HAMISH BLAKE: Previously on LEGO Masters...
Then all of a sudden, you hear, crack, crack, crack.
ALL: Whoa!
Oh!
..it was a battle of bridge strength.
At 24 kilos.
88 kilos.
We have got a tie!
And resident engineers David and G
built the sturdiest and prettiest bridge.
Your A frame, in the end, got you over the line.
(LAUGHTER)
Tonight -
the elimination challenge... Wow.
..to make the most awesome lair for a brand-new evil LEGO character.
Cactus Girl! Robot Man!
Leprechaun Boy!
I wanna see boobytraps, an escape path.
I wanna see a monster mega weapon.
This is the coolest challenge...
ever!
Some lairs will achieve maximum lair-ness.
It's awesome.
This is the wow factor.
This is show worthy.
(SIGHS)
But one will send its makers home.
I'm worried. We need to pick up the pace.
MAN: We could be up for elimination.
Gar! It just ain't enough.
(WHIMPERS)
You can't just be good.
These have to be great.
(MAGICAL MUSIC)
Rise, the door. Raise the door.
MAN: Whoop. Hey. Hey.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Right, guys, welcome.
Welcome to the final episode
of the penultimate week of LEGO Masters.
Easier to say, ah, that next week is obviously finals week.
David and G, you guys, because you won the last build,
you are through to finals week.
Well, I saw a pink stretch Hummer out the front.
I assume that's yours.
(LAUGHTER)
You can go. You've got today off. Well done.
No worries. Thank you. Thank you.
See you. (APPLAUSE)
Winning the immunity, we don't get to be a part of this build.
It's gonna be a shame to miss out on one.
No. No, I'll take the immunity.
See you at the end.
Alrighty. Obviously, there's five teams here.
Four will join David and G in finals week.
Obviously today's gonna be an elimination,
and one team does leave us today.
So... how do you get safe today?
Who here is familiar with the concept of the evil villain's lair?
You guys are gonna create an evil lair for a new villain.
Yes! Thank you, LEGO gods. This is the coolest challenge ever!
What are you looking for in the builds?
I'm looking for the most incredible evil lair
with all the evil lair goodness
that you see in movies and television shows.
Give as an example of "evil lair goodness".
I wanna see boobytraps. Oh, good.
Good. I wanna see an escape path.
I wanna see a monster mega weapon. (MAN CHUCKLES)
Our villain plays the key role in this,
so the story of the villain is of the utmost importance.
We're looking for technical ability,
and, of course, aesthetics.
I wanna see the most amazing lairs you can imagine.
True. You don't want to see... You never see a bland lair.
I mean, like... There's no such thing, right?
No villain worth his salt is just getting, like, an office building
because it's good for admin.
Just doesn't have any pizzazz.
Correct.
You're also gonna create a vehicle that slots into that lair
and can come out, alright?
There is an actually LEGO term
for when you build spaceships and craft...
that measures how...essentially playable those builds are.
Swooshability.
Every LEGO set has a swooshability factor about it.
Each team is gonna build a vehicle of their choosing
that exhibits all the hallmarks of swooshability.
'Swooshability' refers to how a LEGO toy feels to play with.
You just can't help but just go like... (MAKES ZOOMING NOISE)
Brrmm brrmm...
Swoosh it around the room. (WHISTLES)
And make you want to shout out laser sounds.
Pew, pew, pew, pew.
(MAKES ELECTRONIC-STYLE NOISES, BUZZES) You know, all that.
But the $100,000 question?
Who's your villain?
I have in my hand here five of the limited edition LEGO mini figures.
Today, they become evil villains in your hands.
We have got, to be randomly selected by the teams...
Cactus Girl!
ALL: Oh!
(GROWLS) (LAUGHTER)
We have got...
Genie...Man.
(LAUGHS)
Robot Man or Woman.
Yeah, that's a villain.
Leprechaun Boy.
Bumblebee Girl.
Zzz! (LAUGHTER)
The villains that Hamish reveals
are not what you'd typically expect from an evil villain.
This is kind of... this is actually pretty cool.
(LAUGHS)
Henry and Cade, would you guys like to come forward first?
Here we go.
Ready? Swan it.
One, two, three.
Bumblebee Girl!
(APPLAUSE) Alright, OK.
Pretty happy with that? Yeah, that's awesome.
Miller and Jordan, select your villain.
Right, here we go. Nice fast peck.
Good fast peck.
Who have you got? Genie. ALL: Genie!
Yes. Genie's good.
We get Genie.
I feel like this can be really challenging but really fun.
Jimmy and Maddy.
And the best of luck. Here we go.
Oh, Cactus Girl! Alright!
(APPLAUSE) Well done, guys.
Kale and Bilsy.
Whichever villain you select,
by default you'll be giving Matt and Lyn the remaining one.
Fast peck - go! Go, go, go!
He's got the robot!
Alright. Great job. (APPLAUSE)
Matt and Lyn...
allow me to give you guys...
MAN WITH FAUX IRISH ACCENT: It's a leprechaun! The leprechaun.
Thank you. You've got little legs. Please enjoy.
We got the dregs of the mini figures... (CHUCKLES)
..which was the leprechaun.
We hope that we have leprechaun luck on our side.
Oh, cool!
You've got 13 hours.
(MAN GROANS) OK.
I'm very much looking forward to seeing the lairs,
the worlds, the vehicles that are created
for your brand-new villain.
I'm too excited.
Ah, your time starts now. Good luck.
Build a lair.
MAN: Not fast enough, Jordan!
Go quite fast, quite fast.
(GROANS)
(TENSE MUSIC)
I guess we just hang out for a big while they get LEGO.
