THE
WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (Inkworks)
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Release
Date |
10
November 1999 |
Set Configuration:
90 Base cards
36 Packs per box
7 Cards per pack
10 Boxes per case
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Pierce
Brosnan was back as secret agent 007 in “The World Is Not Enough”,
his third James Bond adventure. Not from a Fleming title, but the
Bond family motto as seen in one of the earlier movies and in the
Fleming book “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”.
The world premiere was announced for the 19th November 1999 and I
was lucky to obtain two tickets for the movies premiere in Holland,
they were given to me by the world famous beer company “Grolsch”
who sponsored this event. As a tie-in to the new James Bond movie,
“Inkworks” produced a complete new set of Premium UV coated
trading cards. As usual the basic set contained 90 different cards
depicting the whole movie in trading card format. This time each pack
contained only 007 cards and a complete box had 36 packs. As always
“Inkworks” guarantees a full base set within a complete
counter display box. For “Inkworks”, this card set would
be their last tie-in with the James Bond company EON, as the next
series of trading cards will be manufactured by Rittenhouse Archives
Inc.
The
card series was promoted with a superbly designed double sided sell
sheet and not less than three different promotion cards. The new series
of trading cards was announced for November 1999. At the same time
“Inkworks” was very proud to announce their fifth anniversary
in the world of James Bond. The sell sheet depicted Pierce Brosnan
on a red background together with some movie shots. The reverse was
stuffed with information regarding the new set of cards. To help selling
the cards on the retail market, “Inkworks” added in every
counter display box a Casino Chip. There are three different Casino
Chips to collect, numbered as C1, C2 & C3. The production for
each Casino Chip was strictly limited to only 3000 pieces. Regardless
to this limitation, the Casino Chips frequently pop-up on eBay and
other on-line retail shops at acceptable prices.
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"Dealer
Exclusive Sell-Sheet"
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Exclusive for the release of "The World Is Not Enough" trading cards, a specially designed 1.5" round "Casino Chip" was created by "Inkworks". This 1.5" round chip was given to distributors to promote the release. The chip features an image of James Bond on the front & is Gold Foil stamped "AP" on the back. The chip comes in an original marketing box which is a standard black cardboard jewellery box with an official "Inkworks" embossed gold sticker on the front.
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"Promo Chip "Front"
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"Promo Chip "Reverse" |
Also available was a Lucite Chipset and card number #001 mounted in plexiglass console. See pictures below. Only one-hundred of these sets where produced by "Lucite". In 2023 it came to my attention that there was also a Lucite Chipset with AP chips inside.
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"Lucite Chipset" |
(Special thanks to Adam Marchall for providing the above pictures.)
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"Lucite with AP Chipset" |
(Special thanks to Robert Lukaszyk for providing the above picture.)
Promotion
card P1 is the most common one and shows the advance poster, on the
card reverse they also announced their fifth anniversary celebration
with James Bond. Promotion card ML1 was distributed through Suncoast
Video, the card depicts the same still that you can compose with the
first set of chase cards. The third promotion card numbered as DW1
was only available in the UK and shows a still of Pierce Brosnan holding
a Walther P99 handgun with silencer.
If
it’s not broken why fix it, so the chase and autographed cards
returned with this set, again it contained three exiting chase levels.
The first chase set comprises of nine cards, the nine cards together
compose a puzzle depicting a still of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond
and the two leading Bond girls, Sophie Marceau and Denise Richards.
Numbered from B1 thru B9 and randomly inserted in 1/11 packs, this
chase set was titled as “Bond Is Back” and displayed here
below.
“Bond
Is Back” Chase Card Set
The
second level of chase cards was titled as the “Q-Branch”.
The set existed of six cards each showing a gadget that was used by
James Bond. The gadgets were issued by the quartermaster “Q”
and his assistant “R”. The card reverse explained each
gadget in detail, the Q-boat, his Omega Seamaster wristwatch, the
BMW Z8 etc… It’s also in this movie that “Q”
announced his successor to 007, “then that makes you R”
replies Bond. Sadly it was to be Desmond Llewellyn last movie as “Q”
following his death in a car accident. The Q-cards were only distributed
in 1/17 packs and numbered from Q1 thru Q6.
