James May's Toy Stories is a television series presented by James May.[3] The series was commissioned for BBC Two from Plum Pictures.[4] The first episode, "Airfix", was shown on BBC Two at 8:00 pm on Tuesday 27 October 2009.[1] In later years, three specials were made for the Christmas seasons, along with a follow-up to the sixth episode. The premise of the 6-part show was to bring favourite toys of the past into the modern era, by using the toys in real life large scale enterprises. In each episode, he also explores the history of each toy. A few stars of the show include Airfix model planes, Plasticine modelling material, Meccano construction toys, Scalextric cars and Lego. May's interest in technology is known from his presentation of such programmes as James May's 20th Century and James May's Big Ideas. He credits much of the inventiveness of humans to the love of playing with toys and he has credited many technological developments to men playing in sheds.[5] He has shown his passion for toys in programmes he has presented including James May's Top Toys and James May: My Sisters' Top Toys and he has discussed his desire for children to get away from games consoles and play with real toys preferably with their parents.
[2] May was quoted as saying: Many of the plans involved significant engineering problems, so the programme makers searched for architects, designers and engineers to help them.[6] However, many more volunteers would be required as a labour force, so appeals for volunteers were distributed in local newspapers. The ambitious - world record-breaking in many cases - projects included:[2] The series was nominated in the Features category of the 2010 British Academy Television Awards, but lost out to the eventual winner, Masterchef: The Professionals. James released a well-received book in conjunction with the series, through Conway Publishing (2009). ^ a b c d ^ "Brunel engineering students to star in BBC programme with James May" 10 Dec 2012Lego Minifigures are seen alongside Lotso and the other toys at Sunnyside when Woody and the gang first arrive in Toy Story 3. One of the minifigures is seen repairing a stuffed elephant. They also appeared in the Toy Story Toons episode Hawaiian Vacation, where they are seen helping Barbie and Ken take out their luggage.
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/category/lego-toy-story-news/ on this server. Your technical support key is: 3697-9b14-1756-6707 Episode aired 30 January 2011 7 more credits » Episode complete credited cast: Rex the Green Dinosaur / Lego NASA Officer / Kim Possible's Dr. Drakken gets sent to prison, NASA's Lego people have a very bad launch day; see how Andy treats his toys after he comes home from college in Toy Story 4. All this and more from the minds of the creators. Release Date: 30 January 2011 (USA) There really is a fourth Toy Story film in the works, to be released in 2018. The requested URL /lego/inventory/tag/Toy%20Story/ was not found on this server.The filmmakers behind the "The Lego Movie" build a toy story brick by brick. After 70 years, the Danish toy gets a theatrically released film. CARLSBAD, Calif. — Chris Pratt admits that even he did a double-take when approached to be part of the animated comedy The Lego Movie. For more than seven decades, the toy bricks from Denmark have been famous for making remarkable creations — but never on the Hollywood screen.
Pratt assumed the first full-length theatrical feature (opening Friday nationwide) would be all about a safe story and cashing in on a huge fan base."I thought it was all about brand recognition, that they were probably doing the Q*bert movie at some studio and a Connect Four movie," says Pratt, referencing two popular games. "If anyone's heard of it, they are going to make a movie about it. The Kleenex movie — there's money to be made in that movie."That was before he found out that the writing-directing team of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were behind bringing the Lego world to animated life. Their off-kilter minds are behind unlikely, out-of-the-box hits such as 21 Jump Street, a film comedy based on the 1980s teen drama, and an animated film about raining food (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs).STORY: Chris Pratt's totally awesome movie adventureMORE: 'Lego' filmmakers: No guns, some peril, some assurancesTRAILER: 'The LEGO Movie'"We tend to take on projects that seem like a bad idea at the time," says Miller, who is settled in a master suite at the Legoland Hotel."
All we do is stuff that would seem to be terrible, and we count on low expectations," Lord jokes. "And we exceed those expectations. Honestly, we like the challenge."The duo's response to the challenge was to come up with a highly irreverent adventure tale featuring a dim-witted hero, Emmet Brickowoski (voiced by Pratt), who comes up against the totalitarian leader of Bricksburg — President Business, or Lord Business (Will Ferrell), as the control freak is called behind the scenes.There also is nonsensical prophet Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman, sending up his authoritarian persona), beautiful Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) and even a deep-voiced Lego Batman (Will Arnett). All of these characters appear in a world made entirely of real and computer-generated Legos, where even shower water and smoke appear in brick form."I'm glad I didn't have to think about how to pull this off," says Ferrell. "But these guys did. Producer Dan Lin encountered skepticism when he started to work on the project five years ago and says the story was a "hard one to crack."
Other toy properties such as Transformers and G.I. Joe had existing mythology and built-in characters when they transitioned to films.The Lego team had to avoid falling into the toy tie-in trap while pleasing the core fan base of kids ages 5-12, their parents and the rabid Adult Fans of Legos (known as AFOLs). But they also wanted to reach teens who have moved on from the toys (known in Lego terms as the "dark ages") with the film's humor.Lord says that during the film's editing, the concept of flopping crept in. "And we would have been this (toy) company's first failure in 70 years. It got a little nerve-racking there.''This is not to mention the estimated $60 million in production costs for Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures.But the team was ecstatic to see that the film's first trailer proved to be a hit with non-enthusiasts. And it stayed faithful to Lego's quirky ethos — especially as the characters adhere to Lego law, such as the inability to bend their plastic arms."There was a lot of skepticism out there before that," Miller says.