To be honest, this kind of build is our favourite kind of build.
We get almost creative freedom in that sense.
I can't believe we pulled the bee.
I think if I could pick one,
probably the bee would've been the one to pick.
So I'm focusing on just getting yellow and black parts,
um, so I can make this kind of insect-y flying contraption.
I feel like this is a goodie.
If you were to get one, who would you want?
Ah, the leprechaun's pretty cool.
And I'd really like Genie, because I'd make a wicked flying carpet.
Would you? Mate!
Well, sorry, but you know the rules - you're a...you're the judge.
You can't play. (LAUGHS) Damn! I know, I know, I know.
Seriously? Can I play? I know, I know...
I'll ask, I'll ask.
Alright, so we've got Genie.
Yes! Can we be here for the brainstorm? Of course you can.
Go! Pens, pens, pens.
Go, quick.
What are we thinking?
Alright, so we've got Genie.
That goes in the middle.
Jordan puts circles around his words.
Miller doesn't have time.
Miller's doing circles too.
We got this Genie. We've gotta think what type of lair he's gonna have.
What type of vehicle he's gonna have.
(WHISPERS) It's gonna be a magic carpet.
Middle Eastern? Usually are Middle Eastern, aren't they?
You don't see a lot of genies out of Dubbo.
(LAUGHTER)
It's gotta be dark, it's gotta be scary.
When you walk in, you'll be like...
(CHUCKLES)
That is a technical term, by the way.
Yeah. (SCOFFS)
We really wanna set that real tone for Middle Eastern.
So we're using that sort of architecture
with, like, what we're calling onions on top.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
This is a very curvy structure. Yeah, it is.
I'm not confident with curves.
I haven't built a sphere before.
So making that really complex curve is gonna be difficult.
(GRUNTS)
I can't wait for the memes to pop up.
Righto.
I rather like that we've got the leprechaun.
I...have Irish heritage.
Matt and I might go there one day soon
and have a look and check it out.
Don't know that I look like a leprechaun or...
Leprechauns are known for rainbows, pots of gold
and being kind of vaguely Irish.
So we're gonna... (LAUGHS) ..combine all those together.
You think of a leprechaun,
you think of the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
And he's gonna be kind of a cheeky character living in his pot of gold,
sowing chaos and stealing everyone's gold.
And it's gonna be all decked out.
He's got a bunch of high-tech equipment -
that he's probably nicked from people.
This is the pot itself. Yeah.
One of the things I love most about building with LEGO
is the intense technical stuff.
I really, really wanted to do
kind of an interesting technical challenge.
I'm gonna make that pot of gold in the middle.
Hello, Lyn and Matt. How are you?
Good, thanks. Well, thanks.
Matt, that doesn't look Irish in any way, shape or form.
So what's happening over here?
So I'm gonna do one, like, really crazy technical thing this build.
This is going to be a pot of gold.
You've got some crazy action happening here.
Using some steering wheels, some wheel hubs.
They're pieces not traditionally used
in sort of any making any repeatable pattern.
That... I mean, if you could pull that off...that's pretty cool.
That's pretty groovy if you can pull that off.
So, looking forward to seeing that.
I think it's great. Keep going. Ta. Thank you.
I think, yeah... (CHUCKLES) ..if we get it wrong...
then we're insane.
If we get it right, then we're geniuses.
I'm hoping it will work out.
And then I won't end up wasting too much time on it.
We need enough height down the very bottom
so that we can hide any motors
but we still need access.
With only five teams in this build, the pressure goes right up
because the smaller the teams are getting, you know,
it's the more chance it could be you that's, that's out of here.
What's his modus operandi?
What does he want? What does he seek?
So we get the robot.
He's here to take over the world.
Will the LEGO City Police be able to stop him in time?
We've named him, so we've gotta go with the name.
Rutger. Rutger Hauer. Rutger. OK. Yeah, Rutger Hauer.
As inspired by 'Blade Runner'.
Yeah.
So for the lair, we're going with kind of a pyramid structure.
The plan is to have a cutaway design that slowly steps up.
And at the top, our villain's gonna have a doomsday device
that he is threatening LEGO City with.
We've learnt a lot of lessons from previous builds.
Your hidden genius scares me.
So the game plan today is
we're gonna tackle this one as master-apprentice, Batman-Robin.
He's the captain of the ship.
Whatever he needs, I'm here to be his first mate.
Um, I'm gonna take lead and Bilsy is just gonna be spare hands,
and work as hard as we can.
I think that's the right one to connect to that.
Supporting my teammate is crucial for us because we just build better.
We do better, we plan better and we work faster.
So I'm just gonna make thinking noises with my mouth.
That's alright. I like listening.
The more I hear you think, the better. (CHUCKLES)
I guess it could be an unofficial role as the team cheerleader.
This is me in my happy place, yes.
Go, Kale!
(BOTH LAUGH)
We got Cactus Girl.
And we're stoked.
And Cactus World... Hey, Hamish. ..rises from the desert.
Yes! Yeah. What have you got? What's going on?
Where, where's Cactus Girl live?
She's living in an abandoned taco restaurant.
Mexican restaurant. Smart.
That's... I like that. (LAUGHS)
She's actually stealing the world's water supply.
I knew someone was. Yeah, yeah.
(LAUGHS) I've noticed a bit missing lately.
Is that right? Totally. Yeah.
Water pressure's down just a fraction.
Cactus Girl. It's her fault. Did she notice?
Cactus Girl steals the world's water supply in her blimp
and comes back to an abandoned Mexican restaurant
and pumps water into a water tank.
Maybe put a few sharks in there, some water creatures.
