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Post by amie8 on Sept 26, 2012 22:44:12 GMT
Looks good!
Couldn't help noticing the headline below the Toy Stories piece, "Woman hid television between legs and boarded bus".
I hope it was a flat screen.
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Post by jmsquared on Sept 27, 2012 7:42:06 GMT
Can't wait for this. Does the glider incorporate a tool-kit??!!
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Post by ljcteehee on Sept 27, 2012 14:47:02 GMT
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Post by dit on Sept 27, 2012 15:50:04 GMT
Brilliant find, ljcteehee!
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Post by jmsquared on Sept 28, 2012 8:28:19 GMT
Excellent pics on there. Thanks ljc!
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Post by jacqui on Nov 5, 2012 21:28:20 GMT
Today James tweeted I'm going to see the director's first rough cut of my Christmas Toy Stories special today. Very excited. #BetHeIsntThoughBoys and their toys! Hope the first rough cut wasn't too rough ;D Love a dose of James at Christmas  |
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Post by dit on Nov 20, 2012 12:44:14 GMT
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Post by amie8 on Nov 21, 2012 1:27:14 GMT
Just to whet your appetite, Base Films tweeted this a couple of days ago:
Have just had a sneak preview of @mrjamesmay and @jamesmaysmanlab special ToyStories, #flightclub. Absolutely beautiful film; best ever?
And this:
Wait till you see it. We've had weeping!
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Post by dit on Nov 23, 2012 10:15:39 GMT
Henry Dalton, the "Producer, Editor: James May's Man Lab, Toy Stories" has been tweeting various messages recently about the Christmans special: FiiiiiiiiiIIIIIINISHED!!! \o/
#toystories special done  And it really is rather special #shouldntgettearyovertoys
Defo my favourite thing we've done since Space Funeral And finally, last night Ahhhh. Last day on #toystories. End of a year of making lovely silly things. Now to put them on and hope someone watches them... |
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Post by amie8 on Nov 27, 2012 14:12:22 GMT
From BBC Press Office:
James May's Toy Stories: Flight Club
In this epic Toy Stories Christmas Special, James May gets to the heart of the nation’s childhood love-affair with the model plane, and sets out to achieve what seems an impossible dream: the first cross channel flight ever achieved by an engineless, homemade supersized toy. If it survives the perilous 22-mile journey, James’s classic toy glider lovingly built from over 1,000 pieces of balsa will smash the British distance record.
Underpinned throughout by James’s own infectious passion for flight, his mission is dedicated to making the dream of flight come true for the generations of children who, like James himself, slaved for hours over balsa and glue only to see their fragile and much-loved planes smash tragically onto the unyielding concrete of reality.
During his quest, James turns Indiana Jones to unearth surprising new evidence that identifies children as the true pioneers of flight, and wrestles with an underperforming glider that threatens to barely leave the ground. From a visit to a mysterious and barely inhabited island to helicopters lost in the fog and missing speedboats, Flight Club is an epic journey into the unexpected, culminating in a thrilling and visually stunning last throw of the dice.
No date yet, unless I'm looking in the wrong place
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Post by dit on Nov 27, 2012 18:04:05 GMT
Sounds amazing! Makes sense of Henry Dalton's comments - I think this is going to be another inspiring one. Hope it's going to be on either Christmas Day or Boxing Day.
Update: this has been tweeted tonight from Base Films, the production company
Properly proud of @mrjamesmay #ToyStories. Advanced screening tonight. #bestever
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Post by dit on Nov 28, 2012 13:30:48 GMT
James has been on a BBC Press morning, with information coming through on Twitter. Chris McCluskey, a BBC publicist, posted this comment and pic earlier Press morning with @mrjamesmay going well so far. #toystories returns to #BBC2 this Christmas and a little later toystories press day continues - now we are making the perfect paperplane with @mrjamesmay Elaine Penn, features editor of TV Choice, sent Thank you @mrjamesmay for telling me all about the Christmas ep of toystories. Thoroughly enjoyed chatting to you.and also put out, under the TV Choice name We've been to meet @mrjamesmay, who told us all about his Christmas ep of toystories. He's a high flier in this one! Read more soon...so obviously there will be an article prior to the programme. I love the fact that people with whom James interacts always thank him and say lovely things about him. Added later: From David Stephensonþ, TV critic of the Sunday Express Top chat with @mrjamesmay this morn. Love the sound of his new Toy Story out this Xmas bbc2. Good stuff about Top Gear too. It's back soon He must have been seen leaving too.... Just saw James May on charlotte street - what a scruffy guy! |
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Post by amie8 on Nov 28, 2012 16:11:22 GMT
Both those pictures contain what appears to be part of a Santa Claus outfit. My only comment is
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Post by devil-may-care on Nov 28, 2012 16:20:36 GMT
James as Santa?? * imagination has left for parts unknown* |
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Post by dit on Nov 28, 2012 17:49:39 GMT
Coo, I didn't notice. Could just be a winter coat that happens to be red and have a woolly lining, I suppose. Does rather open up the whole "Come and sit on my knee, little girl. Have you been bad? Yes? Oh goody" scenario.
