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James May's Toy Stories
If you missed any episodes, would like
to watch them again? or read about them? or have never even seen
or heard of this series? Now you can buy the
James May's Toy Stories series on Dvd and in HardBack.
In episode 6 James attempts to create
the World's longest Model Railway.
Episode 1 - Airfix
Episode 2 - Plasticine
Episode 3 - Meccano
Episode 4 - Scalextric
Episode 5 - Lego
Episode 6 - Hornby
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James May's Toy Stories (HardCover)
Product Description
James May's Toy Stories is much more than just a TV tie-in. Inspired
by James s exploits, the book covers both the stories behind a number
of classic toys and the adventures in summer 2009 as James and his
helpers, children and adults of all ages, build and recreate a range
of toys in a series of Top Gear style escapades. In six ambitious
projects, he enlists the help of volunteers and schoolchildren to help
him build a 1/1 scale model kit of a Supermarine Spitfire Mk I;
creates the world s longest Scalextric track at the historic
Brooklands motor-racing circuit in Surrey; builds a full-size Lego
house; enters a garden made entirely from Plasticine in the RHS
Chelsea Flower Show; attempts to run a Hornby train set along a
10-mile stretch of track from Barnstaple to Bideford and uses a giant
Meccano bridge to span the 40ft Pier Head canal in Liverpool. Each
chapter includes details of how the projects were constructed, with
diagrams, illustrations and informal photography taken during the
filming. The book also features a history of the toys themselves, from
their early British roots to their international appeal today. James
May explains why each of these toys gave him so much pleasure as a
child and how, through the adventures he devised, they can still
provide days of endless fun.
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