What Do Bond Fans Really Want? 

Tragically, you two have more passion for Bond than the official custodians!

My 007 Wishlist 1. Stop making James Bond an overemotional wreck. 2. Stop making James Bond old and past his prime. 3. Stop having every James Bond story connected with all his previous films. 4. Stop making James Bond sexless. He is unashamedly the archetypal lady killer and emphasizes the sexual fantasy that appeals with both sexes. 5. Bond is a man of high class and sophistication in luxury things. All to add to the fantasy appeal. 6. James Bond is a stoic and masculine hero, that goes through great pain and turmoil to save the day. 7. Don't make James Bond political. He is Fleming's 'blunt instrument' of the crown and writers must not use Bond to pander or to serve any modern political or social causes.

Back to simplicity. The Sean Connery/ Roger Moore days of where every movie was it's own story and didn't have the pressure of following up on a story. The Goldfingers, Man with the Golden Gun, They Spy Who Loved Me. One movie on its own. Maybe the franchise has put too much pressure on itself to deliver a big big story. Like a Harry Potter series per say. I find myself watching the Moores, Bosnians and Connerys during my lunch breaks. That's my heart on my sleeve. In a 007 sense. Love the channel ❤❤

I think most Bond fans want a return to fun James Bond. And we want Barbara to make some damn decisions and move it along.

Recently watched Goldfinger again, after 10 years I think. New movies made me appreciate it even more. Especially Goldfinger himself, such interesting bad guy. Bond basically acts as a spectator for most of the movie. We need strong bad guys again, it makes the whole movie

I'd ask Walther for a limited edition re-release of the original P99

A movie with a simple plot. A baddie with selfish intentions. No plots elapsing several decades of Bond. Standalone movies more or less

I want a fun James Bond again. Stand alone movies with just random villains who don’t have some close relationship with Bond.

Throwback to 60s cool and Henry Caville.

Me and my wife watched License to Kill last week at the Alamo movie theaters. It was a very good experience, and it was packed with people.

Two Bond Movies in the last 10 years, not enough

At this point I just want a movie before 2030 😅

We sure don’t want him to Die !

This is absolutely the right question and one I think producers are having trouble answering. I think it’s why nothing seems to be happening at any level. No one really knows what they (filmmakers), or us fans, want from Bond and are afraid to ask.

Sean Connery Is James Bond and always was the best 007 ever.😊

A movie every 2 years again and 1 more with Brosnan

We want the adventure of the past. We want films like From russia with love, The spy who loved me, The living daylights and Goldeneye.

A complete 4K 25 film box-set. I'd actually buy a 4k player for that purchase.

One thing I don't want is a 'go back to the 60's' time piece. We live in one of the most fascinating geopolitical periods in history, and yet Barbara's best idea is "let's make Bond sad, and Blofeld be his brother'. God, I just want them to make a normal Bond film.

Give me some Brosnan era camp, not too much like Roger Moore but not too little like Daniel Craig

Henry Cavill. That’s what I want.

When it's quiet, the Bond Villains are plotting their next moves.

I know it was meant to be an affectionate parody, but I think Austin Powers did a lot of damage to Bond with general audiences. It made Eon distance themselves from the 'camp' comedy that had been a vital part of the films going back to Dr No, and it also made it difficult for a full blooded version of Blofeld (or Blofeld substitute), hence Christoph Waltz' semi-conscious performance.

Short term, the movies in 4K with actual HDR would be nice.

Sadly EON don't give a flying F about what the fans want. RIP movie Bond.

I would like to see an "origins" type story about how he was recruited and trained

Mini mission with euphoric end to it, bombastic opening credits, Bond gets the main mission pamphlet, Hello Q, hello exotic location, bit of danger, car chase, something something, big explosion, sleeps with the girl, Bond theme plays, roll credits, James Bond Will Return. How's that for simplicity..

The James Bond and Q Duo we all want, i want David Zaritsky as James Bond and Kyle barbeau ❤😂 #LoveYouPeople

For me, I can mimic the styles and clothes. But I can't mimic the experiences. So I would want Bond in Motion near me, out West, or a gather all out here. And absolutely, the affordability for Bond items!!

No more reboot $*** - no gosh darn origin story.

