I really hope it is saved. I will support you all the way.

It should be preserved its to nice to knock down, plus its a waste of construction

I love lego but love cars and everything to do
with TG but who cares about that because its soooooooooooooooooooooooo o!cool and im with Louis on this one!

PS:good look James M
im a James aswell

Such an architectual masterpiece should be saved, make a Hotel out of it!

maybe the BBC could buy it

It is the future of houses… Imagine that… ohhh, the window brokes… Lets buy some lego and fix it

Ok, if everyone who is a Top Gear fan, put £1 towards this, we could own it, us, the Top Gear fans, these guys give us so many hours of entertainment, isn’t it about time we gave them something back.

James is a great guy as we all know, and together with the volunteers who helped build this unique house, it would be such a shame to see this demolished.

Can’t we as a collective buy this?

keep the lego house FOREVER!!! don’t take it apart.
P.S. will buy for 50p

I agree with Male it is the future of housing LOL

You have my support! Allthough my pockets aren’t that deep…

You cannot take it down! id love to go to that house (although im not sure about living in it!)

wow that is one of the biggest lego models i have ever seen. its awsome and i still kinda like lego so plz save the house its so big there is no point in taking it down

I’d pay to go and see it. Not becaue James built it and it’s on the telly, just becuase it’s kewl.

Save the Lego house!!! J-May rules 4ever!!

Can’t we all chip in and donate the house to Legoland?

Lego house for the win! Chances are, this sort of thing will never be undertaken again. It would suck for all the work that went into it to end up being for naught after James has his overnight stay in it.

Save the Lego House!

Keep it!!! Sheer awesomeness! We’ll help.

At least if it has to go come up with some car smashing explosive, caravan munching, morris marina killing, highly dangerous and appropriate top gear send off for it.

sav in ity

Save the damn lego house!!!!!

save it ya battyman

Dismantled brick-by-brick!?
Jezza, I’m with you; bring the TNT.

P.S. Honestly, when I read the title I thought they would blow it away TG style.

If I had enough money I’d pay for it myself. x

Paul, would it be an idea to start an account on
http://www.justgiving.com  ?
In that way anyone wishing to do so could easily donate money. If you spread the word on FinalGear, some of the other fansites, Twitter etc, you might be amazed at how much can be raised in three days.

Come on. We have to save this master piece.

It’s nice to see things in their proper places rather than in boxes, as we weren’t allowed to take photos inside and I had to leave on the last day of construction to take my driving test in Lancashire. Not that anyone cares, but I passed, which is amazing considering I didn’t get to drive at all during the month I was working on this!
Anyway, it’s worth a lot more than £50,000 in lego alone – going on the retail price for a single 2×4 brick, it’d be something like £200k for the exterior walls alone – but while it would be a shame to take it apart after so much work went into constructing it, moving it *without* dismantling it would be problematic at best. I’d expect the wooden frame to shift and that could make the walls split. It would almost certainly be dangerously weakened by moving it. The wood expanding and contracting with temperature at a different rate to the plastic of the lego has already caused a few issues, and those would only get worse if trying to move it in one piece. On the other hand, it shouldn’t be that difficult – if the wooden frame is partially dismantled as you go – to break it down into sections. A couple of times due to mistakes fairly large chunks of wall had to be lifted up and shifted slightly then hammered back into place.
I can’t help thinking, though, that a better use for it *would* be to dismantle it – and then give the lego to charities. Lego helped Hammond recover, so I’m sure there’s plenty of others who would benefit from a few handfuls of bricks… also that would let us retrieve the stuff which was dropped down inside the walls…

SAVE IT PLEASE its a work of art, ill do anything to save it

SAVE THE HOUSE!<3
It's more than a lego house… it's a beautiful example of imagination- and playing.
I hope a few celebrities chip in- they probably earn more £50,000 a week!
xxx

Please save for the rest of us to see it. If not, why not sell of small bits of it, like those epic kitchen bits, like the first aid kit. They are amazing!

Yes!! Save the house! We could petition someone, the estate where the house is built, to see if they will let it stay there until the money is raised!

Come on, someone, please help to save the house!!!

Don’t demolish the Lego House – its an evolution in architechure, and ideal building especially during the recession, etc, etc, etc – basically, don’t knock it down!!!!!

It would be a shame to destroy such an achievement.

Please

Please save it!

i shall depart in my quest to find a gay millionaire that also happens to be colour blind

save it, save it, save it please its amzing im going have to build one now but twice as big with a car and garage and a real fish tank

that would be so cool

top gear rule and so does the lego house

I agree with comment No.7 Lorraine that it should be saved from destruction. I think all petrolheads and fans of lego should contribution £1 to keep it. Does anyone else think the same?

All that work that has gone into it it should be preserved. It is a masterpiece. It’s no different to other artworks which are preserved.

Sorry meant contribute!!!

If everyone chips in a pound I’m sure this can be saved!!

I fail to see how Legoland cannot afford this. They charge disgusting amounts for their tickets. Fifty grand is the equivalent to the entry fees for 1350 adult visitors – they’ll get more than that through the gates tomorrow!

SAVE THE LEGO HOUSE

PLease save the lego house and then maybe you could make it into a museum for people to look round. That would make some money to keep it standing !!!

i can actually see this lego house from my house and it pretty cool to say that i lived in the same town as the first ever lego house was made…i wish it wasn’t demolished as it would be a good tourist attraction anywhere it would be put.

Stick it on ebay!

SAVE JAMES MAYS HOUSE!!!
SAVE JAMES MAYS HOUSE!!!!

what a marvelous feat of endurance ! We all knew it could be done and that it would take a big man to do it and an even bigger one to undo it so in the name of rock n’ roll, art for fart and ” coz we caaaaaan..” take it down boys and give the 50k and bricks to those in need.. All in all, it’s just another brick in the wall..:D

ps try peter jones he loves doll houses..>D

and lego’s claims.., after having sold all those bricks… distasteful.

pps.. as a monument of his legacy hahaha james deserves better anyway…

DONT YOU DARE
KEEP IT AT TOPGEAR!

