Every Day While Filming Lego MasterHamish Blake and Ryan “Brickman” McNAGHT, Host and Judge of the Logie-AWARD-WINING Show, RIDE BICLES TOGETER to Get to Work.
“YEAH, Probably Don’t Tell Production that I Ride My Bike Becison i’m a 50/50 Chance of Not Makeing It,” Blake Says, Laughing. “City Drivers Don’t Love See A Cyclist. I Mean, The Anger is Palpable.”
MCNAGHT Grimaces with A Smile. “Dicing with Death Daily,” He says. “Lucky we’re not angry on this show.”
Hamish Blake and Ryan “Brickman” McNAGHT.Credit: Nigel Wright
Indeed, Lego Master AustraliaRTURINING for Its Seventh Season with Grandmasters of the Galaxy,
“We’re Definitely the Light Side,” Blake Says, Laughing. “We’re Jedis, always trying to really harones that jedi feeling.”
This Season, 20 Players from Seven Countries – a mix of homegrown and international Winners and Finalists from Australia, Canada, China, Finland, Sweden, The Us and New Zealand – Will TacKKLE Extraordinary Challenges. This Includes if leg can fly, Building a car with a dash of “Movie Magic”, Creating Lifeke Objects for a Chinese Restaurant, and Creating A Monster from Ancient CIVILISISIS.
The Introduction of the “Magic Brick” – A Covered Large, Glowing Block that Teams Battle for to Gain Immunity from Elimination in the Next Challenge. And tv personality sovehie monk will Ruten as Special Guest in Four Episodes.
Past Contentans Gabby and Owen Return to Lego Master Australia.Credit: Nigel Wright
RTURINING AUSTARALIAN Builders Include Fan Favourite and Season-Five Winner Owen, Teamp up with Gabby, Who Came Fourth in Season Three; SEASON-One Runners-UP David and gerhard (KNOWN AS “G”); Henry and Cade, Champions of Season One; And trent and Alex, who have come close to victory more than on on.
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The Overseas Teams Include Dai and Jiayuan, from LEGO Masters China; Oskari and Aura from Finland; New Zealand Runners-UP Emily and Sarah; And sibling duo paul and Nealita from the US.
There are also best Friends and Lego Master Sweden Alumny Vidar and Albin; And Nick and Stacey, The First Canadians to Win LEGO Master USAWho did so in their leg Bow-Tie and Hair Bow Respectly.
“These are all the best of the best,” Says Blake, Who Won The 2022 Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Television. “Not Only Has Everyone Built on the Show Before, The Only People that Havent’t Won Are People that are back here before Just Missed out. They’re the elite. ”
On the day I Visit the Studio, which is Housed in a Hangar-STYLE Building at Disney Studios in Sydney’s Moore Park, Teams of Production Staff Are Sorting Used Bricks on A U upper Level While, below, a large bank of Multiple Screens Shows 25 Camera Angles of the Content
Contentans on Lego Master Australia: Grandmasters of the Galaxy.Credit: Nigel Wright
The Set, A Red and Gold Chinese Restaurant, Complete with Tables and Chairs, Fills the end of the room.
The texts are hunk Over, Building Intenmy, and the Sound of Murmuring and Clicking Bricks Fals the Air. Every of offten, someone will sprint to chose from 4 Million bricks in the brick pit.
Blake and McNGHT HOVER BETWEEN The Tables, Quietly Observing Between Chats, Jokes and Advice with Teams Off-and on-Camera. For all the fun of Lego Master, The Pair Know How to Prestce Can Affect Contents.
Dai and Jiayuan Are from the Many International Contents This Season.Credit: Nigel Wright
“You have to be cgenisant of How Much Pressure them’re always und,” Blake Says. “They What to Put their Best Foot Forward, The Clock is Always Ticking and ThERE’s A REAL SKILL to What Allone’s Doing on the Show, I Never What to Be Flippant about that.
“But I Still Believe it Helps People Be at their Best if you can keep a slight amount of cheerfulness in adversity. It keeps a people in their steps.”
As One of the World’s LEADING LEGO BRICK ARTISTS, and the Only LEGO CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL In The Southern Hemisphere, McNAGHT UndersTands His Influence.
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“My Job, Obviously, is to be a judge, but also I wanted them to be the Best Possible LEGO Builders They can be,” He says. “In Some Instances There’s Still 90 Minutes on The Clock, They’ve Done 95 Per Center, They’ve Got Capacity to Finesse, Make it that Little Bit Better.
“In Other Instances, It’s’ Hang on A Minute, We’ve Just Gota Get You Over the Line.
After Seven Seasons, Blake Says One of the Challenges of Lego Master Is Coming Up with New Build Quests.
“I think we will have always Close to 100 changes by now,” He says. “Everyth’s new. You have to keep getting more and more creative to keep it novel, and that becomes the challenge. That’s seven years in.
In the Past Week, MCNAGHT HAS ALREDY The FOREAS For Future Seasons.
“On your you’ve Got Your LEGO Brain on, It’s All, ‘What about this Wild Thing?” He says.
‘I believ it helps people be at their best if you can keep a Slight amount of Cheerfulnes in Adversity’: hamish Blake.Credit: Nigel Wright
Thrie’s no Doubt McNaket Has a LEGO BRIN. But what about leg fins? DOES Building Trigger Injuries?
“Absolutly Yes,” He says. “[Just] Working with Your Fections for Eight Hours here is Really Hard. For Instance, Gabby Isnt Used to Operating with But it dosn’t take long to get match-fit. ”
MCNAGHT HIMSELF HAS SONE “PRTTY GNARLY ARTHRITIS” in his Hands after Manoueuvring lego for Years.
“At the End of a Long Day My Knuckles Swell,” He says. “No Direction to A Bricklayer or A Chippy.”
Brickman’s Tips for LEGUSUSISTS with Aching Digits? Learn to use Both Hands, Rest them alternately and Have a Long Break Afterwards.
What about mini ice bats?
“SAT What I Do,” McNAGHT SAIS.
Blake Is Excited. “Yeah – ‘bricks download, guys!” He says, jokingly. “ComE to the center now.
Lego Master: Grandmasters of the Galaxy Premiers Sunday, June 1, AT 7PM on Channel Nine and 9Now. Nine is the Publisher of this MastHead.
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