The suspense was building, along with the epic LEGO builds, on the finale of the FOX series "LEGO Masters" on Wednesday night. You two seem to build creations very quickly. It was cool. Will LEGO Masters come back for season 2?! I honestly had no clue that there would be any emphasis placed on my singing on the show. But watching him and some of the techniques and the aesthetic that he uses inspired me and encouraged me to try some things that I had never tried before. I built a couple of my MOCs just standing at those tables for hours and building. But on LEGO Masters I had to make the creations bigger, work with Mark, and spend less time deciding what the next piece is going to be and more time thinking “How do we accomplish this and that in a fairly short amount of time?”. How did it feel to be put on the spot to come up with new songs? The duo took home a cash prize of $100,000 and a trophy completely made of lego… I think some of why we picked the Imperial bunker on Endor was because we had access to Ewoks and we thought, “There’s nothing cuter than Ewoks!” We could have them in dynamic positions right when they start attacking and have the Ewok on the hang glider or the speeder--so much good stuff from Return of the Jedi in one scene. I remember building a lot as a kid and having a lot of fun with that. I always remember that, to use color, and to not just have it all gray and monotone. But I think that was something on the show that we figured out. He came by, and I can’t explain to you what occurred while he was there--you saw it. The challenge is always finding some best balance of all the things the judges are looking for. It was Mel’s very first time! Season to date, LEGO Masters is averaging north of a 1.1 demo rating and 3.5 million total viewers (in Live+Same Day numbers), ranking fifth among all Fox programming in both measures. The whole energy in the room went up when he came bursting through the wall. The show is hosted by Will Arnett and will put the brick building skills of contestants ranging from ages 23 to 65 to the test. LEGO Masters series 1 (2017) - Episodes Episode Title Date 1 “Brick Feast” 24 Aug. 2017 The competition begins with the auditions: 48 pairs of builders are whittled down to just 8 via a series of challenges including making a brick banquet.Lego Senior Designer Justin Ramsden is the judge during the auditions. And then Terry Crews was just hilarious. I don’t think so. It was so simple and amazing and fun. Boone: One weekend we weren’t shooting we went to Disneyland with Mel. It was like, “We’d better build this cool stuff, or we have to go home back to reality!” So we always strived to build awesome stuff and work together as a team. Alex and Jackson were crowned the winners of Channel Nine's Lego Masters on Monday night. When we were done and stepped back from it, I remember having this feeling of “Oh, this isn’t our best work.” Then to have landed right in the middle after that long streak of being in the top--we needed to keep focusing and just move on. Fox has officially introduced the 10 pairs of contestants who will be joining the next season of the grandest LEGO reality TV contest on the planet. Watch; SUN 7.00 | MON 7.30. I found Tyler’s character builds very clean and compelling and often humorous and cute. I don’t take it for granted, it was just amazing. Watch Latest. Hide. At the same time, it felt good for us to have our entire collaboration be safe together. In all, there are 10 teams of 2 in a competition that pits each team against each other in a thematic build off(s)/challenge in each episode. Various guest stars have also ser… Mark: I would say Terry Crews was probably my favorite guest star. They’re a newlywed couple that are charming to watch and who have done extremely well in the challenges. Now it’s a different and good experience in its own way. There were some rules about the golden brick that weren’t explicitly shown on television that they told us at the beginning of the competition. Read on to read the second interview with one of the final teams..... Today, we'll share the interview with Boone and Mark, aka "The Bearded Builders". What building techniques did you learn from other teams? That would have been entertaining. [laughs] That’s all we had to do, but at the same time it was stressful because we didn’t want to get sent home. Boone: Exactly! The governor of Oregon just announced that school is going to remain closed through the end of the school year in June, so I guess we’ll see if the organizers of Brickworld feel like that is an event they can have safely. Were there any fun moments that happened off-camera that you recall? I think mainly though, I’m just sad that we won’t get to have a big party for the finale. Like for the Star Wars challenge, we had to think about how we make those three criteria shine within the Star Wars universe. Put on a clock for yourself and try to build the best possible thing you can build in whatever amount of time, and then step back and ask a friend, “How’d I do?”