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[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Guys, I know DVD and BluRay are a thousand times than VHS, but I'm having a nostalgic feeling right now and I'd like to open this thread so you can post scans of the old VHS Bond editions.

I found some of the Argentinean Warner Home Video editions from the late '80s and posted them here http://imageshack.us/g/1/9887583/

[R. Dittmar]

What the heck is the translation of that back to English? It looks something like "His Number is Danger!".

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

What the heck is the translation of that back to English? It looks something like "His Number is Danger!".

"His Name is Danger". In Spain it's been called "Alta Tensión" (High Tension)

[S K Y F A L L]

What I love about me James Bond vhs collection is that the ones that I have all feature a quote from the film on the back of the case.

[R. Dittmar]

What the heck is the translation of that back to English? It looks something like "His Number is Danger!".

"His Name is Danger". In Spain it's been called "Alta Tensión" (High Tension)

Of course, Danger is my MIDDLE name.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

What I love about me James Bond vhs collection is that the ones that I have all feature a quote from the film on the back of the case.

Yep. A friend of me gave me some US Bond VHS: OHMSS, FYEO, GE, TND and TWINE, and OHMSS & FYEO got the quotes on the back.

[Trevelyan 006]

What I love about me James Bond vhs collection is that the ones that I have all feature a quote from the film on the back of the case.

Yep. A friend of me gave me some US Bond VHS: OHMSS, FYEO, GE, TND and TWINE, and OHMSS & FYEO got the quotes on the back.

Ah YES! I had forgotten about those little snippet quotes on the VHS sleeves... On a side note, I own a really cool VHS version of YOLT, including a sleeve with a flap that had extra bonus info on the inside of it... rather cool.

I'll have to dig that up, now that I think about it.

[Shaun Forever]

I'm hugely into my Bond VHS artwork, especially since the horrible artwork on all the DVD and Blu Ray re-issues.


I've got that 'A View To A Kill' VHS, though it's in English, and in a huge plastic case, it's a rental version, also got 'Never Say Never Again' in
the same sort of box.

[The Shark]

What's so great about these is that they use the original poster art, not some shite Photoshop hack job.

[Lancaster]

Back in early 1984, when I was 10, I went to London with my parents and we went into HMV Bond street. There they had a section of VHS that you could buy, which was something that I had never seen before. These were that days before cut price VHS and only a few shops sold them. Better still there was a display of all the Bond films. These were the original, oversized, black boxes and cost £50 each. I begged my parents for months to buy me the just released Octopussy for my birthday. Funny that I saw it yesterday in HMV, brand new on DVD for £3. Also it took 5 years back then for a new Bond film to be shown on television in the UK.

Edited by Lancaster, 26 November 2012 - 03:57 PM.

[Double-0-Seven]

I've got all the films on VHS from the common "The James Bond 007 Collection" which ran up to The World Is Not Enough.

The covers were like this of course:



As well as all of the "Gold Classics" (which ran up to A View To A Kill):



The only VHS release film I don't have is Die Another Day.

I've got some odds and ends too, like sealed first runs of GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies (before they got added to "The James Bond 007 Collection"), a sealed The Man With The Golden Gun from its first VHS run (a CBS/Fox release from 1984). Also, a The Man With The Golden Gun from 1994 with the original poster art and opens like a book. I forgot what this run was called, something like "Remastered Collection" or something. All the spines have a gun barrel.

Also some other randoms - a CBS/Fox Living Daylights, a Warner Bros. Never Say Never Again, and the Spyguise Casino Royale 1954 with the ending intact.

I think that covers all the VHS I've got.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Casino Royale was released in VHS in Argentina, but I've just photocopied the cover artwork.

[Shaun Forever]

Anyone from the UK remember the old Bond VHS covers, that featured the main movie poster, surrounded by a grey gunbarrell, then a few years later
they released similar boxes, this time with a replaced blue gunbarrell? (similar to the one from 'The Living Daylights' poster)


UK releases I can remember:

Rental releases
Grey gunbarrell and poster artwork releases
Blue gunbarrell and poster artwork releases
Full poster artwork releases (Widescreen releases included trailers)
"The James Bond 007 Collection" releases. (Double O Seven was kind enough to post a picture a few posts back)
"The James Bond 007 Collection" releases, this time with images on the spines, that when all put together, showed all the Bonds. Some of the covers
were changed, mostly the Roger Moore and Dalton films.

[Double-0-Seven]

I always found it out they changed around some of covers (Mainly Moore) so much with The James Bond 007 Collection releases.

Octopussy, for example, had three variations from what I can remember:







The top one was North America only I believe. The second one was also available in North America (its the one I originally had). The UK version of this particular cover used the font from the third image. The image itself on the third cover never made its way to the North American releases.

[MarcAngeDraco]

The first Bond movie I ever bought, must have been around '84 or '85 I suppose...

[The Gunner]

I have some of these - only they are the English titles!

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

That design was used in Argentina too. We've had three VHS editions here:

a - Warner Home Video 1980's Poster design



b - 1995 AVH James Bond Collection



c - Grupo Planeta James Bond Collection (it came with magazines)

[Double-0-Seven]

Kind of odd how in that last one they reversed the cover!

When you said a Casino Royale VHS release in Australia, do you mean the 2006 Casino Royale? If so, I'd love to see the cover.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Kind of odd how in that last one they reversed the cover!

When you said a Casino Royale VHS release in Australia, do you mean the 2006 Casino Royale? If so, I'd love to see the cover.

