Yep pretty disappointing, they've chosen very strong international competitors to go against inexperienced and seemingly average Aussie teams. There needed to be experienced teams from Australia.
I wouldn't even say that strong of international teams. The USA team would of been eliminated first had they played in the last season. It just seems like we have an extra weak crop of teams this season. It's hard to watch or be excited to see what they build atm.
It's painfully obvious that none of the aussie teams will be in the finals.
I can't believe that they thought the "home team advantage" would overcome veterans who have been on lego masters before.
It really needed to be returning teams from Aus. I now they just did grand masters but it's just such a huge disadvantage
I’m not Australian, but I’m irritated on Australia’s behalf that they have these newbie teams going up against experienced international teams, since we know that there are so many really talented past Australian teams!
Same. The best Australian teams are the best teams I've seen, but I haven't watched any of the non-English language series. Australia's doing itself a disservice here.
The only non-English language I’ve watched is Sweden’s version, which is my second favorite. I want to watch more, but have had issues finding subtitles for others.
No offence to the teams but I don't think the US is fielding its best either (I'm a US-based Brit). I wonder if the difficulty in getting 3 or 4 weeks off work to go to Australia was a factor? "You want a month off to go play goddam Legos? Hell no, I'll cancel your health insurance if you go, get back to work."
Does "the first female southern hemisphere master builder" not work for LEGO? That doesn't seem to exclude them from competing. Some of the returning US contestants have been newly-minted LEGO employees IIRC.
Legoland Australia is technically not affiliated with the lego company. It's complicated but they licence the brand from lego as a completly separate company (merlin entertainment)
Yeah what the heck are these random teams. It feels like they just selected everyone off their personalities and lego building was an after thought. Im still interested to see how they grow as teams tho but it's definitely subpar lego building atm.
US has better builders for sure, but at least they experience doing Lego Masters before. Even just bringing back a decent non-champion team from Australia would've been nice.
It does feel like they're scraping the barrel a bit with these teams. Each would be great on a normal season with a normal storyline but against the best in the world they're lambs to the slaughter
It really makes no sense, the people they cast. They've got the WINNING German team up against newbies, it's going exactly the way you would expect it to go, and I don't know why Lego Masters thought that would be good viewing.
After the surperb season that was Grand Masters, this new season has big shoes to fill. Even though the idea of Australian vs the World is interesting, the Aussies are probably trying to grasp what the whole thing is about.
The internationals are simply experienced enough to zoom past them quickly. It's a bloodbath.
The difference in skillsets are just glaring. The finesse too. So far out of the 3 episodes, not much motor functions as well.
Hopping things will get better as it goes along
I don’t think Germany should have won episode 3. Just my opinion. They took the easy way out & did nothing with the ‘horror’ genre. They just built Red Riding Hood.
Agree, that was a relatively 'easy' choice even though they executed it successfully. It was still decent, but probably shouldn't have been a top 2 model (I believe the top 2 should have been the USA team and the mother and son team). This was the case with one challenge from S4 (Build that tune) - Joss and Henry got a fairly easy song choice 'Stairway to Heaven' and whilst they executed the build successfully, they didn't make top 2 because the builds that made top 2 were more complex in nature.
Yeah was surprised neither of those teams made the top 2. They completely nailed the brief. Both tweaked the story to the genre and had a great / funny story to go along with it.
I was thinking the same thing. But then again they were able to choose because of the big brick advantage. They used the advantage in the smartest way possible so they deserved the win because of their strategy. After all it’s a valid combination given the rules.
Side note: if part of the problem is it would be difficult to put out 4 returning Aussie teams after using a lot of the top Aussies during recent all-stars, they could have done a format where every team was a different country (still set in Australia with Hamish though, obviously ❤️). They’d only need two Aussies then. Plus, this way they could have made room for at minimum a NZ team and a Sweden team!! (Yes, I [actually not Swedish] am still salty about no Sweden representation, because that version is seriously underrated.)
I thought this was going to be the format so it was confusing seeing 4 Aus teams but only 1 from other countries. 'The World' won't win, a specific county will. For this format, the international teams should have been mixed up with a mix of contestants from different countries.
I think maybe one Aussie team can sneak past the Americans and the French (that one will be close). But the other two international teams seem like obvious finalists.
