If you’re a James Bond fan and also insanely rich, then the 007 Advent Calendar is an upgrade from Poundland’s selection.
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Against a backdrop of cost-cutting, making funds stretch and considering life choices, the team over at the official James Bond store have gone the other way. Just as Poundland is stocking up on its selection of advent calendars with less than premium chocolates inside (the kids don’t mind, thankfully), the 007 store wants £180 off you for the official 2024 James Bond Advent Calendar.
In lieu of an actual new film to watch, the Bond fan in your life – and lord, I wish we got a financial kickback for mentioning this – can have 25 doors of premium 007 tat.
For your money, you might expect to get Daniel Craig popping round to your house to put some tinsel up. Alas, he’s been busy with the new Knives Out film.
Instead, you get some limited edition Vesper socks, a production sketch, a GoldenEye bottle opener, a silk sleep mask, a wallet, and a No Time To Die pocket square. The run-up to Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without that little lot.
If you’ve got several kids and you’re looking to get them one each, then disappointing news: the Advent Calendar comes in a limited run of 1000. You could, instead, buy 180 of the aforementioned Poundland calendars, and that would cover roughly 12 years instead. Sure, the chocolates would have gone off by the time you got to, say, 2031. But they can’t taste much worse than they already do. Also, by 2031, we might even have a new James Bond movie as well. You never know.
The 007 Advent Calendar is available either from a posh shop in London that we’re not allowed in after last time, or the official online 007 store. You can find that here.
It ships from the middle of October.
