JM's Toy Stories - Legoland Vault

[@alinoo1]

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.

[@MrWolfSnack]

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.

[@wretchedrider2157]

​@@MrWolfSnackMy thoughts exactly!!

[@kingjames4886]

"the lego people tell me..." talking to toys now...

[@sebby324]

He means the staff

[@ericgu9036]

@@sebby324 r/whoooosh

[@rams_r_champs]

@@sebby324 no shit really?

[@Tapanitseini]

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.

[@legobrickabrac]

@@Tapanitseini 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. 😀

[@filipmac1545]

James May is a great presenter.

[@legobrickabrac]

All We see of him is pure him. He never trys to be anything but him self. If he thinks your a idiot, he will just say so.

[@jheeshin621]

@@legobrickabrac "Don't just stand there, you idiot!" -James May

[@friedipar]

His whole life is an unintentional ASMR

[@toveychurchill6468]

Do you mean, "CLAARRKKSOOOOONN!!!!" ?

[@antontalbot9148]

Ugh get lost. Asmr is the worst.

[@ciyttcix6661]

@@antontalbot9148 you don't have to be so mean, 😕 why waste your time putting other people down.

[@danchetraru2652]

Riiiiiight?

[@elia8900]

what a lovely, lovely man

[@JealotGaming]

Gotta love James.

[@justanotherrandomperson1359]

Captain slow is kinda boring but cool at the same time

[@pendolinofan643]

Got to love James's may

[@isaacharkton6169]

* kisses*

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

And James May is a decent chap too

[@Rena152]

When he mentions "the lego people" I imagine May talking to giant lego minifigures

[@98-SR5]

I prefer to think of him holding minifigs in his hands and having conversations with them.

[@jheeshin621]

@@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.

[@warriorsmustang1784]

James could do a 3 hour documentary on the history of paint colors and I'd watch all of it

[@flashkraft]

Early 1980's Space Lego would be the nostalgic focus point for me.

[@Chronohome]

I was alive for the Space Lego line and love it to bits (heh), but after seeing the Goonies I was all about the Pirate Legos!

[@nexusparadigm4062]

YEAH! BLACKTRON! M-TRON! And those blue-nasa-tshirt guys!

[@xenosmoke8915]

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.

[@Rover200Power]

Which was the one with the black bricks and neon green coloured "glass" pieces? That was my absolute favourite until I was old enough to make Technic.

[@Geographus666]

I build up all of my old Legos during the lockdown. My Blacktron Station is still complete, including that giant neon-yellow glass panel.

[@sknuts6429]

Children with adult haircuts that’s a band name right there

[@Alicat0314]

To see a set of every bionicle set. Man that would be neat

[@watchit8064]

That's a lovely gold and white shirt you're wearing James.

[@RaggedDan]

Goddammit

[@MsZsc]

Award for most dead meme

[@maycontainnuts3127]

Ollddd. I almost forgot about this meme.

[@rippspeck]

What a callback. Kudos.

[@theonlyMoancore]

Idk, it looks black and blue to me

[@alexraphael2327]

The most wholesome video ever

[@Brendan-5930]

Facts

[@nothsim]

They should make a retro line. Same picture, same poor cardboard boxes.

[@LituanoLT]

It will be to complicated for kids nowadays

[@societyofamusementparkhistory]

@@LituanoLT You seen the sets they make now? I don't think so.

[@LituanoLT]

@@societyofamusementparkhistory and those are not for kids but for dads

[@societyofamusementparkhistory]

@@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

[@David_Noonan]

@@LituanoLT The only way the father gets factored in is when they step on them.

[@BazaarSystems]

He looks like the type of person who would host a car show with 2 other men

[@theburpman8006]

He does lol or did until Jeremy Clarkson, his colleague, was fired for punching a producer

[@TheEarth1874]

I could honestly watch an hour of James May spending time in the Legoland Vault.

[@Bartman954]

Lucky guy. Plus I wish they would bring back Rock Raiders

[@SoundShunter72]

@H M You might be confusing them with Power Miners. Although what you described could also fit Rock Raiders, I wouldn't know.

[@MausOfTheHouse]

I think they are called power miners

[@RageCreati0n]

Yeeeaaassss!!!

[@RYNUS-vc9cw]

For those confused, rock raiders was the precursor to power miners, a way to breathe new life into an older set idea for the toy market.