Yes, I mean the official version. It was in Argentina, not Australia. CASINO ROYALE was the last James Bond VHS released in Argentina by the now unexistant (thanks to piracy) LK-Tel Home Video Distributor. They've also released Region 4 single and double disc edition, as well as the 3 disc Collectors' Edition (altough it didn't contain the US box and booklet, just the typical Amaray plastic box sans booklet).

The VHS release cover was identical to the DVD version (sorry, no scanner here. Hope this phone camera pic helps you)




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[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Some more Argie covers!



This one I'm particularily fond of, because that was the first MOONRAKER edition my dad gave me when I was 9.



More grey gunbarrel 1987 versions







Unofficial Bond






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[Double-0-Seven]

My apologies - I misread your initial post as Australia for some reason. In any event, thank you for posting the covers! Kind of unusual to see Casino Royale (2006) as a VHS considering I figured the format was well obsolete by that point. Pretty neat!

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

My apologies - I misread your initial post as Australia for some reason. In any event, thank you for posting the covers! Kind of unusual to see Casino Royale (2006) as a VHS considering I figured the format was well obsolete by that point. Pretty neat!

I live in the third world my friend. When VHS was obsolete for you, we were still amazed by the DVD. Now that the BluRay disc is the fascination there, we're still looking at it like a time machine brought from NASA

[Double-0-Seven]

My apologies - I misread your initial post as Australia for some reason. In any event, thank you for posting the covers! Kind of unusual to see Casino Royale (2006) as a VHS considering I figured the format was well obsolete by that point. Pretty neat!

I live in the third world my friend. When VHS was obsolete for you, we were still amazed by the DVD. Now that the BluRay disc is the fascination there, we're still looking at it like a time machine brought from NASA

Definitely interesting, I didn't know that. For my own curiosity, has Blu-ray found its way there yet at all, or is DVD still the standard? Even with Blu-ray I don't see DVD ever going away completely like VHS did for the most part. Our last Bond on VHS was Die Another Day, so only four years difference from Casino Royale.

I might be tempted to check eBay for that Casino Royale VHS now, it'd be something worthwhile to add to the collection. Only trouble is I have little room left for Bond VHS tapes. I've got them all over the place!

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Definitely interesting, I didn't know that. For my own curiosity, has Blu-ray found its way there yet at all, or is DVD still the standard? Even with Blu-ray I don't see DVD ever going away completely like VHS did for the most part. Our last Bond on VHS was Die Another Day, so only four years difference from Casino Royale.

I might be tempted to check eBay for that Casino Royale VHS now, it'd be something worthwhile to add to the collection. Only trouble is I have little room left for Bond VHS tapes. I've got them all over the place!

BluRay is here, and movies are for sell, but I'd bet the 80% of people still consider the DVD as their main player and the BluRay as a luxury (unless you got a PS3).

I doubt you get the VHS on eBay honestly- As I told you, it was rental only, but in a video club they've lent me the cover to photocopy and that's how I got it. Still, I'd buy if I could.

[scissorpuppy007]

What I love about me James Bond vhs collection is that the ones that I have all feature a quote from the film on the back of the case.

I'm actually currently doing some custom dvd/blu that keep (or try to closely) the style of the 1995 vhs covers. I have found hi rez art on the net and
I'm about 90% finished with everything. Only Octopussy is giving me an issue, the original train image is nowhere to be found in quality hi rez, the
2000 dvd art replacement is HORRID and the Uk artwork is also not available in a good size. So I'm trying to find a work around, currently I'm looking for
the actual images used for the UK version, I'm going to recreate it in photoshop. Which won't be hard at all, if I can find the proper images in good resolution.

Edited by scissorpuppy007, 27 November 2012 - 03:35 AM.

[seawolfnyy]

I miss that second Octopussy cover. Much better than the horrid 2000 re-release one that I have (the top one). I think Live and Let Die has one of the better covers.

Also, You Only Live Twice had a great one.

Edited by seawolfnyy, 27 November 2012 - 05:22 AM.

[Shaun Forever]

I've got that copy of 'You Only Live Twice' in my shed, also got a very dull Betamax copy as well, using an image
of Bond smoking the explosive cigarette I believe.


I'm absolutely loving this thread by the way, love my VHS art.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Another wave

TOMORROW NEVER DIES (1998, AVH)




SPYMAKER, THE SECRET LIFE OF IAN FLEMING (Video Omega, 1992)




LICENCE TO KILL (AVH, 1995)




HAPPY ANNIVERSARY 007 (AVH, 1987)



GOLDENEYE (AVH, 1996)



DIE ANOTHER DAY (Gativideo, 2003)




Sorry for the bad quality, I'll scan them as soon as I get a scanner, promise

[S K Y F A L L]

I noticed Spymaker was posted and I thought I would also post these which I have on VHS. I haven't seen them on DVD yet, so I wonder how rare these are.
The cover of Goldeneye; The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming also slides out of the case and has a picture and description on the backside.

[Nicolas Suszczyk]

Thanks! I've never seen the back side of that edition. Golden Eye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming wasn't released in Argentina, but emitted in 2004 by a TV cable channel of Latin America called Europa Europa (http://europaeuropa.tv/) under the title Así Nació James Bond (The Way James Bond Was Born). I've recorded it.

And I've got the American VHS version of The James Bond Story too. Not released here on VHS or DVD.

EDIT: Europa Europa still exists, but not in my cable operator service apparently.

Edited by Nicolas Suszczyk, 27 November 2012 - 10:11 PM.