“Q-Branch”
Chase Card Set
As
usual the third chase level contains only one card, the “Shaken
Not Stirred” card. A very rare card only inserted in 1/108 packs
or three counter display boxes. The card reverse displayed all the
one-liners during the casino scene where Bond requests to meet Valentin
Zukowsky. The card is titled “Shaken Not Stirred”, numbered
as S1 and beautiful designed as if it was coming out of Maurice Binder’s
hands, the leading girls, flames and dancing girl silhouettes seen
through a Martini glass. Stunning!
Like
the previous card serie some of the packs contained a redemption card.
All of the redemption cards were numbered as R1. Again you could exchange
your redemption card for one of the six new autographed cards, the
cards were personally signed by, Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas
Jones, Dame Judi Dench as M, Desmond Llewelyn as Q, Samantha Bond
as Miss Moneypenny, Goldie as Bull and Serena Scott Thomas as Dr.
Molly Warmflash. The front of the redemption card mentioned “Congratulations”
and depicted artwork of Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. Printed on the
reverse of the autographed cards is a small biography on the actor
or actresse depicted in the front. The autograph cards were not mentioned
on the sell-sheet. I suspect they came as a high value surprise to
many of the card collectors.
“The
Autograph Cards”
Here below an unsigned autograph card A2. This card is very rare and hard to find. I discovered this picture on eBay in April 2019, 20 years after the card set release.
"Unsigned A2 Autograph Card"
As
always, an exclusive collectors binder was manufactured, this time
in a scuba black vinyl embossed with the famous 007 Gunbarrel logo
and the movie title printed in red lettering. Personally I don’t
like this design, they should have used the “Flame girl”
design that EON productions created to promote the movie.
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"Redemption
Card" |
“The
World Is Not Enough Exclusive Binder" |
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Here
below another sample of an uncut sheet containing all the chase cards
from the "The World Is Not Enough" combined with some cards
from the "Sleepy Hollow" trading card set. I must say here
that "Inkworks" has a very efficient way of managing their
paper.
"Chase
Card Uncut Sheet"
Also available and a nice touch to any card collection was the nine
card uncut sheet " Bond Is Back". Sadly they only printed 500 pieces
worldwide. These uncut sheets are very nice items to be framed.
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"Bond
Is Back Uncut Sheet"
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| Check
List: |
| Base
Cards |
[ ] 01 The World Is Not Enough
[ ] 02 A Cigar for Mr. Bond
[ ] 03 Reversal of Fortune
[ ] 04 Escaping with the Money
[ ] 05 A Job Well Done... But Unfinished
[ ] 06 Moneypenny's Fantasy
[ ] 07 MI-6 Blasted!
[ ] 08 The Q-Boat in Action!
[ ] 09 Bullets for Bond
[ ] 10 Chase Across the Thames
[ ] 11 Unscheduled Blast-Off
[ ] 12 Dinner Theatre?
[ ] 13 Skyrider Over London
[ ] 14 Beautiful Assassin
[ ] 15 Close... But No Cigar Girl
[ ] 16 Mourning Sir Robert
[ ] 17 Inside Q's Workshop
[ ] 18 New Tools of the Trade
[ ] 19 Exploring the Painful Past
[ ] 20 Someone to Watch Over Her
[ ] 21 Elektra's Empire
[ ] 22 Ski Relief
[ ] 23 Trouble Up Ahead
[ ] 24 Parahawk Assault
[ ] 25 James Bombed
[ ] 26 When Parahawks Collide
[ ] 27 Spy with the X-Ray Eyes
[ ] 28 The Pain of No Pain
[ ] 29 Kindred Spirits?
[ ] 30 Russian Flavoring
[ ] 31 Encounter with Renard
[ ] 32 You Can Catch the Devil...
[ ] 33 But You Can't Hold Him Long
[ ] 34 Last Chance to Escape
[ ] 35 Master of the Bomb
[ ] 36 Using the Q-Line
[ ] 37 High-Flying Exit
[ ] 38 Flight to Freedom
[ ] 39 Fire in the Hole
[ ] 40 Mission... Aborted?
[ ] 41 The Entrapment of M
[ ] 42 Putting the Squeeze on Zukovsky
[ ] 43 Blades of Death
[ ] 44 A Spy's Best Friend...