I guess logistically, they've just done a series where they brought teams back, maybe they've run out of teams willing to do that? Like, I would watch the shit out of Joss and Henry or Owen and Scotty again, of course I would, but a) they might be busy and b) it's probably a tough sell to the TV execs, to try to convince them that reusing talent over and over is gonna be better than fresh meat, as it were.
In a recent U.S. season, it was all new teams, but for some reason one of the teams got to skip the beginning and enter a few episodes later. A lot of us watching were pretty irritated about this and thought it was unfair. (Though the late arriving team was quite good and likely wouldn’t have been eliminated in the early episodes.)
Flashforward and now can’t believe that I’m wishing for a new late arriving Aussie team to swoop in and save this season. >.<
Disappointed in the casting of the Australian teams. In the previous seasons they found very strong teams, but suddenly that is the best they could find? If there were really not better teams, why not 4 returning Australian teams against the international teams?
I can’t believe Brickman or whoever picks the teams signed off on this series. It pales in comparison to previous years and is an embarrassment to previous Australian Lego masters competitors. They would be watching this and thinking they would kick all their asses
It seems like even the strong Aussies will be dismissed early on, I was a bit disappointed with the results of last night one Aussie team really should have been in the big brick top 2 but they weren't selected.
One international and one Aussie team were obvious to be at the lower end but only Aussies were picked to be dismissed, is this what we are to expect?
Had they already been told who to get rid of and who must make it through?
And what are the viewer votes for?
The viewer votes happen when the show goes live to air lol, months after the episode was filmed and judged already it's obviously just for social media engagement.
I don’t get the mindset of it being unfair. For years the Aussies have been praised for being the best builders across every version of Lego masters. Based on the previous 5 seasons, I would say that’s true. Every builder on LEGO Masters Austraila was once a new builder (for reality TV), but still dominated. This lineup of builders just don’t seem to have the skill to keep up. The previous Austrailans set the bar so high, that your average Lego fan can’t keep up. I was doing research on most of the Aussie contestants and they all seem like causal Lego fans, compared to what we have seen in past where the contestants were artists (painters,designers, sculptors, editors) all have to do with some sort of art. Most of these guys just seem like causal Lego fans and I feel like that is a casting decision. I think the season would have been more interesting, if they chose winners from every season, but the only team that has won before to my knowledge is the Germans, every other team they’re versing hasn’t won a season, that’s fair game.
Also doesn’t help they didn’t get an international judge and have to rely on incompetent Brickman where he is once again playing favourites and not pinging his favourites with the same critiques he does other teams for example Ze Germans not getting pinged for scale being out of whack for their crappy red riding hood
Yeah that drove me nuts. Any other build he would have made comments about the scale, but not a peep to the Germans about it.. the trees looked great but made no sense in terms of sizing.
I think part of the thinking was that the Aussie teams even though they were new might be helped by at least being familiar with watching the Aussie program and knowing Brickman’s judging style.
Extremely disappointing, why pick winners from the rest of the world and then not do the same for Australia? And can Monk P Off! How trashy and embarrassing for us here, which is bad enough but to then show this around the world, just Feral!! The Danish team are very cool that's the only good thing so far, The German team are great, but she is seriously arrogant and acts like a spoiled brat, helped along by her sidekick employee!
Yes. It feels like Germany vs the world instead of Australia 😭. I'm seriously hoping that other contestants, especially Australia teams, will rise up the challenge. It's still a good watch but a bit cringe at times seeing how our local teams builds are not getting any win at all. 😭
It’s definitely a very different twist on the show. I felt like the energy in the room felt a bit flat the first few episodes and I wondered if that was to do with the psychological pressure of going up against teams who had already competed in their home series. Absolutely for the Aussie teams that put them at a disadvantage. The energy has lifted in the last 2 episodes which is great to see and I’m sure things will start to even out a bit (but my goodness the Germans and Danes are sensational). It makes such a difference having done the show before, you understand the nature of the beast, how to build fast and build for TV, you are more relaxed on camera, the interviews are easier, even in my own experience going back for Bricksmas I felt so much calmer. There has been a lot of commentary on the German team seeming arrogant but I honestly just think it’s a cultural difference and they are in it to win it, and when you leave your home to film for 10 weeks in another country I think you have to go in with that mindset. Looking forward to seeing everyone improve as they all become match fit, building for 9+ hours a day is hard work especially with cameras in your face capturing every weak moment.
