According to an article on 9Now website, Hamish had to stay in Melbourne over Christmas last year to finish filming the show (filming had begun in October), before flying to Sydney to be reunited with wife Zoe Foster Blake and daughter Ruby.
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And what did they do with their son? 
We knew this already. He talked about it with the media when he was filming it and again when he spoke to Fitzy and Wippa when he was living in Sydney.
The eight teams competing in season 3 have been revealed.
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Interesting season 3 facts
⢠3.2 million pieces of Lego live in the Brick Pit.
⢠An additional 500 unique parts have been introduced.
⢠There are 5,000 unique Lego elements in the Brick Pit and 9,000 Minifigures.
⢠150 base plates were used to skin/cover/dress the challenges in this series. Thatâs the equivalent of 345,600 Lego studs.
⢠There is a new way to power Lego models and make them move using Bluetooth.
⢠Each team has a sorter to break down their model after the episode.
⢠To ensure Covid safety measures, each dismantled build is then washed before being returned to the Brick Pit.
⢠The money value of Lego in the Brick Pit is estimated at $1.2 million (consumer value).
⢠5,100 additional Lego pieces, specifically requested by the last three surviving teams, are brought in for the Grand Final.
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LEGO Masters 2021 Cast
LEGOÂŽ Masters reached new heights last year to become the highest rated entertainment program of 2020. Now the show is back for Season 3, with even bigger, better and more exciting challenges to test Australiaâs best LEGO builders.
Hamish Blake has returned as host with LEGO certified professional Ryan âBrickmanâ McNaught reprising his role as judge. They will oversee eight new teams of contestants including best friends, a young couple and a pair of cool mums.
These duos will tackle a challenge each episode in the hopes of winning $100,000 in prize money. To save themselves from elimination and try to make it to the Grand Final, the contestants will make stunning creations from the 3.2 million pieces in the Brick Pit.
The teams competing in Season 3
Amy and Dawei
Age: Amy is 33 and Dawei is 34
From: Victoria
With a love of the weird and wacky, Dawei, an auditor, is no stranger to pushing his mind to the limit and confident that LEGO Masters is the perfect place to bring his childhood passion to fruition.
He met 33-year-old content creator Amy online at the end of 2019 and together they have created YouTube channel âFoxy Bloxieâ, where they review LEGO together.
Daweiâs dream build is reminiscent of the early 1990s space themes: a space station base with starships and vehicles influenced by Star Trek .
Amyâs dream build would be quite different: a replica of the succulents in her garden, 400 of them! She would include all the intricate details and colours of each plant, hundreds meticulously planted in pots.
Anthony and Jess
Age: Anthony is 20 and Jess is 30
From: Queensland
Hotel concierge Anthony and science communicator Jess plan to combine their skills to make LEGO sculptures unlike anything youâve ever seen. They will be creating builds that showcase their love of playing with textures, and using different bricks in weird and wonderful ways.
Anthony is often motivated by his favourite movies for his builds, and says that his dream build is a gigantic mosaic of the Walt Disney Studios logo. Disney holds a special place in his heart, and this would be his way of thanking Disney for bringing so much joy to him and his family.
Jessâs dream build would be a giant science centre with every room displayed as a different science concept. There would be functional moving parts and people excitedly exploring various activities, all contained within a big, fun and unique shape featuring science concepts that are visually enticing for the viewer to understand.
Atlanta and Jeff
Age: Atlanta is 26 and Jeff is 28
From: South Australia
Atlanta and Jeff met a Supanova convention in Sydney. They love to create together, whether it be through art, board games, video games or LEGO. They spend hours upon hours building, and although they have different visions of how their builds should go, they always turn out perfectly because of the way these two work together.
Jeffâs dream build would be a Dungeons and Dragons world where he creates a series of floating islands chained together, floating around âa magical singularityâ. Each island would then be built out around technic frames in medieval fantasy style on a Minifig scale.
Atlantaâs dream build is a topographic map of Middle Earth from Lord Of The Rings . She would build all the hobbit holes and farms in Hobbiton, including dwarf mines, huge snow-capped mountains and a lit-up Mount Doom.
David and Gus
Age: David is 41 and Gus is 36
From: Victoria
David and Gus are ready to show Australia their great love of LEGO and excited to transform bricks into any creation they can dream up.
Project manager David says confidently that when he is building with LEGO he can focus solely on the bricks, giving him the ability to produce an unlimited array of transformations.
Gus, an engineer, applied for LEGO Masters because he knew it was the perfect opportunity to challenge his creativity, as he loves to draw and sculpt but needed another outlet to bring his passions to life.
Sarah and Fleur
Age: Sarah is 47 and Fleur is 43
From: Victoria
Sarah and Fleur are two mums both confident that they have what it takes to win LEGO Masters . Larger-than-life Sarah has been building with LEGO her entire life and says she loves it so much because it makes her feel creative and relaxed.
Fleur, on the other hand, has had a 32-year âdark ageâ â since childhood in fact â but knows that this extraordinarily long time-out will be no disadvantage to her in the competition.
Sarah and Fleur are ready to show Australia just how creative they are, which should be easy considering that between them they dedicate 20 hours a week to letting their imaginations take control and seeing what they can create. Sarah estimates that she owns around 50,000 LEGO pieces and Fleur has around 110,000, meaning that the Brick Pit will definitely excite, not daunt them.
