2025 Upper Deck James Bond No Time to Die
 

I just stumbled upon this set at a Blowout competitor. No release date yet. Boxes are $109.95 and 12-box cases are $1,299.95.

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[QUOTE]2025 Upper Deck James Bond: No Time to Die Trading Cards delivers (3) Die-Cut Colorful Inserts, (3) Base Numbered Parallels and (3-4) Additional Insert Card in Every Box!

Upper Deck is thrilled to announce the return of Daniel Craig in his last James Bond movie - ‘No Time To Die’. The 25th James Bond movie has given us exciting screen costume pieces from the production of the film and high-quality images that follow along with one of the biggest Bond movies ever to be included in our trading card sets. Search for the ultimate chase cards with low-numbered parallels and impressive talent-autographed cards!

[B]100 Card Base Set chronologically to the film![/B]
[LIST][*]Search for 5 different levels of base set parallels[*]Look for Rainbow foil board and die-cut to look like shattered ice![/LIST][B]Keep an eye out for Costume pieces from the production of the film![/B]
[LIST][*]View your favorite Bond character’s screen-worn apparel including 2-Swatch, 3-Swatch, 4-Swatch, Trios, Quads, and Autographed versions.[/LIST][B]Look for a variety of Actor Autograph cards including Daniel Craig![/B]
[LIST][*]All autographs are hard-signed on cards![*]Search for premium Autograph cards with low-numbered rarity.[/LIST][B]Collect Manufactured Patches to create your own 007 Image![/B]
[LIST][*]Find horizontal and vertical patch cards with the iconic Bond logo![/LIST][B]Chase hits include:[/B]
[LIST][*]Actor Autograph Cards[*]Costume Memorabilia Cards[*]Spectre Objective Cards- Big Hits![*]Additional Hits from the following:[LIST][*]Numbered Base parallels[*]Limited numbered insert parallel cards[/LIST][/LIST][/QUOTE]
On-card autos are fantastic. Costume memorabilia cards are nice. Manufactured patches are terrible.

This would be a cool product to have a Billie Eilish autograph but I doubt that happens.

Ana de Armas and Ralph Fiennes autos would be awesome.

2025 Upper Deck James Bond No Time to Die
 

As much as I was not a fan of the film (big Bond fan here, just not the direction the series is going), I agree good potential with autos and can’t go wrong with Craig.

Really I wish Bond would go back to the fun days of 007 in the 90s with Brosnan or back to Roger Moore days. It takes itself too seriously, is dark and ‘deep’ now. Id rather have fun escapism, the humor, the camp, the gadgets. I did like Casino Royale and QoS as entertaining films, if a little serious for Bond films. But everything since Skyfall…and especially including Skyfall…not a fan. Bland dark movies that kinda run together.

Dyna etch I am the opposite and I saw most of the Roger Moore ones but Moonraker killed it for me. The Craig series to me was much more realistic and Bond was somewhat ruthless ala Connery.

2025 Upper Deck James Bond No Time to Die
 

[QUOTE=TimBuckTwo;19716561]Dyna etch I am the opposite and I saw most of the Roger Moore ones but Moonraker killed it for me. The Craig series to me was much more realistic and Bond was somewhat ruthless ala Connery.[/QUOTE]

Oh I know the camp and gadgets get a *ton* of flak among Bond groups and my opinion is probably not that of most. But simply put the older Bond movies had more charm than say No Time To Die. Die Another Day in particular gets trashed to the nth degree because the gadgets and cheesy CGI in a brief part, but if you ask me which is more memorable and fun to watch, Die Another Day or Spectre, I’m saying DaD 10 times out of 10. Spectre was forgettable. Skyfall was a drawn out look at the psychology of Bond/his backstory that I don’t think anyone really asked for, combined randomly with Home Alone, and No Time To Die didnt even feel much like a Bond movie. May as well be a typical action thriller, maybe like Jason Bourne.

CR and QoS were my favs of the Craig era. Maybe it’s also because from Skyfall on, part of the ongoing shtick is Bond is old and washed up….which itself gets kinda old.

