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''James May's Toy Stories'' is a television series presented by James May.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC – Press Office - BBC Two presents James May's Toy Stories )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC2 lands first fruit of James May's Plum deal )〕 The series was commissioned for BBC Two from Plum Pictures.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Plum Pictures )〕 The first episode, "Airfix", was shown on BBC Two at 8:00 pm on Tuesday 27 October 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC – BBC Two Programmes – James May's Toy Stories, Airfix )〕 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. In "Airfix", he builds a full-sized model of a Second World War Spitfire fighter plane, using the plastic moulding and assembly technique used in the Airfix self-assembly plastic scale model range. In "Plasticine", he models a full-sized garden out of the toy modelling clay Plasticine, as an exhibit in the Chelsea Flower Show. In "Meccano", he builds a full-sized footbridge out of the mechanical construction toy range Meccano, to cross a canal in Liverpool. In "Scalextric", he reconstructs the Brooklands racing circuit in full size using the slot-car toy racing track used by the Scalextric range. In "Lego", he builds a full-sized house in Dorking out of the Lego toy model brick range. In "Hornby", he re-lays a railway track along the line of a disused full-sized railway, the Tarka Trail, using the OO gauge (1/76th) track used in the Hornby Railways model train range. Of the six episodes, the Hornby attempt was the only one that failed, and was revisited in May 2011 with a follow-up episode, "The Great Train Race", which managed to have better success. A new special episode, "Flight Club", was then made, focusing on an attempt to fly a balsa wood glider across the English Channel, and was aired just before Christmas 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC Media Centre – A bumper selection of festive treats across the BBC this (2012) Christmas )〕 Then on Friday 3 January 2014, another special called "The Motorcycle Diary" was aired, featuring the presenter attempting to get Meccano motorbike and sidecar around a lap of the Isle of Man Snaefell Mountain Course. On 25 December 2014, a new special, titled "Action Man at the Speed of Sound", was aired, and focused on the presenter's efforts to get an Action Man toy doll to achieve supersonic speed. ==Background== 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. 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.〔 May was quoted as saying: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James May's Toy Stories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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