Fingers crossed they make the jump with a toy line, but I fear they either won’t out of fear of tarnishing the image of “Bond = Luxury” and a Luxury brand doesn’t make cheap toys. It’s the only thing I can think of. Even when the marketing machine was in full swing for Die Another Day, we never got a 3.75in scale GI Joe figs, accessories or anything. Fingers crossed with the growing popularity of smaller ReAction Figs and the very popular 1:12 scale figs we see across so many brands that James Bond can jump into that market and thrive. Especially with a full back catalog of films and characters we would all need to start shopping for a new display case as well 😂 Great video as always David

bond on a mission and some cool stunts

Love this video. Well done. Enjoyed it. I am all over for a first edition box set of Ian Fleming books with the original covers. And, I also love the idea of James Bond toys. Being a LEGO fan, it would be fun to have a figurine of Sean Connery ... with the LEGO hair, and then without the LEGO hair. Don't take me wrong here. Just want to sound a bit cheeky. Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton are my favourite Bond actors. My least favourite is Daniel Craig (he just doesn't 'has' it). As for current Bond products that I'm not agreeable with, these are the DB5 (yes, I know) and the Omega watches (yes, I know). Sorry gentlemen, but here is why. The DB5 undoubtedly looked fabulous in 'Goldfinger'. According to the book (Chapter 7 - Thoughts in a DB3) the choice between an Aston Martin and a Jaguar 3.4 (my guess is this must have been an early XK120) . The truth is that the DB5 in the original movie (1964) is way behind the then E-type. The DB5 had a live axle, whereas the Jag. has all-round independent suspension. Why the producers keep on hammering out the DB5 in the Daniel Craig movies is beyond me. Please go for he AM V8 from the 'Living Daylights' (looks fabulous in the Johnny E. movie by the way). Next is that watch. James Bond is a Rolex man. As was Ian Fleming. Omega is nowhere to be seen in the books. Noting against Omega. Good watches. But not James Bond. in the book 'Live and Let Die' (that is the second book in the series after ' Casino Royal'), Ian Fleming refers to Rolex (Chapter 19 - Valley of Shadows). And in the first films, as you surely know, it is all Rolex right up until Timothy Dalton's 'Licence to Kill' Apologies for my wicked - weird off - comments about DB5 and Omega, but that doesn't mean any less appreciation for the wonderful channel you created. Your videos taken on location at the 'Thunderball' house, and swimming near 'GoldenEye' house were superb. Massively loved it. Thank you for those, As well as a big thank you for making this current video. Greetings from Singapore. Bart

But what is great about these changes, when Bond is really stylish and all that, is now that sidekicks and other factors can play a role and maybe develop more interesting villain sidenarratives/quests. Holding and having Bond jacket seems as a great idea.

I’d just like some form of comms from EON, even just a snippet that they are working on something

David and Kyle, Wested Leather Co. (Of original Indiana Jones jacket fame) produce a version of the TND leather jacket. The advertised one is in black but they do screen accurate brown on request. I also really want it.

I want all the films released individually on 4K, with the original poster art on the covers.

Great video

Thanks for another great video! 1) I’m hopeful for December 2025, Goldeneye’s thirteenth anniversary. Amazon might be banking on that film having more weight with the “normies,” especially the fortysomethings for whom that film was their 007 entry point as teenagers. 2) My guess is that Amazon’s analytics 📊 regarding what they can realistically sell via their website, especially via Amazon Prime, and when they can sell it will determine what types of merchandise we get and when. I can’t see Amazon buying 007 and not trying to sell plenty of 007-related products. 3) We’ll probably see more activity when the new video game releases. More people might desire 007 video games above most other merchandise. People with fond memories of the Goldeneye game as well as younger fans who’ve grown up playing more online than with physical toys might be more likely to buy new games and save their money elsewhere. 4) Lego 007 playsets and Creator kits would be pretty cool if they don’t exist already. Thanks again!

The problem is is that we all want Timothy Dalton back as bond but the time has passed he’s 78 years old right now. He looks incredible. Don’t get me wrong but he’s too old to do the role and it’s just so sad because I loved him very dearly, and I loved the living daylights in license to kill. They were my favorite of all them on movies.

As far as products go I'd like to see more variety in product placement, I'm bored of Omega and Aston Martin. Id also like to see more products form secondary characters, I really love the Swatch x 007 Q watch (in fact I own one) it's really cool to be able to have something shown on the movie that directly relates to one of the characters and is unique to that character and that movie. They could do this Money Penny and M, aswell as more with Q. Perhaps a Moneypenny range of handbags or purses? Q designed multitools or flashlights?

Some Bond lego - iconic scenes, M's office, Goldfinger laser scene etc

Two brand new Bond books are near completion and new Bond theme! ‘LIVING PAST ANOTHER DAY ‘ and the sequel ‘ GRAVITAS ‘ set in Ukraine . Bond also plays golf with an AI female and this sets him off on an amazing adventure in CERN and then Chernobyl!!!! Keep watching for updates!!!

It's interesting to note that in 2012 when asked what happened to the 'old Bond formula', Daniel Craig replied 'Austin Powers F-ked us' so they couldn't use those tropes anymore as much as some fans would want there return.