Brilliant idea james, brilliant, top kudos to captain slow

And when is the new show on?

Try the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum near Chichester… their budget will be tight, but the re-erection itself would be worth a load of publicity.

save it please!

FIRST!!!!

May I addd my reccommendattions to that off evryone else in saying that we need to keep teh lego house!

donnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn””””””””” ”””’ttttttttttttttttttttt ttttttttt ddddddddddddddddddddddddd dddddddddddddddddddddddde eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ssssssssssssttttttttrrrrr rrrrrrrooooooyyyyyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyyyy iiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttt tttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!pppppppppppppllllllll lllzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Does anyone have a link to the facebook group? I’m unable to find it. I really hope it survives.

save the house
its awesome

Jeremy’s right, he really is just an utter bore. It looks awful… I mean dreadful, and adds nothing; I’d love to see someone PE4 it (ahem! Jeremy). I hope he weeps when they tear it down–at least there’d be a reason to watch.

SAVE THE LEGO HOUSE!!!!!!!

James, Why not send it to any of the Legolands? I’m sure they would love to have it.

Please don’t make it dead! James is so in love with this I am sure, it would be too sad for him to bear! So much tedious patience required to make something so unnecessary AND cool! Please let the lego live on, not just for James but for all other lovers of order and detail!

i hope we can save it. the only thing i can do now is leave around 30 comments a day

i hope we can save it.

I always loved Lego’s, destroying that house would be a shame…but then again, it’s a good excuse to start over and build something even better.

Why haven’t you opened a paypal account.

We could have that amount in no time.

SAVE The House! Its amazing!

KEEP IT PLEASE!!1

DONT DEMOLISH IT!!!!!
It is so cool and the only one of its kind! why demolish it? put it in a museum, or legoland (dont believe they cant afford the only lego house in the world!) or, why not just leave it where it is!!!!!!!
or how about james gets some people to take residence there, so that they cant legally demolish it!!!
best of luck trying to save it, and we’ll help as much as we can!

seriously, guys make a donation option/account, we would all contribute, and you would have that money in a day!

SAVE THE LEGO HOUSE!!!! THIS IS SO COOL!!!

That money can be better spent saving ppl’s lives. Down with the house.

So awesome, it’s gotta stay

It is really good we want to live in it, please Legoland change your mind!

http://www.facebook.com/h ome.php?ref=home#/group.p hp?gid=158959820943&ref=n f

Here’s the FaceBook link. For those of you who have an account, please join. It’s more or less a petition group, but anything we can do to help save this wonderful house would be great. Thank you.

The Lego house should be kept, surely a gallery or museum (with a temperature controlled environment so avoid differential wood / plastic expansion) would be a suitable home. I would pay to visit it, it’s just so quirky.

lego is wick

What attention to detail – I would never have thought that a lego house could look so inviting. Of course it must be saved for the nation. Perhaps the National Trust could be persuaded to preserve it for posterity!

save the house its really coooooooooooooooooool

and the attention to detail is brillient too

The lego house CANT be taken down! quick ill put a pund towards whoever can save it!

keeep it noobs

preserve the lego house don´t demolish it, if it´s in the way move it to… i don´t know… to the Top Gear studio perhaps.

keep the house it’s amazing!!
can we please see a lego car!!!!!

Save the house!!! So much effort has gone into it. How often do you see real buildings these days with so much attention to detail?

If you combine how much they pay the TG guys for one episode, they would probably have enough to save it. Get Jeremy and Richard in on this.

Save the house

JAMES MAYS HOUSE ROCKS AND EVERYTHING JAMES MAY OWNS ALSO ROCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
SAVE THE LEGO HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SAVE THE LEGO HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SAVE THE LEGO HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SAVE THE LEGO HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by the way the one with “SAVE THE LEGO HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!) was mine

Save the house!!

save it! this really amezing a damn shame to demolish it =( it must be a place you can go to

that is so cool is there any thing james ins`t prepared to do for his tv show

does anyone know when the toy stories series is going to start

save it its amazing it must have taken ages

so pls save it

Save The House!

PLEASE KEEP IT!

IT LOOKS SO COOL! I WANT TO LIVE IN THERE WHEN I GROW UP!

I think the lego house should be saved, its the coolest thing ive ever seen! =D well done james may!

I agree with Lorraine comment no. 7 if every top gear fan donates 1 pound then that will definatly be enough to save the house. 50′000? pah easy.
i immedialtly donate £1.50 to save the house come on guys, i cant do this alone…

Noo, it’s a masterpeice, it would be like destroying a famous painting. Please don’t destroy it!!

NOOOO!
Why would anyone want to destroy James’s…erm… amazing lego house??
IT’S FAAAABULOUS!

Save The House! The government should fund it, cultural significance or something like that, wouldn’t be the most innapropriate use of tax payers’ money by a long way.

noooooooooooooooooooo!
dont do it, all that time and lego bricks it took to build it why why would you want to do it its sooooooooo dumb!
Please people save the house join our campaign!!

I’d find it sick for some idiot to knock down something as good as that especialy for a lego fan like me.You think that someone out there in the big wide world has spent a good couple of months or even a year probbaly any one who dares to knock it down PREAPRE TO DIE!

by the way hamond u rule

just save it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!I’ll live in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I kind of agree with HeidiL at #25.

The idea of the lego house is cool and would bring enjoyment to the people who went through it – but unless they had assurances from the Legoland people – ultimately all you are doing is lining their own corporate pockets.

But can you imagine the good it could do being shipped in lots around the country to hospitals (pediatric and otherwise), to help with the recovery and rehabilitation of patients?

Another option – Auction it off (as a whole or parts) to raise money for a charity of James Choice.

PLEASE SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE
IT

I agree with Surreal (104). I feel that the house itself should be dismantled and shared between hospitals and schools, as it would be an impossible task to take it down for a later rebuild. The furniture and ornaments can be saved however and auctioned off as keepsakes. The money from this could go to a variety of charities, including the incredible Air Ambulances.

