Best of the best return for LEGO® Masters Grand Masters
Australia’s favourite entertainment show, the Logie Award winning LEGO® Masters, is returning April 10 at 7.30pm for its fifth and biggest season yet on Channel 9 and 9Now.
In a world first, the winners and top teams from previous seasons plus a new wildcard duo will face off in a supersized competition to determine the best of the best in LEGO ® Masters: Grand Masters.
Hamish Blake is back as host, alongside judge Ryan “Brickman” McNaught, for the toughest challenges ever, and new twists and turns to truly test this elite group of champion builders.
Ryan said: “Being Grand Masters, the expectation is already there. They all know they need to bring something new and exciting, something beyond their best, something we’ve never seen before, and they sure do.”
This year the challenges are tougher than ever, testing each contestant’s skills like never before. They include LEGO® worlds suspended high above the ground; an exciting movie mayhem scene using motors and explosives; and a rocket being launched into the sky.
There will also be special guest appearances from Sophie Monk, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and – to celebrate 100 years of Disney storytelling – the iconic character Mickey Mouse.
Hamish said: “To be invited back this season for Grand Masters I think really solidifies me as the best host that has ever hosted LEGO®Masters Australia, and that is a huge honour.”
LEGO® Masters: Grand Masters will hit unbelievable heights of creativity as the best brick builders in the nation raid the ever-expanding brickpit to get one up on each other. Expect the greatest builds in LEGO® TV history as they battle for the most prized trophy of all.
LEGO® Masters: Grand Masters comes from producers Endemol Shine Australia (a Banijay Company). The series is adapted from an original UK format from Tuesday’s Child Productions and The LEGO® Group.
LEGO® MASTERS AUSTRALIA GRAND MASTERS – TEAMS
The April issue of Australian Women’s Weekly includes a feature interview with Brickman and his new wife Tracy.
It was revealed that Grand Masters was filmed at a pavilion at Sydney Olympic Park in October last year, the show’s third filming location after Royal Melbourne Showgrounds and Fox Studios Sydney (now Disney Studios).
and filming started the day after contestant Alex learned of the death of her brother.
Lego Masters: Grand Masters will be shown on Three New Zealand from Sunday, April 16, according to screenscribe.net.
Nine has released more information on this season’s format and teams.
A new Grand Brick is also introduced to the competition, keeping the team who win it safe from an elimination episode. The team with the highest score for the first three builds wins the Grand Brick initially and has immunity in the first elimination episode. The Grand Brick is then up for the taking for every episode following. But the contestants will never know when an elimination is coming.
There are also two new outdoor challenges, including at Sydney’s Luna Park.
I’m interested to see if having a best of season is able to stop the declining ratings of LEGO Masters. After just four regular seasons it’s comparatively early in the life of a format to have a ‘best of the best’ season. Also, unlike some other formats, there is quite only a small pool to pick from where very few really stand out. Unlike shows like MasterChef the past contestants don’t go on to have careers based on their success and don’t really pick up a lot of followers. There will have to be a lot flashbacks to remind viewers who the contestants are. The ‘wild card’ team tends to suggest that there was some difficulty getting enough past teams to compete as well. Hopefully it can do well, as it is an original Australian format sold to other countries.
All-Star who?
Personally I think the series always had a novelty factor which was going to result in steadily declining ratings as it went on.
Won’t have much life after this best of season IMO.
That’s probably what Nine were thinking going with a best of season.
I think it is an British format.
The first season of the British series aired on Channel 4 in August 2017.
It’s certainly not an Aussie format.
There would be no elimination this week, instead Hamish and Brickman dragged out a leaderboard built entirely out of Lego (a la The Block). After each build, Brickman would give each team a score out of 20, and the highest scorer of the 3 builds this week would earn the Grand Brick that would grant them immunity further along the competition.
Scott and Owen won the first challenge with 18/20.
When Damian pointed out that his name was spelt as Damien on the scoreboard, Hamish doubled down and put an a after the e, so the name was now Damiean 
Not a particularly good opening build. It seemed very close to one from a previous season. Tonight is similar with another challenge very reminiscent of previous seasons.