Um, yeah, and make it a real obvious point
that this is where, you know, her evil treasures go.
Alright, great. Thanks, mate. Love it, guys. Good luck.
Bye, Cactus Girl.
(FALSETTO) Goodbye.
Today's build - we feel like this was made for us.
In the past, Brickman has said that he loves our story game.
We've got strong story game.
Let me just write a list of the signs we want...
Yeah. ..because I can do that.
To get into finals week would be beyond our wildest dreams.
But we're feeling confident.
Alrighty, guys, you are two hours into this elimination build.
Yow!
You happy with that setup?
That's pretty.
The pressure's there. Yeah. The pressure is definitely there.
(SINGS) Look at all the mess I'm making.
We kind of need to pick up the pace a little.
Matt wants to build a sphere.
He wanted to do one technical build today.
And this was to be it.
If you know its 13 hours, they're looking for a lot of detail.
Yeah. I know.
I just don't want to think about it at the moment, if that's OK.
I did question Matt on this one, how long it's taking to make.
We're taking a big risk on this one, for sure.
Gotta keep moving, Matt.
Next week, right, is the finals.
So we're getting, like, to the...
getting to the pointy end of LEGO Masters. Uh-huh.
Is your threshold for needing to be blown away...
like, does it increase as the competition goes on?
Absolutely it does.
If you wanna win the 100K, I've gotta be... I do.
But I can't.
But I know what you mean. Yeah.
There's some world-class lairs out there. Some world-class lairs.
And you rise.
You should be able to look at it and be like...
I wanna buy that for Christmas. Big time!
If Hamish wants it for Christmas, then it's a winner.
I mean, some of these are gonna be pretty big.
It would have to be a joint Christmas and birthday present
if my kids are watching, because for the whole family,
because some of these gifts would be bloody expensive.
Alright, Matt and Lyn - are you loving that as a lair?
I love the concept.
Matt's gonna go down Matt's way
of trying to make this the most complex pot of gold
you've ever seen in your life. Right.
You are Brickman. You understand what people have got to do. Uh-huh.
See, I'm just Man-man.
So I see it with civilian eyes. Uh-huh.
But it seems like that is a long time
to spend on the frame of a pot...
as opposed to where everyone else is at.
It's wonderful. And the technique's awesome.
And they're probably maybe one of the only teams here
that can pull that off, right? Yeah. But it just ain't enough.
Looking around the room - they're miles behind.
Miles behind.
Matt and Lyn, they really need to lift it.
They are in the gun right now.
Awk! (MAKES FIRING NOISES)
Coming up...
MADDY: It's OK. ..in the battle
to avoid elimination...
(GROANS)
..the contestants dig deep.
Can you give that a swoosh please?
And then I dig deep...
(MAKES SWOOSHING NOISES) ..into my past.
Just channelling eight-year-old Hamish.
Mum, can I have an Icy Pole? You've already had three Icy Poles.
Go to your room. Alright. I'll go play LEGO. I'm there.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Alright. I'm gonna make this Bee Man.
Today's build is building an evil lair for an evil villain.
This is an elimination.
This is such a cool build.
Man, we're gonna have some fun with this one.
So we get the bumblebee.
She's...pretty cute for an evil villain.
She's got a big smile on her face.
And rosy cheeks. Yeah.
Fully, your bee's gonna look sick, dude.
Look good when I'm done, man.
Brickman has asked us to create a world for our villains,
and I think if we go with a backstory for ours,
it starts to flesh out and build out our world.
Her alter ego, Beatrice, is a corporate woman,
and she's gonna convert her regular workers into drones
to work in her hive.
Like all villains, she doesn't walk around in her beekeeper's suit.
She is gonna start off as a corporate businesswoman or something
and as it drops, this one will drop down.
Change her outfit. She'll go from her, like, her everyday
to "I'm a villain now" down the bottom of her chute. Yeah.
Every evil villain needs a getaway vehicle.
And Miss Behave is no exception.
She's gonna have a giant bee - the Pollinator.
(SNIGGERS)
That's awesome.
I mean, this is a major element that's taken a lot of time.
Yeah, but it's worth it. Yeah. It's worth it.
Everyone else is building their lair first.
But we're making all the technical parts
and the real nitty-gritty parts of our build first, evil lair second.
I like it.
You should. It's awesome.
I don't know if we're taking a bit of a gamble on this,
so I'm crossing fingers, toes, my hair, everything,
that it's gonna pay off.
MADDY: We have Cactus Girl,
and, you know, the story's really coming along.
The exterior of the taco restaurant is really taking shape.
I'm really hoping in the next little while
I can get cracking on the interior of this lair.
Brickman has mentioned, a few times, throughout this competition -
he wants the bricks to speak for themselves.
I'm thinking, you know, why not smack a big logo?
Like, every super villain or superhero has a logo.
Cactus landing pad, my friend.
Are you happy with that?
JIMMY: Oh my god! That's amazing.
Yeah, there's no ambiguity for this super villain.
No-one's gonna mistake her for, you know, Flower Girl.
She is definitely Cactus Girl. She's got a logo to prove it.
Hello. Hello, cactus guys.
Our Mexican restaurant - she is coming along.
It's coming together.
Yeah, we've got a little mini jail with one person currently captive.
We've got our water tank. Water tank. Sharks.
Got a couple of sharks in there. Three sharks in a lair. (CHUCKLES)
Why not? I mean... Yeah. Well, exactly.
But no vehicle, I notice. No vehicle as yet.
Um, I'm gonna make, like, a cactus blimp.