It’s incredible also how long we’re waiting for a new Bond movie now…it’s like what happened to this series. Im nostalgic for the fun yet intense Brosnan movies, and things like Roger Moore going to the Pyramids at Giza and the nautical car in TSWLM- that movie stands out. What were the memorable locations in like Spectre?

I’ll go sit in the corner now :) I do think the set will be fine with some nice on card autos either way.

[QUOTE=DynaEtch;19716583]Oh I know the camp and gadgets get a *ton* of flak among Bond groups and my opinion is probably not that of most. But simply put the older Bond movies had more charm than say No Time To Die. Die Another Day in particular gets trashed to the nth degree because the gadgets and cheesy CGI in a brief part, but if you ask me which is more memorable and fun to watch, Die Another Day or Spectre, I’m saying DaD 10 times out of 10. Spectre was forgettable. Skyfall was a drawn out look at the psychology of Bond/his backstory that I don’t think anyone really asked for, combined randomly with Home Alone, and No Time To Die didnt even feel much like a Bond movie. May as well be a typical action thriller, maybe like Jason Bourne.

CR and QoS were my favs of the Craig era. Maybe it’s also because from Skyfall on, part of the ongoing shtick is Bond is old and washed up….which itself gets kinda old.

It’s incredible also how long we’re waiting for a new Bond movie now…it’s like what happened to this series. Im nostalgic for the fun yet intense Brosnan movies, and things like Roger Moore going to the Pyramids at Giza and the nautical car in TSWLM- that movie stands out. What were the memorable locations in like Spectre?

I’ll go sit in the corner now :) I do think the set will be fine with some nice on card autos either way.[/QUOTE]

I agree that Die Another Day has much more rewatchability than most of the Graig films. I saw it in the theater and have seen it a few times since on TV.

No Time to Die is a good movie -- nothing special, but it was a respectful way for the Craig era to end. I agree, stylistically, the Craig era is kind of a cross between Jason Bourne and James Bond -- it's grittier.

My favorite Bond film is Live and Let Die. It's a pretty unique film. Bond is totally out of place in New Orleans and the bayou.

Isn't it kinda odd for it to be released 4 years after the movie hit theaters?

[QUOTE=seablaster;19717835]Isn't it kinda odd for it to be released 4 years after the movie hit theaters?[/QUOTE]

COVID derailed a ton of stuff. Marvel Premier 2021 just hit ePack.

In terms of the franchise, assuming a Bond movie doesn’t come out in the next month which it won’t, it’ll be 4 years and counting since last Bond movie. This is up there, but not quite, the record for Bond movies.

Gaps that were bigger, as of now:

License To Kill -> Goldeneye, 6 years
Spectre -> No Time To Die, 6 years (this was surprising)

Gaps of same size, as of now:

Die Another Day -> Casino Royale, 4 years
Quantum of Solace -> Skyfall, 4 years

If I’m not mistaken, the new Bond actor hasn’t even been announced, so we could be a *long* way away from the next one, perhaps becoming the longest gap yet.

Bond movies used to come out every other year for most of their run (for the most part). The Craig era we’re averaging about one every 4 years.

[QUOTE=DynaEtch;19716583]Oh I know the camp and gadgets get a *ton* of flak among Bond groups and my opinion is probably not that of most. But simply put the older Bond movies had more charm than say No Time To Die. Die Another Day in particular gets trashed to the nth degree because the gadgets and cheesy CGI in a brief part, but if you ask me which is more memorable and fun to watch, Die Another Day or Spectre, I’m saying DaD 10 times out of 10. Spectre was forgettable. Skyfall was a drawn out look at the psychology of Bond/his backstory that I don’t think anyone really asked for, combined randomly with Home Alone, and No Time To Die didnt even feel much like a Bond movie. May as well be a typical action thriller, maybe like Jason Bourne.

CR and QoS were my favs of the Craig era. Maybe it’s also because from Skyfall on, part of the ongoing shtick is Bond is old and washed up….which itself gets kinda old.

It’s incredible also how long we’re waiting for a new Bond movie now…it’s like what happened to this series. Im nostalgic for the fun yet intense Brosnan movies, and things like Roger Moore going to the Pyramids at Giza and the nautical car in TSWLM- that movie stands out. What were the memorable locations in like Spectre?

