James May to build Lego house

Teki187 · 25 Jul 2009 at 22:49

Top Gear presenter James May is looking for volunteers to help him build a new house in Surrey - made entirely out of Lego bricks.

As part of his BBC series James May's Toy Stories, he plans to build a two-storey house in the middle of the Denbies Wine Estate, in Dorking.

More than three million Lego bricks have been delivered to the site.

May will host a building day next Saturday, when members of the public can help him with the project.

The house will be life-size with a staircase, toilet and shower, and May said once it was completed he intended to live in it for a few days.

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Quality, i hope it works!

Jamesbcd · 25 Jul 2009 at 22:51

will watch this for sure

arc@css · 25 Jul 2009 at 22:54

Interesting, worth a viewing

Ricochet J · 25 Jul 2009 at 22:56

The guy's a legend :cool:

Zerolimitz · 25 Jul 2009 at 22:58

wow lol this will be very intresting cant wait might even pop down there to see it o.o

unclebob123 · 25 Jul 2009 at 23:03

He mentioned this on Jonathan Ross.

I've just sent them an email offering myself as a volunteer

TheCenturion · 25 Jul 2009 at 23:06

Hopefully it won't burn down, being plastic and all

PinkFloyd · 25 Jul 2009 at 23:10

Haha amazing. I'd love to get involved in this!

secretspy · 25 Jul 2009 at 23:14

Dorking is where I live!!

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh

first a giant silver cockeral now a lego house! haha

edit: hmm i might pop along!

Andelusion · 25 Jul 2009 at 23:38

Did anyone see the Mythbusters episode where they tried to build a giant lego ball to roll down a hill? It fell apart after a while, but I'm sure they needed over 250,000 bricks, I'm guessing that more than 3million will be necessary to build this house unless they're quite large bricks?

Phog · 25 Jul 2009 at 23:41

Yeah I think I will offer my assistance, don't live too far away at the moment! Sure would be fun.

TaKeN · 25 Jul 2009 at 23:43

I'd love to help! shame the drives so far though

"andy" · 25 Jul 2009 at 23:44

anant_shah94 said:
Hopefully it won't burn down, being plastic and all

weird thing to say ?

D D Danneh · 26 Jul 2009 at 00:18

"andy" said:
weird thing to say ?

I bet some scrote will try to set fire to it though. :rolleyes:

KaHn · 26 Jul 2009 at 00:23

I hate the BBC for pawning James may as some sort of engineering guru when in truthhe is thick as pig crap!

KaHn

millsy888 · 26 Jul 2009 at 00:31

Wish I had the time to go along and help out.
It's going to take lot of work, and he's going to stay in it for a few days

cpatain-chaos · 26 Jul 2009 at 00:34

Andelusion said:
I'm guessing that more than 3million will be necessary to build this house unless they're quite large bricks?

Duplo / MegaBloks f.t.w !

Kennysevenfold · 26 Jul 2009 at 00:34

Ricochet J said:
The guy's a legend

VoG · 26 Jul 2009 at 00:42

Andelusion said:
Did anyone see the Mythbusters episode where they tried to build a giant lego ball to roll down a hill? It fell apart after a while, but I'm sure they needed over 250,000 bricks, I'm guessing that more than 3million will be necessary to build this house unless they're quite large bricks?

the Mythbusters lego ball took 1million pieces of Lego, & weighed in over a hefty 3,000lbs+, and took over 2 weeks to build a 2 metre ball, so i can't help but think the 3 million pieces JM's got for his 2 story Lego house project isn't going to be enough.

Demoniser · 26 Jul 2009 at 00:43

Genius idea, Legoland, take note!