Bond I met was Roger Moore on his theatre tour. Had those videos and that DVD set and the books on the films. Still have the poster book I kept that because I had a thing for posters. I thought that might be worth something in future years..but I just looked and it selling for £3.50. One thing I regret losing was a cinema display for The World is Not enough it was like a giant vinyl double sided poster with giant portaits the main characters that ran along the spare room of my old house it was awesome. It saved me on wallpapering and paint. When you got bored of the pic I'd flip it. I didn't have that magazine though..that was for younger ones like yourself.
The Essential Bond helped me navigate the series on VHS in the late 90s. I believe I had the first edition.
Wow quite a lot of stuff I have too
I have:
An RC Aston Martin Vanquish
007 Racing, TWINE, and License to Kill games
Two sets of Ultimate Editions DVD sets.
VHS box set
From Russia with Love novel by Pam over 55 years old.
Also tickets to the John Barry Memorial Concert signed by Fiona Fulliton and Timothy Dalton.
The 007 Magazines ( with full cards)
And finally when I was at school I made myself a homemade golden gun which I recently found.
Oh those were the innocent days
I just ordered all of the DVD special editions in a set (except TSWLM I think)
DVD's and VHS Are cool
I never collected much in the way of props or posters but I have a lot of the same reading material as yourself. I collected the Spy Files and have one entire set still in the wrapping. I have the Essential Bond book (same edition up to TWINO) and remember they often gave gave their opinion - I believe they claimed that Tomorrow Never Dies was a better film than Goldeneye 'on almost every level' and remember thinking that was a bold claim! I actually picked this up before I'd watched every film in the series and used it to pinpoint the films I wanted my parents to buy for my birthday (on VHS of course!) Also have The Art of Bond.
How much was the replica gun if you don't mind me asking?
Man, i got rid of all my 007 VHS tapes when I got all the movies on DVD, then again got rid of the DVDs when I got the Blu-Ray collection. I also had a an Action Figure that I have since lost into oblivion...
I have some of the 007 comic books (Vargr and Eidolon) and a number of soundtracks still though.
I love finding random 007 stuff stored throughout the house. It's always a nice surprise to open a box and find something Bond-related that I didn't remember I had. I had Moonraker on VHS but the actual tape itself had the label for Octopussy instead. I miss those days! ^_^
I had the movie poster book and I think a different James Bond-them Empire magazine, and still have the Legacy book (though mine is slightly damaged), The Essential James Bond (had 2, maybe even 3), and playing cards- all gifts. Had a few calendars over the years too, and me and my brother had remote control cars from Die Another Day (that we couldn't really use because they shared a signal so we kept controlling one another car, not to mention there wasn't really much space where we lived).
Also had the films on VHS, but currently have the DVD collection in a silver suitcase (and the Craig ones separate, along with 60s Casino Royale and NSNA; have Casino Royale on DVD and Blu-Ray). Had a couple of the games too.
I have a book you don't have that I recommend called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which is an unofficial look at the Bond films up to Brosnan (or mine is) including 60s Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again, goes into some depth about the production history of each film, and ends with them ranking things like plot, action, girls, villains, dialogue Bond himself etc and finally a rating (although they give Licence to Kill a bad rating because while they think it's a very good film, they don't think it's a very good Bond film). Makes for a good read, and also where I learnt that one of the early censors for the BBFC who gave Bond the go-ahead was a dude called Trevalyn, which must be where 006 got his name from.
I love the Golden Gun & case.
My collection is surprisingly to me quite lacking as a "die-hard" fan:
Aston Martin DB5 Corgi Car
Lotus Espirit Corgi Car
Dvd box set in the 007 tin that ends with TWINE
Tomorrow Never Dies trailer poster
DB5 Key ring
That Bond on Bond book
Yeah that's it!
Hello Calvin ,In my collection of James Bond is the100th Anniversary Ian Fleming novels ,and John Gardner continuation novels ,James Bond 50th DVD Blue ray movies .
Corgi Astin Martin DB5 Goldfinger #261
I always enjoy watching yours and David Zaritzki's Bond Experience video's
Thank you
Craig Cornish
Cambridge Ont Canada .
07:00 - And now he's in Emmerdale, which is a soap here. :)
I still have my magazines and my trading cards awesome!
hey calvin, i may be a little late with this, but has anyone recommended richard madden (bodyguard, cinderella, GOT) as a potential next bond? i think he'd nail it.
I had "The Art Of Bond" for my 10th or 11th birthday. I completely forgot I had it!
Hey Calvin will you be doing a top 10 bond allies video?
Certainly will be at some point!
My personal top 3 would be
Valentine Zuckovski
Sheriff JW Pepper
Tiger Tanaka
@@calvindyson Rate them on usefulness!!
We want them percentages!! hehehe
I’ve got that bond VHS collection, was going to get rid of them, but might keep them now, do you have the bond encyclopaedia? That is awesome 😎
Man I remember those Spy Magazines. Do you remember the cards that had Villains, Gadgets, Girls etc?
(NEVERMIND, Got to that part of the video)
Calvin im starting to get into bond!!! My dad is getting the 23-film set on wednesday!!! Im so excited!!! Which one should i watch first? Im a big fan by the way! Can you rank the bond actors?
Fantastic! Well, I would recommend going through from the start to the end, but, if you wanted a top 5 that I would recommend for a first time viewer, then; Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Spy Who Loved Me, GoldenEye, Casino Royale
One of the better James Bond books I have is the James Bond Archive (Taschen, 2016). Massive. It came in its own cardboard suitcase when I bought it. And it includes an actual celluloid cell from Doctor No.
Do the best and worst posters ranking! :D
What James Bond Steelbooks do you own?
I only own the Skyfall and Spectre ones. Didn't go in for YOLT, OHMSS etc when they came out but now I kinda wish I did