James May's Man Lab James May and the Man Lab crew set out build, solve, invent and generally do manly things. James May's Cars of the People James May looks at every form of cars for the masses, their origins and their effect on history. James May: The Reassembler James May reassembles miscellaneous objects which have been stripped down to their constituent parts, gaining an insight into their intricacies and the way in which they were designed and built. James May's Big Ideas James May travels the globe in search of implementations for concepts widely considered science fiction. James May's Things You Need to Know James May gives a scientific explanation to - well just about everything; from human evolution and functions, meteorology, chemistry, physics, and so many other subjects. Oz & James's Big Wine Adventure Wine expert Oz Clarke travels around France with Top Gear (1978) presenter James May in an attempt to turn him into a wine connoisseur.
Oz & James Drink to Britain Writer Oz Clarke and journalist James May travel through Britain and Ireland to discover and sample all sorts of alcoholic beverages. James May's 20th Century James May covers various inventions and discoveries over the past century and discusses their implications on our daily lives. Welcome to my all new DVD Thriller, which, as the name suggests, is all about thrills at the wheel. Aston Martin's gentleman thug, the DBS, takes on its rivals from Italy. Top Gear: At the Movies Cars are the bedrock of the most memorable moments in cinema history, so be prepared for a thrilling selection of races, stunts and awesome feats as Richard Hammond and James May celebrate ... Top Gear: The Perfect Road Trip Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond go on a seven-day road trip from Venice, Italy, to Pau, France, in this special episode from the BBC motoring series. Along the way the pair visit the ... James May's Top Toys James May explores and celebrates his favorite toys from his youth.
Has your inner child ever dreamed of living in a Lego house? With a little imagination and hard work, building a new room or extending an existing room would be easy—and most importantly fun. Of course, a home built with millions of brightly colored bricks might not sit well with your HOA. But when has an HOA ever made anything easy? At the Movoto Real Estate HQ, LEGOs held a special place in our childhood. Boats, airplanes, and cars–we’ve built them all and tore them apart to rebuild them again. At least once, we’ve mused about building a real-life Lego house in the vein of James May. If you haven’t heard, in 2009 the British resident (along with a 1,000 volunteers) built a two-story LEGO house as part of “James May’s Toy Stories”, a BBC show that looked at toys from the past and their modern applications. The garish brick house wasn’t to last though. It was torn down after Legoland in Winsor wouldn’t take the structure because of exorbitant relocation costs.
Not all of us have the wherewithal to order truckloads of LEGOs and then Facebook harass friends to construct it. (Talk about a house warming!) So in order to appease our own inner child and our curiosity we tasked the Movoto team with figuring out how many LEGOs it would take to build a median-sized American home. Let’s get it out of the way for the information starved. A two-story house that is 2,169 square feet — the median size of a house, according to the Census Bureau–would take 10,079,829 LEGOs to build. There’s a disclaimer here: Our estimate would be for the exterior of the structure, including the roof. So if you have have plans for things like interior walls, you’ll be adding more of the plastic blocks to your count. But once you get over ten million LEGOs, what does a few hundred thousand more matter? We came up with this figure by first figuring out the size of a standard eight-peg LEGO in inches. We found an excellent resource on LEGO brick dimensions and with some converting from millimeters to inches we had the size of a LEGO: about .26 x .62 x 1.22 inches.
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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.