Definitely a remastered and expanded release of Barry's TMWTGG!

Speaking of this year being great for literary Bond, don’t forget that in October, IF Publications will be re-releasing all of the original Bond novels in hardback. Something to look forward to!

Very good

S.T. Dupont has done some of the things you mentioned, like the Golden Gun pen and lighter set. And the cufflinks are out there too. Magnoli Clothiers had some pretty good replicas of the clothing and accessories as well.

Enjoyed the site

They should just start the james bond brand, open a boutique stores which would sell clothes and all the wonderful accessories you were mentioning.

4k releases of each title would be next level if they all came with original poster artwork too, rather than just a generic collection cover. And a series of character figures is way overdue, so many characters could be released in waves

We need NECA James Bond figures. They’d be amazing sculpts and would likely sell really well. I’d pay $30 a piece for really good Bond figures

Dr. No's ivory suit. 🙌🏻

Good shout Kyle, the jacket was Angels and Bermans, now just Angels. David would the Jaws Stapler not work better as a Jaws Hole Puncher? How about a life size replica of Nick Nack in coattails that could serve as a drinks trolley? Of course, I'm throwing spaghetti at the wall at this point

Speaking of toys as a kid I had some Agent Zero M stuff including a movie camera they turned into a sub machine gun! That stuff was hawked by a young Kurt Russell if I recall.

Wested leather co here in the UK sell the Tomorrow Never Dies jacket, original comes from Angels and Bermans

Given Bond is a series that can go from 'Die Another Day' to 'Casino Royale' it can cover different tones and styles and at the end of the day your not going to be able to please everyone. You also have to attract a 2020's general audience [which is why I don't think they'd go back to the 'Bond formula' which has been retired for 20+ years now]. Roger Moore's films [bar 'For Your Eyes Only'] are generally far removed from the Fleming novels yet both have big fan bases.

A movie! News. Anything....

Yeah what about a Matchbox or Hot Wheels branded James Bond Aston Martin series? I would like to see some James Bond new mission comics. That could be a fun idea 💡 inspiration for EON. Also some graphic novel adaptations of the movies featuring the actors specific to each movie in the novel. Now that would be great. David, what about some “Bond Experience” Merchandise? But not your standard channel merch store. I suggest you pick a few key items like Bond Experience sunglasses 😎 through Zenni . Or if you have some high res photos from your travels to Bond locations, put a “Bond Experience” frame on it and put it up on your channel for download.

A new bond and a new film would be great.

I would like to see a 4K set with decent HDR and all with new Atmos mixes that do away with all of the added sound effects on the recent 5.1 mixes. If these were added due to issues of separating audio stems we now have AI that can do the separation, a la Peter Jackson's recent Get Back series

Bond movies seem to suffer from "series syndrome." Movies today seem to have multiple sequels to draw the audience back to see the whole story. Bond doesn't need that. Make good movies and, trust me, we fans will come back every time.

We want Bond not to be dead. But not sure it is that simple.

I want at least something

How about a mini statuesque of Blofeld different faces of Blofeld from actors who played Blofeld. Or James Bond bookmarks? So you can put your bookmarks in your favourite Bond books. And at the top of each bookmark each one is in 3D. 😎😏 How about that David?

Angels & Berhmans would have subcontracted the Tomorrow Never Dies PTS leather jacket to Wested Leather but Peter passed away a while ago and I don’t know the current status of the company or their designs/quality

It's hard to get a consensus as Calvin Dyson for example is one of the biggest Bond fans around but isn't keen on Henry Cavile for Bond despite him being a fan favourite and when he did a video on a 'period Bond' he said the idea didn't enthuse him. There is also people who want 'accurate Fleming adaptions' but most of Fleming has been mined already so it might feel like treading old ground [and there's the radio series for that].

I've been a fan of the series since if age of 4. My dad got me into the films, the first two I saw were For your eyes only, A view to a kill and I was hooked. To this day Roger is my favorite Bond.I will admit I wasn't a fan of some of Connery's films that often get too much praise FRWL and Thunderball as they were slow burns. I much enjoyed Timothy Dalton, Lazenby, the first two Brosnan outings. I would rather try to forget the bulk of Craig as they don't much seem like Bond films with the exception of Skyfall, his second being Casino Royale, rest of this tenure is a downer. What I would like to see, is a return to the more classic story, over the top villain, with a slight campiness and amusing double entendres or one liners and amazing practicle effects/ stunts that doesn't fully rely on explosions or CGI, and for the love of all things holy, no woke agenda like what we saw in NTTD, god that film was a floater. Pretty females equal to Bond not ditzy, but not smarter than either this isn't Marvel. Chris Hemsworth would do a good job and takes the series back to a more Moore like film experience. My top 10 Bond films. 10. Skyfall 9. The living daylights 8. Tomorrow never dies 7. Octopussy 6. Goldfinger 5. On her Majesty's secret service 4. The spy who Loved me 3. Licence to kill 2. For your eyes only 1. A view to a kill

Im a physical media dinosaur and they need to make steelbooks for ‘Live and Let Die’ and ‘Die Another Day’ which have been excluded for some reason

How does this series still to this very day not have a TV show if I must ask really??!!