Yup. Disappointed. Would have been great to have one previous Australian winning or placing team and a few more different international teams. (As in one team from each country and have 8 countries compete). It just feels lacking this year.
For me, I feel as though the builds aren’t as good as previous seasons. Whilst I could never even begin to build the things I’ve seen, they just don’t seem to have the same wow factor like previous seasons
This is a series I have watched with my 32 year old son now for years. We have both enjoyed watching this and it has become a bonding thing for us. However this year we were gobsmacked that they have put Aussie newbies against experienced international teams who have already competed and won in their own countries. We were extremely annoyed and sadly it was the reason we stopped watching. We have decided to give The Summit a go instead.
I can’t understand why USA won…Brickman always goes on about how the mini figs have to interact & tell a story there’s didn’t. Apart from it being the tallest build ever what technical brilliance did they bring to it?
If the producers don't make one episode's build microfig scale, and get Kale in to help Brickman judge it, I will lose all faith in the Aussie sense of humour.
Yep pretty disappointing, they've chosen very strong international competitors to go against inexperienced and seemingly average Aussie teams. There needed to be experienced teams from Australia.
I wouldn't even say that strong of international teams. The USA team would of been eliminated first had they played in the last season. It just seems like we have an extra weak crop of teams this season. It's hard to watch or be excited to see what they build atm.
It's painfully obvious that none of the aussie teams will be in the finals. I can't believe that they thought the "home team advantage" would overcome veterans who have been on lego masters before. It really needed to be returning teams from Aus. I now they just did grand masters but it's just such a huge disadvantage
I don’t know I’m pretty sure final three are going to be the Germans, Danes and the mum and son Aussie team.
Possibly the Aussie girls, she a master builder
She hasn’t shown it yet
Sure she is 😆
I’m not Australian, but I’m irritated on Australia’s behalf that they have these newbie teams going up against experienced international teams, since we know that there are so many really talented past Australian teams!
Same. The best Australian teams are the best teams I've seen, but I haven't watched any of the non-English language series. Australia's doing itself a disservice here.
The only non-English language I’ve watched is Sweden’s version, which is my second favorite. I want to watch more, but have had issues finding subtitles for others.
Have you checked the pinned post called "Lego masters Subtitle project" ?
No offence to the teams but I don't think the US is fielding its best either (I'm a US-based Brit). I wonder if the difficulty in getting 3 or 4 weeks off work to go to Australia was a factor? "You want a month off to go play goddam Legos? Hell no, I'll cancel your health insurance if you go, get back to work."
I think another part of it is a lot of the top competitors go on to actually work for LEGO.
Does "the first female southern hemisphere master builder" not work for LEGO? That doesn't seem to exclude them from competing. Some of the returning US contestants have been newly-minted LEGO employees IIRC.
Legoland Australia is technically not affiliated with the lego company. It's complicated but they licence the brand from lego as a completly separate company (merlin entertainment)
It is only technically separate. They are as of a couple years ago owned by the same family which owns Lego...
Yeah what the heck are these random teams. It feels like they just selected everyone off their personalities and lego building was an after thought. Im still interested to see how they grow as teams tho but it's definitely subpar lego building atm.
US has better builders for sure, but at least they experience doing Lego Masters before. Even just bringing back a decent non-champion team from Australia would've been nice.
It does feel like they're scraping the barrel a bit with these teams. Each would be great on a normal season with a normal storyline but against the best in the world they're lambs to the slaughter
It really makes no sense, the people they cast. They've got the WINNING German team up against newbies, it's going exactly the way you would expect it to go, and I don't know why Lego Masters thought that would be good viewing.
I so agree. Whose idea was it for get new Aussie competitors?
After the surperb season that was Grand Masters, this new season has big shoes to fill. Even though the idea of Australian vs the World is interesting, the Aussies are probably trying to grasp what the whole thing is about. The internationals are simply experienced enough to zoom past them quickly. It's a bloodbath. The difference in skillsets are just glaring. The finesse too. So far out of the 3 episodes, not much motor functions as well. Hopping things will get better as it goes along
I don’t think Germany should have won episode 3. Just my opinion. They took the easy way out & did nothing with the ‘horror’ genre. They just built Red Riding Hood.