[ ] 45 One Agent Army |
[ ] 46 Bond Means Business
[ ] 47 Caviar Quicksand
[ ] 48 Unfriendly Waters
[ ] 49 Strange Alliance
[ ] 50 Bull Gets the Drop
[ ] 51 The Torture Chair
[ ] 52 Elektra's Revenge
[ ] 53 Twisted Seduction
[ ] 54 A Man to His Task
[ ] 55 Zukovsky's Final Shot
[ ] 56 Bond in Control
[ ] 57 He Never Misses
[ ] 58 Spy Dive
[ ] 59 The World Holds Its Breath
[ ] 60 Clashing Titans
[ ] 61 Cylinder of Chaos
[ ] 62 Renard's Fate
[ ] 63 Christmas Present
[ ] 64 He Takes Pleasure... In Great Beauty
[ ] 65 Polar Opposites
[ ] 66 Sophie Marceau as Elektra King
[ ] 67 More than Meets the Eye
[ ] 68 Denise Richards as Christmas Jones
[ ] 69 Celebrating Christmas
[ ] 70 Maria Grazia Cucinotta as the Cigar Girl
[ ] 71 Serena Scott-Thomas as Dr. Warmflash
[ ] 72 The Bond Girl Legacy
[ ] 73 A new Kind of Bond
[ ] 74 Everybody Say "Cheese"
[ ] 75 Relationship Explored
[ ] 76 Hitting the Ice
[ ] 77 Fantastic Sets and Set-Pieces
[ ] 78 Fate of a Spy Car
[ ] 79 Boat Chase
[ ] 80 By Design
[ ] 81 Pit Stop
[ ] 82 James Bond
[ ] 83 Elektra King
[ ] 84 Dr. Christmas Jones
[ ] 85 Renard
[ ] 86 Valentin Zukovsky
[ ] 87 Mr. Bullion
[ ] 88 M
[ ] 89 MI-6 Headquarters
[ ] 90 Checklist |
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| Bond
Is Back Chase Cards (1:11 packs) |
[ ] B1 The Cigar Girl opens the briefcase
[ ] B2 Bond produces the cigar, now in a large tube
[ ] B3 Dr. Warmflash's blouse drops to the floor
[ ] B4 A Scot in a kilt plays the bagpipes - badly
[ ] B5 Bond slides to a halt, barely managing to prevent
[ ] B6 The Bull turns to Bond, revealing his gold teeth
[ ] B7 Bond has just managed to heave Davidov
[ ] B8 Christmas approaches. Bond
[ ] B9 Bond and Christmas Jones, clinking glasses |
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| Q
Branch Chase Cards (1:17 packs) |
[ ] Q1 The Hydroboat
[ ] Q2 The Watch
[ ] Q3 X-Ray Glasses
[ ] Q4 Car
[ ] Q5 Jacket/Airbag
[ ] Q6 Tribute to Q |
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| Shaken
Not Stirred Chase Card (1:108 packs) |
| [ ] S1 Shaken Not Stirred |
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| Casino
Chips (1:box, numbered to 3000) |
[ ] C1 Casino L'Or Noir - Baku [Bond
with gun]
[ ] C2 Casino L'Or Noir - Baku [Bond with girls]
[ ] C3 Casino L'Or Noir - Baku [Girls] |
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| Autographed
Cards |
[ ] A1 Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones
[ ] A2 Judi Dench as M
[ ] A3 Desmond Llewelyn as Q
[ ] A4 Serena Scott-Thomas as Dr. Warmflash
[ ] A5 Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny
[ ] A6 Goldie as Bull
[ ] R1 Redemption Card |
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| Collectors
Album |
| [ ] “The World Is Not Enough”
Exclusive Binder |
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| Uncut
Sheet |
[ ] Bond Is Back (9-up panel, B1-B9)
Numbered to 500
[ ] Chase Card Uncut Sheet
[ ] 90 Card Basic Set |
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| Casino
Chip Display (gift to Inkworks distributors) |
| [ ] C1, C2, C3: numbered to
#100 |
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| Promo
Cards |
[ ] P1 Girl silhouette
[ ] ML-1 Bond & girls, Suncoast Video
[ ] DW Bond & gun, UK
[ ] Dealer Sell Sheet “The World Is Not Enough” (double
sided) |
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