James May's Top Toys
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Genre | Documentary |
Starring | James May |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of episodes | 1 |
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Producer | Scott Tankard |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC Two |
Release | 21 December 2005 (2005-12-21) |
James May's Top Toys is a BBC documentary in which James May explored and celebrated his favourite toys, including Etch-A-Sketch, Airfix model aeroplanes, Lego, Meccano, Top Trumps, Scalextric, model cars, and Hornby model trains.
The show included May dropping a parachuted Action Man from a helicopter after an actor named George Huxley dropped it from a window, proving the parachute did not work. Further exploits had May shooting the Action Man figure with an AR-15 type semi-automatic rifle in .22 lr, thereafter referring to the toy as "Killed-in-Action Man".
May also constructed an Airfix model of the battleship Bismarck. Upon completion, he took it out on a boating lake and shot at it with an air rifle, while pretending to be a British seaman firing a salvo at the battleship.
In the feature of the Etch-A-Sketch, Rose Pipette of The Pipettes is one of the students "etching" May on the toy.
A spin off of the show, James May: My Sisters' Top Toys, came on 23 December 2007. In October 2009, a series of 6 shows were broadcast, entitled James May's Toy Stories.
External links
- James May's Top Toys at BBC Online
- James May's Top Toys at IMDb
- Review by Chris Warrell from the South East London Meccano Club
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- James May's Top Toys (2005)
- Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure (2006–07)
- James May's 20th Century (2007)
- James May: My Sisters' Top Toys (2007)
- James May's Big Ideas (2008)
- James May on the Moon (2009)
- James May at the Edge of Space (2009)
- Oz and James Drink to Britain (2009)
- James May's Toy Stories (2009–14)
- James May's Man Lab (2010–13)
- James May's Things You Need to Know (2011–12)
- James May's Cars of the People (2014–16)
- James May: The Reassembler (2016–17)
- The Grand Tour (2016–)
- James May: Our Man in... (2020–)
- James May: Oh Cook (2020–)