Maybe we could get those aeroplane enthusiasts the RAF to airlift it with a chinook. Or better thought, post a JDAM through the window with a eurofighter…(still think the americans should make one and call it the yankfighter)

Jeremy Clarkson can buy it, if he has money for his lamborghini spyder he sure haw to buy this house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

save the house please!

I pass this every day and it should be saved

clarkson perhaps

Dont Knock it down or i Will Kill Eceryone Who did So dont do it or else

this is just amazing.if it comes to the worst case scenario surely the top gear guys themselves will be willing to help save the house.50 000 quid is a piffling amount of money for them,surely..

it should be saved because it is a great masterpeice construction please support it.

Please save the lego house!! open it as a holiday cottage! why waste soooo much lego

get j.k on the phone, he’s got enough money to spare 50k

I designed a full sized Lego house a few years back after a friend asked me if it could be done. Unfortunately as I am not rich or famous it only ever stayed theoretical exercise. I did get to spend a day halping with the building and I am glad I had the chance to be involved. I have to say though that I still like my design better so I am hoping this won’t be the only full sized Lego house as I would dearly love to build my own. While I don’t like the design aesthetics of this house it is landmark achievement in Lego building and therefore worthy of preservation – at least for a little longer. If someone out there wants to sponsor me I am up for the challenge of designing a building the next full sized Lego house (to look like a real house made with real bricks) single handed.

SAVE IT!!!
(clap clap clap)
SAVE IT!!!!
(clap clap clap)
SAVE IT!!!!!!
(clap clap clap)
if you cant put it in a museum or legoland windsor
i would pay any money to go inside that
please dont demolish it
its the most awesome house in the whole world
EVER!!!

After all the effort and enormous interest, it would be a great shame if the fate of the Lego house was demolition.

Fingers and toes crossed in the hope it can be relocated.

So awesome, totally has to be saved. Get everyone a college course in lego and the housing crisis could be solved

Save the house!!!

WHAAAAAAAA?
I cant believe Legoland rejected it! They can’t just demolish the house like that!

Keep the Lego house!!!!! It’s brilliant really unique and creative

save this masterpeice!!!

SAVE JAMES LEGO HOUSE!!!!!!Shame he worked so hard on it y would they wont to do such a stupid thing as to destroy it!!!!

save the lego house its not just arcitechturally??!!!! fab it is a work of art too!!!!

Charge for James’s VW song, put the money towards saving it. Charge say 50p, then any extra, give to Sport Relief next month. I reckon you could find 100,000 people easily. How many issues of the mag do you sell? Put an article in there about it and watch it fly. My commision for this idea is an Aston DBS.

currently its £400 each, C’mon we need more people!!!!

please save the house!!

Don’t destroy it, maybe we should ask some money of this new euromillions-winner, to bad I didn’t win, I would have helped to keep it. All that work and detail, what a shame if it would disappear

SAVE IT!!!!!!!

Put it on dispaly in the Tate Modern or something.

Don’t demolish it!

you have to save the house, in fact its not a house its a work of art so dont destroy it please.

So this is why I’m running out of the yellow ones!

I second comment 1.

Surely the BBC can afford to buy it like they do for TG challenge cars and stuff? Or at least move it to Legoland themselves?

Better than some modern art I’ve seen in the Tate. So surely needs saving…………..

Count me in to support save the lego house

SAVE THE LEGO HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!

I think that jeremy will probably drive one of those stupid nano cars into it break the nano and then James will pay to move it. That would be the ideall world. Hmmmmmmm

This so sad,I been a top gear fan for awhile and a lego admirer for even longer.They cannot destory it because it a landmark in history and to our childhood.Besides,how knows,Jame’s show may be the next Mr.Rougers Neighborhood for all we know.

SAVE THE HOUSE OF LEGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a load of old Cock. Don’t tear it down. It’s brilliant. How dare they even think of it!

DON’T KILL THE LOGO HOUSE PLZ
OR MOVE IN TO LOGO LAND
BUT DON’T PULL IT DOWN FOR LIFE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!

Maybe we can all arrange charity collections in the street lol. have a piture of the house & explain to people what its about.

PLEASE SAVE THE HOUSE IT LOOKS QUALITY!!!!!!!!

i hope that it is saved i think it is brilliant art and ido not think that it should be demolished i will support it all the way for it not to get demolished

leave the house its one of the best things i have ever seen in my life

save it for ever will pay £1

Save it as a national landmark, i am prepared 2 pay anything up 2 20 quid, get the queen 2 come and smash a wine bottle on it or sumthin, love u topgear!!!!!

savee itt!

If May wants the house, keep the house.

Save it!!!

plz save it it is so coool tht they have built this its just stunning and there has been alot of time and effert put in to this by thge looks of it so save it plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Save the Lego house! It’s too cool to demolish! We want to be able to come and visit it somewhere!

save the house or we will protest with guns ans stuff

how long did he take building it?

(lego guns)

will pay 0.0001p to any one willing to save house

cant compute.cant compute. save. cant . must save ralph hariis weelspin MUST SAVE HOUSE OR I QUIT TOP GEAR

Well, as the old saying goes, you could whore yourself out to one thousand fat birds for fifty quid, or you could whore yourself out to fifty REALLY fat birds for a grand each.

the lego house deserves saving because i’m one of may’s fans (he does waffle a bit but he is good),i would hate to see it gone,it is a piece of modern art!

Can we not have a whip-round and pay for the thing to be saved?? Someone ask Alton Towers if they have got room for it.

Lego are a bit mean. If the nation has a whip round to transport it to their grounds, surely they have the bods to maintain it, or does James have to go and do that as well?

Save the house!!!!

It is fab, it would be a real shame to demolish something that obviously has a place in Top Gear history, and is a place to put James when he waffles too much. (He would need his sleepbag all the time) If legoland don’t want it, (they must be stupid) I am sure a Childrens Charity would love it.

