Lego isn't a toy, but it's a toy, but it's not only a toy, and adults like Lego, and adults also like toys, but Lego isn't a toy, well it's a toy, because kids like lego, but adults also like Lego, and I like Lego.
@@HonnePerkele Yes I totally agree that Lego is a toy but also not a toy and instead is a adult collectors item which it's self is a toy and some adults play with there Lego but it's not a toy that is a toy. People of all ages love lego as a toy or not as a toy and for that reason it's not a toy but is also a toy. Lego is the best toy but not a toy in the world. 😀
James Mays brutally honest descriptions of the past are awesome. He is nostalgic for bygone days, but remembers how terrible a lot of it was, and is appreciative of the improvements we've made. Everyone needs to be more like James May, the wisest and most genuinely cool person in the world.
To a fault a lot of people's interpretations of what was "terrible" from history is just a modern day retrospective opinion of the past without realizing that nothing better existed, so it was the only way. I can just as equally argue that the current times are 50 times worse than the past because of TOO MUCH technology.
@@98-SR5 Actually, looking at him, it doesn't seem too out-of-reason to think that he'd attempt such a thing. Maybe he could talk to the minifigures of Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond and just scream insults at them all day, since the minifigures can't do anything. I'd call that Talk Gear.
Yeah it was space for me too at the tail end of the 80’s. I swear this one spaceship I had was more elaborate than anything they’ve produced in the last 30 years, including their rip-off Star Wars nonsense. £900 for a Death Star without an outer hull? No thanks.
@@LituanoLT Some are obviously targeting kids. Hence the friends line of products. If they didn't sell they wouldn't still be making them. Plus Legos were what me and all my friends did growing up, and I'm 18
My dad has the Lego 381-2 Police Headquarters and still has it today. All the parts and bits and its from 1979 so this year marked its 40th anniversary
They would have the same reactions as the deleted scene from when they were wandering through the abandoned Arctic research base. James May very excited and fascinated and they are just wondering when they can get a coffee.
He's right. I'd love to give the 1960s and 1970s a go, but my parents both say it was awful and today is much better. The food in particular looked dreadful. My late grandmother back in the 1990s said the same about the 1950s.
That’s just nostalgia. Food was worse, lower life expectancy, less access to information (you were stuck with a handful of newspapers), the working classes were in far more dangerous jobs, people were more racist, more homophobic, and in the UK the economy was doing very poorly. That’s just to name a few things.
Where would you draw a line? :) Don't most sets mostly use a small subset of pieces, with only a few special pieces? The more specialized the set, the more specialized the pieces. I have this massive Volvo Wheel Loader. There was a lot of special technics pieces on that set. It was brilliant though. And I have this pseudo Formula 1 style race car. Lot's of very technical pieces, such as the parts to support a differential. On the other hand, I suspect my LEGO Police station uses a lot of common elements.
Fantastic place and to see all those original Lego sets must have been amazing. I never normally disagree with Mr. May but here on his point about the 60's, 70's, 80's etc. and now being the best era....no sorry James you have that very much back to front! The 70's and 80's were the best for music, cars, new tech. simpler and easier times. todays era fills me with utter dread and depression!
True here. I clearly remember a place in Queensland Aus in the '60's called Beachmere. Was just beach, subtropical jungle and little huts. The simple things in life are the best.
Anyone that says that nowadays is much better than the past would want to look around them and realise how miserable things are. I'm only 21, but I would rather live back in the 80s or the 90s (even the 60s or 70s) than live in this miserable present day.
Screw all the gold burried by pirates and andventurers beneath worlds sands and earth. Real tresure is memmories. Those happy memories we got in both our head an heart
I've had lego since I was born grew up with it same with my brother It was our primary source of entertainment other than a TV Video games practicly didn't exist We got these things for the TV called plug in and plays which just had a couple pre installed games on em Like pac man Eventually we got a laptop and internet and 1st games we played was lego racers, lego stunt rally, need for speed, sorry a digital version of the board game, lego had a game on a website that was lego Indiana Jones Kinda funny how when we did get a computer lego was still the main focus lol
LEGO collectors are very curious. Opening and building and displaying a LEGO set does not hurt its value (you shouldnt care about value - its enjoying the toy that matters) SO LONG AS you keep the original box in good shape and do not lose it. The packaging and manuals is where all the value is. I suspect a lot of people store the sets away in the package when they take it apart for storage to put another set on their shelf, which is why the boxes are important.
Have only ever seen those cabinets in films before, but wonder why opening the first one opens all the rest? If the idea is that they are all firesafe, why should the others be open if you inspecting a different cabinet?
It's not a vault door like in the cartoons, that you open and then move into the space behind it. Each of those panels is an entire row of shelves, and with the twirly bits you move them from side to side so's you can walk in between. 's why there's 1's and 2's on either side of the panel :).
In the '70's I had a huge Lego kit. It wasn't themed, I didn't need a picture for inspiration. I just built castles and manor houses and stuff. Just used what I had and made what I felt. Kids these days aren't encouraged to use their imagination. Kinda sad really.
Would of been a nice touch of leggo to make you take your shoes off before you go in and put a for covered piece on the floor, just for old times sake ...
The only Lego set I kinda remember from a while ago is either the 2007 or 2008 McLaren F1 car, when I found it recently however I can’t find all the pieces.
To drive. Some of them looked amazing (I especially like Ford Cortinas, Ford Anglias, Datsun 120Y, and most of the sports cars), but brakes, engine cooling systems, engine reliability, safety equipment, windscreen wipers, gear boxes etc are better now, as in more reliable and effective.
