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May, who had presented documentaries on toys with James May's Top Toys and James May: My Sisters' Top Toys, chose the toys to be used on the programme, and fundamentally involved people in his new programme with whom he had worked with on other projects, including Tiff Needell and Oz Clarke. The basic premise of the programme, as May put ...
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 ...
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Dec 23, 2007 · James May: My Sisters' Top Toys. James May, stuck between his older and younger sister as a child, reveals how his toys were their hand-me-downs. He goes through the family toy box,...
James May: My life in toys. The first toy I remember receiving at Christmas was the Corgi Routemaster Bus (number 468 in the range, ahem). I can’t have been more than three years old. It was a...
Dec 30, 2010 · Forty-two-year-old James takes us on a tour of his childhood mind as he rifles through his boy toy favourites which include Meccano, Lego, Scalectrix, Airfix and, his all time number one toy,...
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Mar 26, 2016 · James May puts his original Action Man through the tests by throwing him out of a helicopter and fighting him on the battlefront. Taken from James May's Top Toys. This is a...
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It was toy of the year in 1967 and James May doesn't know why so he sets out to explore the world of Spriograph, including how it is used in the modern world...
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