This thing could be opened as a tourist attraction. Surely the profit will prevent the council/government destorying it?

i agree with Lorraine, i would be willing to put £1 in and if your not what does that say about you!

SAAAAVE IT!!!!!!!

save the leggo house its a great peice of work and i think it could be used as a museum peice , however james may is the dullest man on earth haha

If we all chip a couple of quid in thats a start…save that lego house it sooooo cool!

mon the hoops

oh cock – lets save it

The bbc should bye it and use it as the new production office in topgear :p

SAVE THE LEGO HOUSE! £50,000? Where’s my handbag…

While the “House that James Built” is an awesome accomplishment, wonderful to look at and an inspiration to Lego fans everywhere, I must unfortunately disagree with the plans to preserve it forever.

What is a Lego? It is infinite possibility, limited only by the imagination of the creator. By relegating any Lego to a permanent position that possibility is forever lost.

What better use for the majority of the blocks in the project than to release them back into that world of imagination and wonder; perhaps some young genius, inspired by the scale and intricacy of this project, will use them to go on and create something even more spectacular.

Given that time and money are both in short supply I suggest preserving some of the more novel structures from inside the house, both as a tribute to James for undertaking it and to the ingenuity and hard work of all that went into it. Should be able to get that done for a fiver and a few packets of cod and chips, if a few kind souls could turn up and lend a hand.

So let the inspiration from this project spread throughout the land. Let’s see if we can preserve the greatness of the “House that James Built” not by cementing the blocks together, but by joining the imagination of youths far and wide by providing them an opportunity to use these blocks and the fantastic vision from whence they came to create their own wonders.

A far larger House may someday be the result.

Demolish it, its truly aweful. While a lego house is a nice idea, it’s been completed to really appauling standards. With a bit of creativity it could have been a proper house!

Make a decent house that’s worth saving first.

please save it, its a great house, my children love all the hard work that went into it.

why the f ck ain’t the millionaire stars of the show putting their hands in their pockets, why else pay a tv license.

Awww it’s awesome!
DOn’t you dare destroy it!

HUGE SUPPORT TO SAVE THE LEGO HOUSE HERE!!

SAVE IT! GO JAMES MAY!

I’ll pay 1 Australian dollar for it…
I think that’s about 50,000 pounds at the
moment.

LETS SAVE IT

WHERE IS IT

you have to save that
it is a thing of true beauty
how could that many man hours be simply torn down?
WE LOVE YOU JAMES!!!

Escapee, very good point. I still hope the house will be saved, but on the other hand, wouldn’t it be great to donate all that Lego to all those charities and through them into the hands of all those eager kids.

I’m a danish girl – neighbour to legoland (Billund, Denmark) and i say SAVE IT…

but if you dont – please dont take it apart brick by brick

take it down TG-style…. ram it with a lorry!!!

pleaseeeee save it

its amazing and all the time and effort it took will go to waste x

IT IS A GREAT HOUSE AND IF YOU KNOCK IT DOWN WHAT WAS THE POINT OF BUILDING I

please save it its so cool

keep it

It should be preserved. If it gets knocked down it would be a waste of time and effort, its too awesome. SAVE MAY’S LEGO HOUSE!!!!!!!

SAAAVVEEE ITT! For James at least haha!!

Start a petition and good luck with it……

I hope the house can be saved, preferably at LegoLand where hundreds of thousands of aspiring Lego builders could see it and be inspired.

Perhaps you should get the Discovery channel on board and get another TV Show for “Megamovers” out of the relocation.

If it can’t be saved, I hope the bricks will be donated to schools and hospitals where they would surely be greatly appreciated.

that house is amazing and if you destruct it I will kick you ass

It must be saved…who wouldn’t want it standing proud for a long time to come?

Just save the house!

why would they demolish it, it looks amazing. keep it standing!

Save the house its too cool to throw away

the people who are trying demolish it r F**k
they bloody are trying to ruin hard work!!
I f***ing think one day ill kill them

go on james! ebay it if you have to!

love the cat and let catch its mouse and i bid a quid of ebay

save the cat or house but mostly cat

We support the LEGO house all the way from the USA! C’mon, there’s got to be a UK millionaire with great memories of LEGO from their childhood who can sponsor this!

USA TG fan and her LEGO builder daughter

best house ever and so economical , we need a lego ferrari aswell

i Luv top gear

that house needs saving, and in Windsor i can visit it!

I really hope this house is saved. Go Lego!

All the effort that must have gone into this project and someone is gonna knock it down. Shame on you. Hope its saved tho gd luck.

Save it!it can be money making as well as part of tourist attraction,support the world! ^^

keep it!

wooooooooooooooooo save james house but build a car to go in a garage

we have got to save this house its totally awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

save the house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its better than a moris mariner anyday, lets hope careless airways are on strike!!

save it! save it! save it!
this house could be on cribs!!!!!!!

this house is ace wish it was mines we need to save it!!!!!!!:)

what a work of art how can they take it down!

Save the house!!! It could be a tourist attraction

save it save it SAVE IT

save it

cool

SAVE IT!!! this is history!

please save it, how can you knock something that cool down!!!

why cant we make this site into a potition form to stop the demolition???

P.S. why dont you just buy it as the top gear office? or… make it into a top gear garage?

anyway surely if you picked it up and moved it a bit every day then it would be legal-ish…

I think james and the constructers have done an absolutely outstanding job building this lego house, I’d LIVE in it (sort of). It’s a shame its going to be demolished UNLESS WE CAN SAVE IT! I’m supporting you all the way!

How can they possibly even THINK of destroying this monument of human acheivement…what will people, many years from now look to as proof when they’re told that in 2009 a tv presenter lived in a house made from plastic toy bricks? Also I want a look inside at some point and if they tear it down i wont get to see it!!!

OH NO the big day is coming two days

PLZ say our peition(spelling) worked !!!!!!!!!!!!

PLZ let us know TG lads

Everyone has done a OUTSTANDING job with making it. It looks great.

SAVE THE HOUSE FROM DESTRUCTION!!!

