007 is for Secret Agent Rack Toys

These are a bit of a weirdness, they continue to attract a high premium, price-wise, despite being nothing more that Hong Kong rack-toys, and quite common. By quite common I mean there is always a good lot of these, seemingly in every general toy sale, at either Vectis or SAS and they are often on evilBay, while the figures can be found loose at most toy fairs - and I don't just mean the odd toy soldier shows, but the workaday, several-a-week, general toy-fairs!

Still, they are better made than most HK stuff, original sculpts and James Bond related, and it's that which keeps their value-up. We're not looking at the figures today, but the oddity of the line - the baddies' vehicles - which come in at a passable 1:76/72nd scale.

Gilbert's carded James Bond Action Toys of Doctor No's Dragon Tank (turned out to be DUKW I seem to recall and the two-into-one hydrofoil of Mr. Largo. reflection is always a problem photographing blistered sets and this was further complicated by being shot outside on a blazing-hot day!

The 'tank' which is passed off as a dragon in the swamps of Dr. No's secret island base and which - in the film - was equipped with a flame-thrower. I do have a lose one (or two, but the second is broken?) of these somewhere so we will return to it in close-up one day, but suffice to say, if you press the nipple on the cupola, the flame-mouth shoots forwards a centimeter or so, with all the spectacle of a biscuit breaking! Hay, they were simpler times!

The silver shaft - looking like a convincing gun-barrel is actually the mast of the boat sticking up behind the tank!

Not so clear images for Largo's boat, but basically it's two halves with the rear, stern section clipping over the hull of the forward part, to be jettisoned in the bath for a quick getaway!

That's it - expensive rack-toys - they're a bit of an oxymoron!