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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    zebrafish wrote: »
    Inside a 1990s videogame?
    You're on the right track.

    What is this place? What is the history behind it?
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    I'm not a gamer and so don't have a decent guess.

    I am at a Bond locale I want to offer up when the opportunity comes available.


  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Funnily enough I think Q Branch just explained it in another thread: it's some hidden level in GoldenEye 64 isn't it? Citadel?
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    @mtm That's right - was wondering if someone would take notice so we can advance with this round. Comment parroted from that other thread:
    QBranch wrote: »
    They definitely have to use the Citadel complex one day. That being the GoldenEye 64 level which didn't make it into the final game. All those years playing this game with friends, and all along Citadel was hidden away on the cartridge behind coding. A place shrouded in mystery, rumoured by some to be real and thought by others to be just an urban legend for years until it was discovered by hackers. "We didn't think it actually existed."
    The location should be made as a set for one of the films, complete with pyramidal spires reaching up into the heavens. The film version should feel as mysterious as the game level, with Bond being summoned there by the villain. He explores the labyrinthian architecture with caution. The place is devoid of all life - the only sound being the wind sweeping through the halls. Suddenly, Bond is restrained. In one quadrant, the villain stands atop a floating platform and delivers his speech. Bond is left to die there out in the middle of nowhere, inevitably escaping of course (and narrowly avoiding the motion-detecting drone gun defences that drop from the ceiling), but never really finding out what the place was actually used for. Is it indeed a fortress, and all that remains of an advanced city which sunk into the surrounding salt lake that stretches for miles in the desert? Is it a temple dedicated to the gods, whose worshippers are now long gone? The lingering mystery and bizarreness are things I love to see in these films.

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    @mtm over to you mate.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Thank you, very interesting! But I want to hand it to Richard as I'm interested to find out where he is!
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Talk about timing, here's what i got.

    My usual cryptic, obscure opening image. If that's not enough clues can follow.

    Photo taken this morning, the rocky foreground and far left and right of the image are not directly associated with Bond. In the distance, well, that is.


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  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    Talk about timing, here's what i got.

    My usual cryptic, obscure opening image. If that's not enough clues can follow.

    Photo taken this morning, the rocky foreground and far left and right of the image are not directly associated with Bond. In the distance, well, that is.


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    I'd guess Silva's Island
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Good to key in on the water and the color. But not the Pacific.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Jamaica.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited March 2 Posts: 14,513
    Mmm. Closer and heading in right direction but not Jamaica.

    Update: a wider view, not a real clue visually other than dig deeper I guess.


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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    A little more, with an actual clue added to the frame.

    Notice the foreground is an island, with the point of view looking at the mainland and a major city.

    What relates to Bond is in between.

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  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Ah okay, so it's Bimini?
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Actually not Bimini or the Bahamas.

    But similarly spectacular blue waters in that area of the world used to film LTK.

  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    I thought that may be Miami's skyline. But I can't find a place they filmed that has such a view. Key Largo? Theb oat reminds me of the one they took Sharkey on, but that's probably just a coincedence.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    I thought they shot in Key West didn't they? Not that I know that bit of the world! :)
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    edited March 4 Posts: 8,791
    mtm wrote: »
    I thought they shot in Key West didn't they? Not that I know that bit of the world! :)

    They did as well, but from Key West you definately can't see Miami (I hope I won't need to eat these words ;-)).
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited March 5 Posts: 14,513
    So that skyline is not Miami, and I'm not saying a similar view exists on film. Just seeking the geo location.

    It's true LTK filmed all around Key West and a couple spots along 7 Mile Bridge. All land-based though I believe, exception is maybe the truck with Sanchez driving off the raised highway nto the water.

    For the answer you should go deeper, if I can say that.

    Surprisingly, the island location I'm looking for as the answer (not the in-between) pretty much translates into a line of dialogue from Moore Bond in OP.

  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    The "economy tour"?
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Economy tour does not describe my presence on island @j_w_pepper or the name. Maybe mid-grade, I was there for the wedding of a family friend it went off beautifully without a hitch. Food was good, but the finest meal we paid full prices comparing to Stateside.

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited March 16 Posts: 14,513
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    Following up, Bond in OP says he will visit a place (described in English), that pretty much translates (in the local language) to the location I stayed at. Which relates to the filming of LTK.

    My hotel and its rooms looked out on the water, so I walked down and took the photos from beach level.

    The Bond-related location is about midway between the rocks in the foreground and the (major) city in the distance. But associated with the side I was on.

    The locale is also further **west** than other places mentioned. Not so well-known by name, I admit.

  • ArapahoeBondFanArapahoeBondFan Colorado
    edited March 16 Posts: 126
    Isla Mujeres! (island of Women). Underwater scenes filmed for Licence to Kill according Imbd.
  • ArapahoeBondFanArapahoeBondFan Colorado
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    Also, I think you meant to say further west...
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Right on both counts @ArapahoeBondFan and thanks for the correction, I adjusted my post above.

    Isla Mujeres. Small island, about 5 miles top to bottom. So as happenstance I planned to attend a wedding in the vicinity of Cancun Mexico, and used On the Tracks of 007 and other references to see how close Bond filming locations were to Isla Mujeres where we were staying. Was thinking by highway and back on the mainland there might be something within one or two hours.

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    Turns out the area of some underwater filming was walking distance from my hotel. I did some snorkeling and celebrated with a Paloma which hit the spot. Yellow circles call out the location.


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  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited May 7 Posts: 9,296
    Find the Avis office.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited May 25 Posts: 14,513
    That's Hamburg and the department store Kaufhof, Monckebergstrasse, storefront. Amazing to see it in 1945.

    Avis is supposed to be the first shop window, meaning in the distance to right of the sign over the entrance (EDTRA?). In line with the soldier in front of the first window front with the curved top.

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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    I have an Avis Wizard number if that helps.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited May 26 Posts: 9,296
    Brilliant, @RichardTheBruce. I think I posted a picture of the "arch" in question before, but I just stumbled across this 1945 photo that Hamburger Abendblatt showed for the 80th anniversary of the end of WW II, so I thought this would fit into this thread. The Brits could roll into Hamburg on May 3, a few days before the Reich's total surrender because the local top officers and officials reached a handover agreement with them, ignoring Hitler's (and later Dönitz') orders to defend the city to the last man.

    Oh, yes, and there never was a real Avis office in that place. Not even after 1945.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    So @j_w_pepper I previously researched that and other locations anticipating a future opportunity to visit Hamburg. Just a matter of time.



    How about this one?

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  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    Is this Jamaica?
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited May 26 Posts: 14,513
    Not Jamaica @zebrafish. Correct Hemisphere I will say.
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