(Assuming the 'little girl' involved is one of the ladies of the JMB, of course!)
I did notice the extremely shiny wrist-watch. He really does like his watches, doesn't he?
NB - here's a funny one. Proboards will let me write 'watch' and 'wrist-watch', but won't let me write 'wristw*tch' (see the censorship?). I had to dredge the bottom of my dirty mind to work out why - think I've got it, but by gum, it's obscure!
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Post by dit on Dec 4, 2012 12:30:19 GMT
From James' Twitter:
The Toy Stories special, Flight Club, will be on Sunday 23 December at 9.30pm. It's about flying toys. I become slightly emotional. #Plug
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Post by heymysock on Dec 4, 2012 15:34:51 GMT
I think it might be because of the letter combination of Tea, Double-U, Ay, Tea. Proboards doesn't seem to care if the word is free standing or contained in another word, which seems a bit over the top to me, but what do I know?
More on topic, I'm really looking forward to the new series! My beloved and I watch them when we can get them. It'll be a nice program to watch on Christmas Day once the festivities have wound down.
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Post by dit on Dec 4, 2012 16:49:04 GMT
Yes, I reckoned it was that word too! Talk about over-protective; just makes us drag our minds through the muck to find out what we're missing (or was that just me?)
Sounds as if the programme is going to be a treat for James fans.
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Post by heymysock on Dec 4, 2012 19:45:52 GMT
Yes, I reckoned it was that word too! Talk about over-protective; just makes us drag our minds through the muck to find out what we're missing (or was that just me?) Proboard is so thorough I may have learned a few new ones, even. And since it points them out inside of other words, it's helpful if you want to play all those words Scrabble traditionally doesn't allow. I suppose we can look at it as a feature instead of an annoyance. |
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Post by ljcteehee on Dec 4, 2012 22:26:35 GMT
I'm thinking that if James has mentioned that he got emotional, he probably got really emotional. Maybe crying a bit...
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Post by fallatyourfeet on Dec 5, 2012 19:34:32 GMT
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Post by fallatyourfeet on Dec 9, 2012 14:21:47 GMT
More news from BBC Media Centre: Flight Club will be shown on BBC2 at 9.30pm-10.30pm on Sunday 23rd December. Set those recorders now. |
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Post by adrianmay on Dec 9, 2012 17:34:57 GMT
Random- Just love this picture. Reminds me of my own little man.  |
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Post by slfriend79 on Dec 10, 2012 20:01:55 GMT
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Post by jmsquared on Dec 10, 2012 23:22:23 GMT
I so hope I can get to see this somehow!!!
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Post by dit on Dec 11, 2012 23:25:53 GMT
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Post by mightybabs on Dec 12, 2012 0:15:33 GMT
You can have 15 minutes on the iPad and then I’m taking it away from you. Eat your sprouts, and you can have your iPad back.Awww. He's soooo adorkable.
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Post by jacqui on Dec 13, 2012 19:31:25 GMT
.....huh I wouldn't take his IPad away  Anyway.... Nice article in the Christmas Radio Times with James showing how to make a decent paper aeroplane & another on the Flight Club a gorgeous picture and the first line reads... There's something quite irresistible about James May. Er yeah - tell us something we don't know!!!! ;D I'll try ans scan the pic later. |
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Post by eshalda on Dec 13, 2012 22:10:19 GMT
Having got my Christmas Radio Times this afternoon I've had a go at making James' paper aeroplane, I must say it works very well.
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Post by jacqui on Dec 14, 2012 13:04:38 GMT
We did too - the cat got hours of fun out of it! The down side is that nothing else got done ! ;D |
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And it really is rather special 
