Quote Originally Posted by Rigged View Post
Casino Royale (the new one) hints that James Bond is a code name and that previous James Bonds have been killed in action. To earn the title, the new Bond had to prove himself to be a very special kind of spy -- a "blunt instrument" to use M's words. I actually like that idea..
THAT is the idea discussed in another thread.
I thought that was an intriguing idea. Some posters cited all sorts of ideas from the movies where this notion fixes a few "contradictions" in the films.

Side note, interesting that James Bond was played by:
A Scot, an Australian, an Englishman, a Welsh born Englishman, an Irishman, and another Englishman.


In my "Train World" (The fictional world created, and its extensions, related to my Lionel "O" Guage layout), I am planning a site where representatives of the "Brit" spy world are at one location. Using 1/43 cars, I am representing:

John Steed-> old style dark green Bentley
Emma Peel-> yellow Lotus Elan
Austin Powers-> Union flag Jag XKE

The "James Bond" squad:
-Silver Aston Martin DB5 (Connery)
-Dark green Ford Mustang (Lazenby-> mixing Riggs mustang with his DBS)
-Dark green Lotus Esprit (Moore- only "affordable" one I could get)
-Dark gray Porsche 959 (Dalton-Mixing elements of Audi and his Aston)
-Silver BMW 507 (Brosnan-Stand in for the Z8, to fit rest of layout)
-???? (Craig, not sure what would be appropriate w/o repeating DB5, might wait til next movie)

Plus my own:
Angus MacNeil- Blue Austin-Healey "Bugeye/Frogeye" Sprite
(Not yet named one)- Union flag (old style, Mini Cooper (NO, NOT Daddy Powers!!!)

There is also going to be 2 or 3 different style Batcaves, so realism is not the point.