. Selected out of thousands to compete on Fox’s hit television series “LEGO Masters,” Jessica’s finalist piece was displayed at LEGOLAND in Carlsbad, California. It's great to get to have background on what we see on TV! Boone: You can find me on Instagram @BooneBuilds, https://www.boonebuilds.com/ or as BooneBuilds on YouTube. I’m glad I’m out of the dark ages and doing this again. You talked a little bit about having R2-D2 and C-3PO on set and singing with Will Arnett, but can you talk a bit about your interactions with the other guest stars? Will Arnett shares what he loved about the … This interview was conducted in conjunction with The Brothers Brick, BZPower, and True North Bricks. Did I get rid of all my LEGO in those two years? It probably still is my favorite build overall, but I really loved our droid. I had to go re-watch the first couple episodes of the show because people were cheering so much when our faces would come on the TV that I couldn’t hear what we were saying! All images courtesy of FOX. Episode 8. You can catch up with all Lego Masters episodes via the official Channel 4 media player, ALL4. I think it was probably more like 80, but it was just incredible to feel everyone’s energy as we’re experiencing watching the show for the first time. LEGO MASTER Aaron demonstrates how various Lego sockets and joints can create other-worldly creatures as part of the At Home With series. Boone: I think probably the most significant guest interactions to us were Terry Crews and Chris Miller and Phil Lord, the directors of The LEGO Movie. Boone: I think that on some of the challenges we felt good about what we were doing in the midst of it, but in the end we didn’t perform as well as we would have liked. And you get that sense of “Okay, we’re in this, we’re doing really well, let’s keep it up.” That was one of the only times that I felt comfortable when we were building because I thought “Oh, we’re doing so good, we know exactly what to do, and we literally built what Cash, our kid, wanted.” We made robots rain from the sky, we made the crab jump out of the ground. There were moments when we wished the Brick Masters would come by because we didn’t know if we were going in the right direction. But we had a lot of fun with him around. That would have been really interesting to see how Boone and Mark would’ve interpreted that challenge. 8 comments on this article. I didn’t know I was building fast until I got on the show and then had people point that out to me several times. It was awesome, but now it’s just different. Mark: I loved that here was this grown man and a police officer screaming his guts on the Indiana Jones ride. We’re going to be looking at independent builds.” On the flip side, they told the other teams they needed to collaborate more on and not focus on their individual builds so much. Most of my builds from the last five years are things that can fit on a couple of baseplates that I’ve built in just one or two sittings. They’re really cool. But we were coming off four wins in a row, so it felt disappointing. Boone: I absolutely loved having big watch parties. Wednesday’s finale will see the final three teams — husband and wife duo Tyler and Amy, longtime friends Mark and Boone, and new partners Sam and Jessica … Press play above to witness the joyous, pre-taped, socially non-distant moment. However, on the set of LEGO Masters, this is *the* R2D2, this is *the* C3PO, and the fact that we got to have conversations with them felt a little surreal, a little out of this world. LEGO Masters USA is airing its series finale on Wednesday - just two days away! So for the watch party, we had all these people there like Mel and Samuel from the show, Dave from The Brothers Brick, and Jake Sadovich who designed the LEGO Ideas Ship in a Bottle. Four teams of LEGO fans made it to last night’s final episode, but a secret agent bunny was not enough to see Chris and Joseph through to the final two. In the end, we felt it was important for us to be good collaborators. Enjoy what you’re building, and try to push yourself to build stuff out of your comfort zone. The whole thing that Brick Master Amy taught me was if you have a gray main character you can’t have a gray background behind it--it has to be able to stand out. I was confused for a bit about this "four wins in a row", but then I remembered their streak ended with the bridge episode...which started with the pinewood derby race. Boone: We are onboard for Brickworld Chicago. If I have an idea and start building but then take some time off from it, the chances that I’m going to come back to it are very slim because I’m going to lose the energy of the idea. It was an experience I’ll never forget. Boone: I’ve never had a great deal of patience for long LEGO projects. You mentioned both Bricks Cascade and our current situation with COVID-19. I was not aware of who Amy was before LEGO Masters, but I was fairly easily able to extend my respect for Jamie to Amy because I know they have a very similar role at The LEGO Group. That was amazing and probably one of my favourite builds that anyone else did on LEGO Masters. What were your favourite builds of the season from both your team and your competitors? But that didn’t end up being one of the challenges. Then you just kind of move on a little bit, get other hobbies and whatever. Mark: When you see us stroking our beards, I typically do that like when I’m deep in thought… or nervous. So even though Jamie/Amy gave both groups different advice, they still seemed to focus more on individual contributions than the collaboration aspect.One complaint I have about their welding droid is that the camera work spoiled the surprise. That was a gap between 12 and 14. Boone was there and a bunch of other friends. 