![]() ![]() ![]() The swivelling number plate, interior radar trackers and tyre-destroying wheel blades make useful features on Bond’s company hack. Remember them fondly, and find them all faithfully recreated on this new Lego version.Įverything from the bullet-proof shield popping out behind the rear window, to fog light machine guns. Part of what makes the original ‘Goldfinger’ DB5 the ultimate Bond car is the arsenal of gadgets and weapons it featured. Bugatti Chirons and Porsche GT3 RSs are all well and good, but a Bond car is invariably possessed of trinketry not often found on the average car’s options list. Video: Lego releases James Bond Aston Martin DB5 Double-0 heaven/Lego paradise We went to the global launch at the UK’s flagship Lego Store in Leicester Square, London. Now, the finished product is hitting shelves. That makes it the world’s most famous car and as such, was the perfect next project for the guys at Lego to reimagine in brick form. The DB5 is, and always will be, Bond’s most famous car. Read more: The most popular cars used in films The DB5 has served in no less than three outings of the world-famous Ian Fleming character – first in the immortal Goldfinger (1964), then in GoldenEye (1995) and once more in Skyfall (2012). Their conclusion is, we think, a just one – James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 And the version immortalised in Lego has just been revealed.įor nearly 60 years this car, and subsequent Astons, have been the best-known automotive companions to the world’s most famous spy. What is the most iconic car ever made? A car that means something to almost everyone – a pop culture hero, a timeless automotive star, almost of its own franchise? This is the question the boffins at Lego asked when tasked with picking something new for their Lego Creator Expert line.
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