James May: New Lego & Meccano Engineering Series

I'm quite tempted to do a comp of the two group shots, so that everyone's smiling (well except my mother, miserable cow) and has their eyes open... alright, I've already done a quick-and-dirty one. :)
 
Can I come over? I'll bake a casserole!
Sure you can. I'm recruiting marshals for this year's fundraiser at the kids' school, so if you can make it for the first weekend in December, that'd be great. For obvious reasons, though, you'll have to make do with kipping on the sofa :D

The track as it is now has been evolving all year after it was thrown together in a frenzied flurry of activity on the morning of last year's Xmas Fair. We managed to raise about ?150 in 4hrs, which is pretty good. You can see what it looked like last year in this little video.

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It should be a lot more entertaining this year, and a lot easier to deal with now we have better timing software. The video was taken about 20mins before the fair started; it got much busier later. And the poor lady who had the glass ornament stand next to us spent her entire afternoon doing crowd control. Rumour has it that she hasn't booked a stand for this year :p

Stuart.
 
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Will post the MPH stuff when my computer dongle's behaving better! :mad:



Flew home down the M3 :p



Sorry guys, Iain, Lesley & I went for a bite, then (Lesley) decided to make hard copies of "the pic", just in case something happened to my camera - paranoid much ;), then had to drive down & have a "family" dinner with housemates and bore enthrall them with pics of MPH autoporn and Mr May! And then my stupid dongle kept flicking from 3G/HSDPA to GPRS!
ANYWAY here 'tis!
http://s943.photobucket.com/albums/ad280/ozgirl/James Book Signing/

Oh BTW I bought a 1:48 Spitfire model on Sat, must be the last one not in captivity in Hampshire! :p
Never done one before,so should be interesting...

Well I think Misty posed the best! But I might be biased :lol: Gabrielle
 
^ The 2nd picture has names in the notes.

Ah yes, now I see. My browser did not show me enough to get the comment area. But who is that guy in the middle? :mrgreen:

I noticed a couple of stripey shirts in there. Too bad that guy in the middle didn't have a clean one to wear.

Also noticed ozgirl there, Hope you got a good lean in and it made your day. Did he smell nice? (I mean like old motorcycles and such)
 
Ah yes, now I see. My browser did not show me enough to get the comment area. But who is that guy in the middle? :mrgreen:

I noticed a couple of stripey shirts in there. Too bad that guy in the middle didn't have a clean one to wear.

Also noticed ozgirl there, Hope you got a good lean in and it made your day. Did he smell nice? (I mean like old motorcycles and such)

Yup I love a good stripey shirt, my favourite rugby jumper from university looks like a licquorice allsort in blues & white!

I didn't actually mean to lean in so far I touched him, we know he doesn't like that, just got a bit overexcited ;) Now I can never wash that sleeve/arm again, which will kill what little social life I have....:p
Plus the people supervising were rushing us, it was pack in, pic, piss off - fair enough, he did have to go do a TG voiceover. And shave:p
James of course was very gracious and said don't think our hard work wasn't appreciated because it was.
I can't say I noticed any smell emanating from his august personage, but I don't have the world's best sense of smell, which is a boon really in my profession!
 
Yup I love a good stripey shirt, my favourite rugby jumper from university looks like a licquorice allsort in blues & white!

I didn't actually mean to lean in so far I touched him, we know he doesn't like that, just got a bit overexcited ;) Now I can never wash that sleeve/arm again, which will kill what little social life I have....:p
Plus the people supervising were rushing us, it was pack in, pic, piss off - fair enough, he did have to go do a TG voiceover. And shave:p
James of course was very gracious and said don't think our hard work wasn't appreciated because it was.
I can't say I noticed any smell emanating from his august personage, but I don't have the world's best sense of smell, which is a boon really in my profession!

I was just teasing. No reason to defend your lean. If I had been there, I would have pushed you a bit closer. I mean, how often does the chance come up?

edit to say: OMG, I just clicked on the buy prints button and you can buy a skinit of the pic. I had one on my blackberry. They work well.
 
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So, what day is this show actually broadcast? I've sifted lightly through this thread and didn't see a time slot?
 
The first 2 episodes have already aired, and there are to be 2 more this week and next. The final two will air sometime near Christmas but that's TBA. Right now eps are airing Tuesdays at 8pm GMT.
 
The first 2 episodes have already aired, and there are to be 2 more this week and next. The final two will air sometime near Christmas but that's TBA. Right now eps are airing Tuesdays at 8pm GMT.

I know the train and lego is for Christmas and i know what this weeks ep is but what is showing next week?
 
LOL, then you know more than I do because I don't know what's airing this week. Anyway, other than what you've listed and what's already aired we have Scaletrix and Mecanno so one of those.
 
It's Meccano in 50 minutes (yeah!!!!) and Scalextric next week. :)
 
omg this photo is ominious now.... i think it became a campaign of war to get it.... misty got aknowledged by the boss and this time even a pat for a job well done....

Its odd that lego fusker got nicked the night after she signed off duty even James had to question when we last saw it .. the volunteer guard dog did a better job than the paid ones... kinda of a pattern there lol

roni
 
Once again very good, though I think I kinda prefer the previous two episodes. Don't quite know why though :)

The design was very creative (Hadn't seen it before) and the execution was beautiful. Very well done.
 
Weird thing about this series is that the three epsiodes so far have been so very different in style. Last week's was more funny, this one was really focussed on the project and had far less sidelines than the first one.

I especially liked his chat with the Eifel Tower PR girl and his "dancing" to the rattle of the machines in the Meccano factory. :p

I wonder who of the students was our "mole" FG member Munkyboy1980.
 
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The first 2 episodes have already aired, and there are to be 2 more this week and next. The final two will air sometime near Christmas but that's TBA. Right now eps are airing Tuesdays at 8pm GMT.

Thank you, i have seen the first two programs, but wasn't sure if there was a specific time slot for these specials.
 
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