 First on the schedule were the scenes on the Madagascar building site , shot in the Bahamas on the site of a derelict hotel which Michael G. Wilson had become acquainted with in 1977 during the filming of The Spy Who Loved Me . In the scene , Bond drives a digger toward the building , slamming into the concrete plinth on which Mollaka is running . The stunt team built a model and put forward several ways in which the digger could conceivably take out the concrete , including taking out the pillar underneath . A section of the concrete wall was removed to fit the digger and reinforced with steel . 
