Brighton Toy and Model Museum arches and contains a large 1930s 0 gauge model railway layout, 00 gauge model railway town and countryside layouts, and collections of model locomotives, soft toys, puppets and marionettes, construction toys, building construction sets, model ships, radio controlled model aircraft, and farm, circus, zoo and ship toy sets. It also includes displays of diecast models including Matchbox, Dinky Toys, Corgi Toys and Spot-On. Exhibition displays draw on outside guest collections and on varying selections taken from the Museum's core collection. The museum is a venue for the Brighton Science Festival and the Brighton Fringe. Public train running days are typically
Filming of James Bond in the 1980s Spy Who Loved Me", which reappeared four years later in "For Your Eyes Only". Despite the iconic status of the submersible Lotus however, Bond's Aston Martin DB5 is recognised as the most famous of his vehicles. As a consequence, Aston Martin returned with their V8 Vantage. Two different Aston Martin models were used in filming - a V8 Volante convertible, and later for the Czechoslovakia scenes, a hard-top non-Volante V8 saloon badged to look like the Volante. The Volante was a production model owned by Aston Martin Lagonda chairman, Victor Gauntlett. Principal photography ran from 18 July to 18 November