Cactus blimp is good because it's like...
the last thing you would put on a blimp... Exactly! (CHUCKLES)
..is prickles. That's how bad our Cactus Girl is. Very true. Yeah.
I'm loving it.
I mean, we are absolutely stoked at this point.
We are really happy.
But I have to make a blimp.
Alright, alright!
So I've gotta make this balloon,
and as we all know, balloons are round - usually.
It's gonna be really hard to work out,
but hopefully I get it right.
Alright, guys, that is officially...
halfway.
6.5 hours gone. 6.5 hours to go.
Yes!
Remember our previous builds.
This is not a time now to rest on your laurels.
Now is the time to accelerate.
Get cracking now. It will help you in the long run.
Do not touch those laurels.
(LAUGHTER)
Even put a hand on them.
BILSY: As far as the brief goes, yeah, so far, so good.
We've got our little conveyor belt running
and we have our little swoosh swoosh ship here.
(MAKES FIRING NOISES)
Swooshability is a new element the Brickman is gonna be looking for.
I have a very clear idea of how I want to incorporate swooshability.
I want a launcher.
That launches our robot ship.
We've got it working. It's in place and moves forward.
Pew, pew!
We've got our basics in.
We're gonna start some boobytraps.
We're gonna have cops and robbers.
It's slowly taking shape.
Um, yes, it's an elimination build.
No, I don't let that change at all the way I operate.
Stress is gonna shut down that creativity, and that's not OK.
Testing, testing, one, two, three.
Yeah, that works.
Hey, Kale. That's cool.
I always know I'm on the right track with a build
when I start to hear the other contestants compliment me.
Looking cool, dudes. Thank you.
We pass this build, we get into finals week.
All the other teams, they need to start to get worried.
Finals week, see you later, guys.
So, I'm currently working on
our evil genie's magic flying-carpet-mobile-car-thing.
(FLYING SOUND) I'm trying to think of a sound.
Pew, pew, pew, pew.
(FLYING SOUND)
I just did the swooshability test.
It was great. Wasn't a waste of time at all.
We need to pick up the pace.
Miller and Jordan.
Hello. Ola.
I've never seen an evil genie's lair.
How do you make this obviously an evil genie's lair?
You know, what's the obvious, one thing that we look at
and go, "That belongs to a genie"?
What's the one thing? I would say the lamp.
Right, OK.
You better make that lamp pretty damn well.
Alright. Good luck.
Awesome, thank you.
Pretty damn well, Miller, pretty damn well.
I planned on having a lamp as my mega-weapon.
Gonna make this lamp.
What are you gonna make it? Awesome.
More specifically? Pretty damn well.
That's the one.
This lamp needs to be pretty damn well.
That's a lot of pressure for Miller,
'cause it's gonna be very time-consuming.
It's time to go big, and, by big, I mean, Gatling gun.
We're pretty much finished the pod structure now,
and spent way too much time doing it.
It's going to have panels that mean they can be lifted up.
And I'm just starting to work on our vehicle now.
Gonna be this sort of a thing, Mamo.
Pardon? It's gonna be like this.
We're gonna sit there.
It's a four-leaf clover quadcopter,
and I know it's gonna look good, and I know it's gonna be swooshable.
Do we need a bit of colour contrast on this or not?
No.
But I'm definitely worried looking around at some of the other builds.
That we just don't have that...the size,
or that element of scale at this point.
Yeah, so, we do need to beef it out.
Pressure's on, so, I come up with a plan.
I'd be thinking that we need
to build more a secret something under here.
We're going to make an underground lair.
Well, I'm thinking about some fun things.
I'm thinking fun things in the underground.
We're getting these guys celebrating a big gold heist.
I'm trying to stay calm for Matt
because what we have to achieve in that time is quite massive.
Gotta get something under every one of them.
Yeah.
Brickman, who do you reckon's out in front?
Matty and Jimmy. Yeah.
I'm loving it.
They've really immersed themselves in this world
of this bad Mexican restaurant.
The test I give it is going, as a dad, if I saw this in the catalogue,
and it was like Cactus Girl and her world, makes total sense.
It's, like, really cool. They're on track.
Kale and Bilsy, I'm not concerned about them at the moment.
No chance of a panic button yet.
Jordan and Miller,
I'm not going out on too much of a limb here to say that I think
every viewer at home right now is going, "Where's the lamp, man?"
Like, "Do the lamp."
#wheresthelampman.
I mean, I suppose The Block could have that
if there was, like, an episode
where everyone really wanted a reading lamp,
but, again, another one of those times where I feel like
we're the only show that has "Where's the lamp, man."
I'll do these three levels here. Yeah.
Lyn and Matt.
Their technique's awesome, and it looks amazingly cool.
They've gotta add something else to it.
Give me some wow.
I need some wow, I need some volume.
Did sound a bit like you were at the hairdresser for a second.
"Give me some volume. Double the volume. Give me some wow."
Any other team who's, like, investing too much time in something
that's not gonna give them a return?
Absolutely, for sure, Cade and Henry, right?
The challenge is called Evil Lair. There ain't no lair.
Get the evil lair done first, then do all the other stuff.
And if you run out of time, doesn't matter, you've got the evil lair.
Would there ever be a situation where it's, like,
"Alright, you didn't quite finish the lair,
"but that's such a cool thing that you're safe"?
No. The challenge is Evil Lair.
Simple. Thank you for your time.
I'm clear where you stand. Uh-huh.
Pretty happy with that.
Dude, that looks amazing, amazing, amazing.
What kid wouldn't want to play with that?
So, we've finished the villain's vehicle and our Pollinator,
and I'm almost finished the secret weapon.