I would give you some of my money to do it. Callum aged 8. I hope someone does the rest of it cause i don’t think i have enough for it all

This is a massive achievement in Lego construction and tearing it down would be a disgrace. I stand by saving it all the way!

thay are sad pr*ks it thay tare it down

my friend built a window-frame for that houseso please dont destroy it!!! plus it is such an acheivement to make a LEGO house. Its as big an engineering feat as the empire state building. Are there any gurders? no. Is there any real glass? No. why destroy something this complex and brilliant? Why not let people go inside? you could make a bit of wonga of it. oh that reminds me, ‘WONGA!’, envirofone.com lol you cant beat it! ha ha

I THINK IT SHOULD BE KEPT!!!!

NOBODY HAS DONE THIS BEFORE ON THIS SCALE AND IT PROBABLY WON’T BE DONE AGAIN.

Save the house as it could become a national icon, just like the london eye or the millenium dome or the blackpool tower. PLus it would make lego land even better. So if someone’s got the money it would be a sound investment. As think of the publicity.

it is morally wrong to destroy the hopes, dreams of every child on the planet.

http://www.flickr.com/pho tos/moose_greebles/371767 1129/

just replace the little girl with James himself, and you’ll see the very reason it must NOT be demolished.

It could be a great tourist attraction!

Save it! Stig can have it a retirement home or somewhere to read up on duck facts..

Please save James’ house! I’d love it, but have nowhere to put it!!

move it to lego land and save all the hard work james and his team put in.

People are talking about saving it for posterity etc… The only problem is… Lego isn’t impervious… you leave a brick out to the elements for a few months and the chemical changes start happening in it, the plastic fades and becomes brittle and given enough time (and I am talking only a year or so here) the will shatter quite easily

This comes from childhood experience, we used to have a half acre block and it wasn’t unusual to find bricks scattered throughout the grass in varying stages of decay.

The Lego in the Legoland is routinely swapped, adjusted replaced for the same reason.

Escapee is correct… Lego is one of the ultimate forms of creativity – a world limited only by your imagination.

Perhaps what could be done is the more intricate parts could be saved and put on display with a film clip of the project in the back, but the structure, the simple brick bricks could be sent out to liven up someone elses life.

Lets face it, the “House” itself is just one giant shoebox of Lego blocks, the number used is astounding, but in reality, it’s the details inside that people would probably be most interested to see saved.

Lego Stig says save James May’s lego house…

http://www.flickr.com/pho tos/36565368@N07/39384481 83/

Save it!

YOu could give it to the stig to live in after you save it…after all, he’s alien isn’t he? Some say that the he lives in a lego house…….

Come on Companies please help James and the Lego house

We have to save. one day it will be history!! Thatys reason enough.

Save the house, maybe give it to Leggo Land Windsor.Then everyone can see it.

If everyone here that just commented gives £2 that’s £484 going towards saving it. If you did it on Facebook you should at least be able to get £50,000? Must be that many TopGear fans surely? Or have we all been turned to tree huggers?

Surely, in these days when an unmade bed, or come to that a stack of ordinary house bricks, is considered art by the owners of such hallowed walls ad the Tate, somewhere could be found for something like this. Let’s face it, it has for more artistic value than a lot of their recent exhibits. There must be a lot of people out there who would like to see it.
I hope it can be saved, but if not, can I adopt the cat?!

i think that James’s house should be allowed to stay as he is my mate. and i think the house looks cool and it took a long time to build.

put at top gear and charge to walk around shorly they have a spare 50k

save it and put it at top gear

only 50k

I guess this means we need to SAVE THE HOUSE!

Save it its worth it!

Surely the BBC have the funds available!! Or maybe the presenters of TOPGEAR could fork out a few bob each. You could even get the team to make an event of it & find the best way to transport it – whole, to Legoland!!

save the house it is far to important to just knock down what can we all do to help ?

Put a stamp on it and get the royal mail to move it

It is a masterpiece save it

If the design was sufficiently modular to dismantle and move the house, would it all have been built on-site? As I understand it, moving it was only ever a *possibility*, not a certainty, and certainly at the beginning a lot of people seemed to think the house *would* be taken down at the end of the project. This is not to detract from the amazing achievement of James’s Lego team, but I was surprised that everything kicked off so suddenly with the whole ’save the house’ thing. However, I have to say it does present a great opportunity to publicise the new series!

To be honest, I’m not sure what saving it would achieve – as Lego won’t allow anyone except Legoland to use their product as the basis of an attraction in the UK, and the terms under which the bricks appear to have been supplied, nobody could open the house to the public (I also suspect the safety elves would take issue with it). If the only thing the team can do with the bricks is donate them to charity, why not do so? I’m in agreement with Escapee in that Lego is not intended to be built into one form and then left that way forever, and bearing in mind events of three years ago, Lego can be a very powerful tool in helping people in all kinds of ways, whether it be rehabilitation from injury, learning through play or simply keeping a sick child occupied during a hospital stay. The objects from inside the house could easily be saved intact as mementoes of this amazing project.

Whyelle also makes a good point about the effects of time and the elements on a project such as this. I spent a lot of time working on one of the other Toy Stories projects, the Plastine garden, and while it was absolutely wonderful to see it in situ at Chelsea after all the work we put in, when I saw it at the South Bank Centre, it made me very sad because it was looking tired and people had damaged it – some wilfully, some I’m sure by accident – and unless it has been receiving a great deal of TLC at Sudbury Hall, it’s probably looking a bit sorry for itself by now. These are things of childhood, and childhood cannot be held onto forever. Better, perhaps, to let these things pass into legend, caught at their best on film for everyone to enjoy for posterity.

ill support you tg it shoudnt taken down

OMG What The Heck They Made Out Of Lego Get Out There Look They Should Made Out Bricks Not Lego
Beacuse Break It Down

Whilst part of me would love to see the house preserved due the amount of sheer hard work that has gone into it, a bigger part of me thinks that it should be taken apart and the lego pieces given to various childrens charites and/or hospitals. We all know how Lego helped play a part in Richard’s recovery after his accident 3 years ago and now that he is involved in The Childrens Trust it would be lovely to think that some of the lego bricks could be donated there to hopefully assist the children in their recovery process.

save the lego house!!! all that time and effort wasted. i would live in it just to save it.

