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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but James May is the only tolerable one of the Top Gear/Grand Tour trio. And even he's better on his own.
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Originally Posted by Locke
What I like about May is that he takes a humorous approach to history and culture and I'm there for that.
But May is better on his own I think. I'd agree with that.
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So...to re-engage with this conversation, I stumbled on an old BBC series called 'Toy Stories' that I had never heard of.
Its not on Prime, its hard to find. But its James May and toys and it is FANTASTIC.
Some are historic toys but here is the first season:
- Airfix - This is model Airplanes and Tanks. He gets a bunch of schoolchildren to build a life-sized Spitfire out of model equipment. It was amazing.
- Plasticine - Does a Garden Show out of Plasticine
- Meccano - Gets students to make a bridge across a canal out of Meccano.
- Scalextric - Gets the entire community including the local Samsung office to build an electric car race track, over an old British race track, and has the community and kids operate the electric cars. This was wild.
- Lego - Builds an entire (mostly) functioning house entirely out of Lego.
All presented by James May, like I said, a humorous and unique approach to history, I highly recommend it if you can find it. There are 3 seasons, I've only finished 1.