The Top Gear Thread (Post JC; RH & JM)

Someone has designed and built the entire Top Gear TV studio… out of Lego

Jeremy, James, Richard, The Cool Wall, Jesus in the crowd. It’s all there

Well, this might just be the best thing you see on the internet today. A fellow Top Gear enthusiast called Nard Verbong has designed and built the entire TG TV studio… out of Lego pieces. All 5,362 of them. Sir, we salute you.

Because the attention to detail is incredible. Jeremy, James, Richard and The Stig are present and correct, of course. Same for the indestructible Toyota Hilux. The trio of DIY motorhomes. The Triumph Herald sailing boat. The Cool Wall. It’s all there.

Easter eggs you might not have spotted include Richard’s minifigure legs. Jesus in the crowd (if you know, you know). The DB9 sub-zero fridge. The V8 blender. We’re told it took between 45 to 50 man hours to design and build the 90x90cm studio.

Perfect for your living room table, we reckon. Because yes, Nard, who spends his time designing and building custom Lego cars – including several other Top Gear creations – has released instructions complete with a required parts list on how you can build it yourself.


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BBC Studios on Top Gear TV: “no update at this time”

Here's the response to online reports about the return of Top Gear TV

BBC Studios has responded to online reports about a potential return of Top Gear TV. And this is where it all gets a bit into the Spider-verse.

Speaking to TopGear.com, about Top Gear TV, a BBC Studios spokesperson – speaking on behalf of the company that traditionally makes Top Gear TV – said: “The Top Gear brand continues to thrive across digital, publishing and global formats.”

That’ll be the award-winning TopGear.com website that you’re on right now, the award-winning Top Gear magazine that’s been running since 1993 and is sitting dog-eared in workshops and doctors’ surgeries up and down the country, and of course, Top Gear’s award-winning online video content.

“As a commercial producer,” the BBC Studios spokesperson added about Top Gear, “we’re always exploring new ways to develop the brand and reach audiences by leveraging such iconic IP.

“But there’s no update on the TV show at this time.”

 
'A piece of television history': driving TGTV's record-breaking Arctic Toyota Hilux

Not all heroes wear capes - some wear balloon tyres and gaffer tape. But should you *meet* your heroes?

When all’s said and done it’s just a Hilux. Admittedly it wears balloon rubber and a gun case, but that’s all surface dressing. You can strip it away and it won’t make a blind bit of difference. It wasn’t accessories that gave this Toyota strength. The Hilux was already tough.

It just needed a chance to prove it. On Top Gear TV in the 2000s its moment came. Several times, actually. There was the time it was blown up – and the 23 storey building it was standing on. Another had an outboard engine attached and was sent out to sail the English Channel. Another attempted to drive into a volcano. They all survived.

But this one was a genuine record breaker. The first car ever to visit the magnetic North Pole. It wears this achievement lightly. It doesn’t glow with inner radiance or have the grizzled faraway look of an explorer. It’s just a Hilux, out doing Hilux things.

Albeit one modified by Icelandic expedition specialists Arctic Trucks for the job of driving 450 miles across the Polar ice cap from Resolute in Northern Canada. The suspension was reinforced, the front double wishbones moved forward slightly to make room for the giant 38in tyres (£2,500 a pop), there were heavy duty diffs and sump guard, plus an auxiliary fuel tank and freeze resistant fuel.

But the basics, the 3.0-litre diesel mated to a four speed automatic, the chassis, heating system, seats and everything else, was entirely standard. As Jeremy pointed out during the film, everything else packed up: the radios, the microphones, the cameras, the batteries, the humans – all failed along the way. The Hilux didn’t.

Meeting it today is bittersweet. I watched the film again before I drove it (S9 E7, it’s on iPlayer), saw it rampaging through snowdrifts, barrelling over ice fields and generally proving unstoppable in the face of every challenge the Arctic could throw at it, and I felt a bit sorry for it.


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