May moves into top gear to find Lego house buyer

Published on Monday 21 September 2009 21:49

SOME say it's the house that Lego built. Others say it's about to be reduced to a pile of plastic bricks.

Top Gear star James May has launched an 11th-hour appeal to find a buyer for a house he had built entirely from Lego.

The two-storey property was built in Denbies Wine Estate, in Dorking, Surrey, for the show Toy Stories.

More than 1,000 volunteers were recruited by May for the project.

But the house faces demolition today after the vineyard asked for the land back to harvest its grapes – and bosses at Legoland, in Berkshire, rejected hopes it could be relocated there.

The presenter said: "Knocking it down is just wrong on every level.

"It's a really lovely thing – it would break the hearts of the 1,000 people who worked like dogs to build it."

Martin Williams, sales and marketing director of Legoland Windsor, said: "We are so disappointed that we are unable to take this amazing Lego construction.

"We have looked at various options but unfortunately due to the costs and logistics of moving and re-building the house at Legoland, we are unable to proceed with this project."