WE LOVE THE HOUSE

dont destroy it. ask any adult and they all regret destrioying what they spent hours building as a kid espeacially when they go to re build many years latter and reliase they have binned the instructions

if 50k topgear viewers donated £1 each then it could be saved should have advertised on TV!!!

save the house!

As tempting as it sounds to go and smash down a huge house made from lego, it looks awsome! so this should deffinately be kept prestige. I wouldn’t want to be the asshole who’s demolishing it. Save the lego house XD

WE LOVE THE HOUSE!!!

SAVE THE HOUSE FROM DEMOLITION. I WOULD LIVE IN IT JUST TO SAVE IT.

ALL THAT TIME AND EFFORT WOULD BE WASTED IF THIS HOUSE WAS DESTROYED…

Save the house it should be a Grade 1 listing the best new house in a long time !!!!

Is it not possible then that if the whole house can’t be saved, then maybe the items inside it can?

From the photo’s that have been on show, there are items like the Rolling Pin, the Chopping Board, the Newspaper and so on. Surely they could be bought and raise some money?

Please don’t destroy it there was so much work and effort gone into it can’t they put it in a museum or something it is as you say history

In true Top Gear style……

BLOW IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah you can’t destroy it! There is love built into that house. It must be saved.

Connecting ideas, connecting kids, connecting the world. Keep lego house alive!!!

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SAVE LEGO HOUSE OR ELSE

KEEP IT! Its a should be a monument of LEGO in Legoland with tours round!!!

I can’t believe it!! The actual people- Lego themselves won’t help us out with the ONLY lego house in the world! This is a massive thing, a new world first that may never be the same again, and the people behind the whole damn thing don’t want to hear about it!

They should at least set up their own campaign or something to raise money. That is why I shall never play with lego again, but I will support the lego house and top gear all the way!!

We should have it in the Top Gear studio. The Stig could live in it.

Sell it on children in need!

Could this house not be used to raise money for a children’s charity?

They should get a Volvo or a tank and just drive through it to demolish.

Alternatively, turn it upside down and use it as a boat. Or build 3 chassis from the lego and see how fast they can go round the track in the hands of the Stig.

Lego bricks are toys and are to be played with….

BB

i like post 273. stig’s new house. put it in the studio and he can stay there til he needs to put in a belter of a lap round the track

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO DONT DESTROY IT!!!
YOU CANTTTTTTT !

I SUPPORT THIS TILL THE END!

xxxx

Can’t the BBC buy it? Be a better use of license money then another series of Strictly-Come-Talentless- Factor or whatever other phone in show is going to occupy TV space for the next 6 months…

NOOOOO dont destroy it

Don’t demolish that lego house!!!!!!!!! It is the best thing since everything!

keep the house it is amazing.

The house it epic, you must save it

Because I am over here in the U.S. I am only just seeing this and because of the time difference, MOnday lunch is long past over there. Still, It says something about the Lego house, James and the fact that slightly off the wall but VERY cool stuff seems to resonate with folks that this subject has received 282 posts since Friday the 18th, and this is the 21st.

Thatsa lotta Lego lovers

It seems an inevitability that it will have to be dismantled. That is unfortunate to be sure, but as others have pointed out, we have children’s hospitals all around the world that I’m certain could benefit from even a small donation of bricks. Please share the millions of LEGO pieces with those in need.

that house looks amazing and i hope they do save it

i hope they save it and sum1 purchases it….u can clearly see how much work and effort has gone through the making!!!

It’s a work of art. Save it!

How about some people donating the cost of the house, or charging folk for the fun in demolishing it, and donating the bricks to children’s hospices and the like?

The lego house is a work of art! dont understand why it has to be demolished…….what a waste!

Genious idea! Save the house please!
Go James May!

Make it into a hotel!

SAVE THE HOUSE !!! ITS A WORK OF ART !! WHY WASTE ALL THOSE PEOPLES TIME AND ENERGY WHO BUILT IT WHEN U CAN KEEP IT ???
GO LEGO HOUSE !!!!!

yeah use it as a hotel that way ppl actually make money from it !! coz i wud definetly luv 2 stay in a place like that even 4 a laugh !!

^^^^ yeah our right it is a waste of people’s time and effort if they knock it down

i wont one save it !!!!!!!!

How about finding a buyer in France. I believe some people are about to become homeless.

Save the house…the future for living has arrived…Mega kudos to the lego Technik Transformers Devastator!

That house rocks! Deffo needs to be saved – you can’t let that kind of hard work & attention to detail be lost!

It needs to be saved.

keep it standing and let someone live it!

this is a cool house that merits longevity. to pull it down would be akin to vandalism.

i’d rather give up 500,000 pounds than seeing James May cry he’s the best person in TOP GEAR
1:James May
2:Jeremy Clarkson
3:The Stig
4:Top Gear-dog
5:Hammond……………

SAVE THE HOUSE, James May – legend!!!

Please save the lego house! I love it. Unfortunately, we don’t have enough money to buy it. Jeremy Clarkson does–maybe he could keep Hammond there as a pet hamster.

Don’t knock it down! I am sure loads of people would want to see it at Legoland.

That is the most outrageous piece of lego building ever.
SO WHY DEMOLISH IT???!!!!&%$#

So just sell it as a house!
(I’d live in it)

I’ve got $10 US (damn yankee) to devote to the cause. James, set up a Pay Pal!

Why on earth didn’t he build it somewhere where it could stay???????
The complete lack of forethought staggers me – how did we win the war?

