Lego Masters - Season 1 Thread
 

US version follows on from UK and Australian versions of the show

If you like Lego, this show is for you :)

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I only like the part where I stomp all over someone's creation they took hours to build (yes I'm that guy). :lol:

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I like all the Lego stuff and I even like Will Arnett, but I just can't bring myself to watch a reality competition show. I mean, they get 15 hours to build something, and its edited to look like they worked on it 15 hours in a row - no bathroom breaks? No stopping for lunch? And the whole "immunity brick" thing? :eyeroll: The worst are the teams, though. What, the "Beard Bros"? The "Helmet Head" ladies from the Ozarks? It's cringeworthy.

I guess if it was on cable, hosted by Adam Savage and didn't have the patented FOX DRAMA METER!!! jacked up to 11, I'd like it much better.

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I watched this with my son and we loved it! The creativity is phenomenal.

Do we really need to see them take bathroom breaks or eat lunch?

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This is the Network that brought us “24”. The answer is clearly No.

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Well, bathroom breaks probably not. But watching them eat lunch might be better (as in, more "organic") than the one-on-ones they do with each team... which are like every other reality competition show ever. Like, I didn't mind the shots of the chefs smoking out back or relaxing on Hell's Kitchen (and the conversations held thereof). But the one-on-ones were always just pointless filler: "My name's Billy. I'm from Nashville. Gordon Ramsay thinks he knows Southern food he's wrong, and I'll show him! Hurr durr..."

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It's S1/E1 of a brand new type show... I'll cut them some slack. I'm not even enamored with the contestants at all --- and they are the show. I just love the creative concept... based on the hate the show is getting though, I don't think it'll have legs going forward.

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I enjoyed it. I don't know what people were expecting ... it's standard reality show competition stuff.

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Eh, I'm fine with the focus on lego. The Will Arnett stuff is cringeworthy but I think that's intentional? Way too many people at this point to know them beyond "beard guys" and the like but that's par for the course with these kinds of shows.

I didn't like that some of the entries got their own little animated sketches and others didn't, which kind of gave away who was going to win (or at least who the frontrunners were). I think that's a cool concept but maybe save it for after the judging? I dunno. Also, my dad watched it with me and his main comment was "they're spending 15 hours on building and it's basically for nothing?" And I kind of understand where he's coming from, that's a lot of work to just be dismissed like that, but I'm sure these guys are all superfans and have designs in their heads before even coming in.

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Come on, guys. Sure it's obnoxious and loud, but it's a show about adults building with Lego bricks. How often do we get to see something like that on television?

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It's somewhat interesting. I was disappointed when the bearded guy's lift thingy didn't work. :lol:

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My 14-year-old son, who is very quick to laugh at his mother's reality TV indulgences, really enjoyed the pilot. Looks like we finally have a father/son show to watch, though I still need to educate him about how real "reality TV" might be. :)

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I enjoyed it. Crazy they are building for 15 hours. My family will continue to watch.

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All I was thinking was, their build was incredible and looked time consuming, the engineering on their lift seemed awesome and pretty original, and it was all down the toilet because it malfunctioned (maybe because it got bumped when they were rolling it back?). Like all that awesome work just down the drain.

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How is it all for nothing? Isn’t the grand prize 100 grand? I think that’s something. Pretty good odds too, compared to the lottery.

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With no elimination and no points system of any kind, they seemingly could have twiddled their thumbs for fifteen hours and gotten through. Heck that one team basically started their true build at like six hours left and they got more praise than some of the other teams.

I know the experience probably helps them grow as a team or something, so I guess we'll see if these people improve or if most of it is just ingrained decades of building and the best builders will rise to the top. If every build has engineering of some kind some of these teams are already in trouble.

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But nobody knew there was no eliminations for first build. There will be eliminations for every one now. There is clearly something to lose now.

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Episode #2: Good choice voting off



They were by far the worst builders. Pretty sure my two sons would've come up with a better creation.

The green tentacle monster was a pretty cool build. That team, along with beard team and the gold brick owners, are by far the strongest contestants.

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Yeah, that tentacled monster was legit as hell.

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This show is interesting on several levels: First, Will Arnett. Second, the coolness of what they can build with Legos. Third, the unintentional humor created by the general weirdness of the cast.

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What happened with Mayim? She was like in the first 20 minutes of the show then - poof - disappeared. Made me wonder if something happened behind the scenes and she just left. :lol:

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Steve Harvey and The Gronk should be hosting this show. "You know how hard it is to find 'dem brown Legos?"

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She had a proper exit, Arnett asked her if she had to go. She replied yes so he bid her goodbye.

I’m watching and it is almost lazy in it’s effort. Arnett literally does the least for a host as do the judges. I thought Making It was soft in it’s presentation. Man, I was wrong.

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It is pretty weak but I'm watching it out of pure jealousy as one who can't Lego worth a damn.

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Put on your Christopher Guest goggles and see the show in a whole new light.

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Making It wasn't exactly intense, but it was heartfelt and tried to avoid cruelty or mocking it's contestants. That's going to work for some people and not for others. It didn't really pull in the ratings the second time around, so I was surprised when NBC renewed it.

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Thanks, I missed that. There was some kind of cable glitch here in the Pittsburgh market that caused about 10 minutes in the middle to be missed, so it must have happened then.

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They had this same challenge in the Aussie version. Was my least favourite one. Just about any lego looks good getting destroyed in slow motion

The challenges will get better

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But for me, Making It’s softness works in the show’s favor. It is not exactly culinary art but the makers have to show talent.

Here, it feels off. Especially when they are given so much time to do a project and waste so much arguing or going around in circles.

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That's where the team concept comes into play, -it's always creates Drama and it's a "go-to" for Reality Comps.

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How much extra did the pay those cosplay models to show up in those outfits?:lol:

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I'll chip in!

www.amiedd.com

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Like Legos but not this show. The host thinks he's funny but isn't, and the judges come off really arrogant. The idea of contestants destroying their creations was just stupid, and the criteria was even dumber: the judges told one team too much of their model survived, then told another team not enough of their model survived... as if there's a right and wrong way to destroy a model. Cutting objects in half was a silly idea too. I don't see this show lasting very long.

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I could guarantee those girls weren't getting taken off the show. I'm thinking, "what little ratings you have, those two are the reason!" :lol:

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I thought this last episode was much better as far as the actual Legos building went. There were some pretty inventive and cool looking things built. And some...not so much. But in the first few episodes it's almost as if the constraints of the task made the artistry and technique of using Legos almost incidental. I much preferred this week. It was an interesting task and allowed the creativity to flow.

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I'm starting to wonder if some of these people actually even build their creations or if it's all staged. We don't really see much of them building anything, just a couple of shots of brick placements here and there. Everything about this show feels kinda fake.

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Haha that is true, most of the actual building they show them doing (during the interviews and such) is beginner stuff I could do. Plus most of the contestants don't seem like they could tie their own shoes let alone build something complex from Legos.

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Most reality programming is staged on some level.

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If you go and look at AmieDD’s (clever name) Instagram there are absolutely zero references to LEGO before her appearances on the show. Her whole Instagram is based around her modeling.

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As a competition show, it needs to abide by the FCC's regulations regarding game shows. Producers likely sway judges' opinions to some point, but the show by law cannot be "fixed."