James May's Toy Stories (2009)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

James May tries to get modern children excited about classic toys by building oversized and ambitious real-world projects with them. He assembles teams of volunteers and experts to construct giant models and working devices using toys like Lego, Meccano, and Scalextric.

playfulnostalgicwhimsicalambitiousupbeatcurioushands-onhopeful

What happens

James May's Toy Stories is a UK documentary television series created and presented by James May, and produced by Plum Pictures for the BBC. The programme focused on bringing some of the most notable toys conceived in the past into the modern era to a "new generation of children", by putting each toy into a complex, large-scale project involving the nature of the toy. The projects, often ambitious, required an extensive team of experts, and in some cases required a large group of volunteers to help achieve the project's goal. The programme was originally commissioned for BBC Two as a six-episode series for 2009, between 27 October to 25 December, but later received four specials after the series concluded – one in June 2011 and three more for the Christmas broadcast schedules between 2012 and 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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