Miss Beehave is stealing all citizens of the world,
and they're coming down as normal citizens,
and they're gonna go along this conveyor belt,
and they're gonna get converted into worker drones at the end.
Yeah, mad. I reckon it'll be pretty cool.
Mad, love it, love it.
It's an absolute relief to start seeing the story elements
that we spent so much time on finally coming together,
but I'm very happy.
Cade and Henry, hello.
Brickman, how are you?
I've got a question. Yes.
A very important question. Yes.
Where's the lair?
I'll tell you how we work down at Brickman headquarters.
We build whatever it is we're gonna build,
and then we worry about the story afterwards.
Sure.
Because, if time runs out, tick-tock, tick-tock,
you end up with a pile of detail and nothing to show.
He's absolutely right.
We have nothing to sell him except hopes and dreams at this point.
We have to just build something or we could be up for elimination.
(LEGO PIECES SMASH)
Alrighty, guys, keep building, but you are ten hours down.
You've got three hours exactly to go.
Brickman has a message.
Guys, to get into finals week, you can't just be good.
These have to be great.
Let's go.
On a personal note, what Brickman said.
Let's go. Alright, great.
Today's build is building an evil lair for an evil villain.
Honestly, I'm a little bit anxious.
I'm looking around the room,
I'm seeing lairs, they're looking pretty good.
There's lots of detail, they're getting big,
and we're still just getting some of our story elements together.
We actually haven't got any foundations of a lair.
We're stressing.
We probably spent a little bit too long on details.
I think this is the point where we just need to kinda
work out exactly what we're doing and go for it.
We've already established her as a corporate chick.
She's gonna have her evil corporate headquarters.
Our biggest obstacle at the moment is just time.
Like, we are running out of time.
I don't think Henry and I have been under this much pressure
in any of the builds thus far.
It's too flush.
So, I'm working on my lamp now,
and it is this supervillain's megaweapon.
It's got, like, four barrels and they're spinning around.
I've added a little bit of playability in there,
and I've added, like, a crank on the side,
that actually spins the barrels around,
so now I'm just sculpting the outside to actually be a lamp,
and it's quite difficult.
I still have to help Jordy with the towers and the walls and stuff.
(SPEAKING JAPANESE)
I am starting to get really worried about this build because Jordan
is starting to speak Japanese not just to me but to himself.
(SPEAKING JAPANESE)
I'm really stressing.
Oh, I need onions. How do I build onions?
We've got these towers to build,
but I've never built a sphere in my life.
Brain, give me onions.
So, this is our four-leaf clover vehicle.
It's gonna be parked up here on this pot of gold lair,
or just flying around the countryside,
as he's doing villainous activities.
For me, the quadcopter looks absolutely fantastic.
Yeah. I am really happy with our quadcopter.
We're really feeling that our scale is just a little bit off,
compared to everyone else, so we're trying to make up for that
by putting a lot of detail into this underground section.
Ah, the leprechauns have got so much gold that they gotta melt it down.
Yeah, Mamo's just really, really great
at coming up with these just fantastic ideas
for things to build, so, this build, Mamo's earned herself a promotion.
She's now the chief creative director of the team.
I'm building this big rainbow to go on top of the pot.
I don't know if this is enough to get us to finals week.
Hopefully.
Got a lot to do and a lot to show off,
and we're having a lot of fun, so we don't want to leave.
I'm having a good time here,
and we're enjoying being together and building and creating things,
and we would like to be through into the finals.
Guys, you have been building for 12 hours.
You have got one hour.
One hour to go. Make it your best.
Nobody wants to go home the episode before finals week.
I feel like we can do this.
Oh, my god.
That sucked.
Fudge.
OK, good. Stop. Alright.
That's done.
How are those onions going there, Jordy?
Look, I've never built spheres before,
and onions aren't perfect spheres, so I'm relying on that.
Onions make you cry when you're cutting them up,
and I feel like, while I'm building it, I'm on that level.
Ooh!
Come on, Jordy.
It's making weird noises, though.
So, we've got all four walls up.
Maddy's tiling's looking specco, and the inside's looking amazing.
(DEEP BREATHING)
But I'm looking at my blimp,
and I'm not sure if Cactus Girl's blimp is that swooshable.
Choo-choo!
I'm a balloon that defies the laws of physics.
Its swooshability is...
What do you reckon?
This is freaking us out because this is a huge component of the build.
Hopefully, it doesn't get judged too harshly.
(GRUNTS)
Alrighty, guys, don't waste valuable time by looking at the back wall.
Let me do it for you.
You have ten minutes.
Ten minutes to go.
I honestly don't think I can get this funyun piece of junk together
in time.
So, I'm done building this first onion,
and I'm not gonna have time to build the other one.
(GRUNTS)
I'm just gonna have to chop it in half, and say that the tower's been
under attack from a good guy, who's just done a pass-by or something.
I think these flames might actually work as an excuse.
Bloody onions.
We got the Robot, and this build's almost finished, time's almost up.
We decided to add some wow factor.
The mini figure Robot's head in huge size, and we're there, we're happy.
Looks good, let's get it fixed. Stairs are done.
This is by far the best build
that we've brought to the competition so far.
It looks amazing and awesome.
Looking around the room, I'm confident.
Like, you know, one in five, 20% chance of going home,
so, we're trying to do the finer details that'll give us
that little bit extra to get in front of the next team.
We don't know how we've done it, but it's actually coming together.
It looks sick.
Cade has got a bee's helipad, he's got honey all over it.
That looks good.
Right now, we haven't got much time left,
and there's still a load of detail that we have to add,
so Cade takes care of the honeypot
and I'm taking care of the office scene.
This is really pressing us.
