James May's Toy Stories on BBCA

[aimster]

Anyone seen this? It premiered last week on BBC America. It's hosted by James May, one of the co-presenters of Top Gear.

Basically the show is James taking different toys and bringing them big scale. Last week he and his crew made a house out of Legos (which he lived in for 24 hours). This week he's building a 3 mile long slotcar racetrack.

Pretty interesting stuff and fun to watch.

[Melonballer]

I love the concept. I will have to watch for this show.

[aimster]

It's on Monday nights at 10pm Eastern (after Top Gear).

The slot car race was so cool! Where this old track used to be has like a pond and some office buildings now, but they worked around those and even incorporated them into the track layout. It was really quite awesome.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9mWPXH_nvY]YouTube - James May Toy Stories Episode 4 Part 1[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6TberaBFO8]YouTube - James May Toy Stories Episode 4 Part 2[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY4I8qua_Ic]YouTube - James May Toy Stories Episode 4 Part 3[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5ZmkR7O7M]YouTube - James May Toy Stories Episode 4 Part 4[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OPeosWveYc]YouTube - James May Toy Stories Episode 4 Part 5[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYezyMHfhcQ]YouTube - James May Toy Stories Episode 4 Part 6[/ame]

[aimster]

Ok this week's episode was pretty neat. James had his volunteers make a garden out of Plastecine, which is something kind of like Play-Doh as it comes in many colors but more like modeling clay.

Plasticine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They entered the garden in the Royal Horticulture Society's annual garden show in Chelsea, where it got a special medal.... made of Plasticine... and won the People's Choice award. Very cool!

[AliKzam]

I saw most of the Lego house episode and all of the Plasticine garden episode (and was thrilled to see all of the British actors who saw the garden). Fun stuff. I enjoy his dry sense of humor.