The reboot movies should be set in the sixties 😊

@EthanKnight97 said it best on this comment section, but I’ll say this: I want James Bond to have fun being James Bond again. Casino Royale was the last time he did that. Stop being “influenced” by other franchises and get back to your own identity. Embrace, within reason, the fantasy element of Bond again. He needs to lighten up.

I like Daniel as an actor. I like that he did most of the stunts. But when I am feeling bad after a JB movie, there is something wrong. And I felt worse and worse, after each new Bond. This did not happen with any other Bond (Connery & Co). Heed that, when people are running out of of ideas and wonder how to catch the audience, they will fall back to children and children in danger, to create tension. And exactly this is what happened with JB‘s last movie. If you doubt my words, take a serious look at the Thriller genre and what happens to many formerly successful authors…

Check out Wested Leather for the Bond Jacket

Keep Bond a focused professional. Not some narcissitic crybaby. And agree on the 4K box set.

To be James Bond and not the boring woke mess that they've made him into... oh, and a white man from the UK.

A kick ass, entertaining, spy flick ☹️

A deluxe NO TIME TO DIE URN/ Cocktail shaker.

I always thought the tomorrow never dies jacket was the Belstaff Panther jacket in brown

A 4k boxset of all the movies would be great. I’d buy that in an instant. A boxset of the Fleming books with the original artwork, yes! A new movie, yes! Make Bond dangerous again, no daddy Bond. Toxic masculinity, yes 😂

I always wanted a 8 bit or 16 bit bond game made into unreal engine

I would love to have 007 speed champion lego sets

Bond needs to go back to Rolex. In the books its a rolex, in the early films its a rolex. He wears a damn rolex! Fleming wore a Rolex. Someone pointed this out to me and i never noticed but once they moved to Omega, there are multiple shots in the film showing off the watch and it feels incredibly forced. Awful stuff.

The 007 franchise has survived for more than 60 years for one reason - Don't mess with the formula. Beautiful women, cars, locations, action, guns, intrigue and a suave and stylish Bond. Mess with the formula (like they have been doing) and it'll all fall apart.

Finally wearing the 60th anniversary 😊

Play-Mobil, and Lego- toys, especially yeah!:)

Who made the cardigan used by Craig in casino royale on the balcony with Mathis ?

The whole scene at Blofeld’s party in NTTD. The tone was perfect - that’s what I want. Bond was cool, every character was cool. There was no cringe inducing wokisms, Bond wasn’t shown as too old or out of date. The whole thing was fun, without being campy nonsense. Do that.

Be careful where you throw that . He meant it !

Tell you what I want a back to basic, fun adventure, Casino Royale and Skyfall were awesome, don't dislike the Craig era could have been better and the attempts to string it together into one story weren't well done and dragged it down. a film like Goldeneye would be absolutely perfect don't want bond to have a narrative ark extending beyond one film just one great adventure good villians, great set pieces, great looking woman whether they're villans, hero's or damsels in distress. would like them to keep Ralph Finnes, Ben Wishaw and Naomie Harris in their current roles. would love to see Ana De Armas again. it's not complicated, just a cool hero, great set pieces decent enough story, exotic location bang bang bang, bond finishes in the middle of a tropical ocean hiding from rescuers because he'd rather have a shag too much to ask?

I would even get it a few spinoffs of other characters yeps

No more woke idiocy

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If the producers take any longer to throw out an announcement, they better get ready for the zeitgeist to perceive the James Bond franchise as a thing of the past, almost like they did with the Indiana Jones franchise last year.

I WANT MORE DANIEL CRAIG!!!

Shoot. I'd settle for a new movie before 2027.

Yes James Bond movies on 4k ultra HD blu-ray from Dr No to Die Another Day

Octopussy has to be a top 10 Bond film Roger is at his best yeah the lion and Tarzan other than that it's Peak Bond and his second best its a great film aswell and funny

A new film.

I am not sure kids would buy cheap ish model figures today because they don’t know any of these characters and haven’t seen a film at the cinema recently. Marketing comes off a film and with no film there would be reason to buy and collect toys to continue the buzz. Expensive figurines will appeal to the existing Bond Experience clientele but then because of their cost they just become shelf dust gatherers. Bottom line is … make a new film