No build has been as challenging as this one.
Time is always getting us, always, and it's just like...
This one's gonna come down to the last few minutes.
We'll be pushing bricks on at the last minute, second.
Effing tray.
Yeah...
Guys, you have got one minute.
Fire, fire, fire.
Probably the most stressful situation I've been in.
Oh, just stick on! (CHUCKLES)
It's OK.
Rapid clean-ups are happening.
Are the cops coming?
Done. Perfect.
Another one.
Ten seconds to go.
Oh, sorry about that.
Four seconds to go.
Three, two, one.
That is it. That is it.
Mate, we did it.
That was rough.
Scrambling in those last few seconds,
I think this has been the closest build we've had so far.
It's looking really cool. I'm loving the little stories.
I'm loving the vignettes that you've put together.
It's looking really good.
I am exhausted.
Ooh, yeah.
Phew!
Mission accomplished.
We've got the trapdoor, we've got the lasers.
We've got the... Hidden reveal.
This is show-worthy, man.
Like, take this to a LEGO show.
This I would.
Mamo.
We're a mess at the moment.
You always question yourself when you get to the end of a build
because you, like, you see all the time that you've missed,
and all the things that, like, you haven't done that other people have.
Let's just hope it's enough, eh?
I have LEGO in my shoe.
It means, like, everything to us to be in the finals week.
Looking around the room,
like, everybody else, their builds are incredible,
and then we look at ours, and it just doesn't look finished.
We're just hoping we can make it through this elimination.
(LEGO PIECES SMASH)
Alrighty, guys.
Just 13 short hours ago,
everybody picked out their own brand-new mini figure supervillain
from the LEGO Universe, and your job was to build their world,
build their lair, build their vehicle,
and, at the end of it, we have got five pretty awesome worlds.
However, because this is an elimination,
who felt like this was the most stressful build to date?
Almost unanimous? Yeah, it was that bad.
Bilsy, yes, Kale, no.
We are quietly confident that we've nailed the brief this time.
Today, we got given a Robot for our villain's lair.
The inspiration for the build is Blade Runner and '60s sci-fi
as the references, so we name him Rutger, after Rutger Hauer.
Rutger is hellbent on world domination.
He's just really angry at his creators.
But will the LEGO City Police be able to stop him in time?
(MAJESTIC MUSIC)
You were tasked with the Robot
to build your lair and your vehicle for.
I do love how panicked the police are
with the robots throwing bananas at them.
Bananas,
Kale, is that because you're just, you know, anti weapons
in the LEGO world?
Yes, we're not promoting violence,
but ridiculous cartoon violence is the exception here.
We've got a trapdoor on this side, as well, yeah.
Can we have a look at the trapdoor?
So, the police are up there, the trapdoor comes out, they fall in,
and there's an actual gaol cell underneath that they fall into.
Straight into jail.
And then our doomsday head, like,
you can turn it, like, for aiming or pointing and stuff, as well.
But then, when you open him up, there's our doomsday device.
Wow. That is very cool.
I do like that it's obviously, like, it's a nuke,
but it's manually pointed.
Like...
"We blew all our money and it's just manually pointed."
May I please swoosh your little vehicle, thank you.
Absolutely. Alright.
I'm gonna pass it to the CSO, the chief swooshable officer,
and see how he goes.
Just channelling eight-year-old Hamish.
"Mum, can I have an icy-pole?"
"You've already had three icy-poles, Hamish, go to your room.
"Go play LEGO." I'm there.
It feels...
Like, that, if you can get that action kind of happening,
I feel like, if I gave this to my kid, he'd swoosh it hard.
Swoosh tick. Swoosh tick.
Giving it a swoosh tick. Awesome.
Brickman, does it tick your judging boxes?
Swooshability, you've got,
and who doesn't love a giant missile in your head?
It's great.
This is the wow factor that your model needed.
It needed something to give it some real pizazz to it.
It's true.
Nothing wows you like a missile coming out of your head.
Do it at a party, and get back to me.
Tell me if people aren't wowed. It's amazing.
Well done, guys, it's awesome. Great stuff.
Thanks, guys. Whoo.
This is, by far, the best build
that we've brought to the competition so far.
I would let this appear in an exhibition with my name on it.
Alright, Jimmy and Maddy,
the lair and vehicle of Cactus Girl - awesome.
Taco restaurant, Mexican restaurant, abandoned in the middle of a desert,
but inside is the evil fortress for Cactus Girl.
So, basically, Cactus Girl steals water from the town.
On the bottom level, we have her H20 storage unit,
so that's where it all gets pumped.
There's a couple of sharks in there, and we've got a little prison.
On the second level, we've got, like, her computer lab.
Is that turning? It is turning. That's secret.
So, there's balloons on one side, and her lair control panel.
Yeah, so, she's quite complicated.
She loves balloons, and yet she's Cactus Girl,
so it's the love that can never be,
so, when she's feeling super, you know, bored or down,
she presses the secret button and it spins around.
You guys and your storytelling, my gosh, it's awesome.
The fact that your villain has its own logo, a cactus, right?
Huge marketing tick.
However, I think you probably had a few problems.
Hamish?
Can you give that a swoosh, please, as the chief swooshability officer?
OK, let me just get in... "Hamish, take your shoes off."
"They're clean, they're not dirty." "Take 'em off!"
"Alright, alright." OK, I'm back.
The prerequisite breaking of the piece,
as thus is the tradition for me to pick up some LEGO.
It's heavy, but then, when you,
sort of, yeah, jetpower, I suppose it's, like...
Ooh.
Jimmy, are you really nervous about this?
How can you tell? Yeah, absolutely.