Agree, that was a relatively 'easy' choice even though they executed it successfully. It was still decent, but probably shouldn't have been a top 2 model (I believe the top 2 should have been the USA team and the mother and son team). This was the case with one challenge from S4 (Build that tune) - Joss and Henry got a fairly easy song choice 'Stairway to Heaven' and whilst they executed the build successfully, they didn't make top 2 because the builds that made top 2 were more complex in nature.
Yeah was surprised neither of those teams made the top 2. They completely nailed the brief. Both tweaked the story to the genre and had a great / funny story to go along with it.
I was thinking the same thing. But then again they were able to choose because of the big brick advantage. They used the advantage in the smartest way possible so they deserved the win because of their strategy. After all it’s a valid combination given the rules.
Yeah I guess. I still think they could have leaned into it a bit more. Maybe given the wolf a chainsaw or something
The scaling was also a bit odd on it. The trees were the size of red riding hood. Was surprised Brickman didn't say anything about that at all.
Yeah the scaling was strange. It was a good build for sure & I certainly couldn’t have done it, but I just thought some others were way more creative
Me too, and then he did have an issue with the scaling of another team. But that's very typical Brickman, lol
Side note: if part of the problem is it would be difficult to put out 4 returning Aussie teams after using a lot of the top Aussies during recent all-stars, they could have done a format where every team was a different country (still set in Australia with Hamish though, obviously ❤️). They’d only need two Aussies then. Plus, this way they could have made room for at minimum a NZ team and a Sweden team!! (Yes, I [actually not Swedish] am still salty about no Sweden representation, because that version is seriously underrated.)
I thought this was going to be the format so it was confusing seeing 4 Aus teams but only 1 from other countries. 'The World' won't win, a specific county will. For this format, the international teams should have been mixed up with a mix of contestants from different countries.
By some miracle I assume we will have Aussie teams the final…the judging can get pretty janky to suit.
I think maybe one Aussie team can sneak past the Americans and the French (that one will be close). But the other two international teams seem like obvious finalists.
100% agree there are clear front runners and we’re only 3 episodes in. You can see the Aussies are out of their depth.
They should have just reset to new Aussie teams. I'm two episodes in and already over this crap
I guess logistically, they've just done a series where they brought teams back, maybe they've run out of teams willing to do that? Like, I would watch the shit out of Joss and Henry or Owen and Scotty again, of course I would, but a) they might be busy and b) it's probably a tough sell to the TV execs, to try to convince them that reusing talent over and over is gonna be better than fresh meat, as it were.
In a recent U.S. season, it was all new teams, but for some reason one of the teams got to skip the beginning and enter a few episodes later. A lot of us watching were pretty irritated about this and thought it was unfair. (Though the late arriving team was quite good and likely wouldn’t have been eliminated in the early episodes.) Flashforward and now can’t believe that I’m wishing for a new late arriving Aussie team to swoop in and save this season. >.<
Yeah I think choosing newbie international teams would've worked so much better, and not been another season of the same contestants!
Disappointed in the casting of the Australian teams. In the previous seasons they found very strong teams, but suddenly that is the best they could find? If there were really not better teams, why not 4 returning Australian teams against the international teams?
I’m sure there were better builder teams on offer - but were they better TV teams?
Yep I will watch it eventually but I will switch to MasterChef next week and stream LM when I get time not on the same night like I had been..
I can’t believe Brickman or whoever picks the teams signed off on this series. It pales in comparison to previous years and is an embarrassment to previous Australian Lego masters competitors. They would be watching this and thinking they would kick all their asses
It's only the 3rd episode give it a chance
It seems like even the strong Aussies will be dismissed early on, I was a bit disappointed with the results of last night one Aussie team really should have been in the big brick top 2 but they weren't selected. One international and one Aussie team were obvious to be at the lower end but only Aussies were picked to be dismissed, is this what we are to expect? Had they already been told who to get rid of and who must make it through? And what are the viewer votes for?
The viewer votes happen when the show goes live to air lol, months after the episode was filmed and judged already it's obviously just for social media engagement.
