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).
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and filming started the day after contestant Alex learned of the death of her brother.
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Lego Masters: Grand Masters will be shown on Three New Zealand from Sunday, April 16, according to screenscribe.net.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That’s probably what Nine were thinking going with a best of season.
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I think it is an British format.
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The first season of the British series aired on Channel 4 in August 2017.
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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 
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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.
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Tonight’s challenge was essentially a replay of one from last year where a vehicle was crashed to the ground for the best effect.
Wednesday’s is a new concept thankfully.
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Hamish still making fun of Damian’s name in tonight’s episode. First it was Daymian then it was Demien.
Ryan and Gabby won tonight’s challenge on 18 points in a barrel-off, just one point ahead of Trent and Kale. Ryan and Gabby now sharing the lead with Scotty and Owen (who also finished on 17) on 35/40 after two builds.
Sophie Monk is special guest in tomorrow’s challenge, which I feel has kind of Roger Rabbit vibe.
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Some amazing builds in last night’s challenge, namely Scott and Owen’s Mistral Fan and the sand green typewriter by Andrew and Damian.
Guest judge Sophie Monk then had one minute to guess from a distance, which objects in the office were real and which ones were made from Lego. Sophie only tipped correctly that three objects were built with Lego bricks, meaning the other five teams (Scott and Owen, Andrew and Damian, Henry and Sarah, Kale and Trent, and Caleb and Alex) would each receive three bonus points.
Scott and Owen won the challenge with 22 points, and topped the overall leaderboard on 57 points after three builds, thus winning the Grand Brick, giving them immunity from Sunday’s elimination.
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Wow they seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel with challenges, all star cast and stunts this season.
Also disappointed they aren’t able to get better talent to guest judge - Sophie is over exposed at Nine with Love Island, The Hundred and BATG and these little guesties. She’s becoming the bogan Sonia Kruger for Nine.
The first team eliminated tonight.
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It was silly that Hamish and the winning team from the challenge had to wear a globe to hold the Grand Brick. Come on, it was not hot anymore!
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