[@sigynigy]

Rock raiders were some of my first sets and a kid, great theme

[@SteamKing2160]

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

[@vygas]

this video alone reminds me why i love james may

[@childeater7327]

When I heard Lego vault all I could imagine is a bunch of 5 year old with heavy heist gear and like railroad cutters

[@jaden_bricker]

Wtf is your pfp

[@AScottish-AustralianM-84]

Then I'll be the one pulling off the heist in T-45d Power Armour and a Gatling Laser from Fallout New Vegas

[@bruce7699]

2:48 , the boy on that box is now the owner of Lego , his grandad started the company

[@whoyou8319]

pretty intense 3 minutes 22 seconds

[@wisteela]

Absolutely fantastic. I'm now very curious what those electronic sets were.

[@karlosbricks2413]

Set 118 is an example. The train would start and stop based on you blowing an included whistle.

[@SurvivingTheApocalypse]

Secure vault with a fire exit. Brilliant.

[@casehamatojones1369]

oooo, is he going to give Clarkson and Hammond a tour ? I’d *love* to see their reactions !

[@charleswoodrow]

Diana Bond me too, I would like to know Which Lego sets they had.

[@MrWolfSnack]

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.

[@GenericUsername-qp1ww]

Jeremy: "right, wheres my hammer?"

[@Zak-ob5ze]

Jeremy with his hammer

[@tanjasteinrotter8084]

Jeremy would say:"This Lego Car has the perfekt size for Hammond".

[@MR.LMR1996]

Everything in that Vault should be in a Museum.

[@BlueXonar]

I have that kit which he first picked up! It was my Dads. :) e; Oh and that lorry one!

[@Signerdragon123]

What I'd give to see G1 Bionicle stuff in this vault.

[@NotSosigRamsey]

I love the old lego I used to play with my dads old sets from the early 70s

[@massivelegend5209]

James is perfect for this

[@robot7759]

It's beginning to look a lot like Lego 🎶🎵🎼 2:51 Love the bun.

[@nickluther263]

Boy if only james could have seen the future before the "the current age is the best" comment

[@clovers-vintage-all-sorts]

I actually own the set from 1958

[@cryptidian3530]

That's priceless piece of history.

[@Bountifulloot895]

Treasure it

[@bokhans]

Otter's Vintage All-Sorts I have a wooden box for Lego pieces made by Lego, paper cartons are a later invention.

[@Austyn_Young7]

Same

[@tsaszymborska7389]

The 70s were the best decade ever 🙃

[@NidgeOSullivan]

I agree, been going down hill ever since, having more stuff does not equate to a better life.

[@spookylemon4947]

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.

[@SargeMimpson]

You are the reason today sucks so much. Hurr duurr homophobia nd racism hhrurhr

[@mxbx307]

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.

[@freebirdh604]

For a few minutes, I thought this was James’s vault...it wouldn’t have surprised me! 👍☮️❤️

[@rayblack2004]

His description of past decades is spot on XD

[@lazycalm41]

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!

[@sevintrix2962]

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.

[@sunsetvlogs5500]

I think he is talking about one side of the U.K. in that period as arguably another side e.g music, art and cars were great in the 60s 70s and 80s

[@europa2000man]

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.

[@marinusmaucher]

Two of the best Things together

[@HelloTher1313]

I remember this being on TV

[@theNEWguy102]

"You're 7 years old girl it's about time you started looking 75" I love his way of humor :p

[@MasterArchfiend]

I wonder if this includes the McDonald's Bionicle toys. The ones from when the series was new.

[@obviouslytwo4u]

IKEA have the same with one screw missing from each box.

[@LEGOMANIAC419]

As a person who is obsessed with Legos as a kid, that vault sounds like El Dorado.

[@martinhodge921]

I still have one of those London bus sets.

[@joshrichard3157]

clarkson would come along and smash all the sets just to piss off may XD

[@sparky10142]

"CLARKSON!!!!"

[@megs8654]

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

[@dborgstedt]

I think for the standard LEGO the best was around mid 90's now there are too many unique pieces. Love the 2010-> evolvement of Technic tho

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

Times change and we change with the times. If more unique parts encourage more kids off their tablets and phones, I don't have an issue with it.

[@michaelbauers8800]

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.

[@enricovenezia1160]

My favorite legos. Castle.🙂🙂🤩

[@SuryaK.B.]

this has some ASMR vibes

[@XNick291X]

Would love to try and find a town planning set similar to that at 2:59!

[@comradegeneralvladimirpoot1313]

Like a kid in the vault of a candystore.