Hello, I’m from Russia. Yes, THIS far from UK. But nevertheless, last few months it was extremely interesting for me to watch the progress of this project and how adults turn into 10-year old kids for some hours while real children don’t wear their pants into holes, sitting in the Internet. And you know what – it really pains me (even as a person from outside) to see how the efforts of many people get nothing. I was always naive enough to think, that creating our own world, we do it in no way to come back to chaos soon. Bloody hell! Boys with big wallets and lots of unrealized intentions – be children at least for a minute or two and spend your pounds on saving this masterpice! Believe, the thing is worth the efforts!

Capn slow your Lego-Fu is VERY strong …. supported 100%

Just save it. Why not? It’s great

it seems a great shame to have it demolished- why doesn’t may buy it? or you could try to flog it to legoland.

Why destory house?
IT AWESOME!
Don’t destroy it!
Don’t destroy it!
Don’t destroy it!
Don’t destroy it!
Don’t destroy it!
Don’t destroy it!

please dont knock it down its a magnificent work of art

If it can’t be saved, at least demolish it using a caravan. It deserves a decent send off.

if legoland have to find £50k to move to legoland why don’t they charge for admission until they hav e raised the 50K- eg £1 per person- surely this house will attract 50,000 people

SAVE THE HOUSE

One other point to consider… Admission for an Adult for a single Day pass to Legoland Windsor is 37pounds (or 33 online) for an adult and 28 pounds for a child.

If the house was to be saved and moved to Legoland who would REALLY benefit from it?

Okay, yes people would get enjoyment from walking through it, but it would just be one more brightly coloured Lego construction… When we went to the one in the US a few years ago I, as an adult, even ended up with sensory overload so that by the end of it some truly amazing structures became “oh, that’s nice” ho-hum.

The real winners would be the Lego Corporation from entry fees, merchandise sales etc…

So in saving it are we just lining the corporate fat cats pockets or is there a better use for this amazing item?

Use it as the new Top Gear production office!!!

I will buy your lego house

A Lego car for The Stig?

Absolutely it should be saved, hope you fnd someone really generous!

SAVE IT AT ALL COSTS!!!

Truly… if everyone around the world who is a top gear fan put in just a small amount… $1… £1 whatever your currency is… I do think they’d be able to not only save it but turn it into a dang castle.

Surely you can just stick it on the back of a lorry to take to lego land??!!!

Pourquoi pas, la chaine, l’émmission, la production ou l’animateur vedette n’en fait pas l’acquisition. Ce ne doit pas être un problème pour lui.

You’ve been rather “special muppet” with this one James. May be you should have built a white elephant instead, they are more useful….

The hell with it. Put a couple of Marinas around it, tie JM inside and let the RAF do what they do better…

We could also borough an A10 from the Americans, just to be on the safe side. Those depleted Uranium rounds always get the job done…

We need to save this as it’s an example of the future……. Bring on the lego car road tests….

Save The Lego House The Cat Needs A Home!!!!!!

Save The Icle Duckies!!!!!! MMMMMMMM Nice Chocolate!!!!! SVE THE LEGO HOUSE!!!!

Beth, Alberto, Miles

TAG TEAM!!!!!!

Hey Summer!!!

PLEASE save this astonishing house. It must’ve took ages to build this house. So there’s no point of destroying this piece of art. So lets work as a team and lets save the lego House

Come on, someone must want it – it’s a two-storey Surrey villa with a celebrity owner, and it’s only going to cost £50,000. I’d buy it if I wasn’t (a) broke and (b) in Scotland…

Why does it have to be dismantled to be moved. In new zealand they move great big houses across the country all the time without dismantling them.

Just stick it on back of a truck with ‘Wide Load’ signs and clog up the motorway for a bit.

Surely Top Gear have the contacts to get the loan of a big old truck.

we must save that cool house !!!!!!!!

Recall volunteers to turn the broken-up house into thousands of Single Wine Bottle Boxes. Place into storage and sell from the vineyard’s website as part of a gift set, if necessary over a few years. Not much point thinking of donating to children because safety is not going to approve the use of lego exposed to wood, nails and soil microbes. Adult wine drinkers make the best buyers of the momentos.

The whole point of lego is to take it appart and build somthing else .. dont be a saddo James dis-assemble it

SAVE THE HOUSE! It is done to such a detail it would be such a shame to demolish it, I hope someone can afford to move it!

I’d buy it, only my sister would just kick it down like any other logo house I’d built!

So sad that they are demolishing it. Wish some rival theme park would have bought it or a buildings museum.Lots of hard work went into that house.Am sure it would be a valuable attraction.

I think they need to go to amreica and have a race with the new trucks of america like the dodge ram the chevy and ford to see who’s is best.

Do you sell timeshares ?

SAVE ITTTTTTTT!

James, Jeremy, Richard,

Please… pleeeeease… destroy it with a big powerfull car…

Pleease…

Yer, I’d keep it …make a dedicated hotel out of it for lego nutters! …is that allowed?

If not smash the heck out of it…ar! Better still…..melt it!!! …with Jeremy Clarkson inside…

pls do give him some protective wear though!

please put it on ebay

Save the lego House…….
I agree that it should be donated to legoland Windsor. I would go there just to see it:)!!!!

please save it!

i aswell like the legoland donation idea.

This is too cool to demolish it!

do no demolish the house it is awsome

that house is so cool

I loved it!
Can’t we all chip in! Surely we can save it together!

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It would be criminal to demolish that house, it looks brilliant

A wonderfully silly and hilariously whimsical creation. Clearly a lot of time and effort has gone into this. Should it stay – no. This is ultimately a bit too corporate – lego, after all is a privately owned profit making company.
I felt a little uncomfortable reading the commentary on the web tour – how many times do you need to remind us ‘and please remember these are all genuine lego bricks’.
As brilliant as this is, it is little more than an elaborate press release – lets celebrate its artistry whilst the moment is with us and then knock it down before it becomes just another slightly disappointing amusement park on the outskirts of Windsor.

With all of the money they have why don’t Jeremy, Richard, and James just pitch in to move it….

That took so long to build, why destroy this piece of art? KEEP IT!

keep dat ting it is illiegal 2 be mashed up!!!!!