I’ll go sit in the corner now :) I do think the set will be fine with some nice on card autos either way.[/QUOTE]

I agree with everything you are saying. Im a HUGE Bond fan and Im ready for the series to be actually fun again. I get the whole Bourne/Dark Knight influence that the Craig series had to be more serious but give me Brosnan's series over it every day. Heck, bring Pierce back for one more film. I'd love it. Bad CGI and all.

[QUOTE=DynaEtch;19716429]As much as I was not a fan of the film (big Bond fan here, just not the direction the series is going), I agree good potential with autos and can’t go wrong with Craig.

Really I wish Bond would go back to the fun days of 007 in the 90s with Brosnan or back to Roger Moore days. It takes itself too seriously, is dark and ‘deep’ now. Id rather have fun escapism, the humor, the camp, the gadgets. I did like Casino Royale and QoS as entertaining films, if a little serious for Bond films. But everything since Skyfall…and especially including Skyfall…not a fan. Bland dark movies that kinda run together.[/QUOTE]

Seeing how a lot of franchises are emerging from the dark and gritty tone that seemed to persist through the mid-00's to COVID, I think the next Bond series will be more akin to the Moore era style movies. Fun, quick, fantastical. If they continue with the tone that defined the Craig movies, my take would be, why bother? You did that style to great acclaim, and you capped if off with Bond literally being killed. Let's have fun again, similar to the take James Gunn is going with for his Superman movie.

Make bond fun again!

2025 Upper Deck James Bond No Time to Die
 

[QUOTE=jasonplo;19718023]I agree with everything you are saying. Im a HUGE Bond fan and Im ready for the series to be actually fun again. I get the whole Bourne/Dark Knight influence that the Craig series had to be more serious but give me Brosnan's series over it every day. Heck, bring Pierce back for one more film. I'd love it. Bad CGI and all.[/QUOTE]

Good to know I’m not the only one who thinks this! Completely agree…Bond now just takes itself too seriously, too dark. I liked each and every one of Brosnan’s 4 Bonds. I’m in the camp of bring back the fun. I’m not bothered by an invisible car like a lot of critics and most of the fanbase is.

In typical Bond fashion, people take one thing from a movie to discredit a movie (going back to Bond driving the gondola through Venice and the double taking pigeon in Moonraker, or the Tarzan yell or clown costume in Octopussy). In the case of Brosnan, it’s Denise Richards as the nuclear scientist in TWINE (and so discredit what is a GREAT Bond movie with a top notch villain and interesting plot. The opening sequence in the bank alone is quintessential type Bond). In the case of DAD, it’s the invisible car or cheesy CGI at end. And I understand people think the gadgets went haywire…but I don’t need Bond to be uber-realistic and dark, I’d rather have it be fun escapism. Tomorrow Never Dies is actually kinda dark in some ways, but with enough light hearted Brosnan stuff too. Something about it, like all the Brosnan ones…just more rewatchable than a recent Bond movie.

2025 Upper Deck James Bond No Time to Die
 

[QUOTE=Brobocop;19718028]Seeing how a lot of franchises are emerging from the dark and gritty tone that seemed to persist through the mid-00's to COVID, I think the next Bond series will be more akin to the Moore era style movies. Fun, quick, fantastical. If they continue with the tone that defined the Craig movies, my take would be, why bother? You did that style to great acclaim, and you capped if off with Bond literally being killed. Let's have fun again, similar to the take James Gunn is going with for his Superman movie.[/QUOTE]

I can only hope, but I’m skeptical. I don’t see them going that route, especially back to the style of Moore. I think we may be in the minority, a lot of people seem to love the darker, serious Craig era. Will have to see…but I think they intend Bond to be a gritty action thriller these days. The Brosnan era imo was a near perfect blend of serious and light hearted (credit to Pierce himself who pulls that off). It was coming off Dalton’s very serious movies. I’m not even asking to go back to Moore’s utter camp (which tbh I’d be ok with), but go back to Brosnan type Bond movies.

I’m also a 90s homer in many ways (see sig), so perhaps I’m biased. It was a great time for Bond movies. Heck the N64 Goldeneye game itself was great. It’s the era of Bond I grew up with.