[@StaceyIsles]

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

[@jbsmodelsandrandomness6954]

You take that back about old cars !!

[@ronjermy7622]

top gear lego when

[@denizbeytekin9853]

very nice

[@docdoc4485]

OH I love blackpool

[@STANDARD_POTATO]

0:49 HAHA LEPIN

[@pokemaster123ism]

I’d break in and make all the sets probably

[@mitchellhogg4627]

pokemaster123ism I think you, me, and the lego corporation all know that won't be happening.

[@mitchellhogg4627]

pokemaster123ism let's get real he was probably at gunpoint during that whole scene...

[@liliaunterreitmeier8421]

Wow 👏👏👏

[@Nitrodozer]

I would love to own all of them!

[@markorollo.]

i recently found a website that lists every lego set ever made, Brickset.com, they start in 1949, not 1958,

[@Sden20307]

@Hydin Biden I think you’ll find the third party random website is actually correct not the organisation who invented the product 🙄

[@mikebraun6836]

I knew I liked james

[@gochanny]

i came here just to say i appreciate the fact you titled it “JM” instead of “James May” for views 👍🏼

[@lightninlarry8936]

I would love to see this place

[@PneumatinisPlaktukas15]

Wow, seeing all of these sets makes me not feel bad about opening sealed sets from the 70s.

[@sekhmet7774]

You should

[@MrWolfSnack]

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.

[@royalbloodedledgend]

Wasn’t May born in the 1900s though?

[@messi228810]

James' dungeon

[@ceesmith]

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?

[@typhoidtyphoon]

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 :).

[@typhoidtyphoon]

TLDR: They're not opening, they're moving aside.

[@ceesmith]

@@typhoidtyphoon Ah ok, that makes sense now, thank you.

[@typhoidtyphoon]

@@ceesmith No worries mate ^^. 's not a system that's used all too often. Have a good week!

[@garygrandy9443]

I'd like to see the mid 90's selection

[@plum_pie6402]

Suggested by LDS The Man Who Thinks He's A Wolf | I Think I'm An Animal | Curious i have just one query what the hell youtube

[@AnanasJaune]

Give me the pieces to the house u made!!!

[@iangascoigne8231]

Mint in box.

[@AFV85]

How cool are the old Leyland or bedford lorries from.the 60s looks better than when I got mine late 80s early 90s

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

They LOOK cool. Modern Ford Transit is a better van to use and do stuff with on the whole. Probably (I can't speak from experience!).

[@retardbusdriver275]

welcome to paradise

[@shayrogersf1]

Why has this just popped up in my recommended then 😂

[@MrJoseph310]

Whatever show your doing even without your mates you got roast someone

[@evanw346]

Imagine he just opens one

[@finnfoster6753]

is that James May?

[@thelunchtabletalkers7358]

Yo, who wants to pull off the heist of the century?

[@konrad6157]

A like just for the comments on the girls hair

[@TheIllusiveMan11]

Imagine is Lego had a contest where the first prize was that you got to go into that vault and take one lego set. Any one. For free.

[@Scoresslowed6327]

Anyone else spot the lego magnaguard starfighter at 0:36?

[@sevintrix2962]

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.

[@jiro4559]

"lego people" lol

[@Austyn_Young7]

I own 2 1958 sets

[@raydickos]

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 ...

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

They should have a lego carpet too

[@H.Kirsch]

he just went there and talked shit about a little girls haircut

[@MrNick-ic8rt]

So... Is he wearing a black and blu shirt, or a gold and white shirt?

[@Fisch1969]

I want to crawl and search here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@nicopavvi8494]

James May, the most exciting boring person... In the world.

[@stanleybuchan4610]

.....and as a reminder to any Americans watching, it's Lego, not Legos.

[@JoshuaC923]

Lego mecca!

[@LM.P]

Yes james the 60's were awful. But your hairstyle says otherwise. Jk. James is awesome

[@eurosonly]

So basically, Britain was still in the dark ages during the 90s.

[@Sden20307]

We invented the computer

[@niplbby0073]

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.

[@zzz5602]

Did he just say the cars were awfull ??

[@zxbzxbzxb1]

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.

[@TailsFan369no2]

We need to stick him in a Mustang again

[@jintube8520]

kids with adult hair style lol

[@oryyy3545]

Why is there damp on the Ceiling

[@renz1013]

These archives are more interesting than ones in those fantacy lore archives

[@fluffyslippers5589]

Blackpool is terrible, I can confirm xD