What is the best Bond gadget of all time?
The Lotus Esprit that seamlessly turned into a submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me has been voted the best James Bond gadget in the history of the storied franchise.
A survey of Bond film fans conducted by an online gaming site for the release of the 25th movie in the franchise, No Time to Die, found that more than a third of people (34%) remember the Lotus, driven by Roger Moore in the 1977 film, most fondly among the mountains of fancy technology enjoyed by the secret agent over the years.
Mostly the brainchild of Bond’s MI6 colleague Q, there have been a vast array of these weird and wonderful contraptions since the first Bond film came out in 1962 – more than you can shake a wrist-mounted dart gun at, you might say.
Behind the Lotus, film fans voted for the car invisibility cloak featured in Die Another Day, with nearly three in 10 (29%) voting it into second place in the list. A quarter of respondents each chose Bond’s Rolex watch – which featured a miniature circular saw and magnetic capability so strong that it could redirect fired bullets in Live and Let Die – and Sean Connery’s personal jetpack from the movie, Thunderball.
What is your favourite Bond gadget? Who is your favourite actor to have played James Bond?
Roger Moore would have to be my favourite James Bond - interesting how many gadgets are now becoming reality