James May Toy Stories

[NickFitz]

Anyone else watch the lego episode earlier?

Not as good as the previous episodes but still interesting.

The stuff about beam bending was interesting - taking something that is, by design, intended to be flipped apart by a three-year-old's thumb and using it to construct a load-bearing member that can support an adult is definitely an intriguing engineering challenge

I think I'll stick to software though

[Clippy]

Anyone else watch the lego episode earlier?

Not as good as the previous episodes but still interesting.

Had me in stitches when Oz Clarke asked which side of the bed was his - the side with the pillow emblazoned with 'sweet' or the one with 'dreams'.

James's reply: Neither. I'm 'dreams' and 'sweets' is arriving later.

[SorenLorensen]

Didn't think I like it but it's excellent. He's much better away from those two dullard morons on that bleedin' car show.

[malvolio]

When I grow up, I wanna be just like him!

I think perhaps you rather missed the point...

[NickFitz]

Couldn't work out what Edwina Curry had to do with mechano but I did miss the start of that episode

She was the only well-known Liverpudlian they could afford - either that, or the only Liverpudlian who wouldn't nick the parts for scrap

[VectraMan]

I thought the Meccano bridge was a bit silly as there wasn't really anything interesting or difficult about it. It was just a repeating lattice structure, and it was either going to be strong enough or it wasn't.

Good programmes though.

[Bagpuss]

Couldn't work out what Edwina Curry had to do with mechano but I did miss the start of that episode

[Clippy]

The programmes have been very well made.

I like how he takes toys of yesteryear and introduces them to kids of today who, initially, think they are tat and by the end of the programme think they aren't too bad.

[PRC1964]

We volunteered to help with the Lego house he built. Sadly so did 10,000,000 other people and by the time we turned up they didn't want us.

[voodooflux]

Have been watching this over the last few weeks and it has been highly enjoyable.

I must admit, beginning to quite enjoy watching him on TV.

When I grow up, I wanna be just like him!

Looking forward to tonights episode:

Yeah, looking forward to that Scalextric episode too - it features the largest circuit in Europe that happens to be just down the road from me.

[DaveB]

Have been watching this over the last few weeks and it has been highly enjoyable.

I must admit, beginning to quite enjoy watching him on TV.

When I grow up, I wanna be just like him!

Looking forward to tonights episode:

WHS. Very good series. Especially enjoyed the giant Airfix Spitfire.

[Clippy]

Have been watching this over the last few weeks and it has been highly enjoyable.

I must admit, beginning to quite enjoy watching him on TV.

When I grow up, I wanna be just like him!

Looking forward to tonights episode:

James attempts to build a three-mile-long Scalextric track at Brooklands in Surrey.