When season three of Nine’s Lego Masters hits screens on Monday, April 19th, eight new teams will battle it out to win the title of 2021 Lego Masters and the $100,000 prize.
The teams all come with different skills, ideas, and personalities, including a young couple, best mates, and a hilarious pair of mothers. Lego Masters Australia will push the teams to their creative limits with all sorts of builds of different themes and sizes.
In each round, the teams will be out to earn acclaim for their models from Hamish Blake and Ryan “Brickman” McNaught as they strive to qualify for the Grand Final. That’s where the last three surviving pairs will work on a final build, with a room full of Lego fans choosing the winning team.
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Anthony (20) and Jess (30) – Queensland
Kicking off the 20201 Lego Masters teams, hotel concierge Anthony and science communicator Jess plan to combine their skills to create builds that showcase their love of playing with textures, and using different bricks in weird and wonderful ways.
A lifelong lover of Lego, Anthony has enthusiasm in spades which extends to his greatest passion. He specialises in replicas and has an extensive knowledge of bricks and their correct names.
Jess is keen to see what she can make out of the Lego Masters never-ending Brick Pit. She says her build style usually involves challenging the norm, and she loves to build upside down or on strange angles.
Unlike Anthony, Jess is a relative beginner when it comes to the world of Lego, but she is confident that she will quickly pick up the skills for new techniques to use on Lego Masters. Jess works as a STEM enrichment officer and travels around Australia educating children in science, technology, engineering and maths. She is a strong advocate for women in STEM and aims to inspire the next generation to discover new expressions of their potential.
Atlanta (26) And Jeff (28) – South Australia
Atlanta and Jeff met at a Supernova convention in Sydney while working for a luxury Dungeons and Dragons dice company. They spend hours upon hours building, and although they have different visions of how their builds should go, they always turn out perfectly because of the way these two work together.
Atlanta is a luxury dice consultant who went through a Lego “dark age” for about 10 years, losing interest in the little bricks. But watching Lego Masters last year with Jeff revitalised her passion and Lego is now a great source of joy for her.
A self-confessed enthusiastic geek, Jeff says Lego is the ultimate creative tool and challenge. Together, Atlanta and Jeff own several thousand dollars worth of Lego and spend about 10-15 hours a week engrossed in their builds.
Atlanta says that Jeff’s outlook and critiques make sense to her creatively, while Jeff says “the bouncing back and forth of ideas, building off each other and combining our different strengths, is incredible”.
David (41) And Gus (36) – Victoria
David and Gus are ready to show Australia their great love of Lego and excited to transform bricks into any creation they can dream up.
Project manager David says confidently that when he is building with Lego he can focus solely on the bricks, giving him the ability to produce an unlimited array of transformations.
Gus, an engineer, applied to be one of the teams on Lego Masters because he knew it was the perfect opportunity to challenge his creativity, as he loves to draw and sculpt but needed another outlet to bring his passions to life.
David has only been living in Australia since 2015, after he and his wife fell in love with the country three years earlier. They are now Australian citizens. He grew up in Colombia and his family still live there.
Amy (33) And Dawei (34) – Victoria
Dawei, an auditor, is no stranger to pushing his mind to the limit and confident that Lego Masters is the perfect place to bring his childhood passion to fruition. He met content creator Amy online at the end of 2019, and together they have created the YouTube channel FloxyBloxie where they review Lego together.
Dawei has spent tens of thousands of dollars on Lego since getting back into it in a big way just a year ago. When Dawei was a child his family couldn’t afford much Lego, so he would purchase instruction manuals for 50 cents to read over and over, cover to cover.
Collectible Minifigs were what reignited Amy’s passion for Lego, and she has spent a lot of time in shops trying to feel through the plastic bag for what Minifig could be hidden inside.
Unlike Amy, Dawei is less into the magic of Lego and more into the sci-fi side, being especially interested in technic, Star Wars, City and the older fantasy themes.
Michael (25) And Harrison (26) – NSW/ACT
Harrison and Michael have known each other since they were teenagers at the same high school in Canberra, but it wasn’t until years later when they played on the same university touch footy team that they realised they shared a passion for Lego.
Harrison is a PhD candidate in chemistry and Michael is a physiotherapist. Although these two mates have a love of all things science, this doesn’t mean they don’t excel in the world of Lego.
Harrison describes himself as an extroverted nerd who loves Lego and says, “It’s amazing how you can start with a seemingly random array of pieces and somehow, following the perfect sequence, form an amazing piece of art.”
Michael digs Lego so much that he even incorporates it into the therapy he does with his patients. Michael sees Lego helping with fine motor skills, with the bonus of bringing out the creative side in people. “I have seen firsthand the excitement and joy that Lego can bring into people’s lives,” he says.
Owen (26) And Scott (26) – Western Australia
Best friends since high school, Owen and Scott will bring their love of Lego to the creation of whole towns, scenarios and worlds out of nothing. Although these two have very different minds on a creative level, they complement each other perfectly as Scott looks at the bigger picture while Owen is detail-oriented.
As an engineer, Owen is no stranger to building something out of nothing and says that his work is almost like “playing with giant Lego that is made out of steel”. He says his strengths are his intelligence and problem-solving skills, and he’ll be using these to lead them to success on Lego Masters.
Electrician Scott first got into Lego when he was a child, but he’s another who went through a “dark age” until he and Owen visited Amsterdam on a holiday. They stepped into a Lego store, opening their eyes to the wide world of Lego, and he fell straight back in love.
Ryan (42) And Gabby (39) – Victoria
High school teacher Ryan and occupational therapist Gabby may have different Lego backgrounds but are keen to meld their love of the bricks by putting put their imaginations and skills to the biggest test on Lego Masters.
A longtime fan of Lego, Ryan was always interested in seeing what he could pull out of his imagination and create, but like most adult fans, he too had a “dark age”. He came back to Lego around 2008, but really threw himself into the deep end again four years later.
On the other hand, Gabby played with Lego as a kid with her brothers but never owned her own sets, as “back then Lego wasn’t really aimed at girls”. Today she incorporates Lego into her work as an occupational therapist, and she was part of a course that used Lego play to help adults with mental health issues communicate with her.
Fleur (43) And Sarah (47) – Victoria
Sarah and Fleur are two mums both confident that they have what it takes to win as one of the funniest teams on Lego Masters.
Sarah has been building with Lego her entire life and says she loves it so much because it makes her feel creative and relaxed. Fleur, on the other hand, has had a 32-year “dark age” – since childhood in fact – but knows that this extraordinarily long time-out will be no disadvantage to her in the competition.
Sarah and Fleur are ready to show Australia just how creative they are, which should be easy considering that between them they dedicate 20 hours a week to letting their imaginations take control and seeing what they can create. Sarah estimates that she owns around 50,000 Lego pieces and Fleur has around 110,000, meaning that the Brick Pit will definitely excite, not daunt them.