Michael and Harrison
Age: Michael is 25 and Harrison is 26
From: NSW/ACT
Harrison and Michael have known each other since they were teenagers at the same high school in Canberra, but it wasnât until years later when they played on the same university touch footy team that they realised they shared a passion for LEGO.
Harrison is ready to bring his problem-solving skills to their LEGO builds, and although he lacks some creativity is confident that Michaelâs quirkiness and work ethic will lead them to success.
Michaelâs dream build would be a giant Mount Olympus with Zeus coming out of the Pantheon on top, holding a lightning bolt and pointing it down the mountain. Harrisonâs dream build would be a time-lapse, Minifig-scale Colosseum, set amid a landscape of rolling hills and a farm with crops and animals.
Owen and Scott
Age: Owen is 26 and Scott is 26
From: Western Australia
Best friends since high school, Owen and Scott will bring their love of LEGO to the creation of whole towns, scenarios and worlds out of nothing. Although these two have very different minds on a creative level, they complement each other perfectly as Scott looks at the bigger picture while Owen is detail-oriented.
Owenâs dream build is a sprawling city at the foot of a dense and hilly forest. It would dominate the space of three standard tables, with one-third dedicated to the hills and the trees and the remainder covered by a city filled with unique, diversely shaped buildings. Beyond the forest canopy a mountain peak would rise, with a cave overlooking the city.
The banter and healthy competition between these two will be hard to match as they create scenes and places that look magical, on a vast scale.
Ryan and Gabby
Age: Ryan is 42 and Gabby is 39
From: Victoria
Primary school teacher Ryan and occupational therapist Gabby may have different LEGO backgrounds but are keen to meld their love of the bricks by putting put their imaginations and skills to the biggest test on LEGO Masters .
With a nod to his musical roots, Ryanâs dream build would be a full-sized rock band complete with instruments. Heâd want the whole thing to look completely realistic, and the band able to move.
Gabbyâs dream build is inspired by Irish mythology. She would make an intricate scene featuring a lonely lighthouse and its keeper, surrounded by a rolling, angry ocean. The entire panorama would depict the different stages of a love story between the lighthouse keeper and a selkie (a seal maiden) and the final scene would see the selkie putting her seal skin back on and heading to the ocean.
LEGO Masters Season 3 premieres Monday, April 19 at 7.30pm on Nine and 9Now.
Nineâs head of content, production and development Adrian Swift has revealed more details about this season, also saying the network is considering future spin-offs.
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Karl (from the Today Show), suggested a âCelebrity Lego Editionâ.
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There were two additions to this season: the Platinum Brick (replacing the Golden Brick) and the Brick of Doom. The Platinum Brick could be used in an elimination challenge to receive immunity, right up to before Brickman announced the result. Drawing the Brick of Doom meant your team would be cursed and punished with a 5-minute delay in starting the builds. The curse could be broken by winning a challenge.
I saw highlights of the first episode during Gogglebox on Thursday before I had the opportunity to catch on this weekâs episodes this afternoon, so I knew what I was expecting. Victorians mums Fleur and Sarah won the first build and secured the Platinum Brick. They are now my favourite team.
Quite a bit of negative comments on social media last night about the judging by Brickman with claims of favouritism. The show must be one of the few reality formats with a single judge who has the power over who ultimately wins the entire series. Not only is he giving advice during the builds he is picking the winner and clearly doesnât like it if his advice isnât followed.
A couple of screen shots from when the show broke the fourth wall last episode (sorry for the low quality)
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LEGO Masters executive producer David McDonald did an interview with TvTonight and it was revealed this year would have 2 more episodes than 2020. As last season had 11 episodes and 6 episodes have already aired with 3 eliminations, it probably means that eliminated teams will be coming back.
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On Mondayâs episode half the eliminated contestants came back - so the show went from a final four back to six teams.
After tonightâs episode, Nine ran a promo for the Sunday elimination followed by âand then on Mondayâ promo where you could clearly see at least 4 of the teams that survived the elimination.
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The season 3 grand final will be shown on Monday, May 17.
Iâm not surprised the ratings were down last night. After 2 eliminated teams were returned to the show the season has started to drag with the same contestants competing over and over. Last night was a 90 minute episode for just one build and the result was one team received immunity - so not even an elimination - with the final reveals and judging stretched out over 30 minutes.
In future seasons, if Nine want to extend the season and have such long episodes it would be better if they started out with more teams.
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The fix was in for last nightâs episode right from the start with the choice of build clearly designed to keep one team in the competition. And Brickman obliged to a chorus of criticism on social media. No wonder this seasonâs ratings are way down and heading in the wrong direction.
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I caught up on last weekâs episodes today before the final two shows this week.
At the start of Tuesdayâs monochrome house challenge, Hamish and Brickman were shown in black and white. I first thought there were some CGI used in post-production to put the two man in black and white, but over the course of the episode I realised they had their faces, necks and arms painted in grey paint. The make-up and costume artists did a great job.
Hamish and Brickman were back to normal selves around three hours later.
A huge turnaround for Gabby and Ryan. They were originally eliminated in episode 7 after the âKale Scaleâ challenge, but returned in the next episode. And now they reached the top 3 and had a chance to win the Lego Masters title and $100,000 in prizemoney.
I feel very sorry for the mums Sarah and Fleur though.
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David and Gus has been the best performing team across the season (apart from a stumble during the greyscale house challenge) so they deserved to claim the title.
Itâs a shame that due to border restrictions at the time of filming (late January 2021 I believe) that the eliminated teams could not be invited back to the set to celebrate.
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