7 comments. In the end, eliminated contestants and the finalists’ families joined a studio audience for the final crowning of the ultimate LEGO® Masters. What would you have done differently in any of the challenges? You were featured singing quite often on the show. Boone: We were wiping our brows coming off of the Storybook challenge. For week two, I went and joined Mark’s watch party. Anything would be fun that is big and awesome with lots of lights and motors! Building fast is just kind of how I like to build, otherwise I’m going to lose interest in the idea and the project altogether. Boone and I approached that challenge as “this is just Sam and Jessica.” Yes, we have the golden brick, we could phone it in and just build whatever, but we chose to build like we didn’t have the golden brick. Mark: My biggest takeaway is just the experience that I was able to go and build. Boone: I really loved Mel and Jermaine’s Dream Park build. Three teams left from the original eight will put all their construction skills to the competitive test as they compete for the chance to win $100,000.. See More: How Nine is making Lego Masters bigger and better Our Imperial welder droid was all black and it had a really good story, but it seemed like it just wasn’t cute enough. If they do good, we do good. So, if we do good, they do good. We’re just amateur builders so any feedback they had, whether it was positive or negative, we really tried to take it into account. Our priority now is to work together as a team. Boone: That is a good question--I wish you’d sent it to me last night because I could think about it and come up with something really cool! Everyone knew that no one would be allowed to play the golden brick after the eighth episode. Plus a ton of Portland LEGO Users Group members were there along with other LEGO builders from all over the country. I remember the last LEGO set I bought because I wanted it as a child in 1997. That’s what we did to the point where I feel like we were able to help them out. Before I didn’t consider myself a fast builder, I just considered myself a builder. We were in right in the middle. Mark: I would have to second that. Beyond that, we’ll see. April 13 2020, 7:00 AM PDT, RELATED STORIES Trying to find that fine balance of what we wanted to build, what we’re good at building, and what the judges are looking for was challenging for me. So watching him experience all of these incredible attractions for the first time was both hilarious and lovely. They've also had an impressive run in the show and have won several challenges. Mark: I would agree with that. We really made a point to pay attention every time they came around because we know who they are. What advice would you give to future contestants of LEGO Masters? 55 MIN. Terry really seemed genuinely thankful to be there with us. 9-1-1: Lone Star's Gina Torres Defends Tommy's Reaction to Charles' Fate: 'That's What She's Wired to Do' Look at past episodes of this competition. I didn’t do a lot of buying or building of LEGO in college, but that kit along with my X-Wing from 1999 hung from the ceiling in my dorm room. [laughs]. LEGO Masters - Finals: The two remaining duos go head-to-head as they create their most epic master builds yet. On the flip side, if they came by for a check-in or even in the final presentations and judging and gave us a compliment--or if they recognized something specifically that I had done that was hard to do or saw some parts use that we had thought of that he recognized and thought was worth mentioning--that felt *so* good. We did a lot of speculation about what challenges we might face. Mark: When the show first aired, we were doing big watch parties which were a lot of fun. The Ewoks stood out to me as far as the texture and green and gray--it had a lot more going on. Why did you select the Ewok scene in the Star Wars episode? Just to be given a challenge and to be standing next to one of my best friends strategizing “Okay, how are we going to build this?” And then, we would just build LEGO. Episode 9. It felt nice to actually be able to do it every single time since I could have totally blanked. It was awesome. LEGO Masters is set to debut Wednesday, February 5 on the network at 9/8c, and LEGO Movie star Will Arnett is helping out. Interview with LEGO Masters finalists - Part 2, https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/lego-masters/. Aired 5-7-20 • TV-G . It took us a few challenges to learn that, but I think we got there. 82 MIN. All we had to do was wake up, put a flannel shirt on, and go build. In terms of our builds, I loved all of them but my favourite was probably either the Mega City or our bridge. Mark: You can find my LEGO creations on my Instagram @mecruickshank. Plus, they built an incredibly strong bridge that one time. How did it feel being compared to a Wookiee by C3PO in the Star Wars episode? Episode 12. I thought, “Oh, because of our beards,” but the whole experience was just incredible. You’re on your feet for a long time and you do a lot more running than you’re probably used to. I have a tremendous amount of respect for what he does, what he knows, and the feedback he gives to his LEGO product design team. Look at other builders’ stuff and ask yourself, “What don’t I have experience building?” and then try it. Chris and Joseph are the next finalists to speak to Brick Fanatics after LEGO MASTERS Series 2 wrapped up last night. I think they wanted something big and dramatic, and they wanted a lot of action. I can imagine us being so focused on building that we don’t notice a beard hair stuck between two bricks, but no, it didn’t happen. Mark: Oh, man! 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