James May is out to prove why traditional old fashioned toys are still relevant today when he pushes them to the limit in two hour long spectacular supersize challenges. The Great Train Race James attempts to run a Hornby model railway between two towns. He races against the German owners of Hamburg's 'Miniature Wonderland' the largest model railway exhibit in the world. Explosions crashes and a battle of wits and technology drive the race to a dramatic yet emotional conclusion. Flight Club James embarks upon a daunting quest: to build and fly the first toy... glider to cross the English Channel. To help James in this huge challenge he calls upon school children spitfire pilots plane designers and...Oz Clark. This ambitious attempt provides a dramatic yet beautiful finale all in honour of the millions of balsa wood planes that inspired a generation of children. [show more]
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Two special episodes of the BBC series in which presenter James May embarks on wildly ambitious projects using some of Britain's best-loved toys. In 'The Great Train Race', after failing in his previous attempt in 2009, James once again tries to run toy trains along a specially built ten-mile track between Barnstaple and Bideford, making it the world's longest train set. This time it's a race to the finish line with James and his British team pitted against employees from the German model railway attraction Minatur Wunderland. In 'Fight Club' James builds a scaled-up version of a Slingsby Swallow hoping that it will become the first free-flight model glider to fly over the English Channel and, at the same time, set a new British straight distance record.
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