It looks like a big green house brick.
It doesn't say blimp to me at all.
I think, as a swooshable vehicle,
unfortunately, I can't give you a pass on this.
Yeah, sure.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
It means, like, everything to us to be in the finals week.
I'm just not sure that we've done enough
because everybody else's builds just look absolutely awesome.
This is the Genie's Lair.
And our genie, he is definitely an evil genie.
Our whole story is that the Genie
is stealing people's wishes, and draining their hope and aspirations
and all that from them into a big tank that's just full of wishes.
In terms of, like, building a world, right,
if I'm just a man on the street coming up to this,
you tell me this is the Genie's Lair, it at least tells me that.
That's a genie.
This contraption here
is stealing wishes out of people that are trapped in the tank.
Even the vehicle, like, that, to me, is like...
I think, as an inner eight-year-old,
sees this and goes, that's like a hotted-up flying carpet.
Makes total sense for a genie to fly this vehicle.
(MAKES ROCKET SOUNDS)
It's swooshable. Definitely swooshable.
Your Gatling lamp.
Can you do me a favour and demonstrate it for us?
I'll do it. I'll do it. I made it.
Pretty powerful stuff.
Oh, wow. That's really cool.
That's a neat feature. Great lamp.
Great lamp cannon. Gotta be a one of a kind.
However, I think it's a great metaphor for what you've done.
You literally shot yourselves in the foot, didn't you?
(LEGO BLOCKS SMASH)
Your Gatling lamp.
You literally shot yourselves in the foot, didn't you?
Brickman's word is absolute gold,
so, for him to be telling us we've shot ourselves in the foot,
it's not looking good from here.
I think, unfortunately, you guys are the victims of Hamish's time clock.
I mean, an onion dome is an incredibly difficult shape to make.
Would you agree with that, Jordan? Ooh, yeah.
You've learnt the hard way.
You know, we've had to make St Basil's Cathedral,
which has crazy onion domes.
I know exactly how hard they are.
Is that the Russian one? The Russian one.
That's the Russian one, guys. OK. Thanks for clearing that up.
This is a symptom of your time pressure.
If I was in your predicament, about two hours to go,
what I would've done is actually taken a whole wall away,
and just made the triangle as your cutaway,
and, you know what, we wouldn't have known any different.
You wouldn't have this issue
of having to fill things out or finish your onion dome or whatever.
You just simply bit off more than you can chew.
At the end of the day, that's really what it comes down to.
We let our imagination go too far on this build,
and it really feels like someone's just got a big old wet fish
and just slammed it across your face.
The wish-stealing genie, hopefully,
doesn't take your wish away to be in the final week.
The whole idea of being in finals week,
and being able to get that title of LEGO Master,
it's just, like, it feels so out of our grasp.
Boys.
How are you, Hamish? Very good.
The Lair of Bumblebee Girl, who then turns into Miss Beehave.
Can we see the transformation? Yeah.
Boom.
(MAJESTIC MUSIC)
(BUZZING)
Like, the detail in the stuff you guys make is phenomenal.
Like, the office workers get transformed slowly,
pretty much, into the drones for Miss Beehave.
So, we've got our office workers.
We've got one guy in mid-air falling here
and trying to escape the funnel.
A terrified civilian, you get put through here first.
And then you get a hat. First you get the hat.
Mind control.
After that, yeah, it's pointless to resist,
and, by the end, you've turned into a full drone,
and you get spat out the bottom to sweep up the honey.
Yep.
In terms of, like, building a villain,
the whole point of a villain is to, like, create a plan.
Like, she's carrying out her dastardly plan
before our very eyes, making honey, probably Manuka.
That's where the money's at. Big, big money.
Brickman.
Are you happy with how it's settled?
Yeah. We are.
I think all of us are proud of what we've built.
I think everyone's brought their A-game today.
Except for us. We brought our 'bee' game.
Yes, which is your A-game.
Guys, we're all dads. We're allowed to make these jokes now.
We've been waiting our whole lives.
Let's go through the criteria.
Does it have a vehicle that a child would enjoy swooshing?
"Hamish, unpack the dishwasher." "No, it's Lachlan's turn."
"And play LEGO."
(SWOOSHES) Bz.
Yeah, bz, that's swooshable.
Very swooshable.
An amazing vehicle.
A perfect landing pad for that, so, swooshability, tick.
Tick? Tick.
That feels like a swooshable vehicle.
A big thing in LEGO modelling,
particularly larger-scale models like this,
is what we call negative space,
where we can't put details everywhere.
There's just simply too much to look at, right?
Things to me like your honeypot is a fantastic use of negative space.
It's a big block colour.
You don't need to shove 55 mini things in it.
That's a real nod from me,
using that negative space, and it really helps tell the story.
But the little guy running away with the honey at his feet,
it kind of makes it work.
For me, your story,
in terms of what's the building about, super impressed, well done.
Thank you, Brickman. Awesome, guys. Great job.
Well done, boys.
Good.
Good job with the bee, bro.
It's a success.
Evil success.
The biggest worry at this point
is we've done everything that we wanted to do,
but could we have done more, should we have done more?
So, today, we've built a lair for Liam Lenny the Leprechaun.
The outside looks like a pot of gold in the middle,
and rainbow coming out of the top.
But inside the sphere's where all the evil stuff happens.
(STIRRING MUSIC)
Guys, you were tasked with a tiny, tricky, evil leprechaun,
and this is their lair.
There's just general Irishness around.
Like, a four-leaf clover drone,
to me, that 100% works as a leprechaun's vehicle.
Like, it's a cool idea that the rotors go.
