The task of turning a beloved series of films, 22 movies
over a 50 year period with box office receipts of over five billion dollars, into a single set of trading cards is daunting. Leave it to Rittenhouse Archives to take this challenge head
on and produce a fantastic set of cards that are so entertaining, you will want
to collect every single one, base set to inserts to special hits. If you are a card collector that likes their martinis shaken, not stirred, 2012 Rittenhouse Archives James Bond 50th
Anniversary Trading Cards will satisfy your every Bond desire. And no, you won’t find David Niven
anywhere near this set, a smart omission.
This set falls under our classification of trading
cards. Hobby Boxes contain 24 – 5
card packs and feature three autograph cards per box.
As you can see from some of the cards we pulled from our box, this set has it all.
Base Set - Actors that have played Bond
Sean Connery, front and back
George Lazenby, Roger Moore
Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig
Base Set - All 22 movies
Dr. No, From Russia With Love
Goldfinger, Thunderball
You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamond Are Forever
Live And Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me
Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy
A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence To Kill
GoldenEye. Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough
Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum Of Solice
Base Parallel
Sean Connery, Roger Moore
Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Charles Gray - Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Daniela Bianchi - Tatiana Romanova, Sophie Marceau - Elektra King, Olga Kurylenko - Camile
Dr. No Throwback Movie Cards
Bomd with M, front and back
James Bond, Sylvia Trench, Dr. No
Bond and Honey Ryder on the beach, A Spider in Bond's bed
Gold Plaque - Movie Tribute, Poster & Credits
You Only Live Twice, front and back
Live And Let Die, front and back
Bond... James Bond
Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan
007 Gold Gallery
Kristina Wayborn as Magda, Carey Lowell as Pam Bouvier
The Hits - Autographs
Cristina Contes - Die Another Day, Vijay Amritraj - Octopussy
Peter Fontaine - For Your Eyes Only
Overall Look
As you can see from the base set, Rittenhouse Archives has
taken the “golden anniversary” and produced a fabulous result. The design of these cards is superior
with fantastic embossed gold foil, strong card stock and excellent write-ups on
the back. Photo selection is
really good too. The Dr. No
throwback cards are another stellar design that feels retro with a smart choice
of cardboard stock, period font selection and great black & white
photography. Something I would
have loved to pull but didn’t is one of the three James Bond Shadowbox cards
which look wonderful.
Quality and Variety of the Checklist
It is all here.
All 22 Movies, all 6 Bond actors.
The Bond... James Bond and Gold Gallery inserts work really well to
highlight favorite characters and actors from the series of films.
Do the hits hold up?
Short of Pierce Brosnan, the autograph checklist is confined
to the kitschier bond characters, which is fine. A lot of these autographs you won’t find anywhere else and
getting bigger names to sign probably who have taken this out of the trading
card category and into premium cards, which would be a mistake because these cards work much better as trading cards.
Will you want to collect them all?
You will want every single one of them. Each box should yield a base set but
you will need several boxes to put together a complete Dr. No set, as well as
the inset sets.
Rating
5 out of 5
2012 Rittenhouse Archives James Bond 50th Anniversary is a fantastic and worthy tribute.
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