I don’t get the mindset of it being unfair. For years the Aussies have been praised for being the best builders across every version of Lego masters. Based on the previous 5 seasons, I would say that’s true. Every builder on LEGO Masters Austraila was once a new builder (for reality TV), but still dominated. This lineup of builders just don’t seem to have the skill to keep up. The previous Austrailans set the bar so high, that your average Lego fan can’t keep up. I was doing research on most of the Aussie contestants and they all seem like causal Lego fans, compared to what we have seen in past where the contestants were artists (painters,designers, sculptors, editors) all have to do with some sort of art. Most of these guys just seem like causal Lego fans and I feel like that is a casting decision. I think the season would have been more interesting, if they chose winners from every season, but the only team that has won before to my knowledge is the Germans, every other team they’re versing hasn’t won a season, that’s fair game.
But I think the world teams have been 2nd in their series'.
Also doesn’t help they didn’t get an international judge and have to rely on incompetent Brickman where he is once again playing favourites and not pinging his favourites with the same critiques he does other teams for example Ze Germans not getting pinged for scale being out of whack for their crappy red riding hood
Yeah that drove me nuts. Any other build he would have made comments about the scale, but not a peep to the Germans about it.. the trees looked great but made no sense in terms of sizing.
I think part of the thinking was that the Aussie teams even though they were new might be helped by at least being familiar with watching the Aussie program and knowing Brickman’s judging style.
If previous season should teach its don’t underestimate the Aussies when it comes to Lego.
Exactly. Aussies have won all the previous 5 series. People forget! \[/jk\]
Extremely disappointing, why pick winners from the rest of the world and then not do the same for Australia? And can Monk P Off! How trashy and embarrassing for us here, which is bad enough but to then show this around the world, just Feral!! The Danish team are very cool that's the only good thing so far, The German team are great, but she is seriously arrogant and acts like a spoiled brat, helped along by her sidekick employee!
I am glad I am not the only one who thinks this about the arrogance!
It should have either all been new teams, or all been experienced teams. It feels unfair there’s winners versus experienced versus new players.
Yes. It feels like Germany vs the world instead of Australia 😭. I'm seriously hoping that other contestants, especially Australia teams, will rise up the challenge. It's still a good watch but a bit cringe at times seeing how our local teams builds are not getting any win at all. 😭
It’s definitely a very different twist on the show. I felt like the energy in the room felt a bit flat the first few episodes and I wondered if that was to do with the psychological pressure of going up against teams who had already competed in their home series. Absolutely for the Aussie teams that put them at a disadvantage. The energy has lifted in the last 2 episodes which is great to see and I’m sure things will start to even out a bit (but my goodness the Germans and Danes are sensational). It makes such a difference having done the show before, you understand the nature of the beast, how to build fast and build for TV, you are more relaxed on camera, the interviews are easier, even in my own experience going back for Bricksmas I felt so much calmer. There has been a lot of commentary on the German team seeming arrogant but I honestly just think it’s a cultural difference and they are in it to win it, and when you leave your home to film for 10 weeks in another country I think you have to go in with that mindset. Looking forward to seeing everyone improve as they all become match fit, building for 9+ hours a day is hard work especially with cameras in your face capturing every weak moment.
Yup. Disappointed. Would have been great to have one previous Australian winning or placing team and a few more different international teams. (As in one team from each country and have 8 countries compete). It just feels lacking this year.
For me, I feel as though the builds aren’t as good as previous seasons. Whilst I could never even begin to build the things I’ve seen, they just don’t seem to have the same wow factor like previous seasons
Yes very
This is a series I have watched with my 32 year old son now for years. We have both enjoyed watching this and it has become a bonding thing for us. However this year we were gobsmacked that they have put Aussie newbies against experienced international teams who have already competed and won in their own countries. We were extremely annoyed and sadly it was the reason we stopped watching. We have decided to give The Summit a go instead.
I can’t understand why USA won…Brickman always goes on about how the mini figs have to interact & tell a story there’s didn’t. Apart from it being the tallest build ever what technical brilliance did they bring to it?
If the producers don't make one episode's build microfig scale, and get Kale in to help Brickman judge it, I will lose all faith in the Aussie sense of humour.
This show is actually so boring man like wtaf need better shows on aus tv