It's very swooshable, very, very swooshable.
That's awesome. You know what, Hamish?
Huge tick on the swooshability factor,
but, before we get to the lair,
let's talk about everything that's inside, so give us the tour.
I definitely would've broken it. Have a look inside.
Oh, right, so...
We've got, kind of, weapons and gold storage in there.
So, underneath all these panels here,
we've got a whole hidden world.
I've never been inside a leprechaun's lair before.
I went once, but I had to sign an NDA.
Can't really talk about it on camera.
Can't talk about it. Yeah, it's annoying.
We've got weapons testing facility here.
We've got sleeping quarters for the minions,
pots for melting down the gold.
Oh, right. There is a very small world.
How many hours would you say this bit took,
and how many hours would you say that bit took?
It probably...
This took a good half of our time, if not more.
Yep.
Was that a wise investment?
Uh, yeah. I'm not too sure, if I'm being honest.
I mean, you almost put all your eggs in one basket, right?
I think you invested so much into the shape of the pot of gold.
You got too wrapped up in the technical component of it, right,
and forgot about the playability of it, right?
Where's the villain's laser?
Where's his gold-sucking, you know, vacuum cleaner?
Where's that playability that the villain's lair needs?
I think it's just lacking that.
Technical skill, for sure.
I'm just not sure on the story,
and, to be honest, in an elimination, it's gonna be tough.
I'm definitely worried looking around at some of the other builds.
We really tried to pack as much detail in as possible.
I just hope that that's enough.
(LEGO BLOCKS SMASH)
Alrighty, guys.
We all know, unfortunately, this is the pointy end of the competition.
Because it is a competition,
that means somebody does leave us in a few moments' time.
The losing team from today's build will leave the LEGO Masters family,
but, before we get to who that is,
Brickman, who is definitely safe today?
Who has topped the tables today
and will be moving into finals week with David and G?
So, one build today really wowed me,
ticking all three boxes today -
technical ability, aesthetics and story -
with a side order of swooshability.
Henry and Cade. Well done.
Well done.
We're going through to finals week, 100%, guaranteed.
This is an amazing feeling.
Didn't expect that.
Wow, guys, I think I speak for Australia when I say - awesome lair.
Awesome lair, awesome world you built.
Great job, great job. BOTH: Thank you.
So, that leaves us with four teams.
Brickman, walk us through it.
What a difficult challenge it was.
Time management was an issue today.
Story was difficult.
Technical ability was difficult.
We really challenged everything today, didn't we?
So, the first team I'd like to call forward...
..Jordan and Miller.
We're in the bottom two.
It's...it's just, sorta, all gone wrong.
The second team I'd like to call forward...
..Matt and Lyn.
Being in the bottom two, it's a disappointment,
but the competition's so tough at the moment.
So, Matt and Lyn, I really think that pot took up far too much time
on your build, taking up almost nine hours of your time.
Your story and other elements really did suffer because of that.
Jordan and Miller, the time clock really beat you today, didn't it?
It really hit pretty hard.
Your aspirations of what you wanted from a LEGO build
didn't quite equate to the time available.
Yep, pretty much.
You just simply bit off more than you can chew.
But, unfortunately, Matt and Lyn, it's time to go home.
You really did get tied up in that pot, didn't you?
Unfortunately, the story and other elements
wasn't quite up to your usual standard.
Guys, can I just say,
congratulations on an amazing job here at LEGO Masters.
You came that close to finals week.
Well done. Well done.
Let's give you a... Let us give you... Goodbye, Lyn.
I'll bloody miss you tricking me. Sorry to see you go.
I think...I think I was a winner in this competition,
because I wanted to spend time with Matt, be an encouragement to Matt
in the things that he loves, and I'm really proud of what he's done.
Oh, look at that. Yeah, Mamo.
You know, LEGO's dancing for you at the moment.
I really love that.
Your technical skills are first-class.
It's just hard to talk about, because this is
probably the greatest thing I've ever done, right? Like...
Oh, it's looking good, Matt.
Like, hanging out with one of my favourite people,
doing my favourite activity...
Thanks, Mamo. Thank you, Matt.
Miller, I feel like you thought it was over.
Would I be right in saying that? 100%, yep.
What are you feeling now?
This is the first time
that we've, you know, been in the bottom two in an elimination,
and it's the first time
that we've, sort of, felt this absolute, like, fear of going home.
Well, you haven't been eliminated, so, well done, guys.
You're into finals week.
Now we've realised how much harder this competition is getting,
and so, like, we're just gonna work harder and harder and harder.
Good work, guys.
Well, we started with eight teams. We are down to five.
You are the five teams that have made it into finals week.
Next week, we will figure out who is Australia's first ever LEGO Masters.
That is very exciting.
I know what you're building next week.
That's also very exciting.
Brickman, some advice heading in.
To get through these builds,
which are totally epic, by the way, you're gonna bring your A-game.
I know you've all got it in you.
Let's do it.
Next time...
Welcome to finals week.
Yeah!
On the path to the title, roads, oh, we don't need roads.
Apologies for the delay. I've just been to the future.
We want to replicate this DeLorean as perfectly as we possibly can.
Two epic movie-themed LEGO challenges.
King Kong. Dude.
King Kong? King Kong. OK.
Rose and Jack. I'm flying.
Oh, he looks hungry, eh?
Everyone will know it's Jaws.
Think, Jordy, think.
The hard part is done.
It's seeing where it lands.
And in the elimination round...
I want to see the action.
..our contestants bring the big screen to life.
This might be one of the most audacious moves
I've ever seen on television.
But has one team gone a little bit too, oh, what's that word?
Oops. Big?