I was one of the later build volunteers and I’m not surprised this has happened for the sheer reason that Plum Production couldn’t even organize the build well and it was obvious they hadn’t thought far ahead on what to do after filming. Case in point, we turned up as directed at nine on a Sunday. Then we find out the production team is turning up at 10. A portion of the volunteers then left. At 1045 a person from production wanders out and seems surprised we are there, so we finally get to go in. Turned out, this is the only person from production – the rest are off filming a giant Scaletrix. But he doesn’t care we’ve been waiting either. And there’s no one there to tell us how to build these pieces except one guy who wasn’t one of the engineers, he’d just been there earlier in the week and kept coming back. (He was great, by the way.) But there seemed to be limited written plans, and not even free tea and coffee to keep volunteers happy, though we did get to be objects on the Denbies train tour, ta very much. More people left after lunch. There didn’t seem to be enough bricks for what we were building (and they were asking people to bring what they had at home – what was with THAT???). There were no building instructions, limited copies of the architectural plans (which weren’t helpful when building), no assistance and to make sure you didn’t get any credit no one even asked your name.

The volunteers were a good bunch, which kept it as fun as possible, but the organisation was just plain shocking. After that, it seemed obvious there was no idea what to do to take it down so I’m not surprised this happened!

Don’t blame Legoland or Lego – they weren’t involved and they should be glad their name isn’t on this. Plum Production should be thoroughly ashamed.

I helped put the house together late in August. I notice that the first bit to get demolished was the bit I worked on! LOL!

Anyway, I heard about the demolition on the Sunday, got on the phone and interweb and by late Monday evening had found someone who was interested in taking it.

They had sufficient funds and a decent site but needed time to sort out logistics etc.

I contacted the production company asking whether a stay of execution could be agreed based on this but the demolition still went ahead.

It’s really sad but at the end of the day it’s not far different to childhood. You’d spend all day building some fantastic lego structure and go to bed only to wake up the following morning to find that your mum has pulled it apart and packed it away.

Anyway, I say give it another go next year, bigger and better and learning from the mistakes of this one. However, next time agree a permanent site beforehand!

In response to Anne’s comments..

Yes, the Project Management was absolutely dreadful! As someone who has undertaken Project Management I recon The Project Manager should be shot. He simply didn’t know how to run a project. Period.

The project overran drastically and supplies of certain colour bricks kept running out. There were insufficient tools and safety gear for all the volunteers to go round and H&S was a joke. All the Project Manager was concerned about was chatting up any ‘birds’ who came to look at the house and bad-mouthing colleagues who weren’t there. (Funny though ‘cos they called him ‘Baldilocks’ after he’d gone home!)

I laughed when he tripped over a box of lego, though!

I agree about the Denbies Tour..every 15 minutes a little electric train would wind its way through the warehouse where the bricks were being built, full of pensioners! “Welcome to denbies” the voice would boom out while 40 grey haired pensioners would be pointing and taking pictures!

I got so p1ssed off in the afternoon that I started taking pictures of the tour train and pointing back!

yeah, agree about the pm. completely and utterly incompatant fellow.

I’ll add my name to thelist who that the whole thing was badly organised. I helped on Saturday 22nd August and the only person who had an idea about getting stuff done was Heidi. I’ll re-state my offer made in post 117 to singlehandedly design and build a proper full sized Lego house if someone comes up with the bricks and the location.

i think you should not demolish this

It’s a sad, sad end to a wonderful adventure.

I was luckily enough be enough heavily, I helped build the individual bricks at the start, I helped construct the roof and things such as the door and window lintels as well as being able to go on the so called ‘building site’ and build the house brick by brick. It was like watching something magical being born, so it is a shame it’s now gone. Although we have to remember this was always going to be a temporary structure, but it’s still a shame.

While I agree some people at Plum Pictures are to blame, mainly the top dogs who said a 1 storey house was not adventurous enough for TV, although in deciding to go for a 2 storey house instead they did not order more bricks, hence the major muck up! What I will say is one member of Plum Pictures was on site pretty much all the time (Jules) and he was an absolutely top bloke who put so much time and effort into the project, so they’re not all muppets.

Also Lego shouldn’t be getting any bad PR from this, they sold the bricks very cheaply and the head of Lego flew in especially to see the house being built and loved it, the trouble is £50,000 to move it was just too much.

@ 361 Anne, I was there on that same day as you, it was certainly was badly organised.

As for doing this again, I’ll certainly be up for it. Bigger and better and without a wooden frame!!

save james’s house its 1 of kind and cool.

save james mays house its good for legolands reputation!

obviously alot of people have put alot of work into this …… id hate to be the person who did build it and then has to watch it be taken down brick by colourful brick !1

save lego house!!!!! thats a camand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks good!
Zoot101 on YouTube has shown him making the house.
I really wanna see it!

what happend to all the bricks? Hopefully they was sendt to cildren in schools, hospitals and stuff like that. It’s a BIG SHAME if it all were trashed…

WE THINK THIS LEGO HOUSE ROCKS AND WE WANT IT FOR OUR CHRISTMAS. PLEASE SAVE THIS LEGO HOUSE.

kool lego house!!!!!!!!!!!
i REALLY WHISH THEY DIDNT KNOCK IT DOWN!!!!
ITS A BIG SHMAE THAT ITS GONE!!!!!!!

Guess what?? I’m building a lego coffee table and I’m only eight!

Absolutely amazing !!!

I really hope it survives I will support it.

I watched it last night and i thout it was amazing.

Age 9yr

I hope i can bye one day

i am 22 and still love building with lego. it was fantastic fun to watch and i sish i had been a part of this project. seems a real shame that it is/has been nocked down. if ever a project like this happens again i would love to be apart of it.

I have thought about it and I think you should get
children to donate a pound each.

Agree, top gear and Toy story fans should all contribute, At a £1 each, we’ll all contribute £10
three generations have all watched the programme, and are desperate to visit it. Could charge for access once its at Lego land