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The full-size Lego house nobody wants

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:59:34 +0000

Top Gear presenter James May is giving away a free two-storey house. The only drawbacks is that the house it made out of Lego and you have to pick it up by Tuesday.

James May and 1,000 helpers has just built the world’s first full-size Lego house using 3,3 million Lego bricks. It even comes with a shower, working toilet, toaster, kitchen utensils and a bed.

The 20-ft tall house is built in Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey, UK, but now the vineyard needs the land back to harvest its grapes. If the house isn’t removed by Tuesday at 8.00 AM, it will be hacked into bits with chainsaws.

According to James May, Legoland UK was supposed to take it to the theme park in Berkshire, but its too expensive to move. Legoland has critized James May, because he hasn’t consulted their model-makers on, how to built a moveable house.

Lego has donated the bricks to James May, so the house or bricks cannot be sold or used as a public attraction, but only given away for charity.

If you can take the house please contact: r.uk

Clever: Jeremy Clarkson Beatbox

Duncan Riley — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:00:49 +0000

Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson may not be known for his musical prowess, but it’s amazing what some remixing can do with footage of Jezza and some pretty cars.

Clever stuff:

James May to live in Lego house

Kim LaCapria — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:27:46 +0000

Well, at least for a weekend.

James May, one of the three dudes on Top Gear, is branching out from silly car tricks to silly house tricks on his show James May’s Toy Stories. The project is already underway, with a metric frickload (roughly 3 million) of the colorful plastic bricks waiting for construction to start at the site in Dorking, Surrey.

May has invited “the general public” to assist in building the structure, and is soliciting donations to ensure that there are enough bricks available to complete the house. The plan is to include a full size working shower, toilet and staircase as the house will be two stories high. He discussed potential snags in the Lego-house concept with the BBC:

“I’ve got a man working on a flushing Lego lavatory. We think it’s possible.

“Things like power supply, sanitation and plumbing coming into the house are as they could be for a real building… everything within my Lego house must as far as possible be Lego,” he said.

After the Lego house is complete, May plans to build a full scale racetrack out of Scaletrix. Who doesn’t want to grow up to be this lucky bastard?

Top Gear meets Ken Block

Duncan Riley — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:00:30 +0000

If you’re not a Top Gear fan and don’t watch the show each week, this clip is worth watching.

Captain Slow James May headed to the US to meet with Rally Car driver Ken Block, and the result is perhaps one of the most amazing and at times insane car footage you’ll ever see. The picture above with the plane and bike wasn’t doctored…they actually managed to pull that off.

Enjoy:

Top Gear claims The Stig is Michael Schumacher (video)

Duncan Riley — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:57:02 +0000

The identity of Top Gear’s tame racing driver is claimed to be F1 great Michael Schumacher, at least if you believe the first episode of Series 13 that aired in the UK over the weekend.

Speculation over the identity of the “White Stig” has been ongoing since the original “Black Stig” outed himself at the end of the second series. The UK media reported in January that The Stig was Ben Collins.

Given that the show, and particularly Jeremy Clarkson have previously stated that they would never reveal the identity of The Stig, the revelation of his identity is circumspect at best. That it could be Michael Schumacher isn’t impossible given he retired from F1 in 2006, but that would also mean that there has been two white stigs as well, because it would have been impossible for Schumacher to have played the role while he was still professionally racing.

Here’s The Stig revealed video:

Top Gear told to cut super cars due to great recession

Duncan Riley — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:34:50 +0000

Despite being on of the most popular (and presumably profitable) globally syndicated shows in UK history, Top Gear has been told to cut back on super cars this year due to the great recession.

Hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have been ordered to downsize because of BBC spending cuts, and to reflect the changing interests of viewers who can no longer afford luxury vehicles.

The Daily Star reports that plans to feature the likes of a Lamborghini, Ferrari and a Porsche have been axed, and will likely be replaced by segments showing smaller, cheaper and greener cars.

Clarkson had previously vowed to ignore the cuts, and in previous series has mocked suggestions that the show cut back on super cars by featuring more super cars.

The best Jeremy Clarkson quotes

Duncan Riley — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:11:35 +0000

English writer, and presenter of Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson is well known for his tongue, but what are some of his best lines?

This via email so I don’t know the source, but Top Gear fans will enjoy them.

“I’m sorry, but having a DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.”

“… the last time someone was as wrong as you, was when a politician stepped off an aeroplane in 1939 waving a piece of paper in the air saying there will be no war with Germany ”

Illustrating the lack of power of a Boxster: “It couldn’t pull a greased
stick out of a pig’s bottom”

On the Vauxhall Vectra VXR: “there is a word to describe this car: it begins with ’s’ and ends with ‘t’ and it isn’t soot

“The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite”

“The air conditioning in a Lambos used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.”

“Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what… BEING STABBED?”

“This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that’s much to shout about. That’s like saying ‘Ooh good I’ve got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.’”

“I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?”

Clarkson’s highway code on cyclists: “Trespassers in the motorcars domain, they do not pay road tax and therefore have no right to be on the road, some of them even believe they are going fast enough to not be an obstruction. Run them down to prove them wrong.”

“Britain’s nuclear submarines have been deemed unsafe…probably because they don’t have wheel-chair access.”

On Mandela’s claim that Cuba is a good advert for democracy: “Well Mr Mandela why don’t you go and ask one of the 12 year old Cuban prostitutes which way her parents voted?”

“Now we get quite a lot of complaints that we don’t feature enough affordable cars on the show……so we’ll kick off tonight with the cheapest Ferrari of them all!”

On the Lotus Elise: “This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.”

“Sure it’s quiet, for a diesel. But that’s like being well-behaved… for a murderer.”

“I don’t often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal’s duty to be on my plate at supper time.”

“There are footballers wives that would be happy with this quality of stitching… on their face.”

“Much more of a hoot to drive than you might imagine. Think of it if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under her tweed pants. I do, and it helps.”

“You cannot have this car with a diesel. Its like saying, I won’t go to Stringfellows tonight, I’ll get my mum to give me a lapdance, she’s a woman!”

“Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar… in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President.”

On the Porsche Cayenne: “Honestly, I have seen more attractive gangrenous wounds than this. It has the sex appeal of a camel with gingivitis.”

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