Eight teams enter the studio and see Hamish & Brickman ready to show them what their challenge will be today. Hamish drives a small Youi LEGO Jeep through four terrains (Dessert, Tropical, Jungle and Snowy Mountains) complete with pyrotechnics explosions, mist and dust – wowed and terrified the teams can’t contain their excitement and trepidation when they are told today, they will need to create booby traps to stop Hamish’s car making it through the terrain in nine hours.
At the start of the challenge, teams will choose one of four pre-built themed baseplates: Tropical, Snowy Mountain, Jungle, or Desert.
TEAMS and BUILDS:
Tropical – Dai & Jiayuan – China
Tropical – David & G – AUS
Snowy Mountain – Nick & Stacey – Canada
Snowy Mountain – Henry & Cade – AUS
Jungle – Alex & Trent – AUS
Jungle – Gabby & Owen – AUS
Desert – Oskari & Aura – Finland
Desert – Vidar & Albin – Sweden
Oskari & Aura pick desert for their build today and decide their build will be called “Bandit Heist” where a group of wild west bandits will destroy the car. They build a heavy falling water tower to crush the car, a giant net catching the car and finally a mine tower that drops a weight onto a plate in the floor to flip the car. The team has a blast during this build – Oskari claiming it’s the most fun he’s had in Australia!
Nick & Stacey chose a snowy mountain theme and created the “happy ski resort” – which is not that happy, building a falling tree which triggers an avalanche of snowballs to fall down a mountain and a Yeti booby trap that is designed to catapult the car off the road.
David & G select the tropical theme and quickly decide their story will be cheeky monkey’s wreaking havoc “Monkey Business”. The gents have a blast with this technical challenge as they create cinematic and comedic booby traps for Hamish’s car to run through. The team has four falling palm trees, and a cascade of falling bananas. Brickman loves their build and thinks they have made a smart play. They pull off their vision and Hamish’s car looks epic as it runs the course.
Trent & Alex are happy to get the jungle terrain, but mechanisms are not this team’s strong suit, they land on what they call the “animal escape” a grand idea of animals escaping a military compound and getting revenge on the humans – with a boulder falling down a mountain, a battery ram giraffe and a plane falling from the sky crashing into Hamish’s car. However, they quickly realise that the mechanisms they need to pull off this idea will be hard to execute. Alex is on struggle street building the three mechanisms, they lose so much time trying to pull off their idea and fail to test their mechanism properly. Brickman loves their story and characters, but the lack of testing and polish ultimately shows in their final build.
Henry & Cade select the Snowy Mountains and take inspiration from the terrain with the idea of creating their own werewolf horror movie “Abandoned Sawmill”. Brickman loves their ideas, but he is concerned that two traps and some characters may be underwhelming. The team struggles with pace to add more traps but want to prove what they can do! They manage to add two more booby traps to their build – swinging blades and log rolls. Despite their time challenges their build looks great, but Brickman loves the characters and the story but warns them they need to find another gear moving forward.
Gabby & Owen are also ecstatic to get the jungle base plate. They build “Ping Pong the giant orangutang” – one giant booby trap which will have two simple but visually effective mechanisms. The ape will be so large that in one arm it will throw a giant banana on the course to distract Hamish and the other arm will catapult the car off the course. Being an engineer and the mechanism guy Owen is in his element and this team truly creates a visually stunning build. However, this team unlike all the others put their bananas in one basket and do not hedge their bets like other teams who have gone for multiple booby traps. When it comes down to the run, Hamish lands the jeep on the Orangutans arm, Owen launches and cracks, the mechanism fails.
Vidar & Albin pick the Desert for today’s challenge. They decide to build an “apocalypse city”, inspired by many apocalypse movies. The team has the Magic Brick today, so they are happy to take risks. They settle on building a piano falling on Hamish’s car, a launch pad to attempt to catapult the car out of the city and finally the car will be propelled out of the exit gates of the city!
Dai & Jiayuan choose the tropical theme base plate and build a “zombie apocalypse” plane crash which centres about their hero booby trap being a giant plane tail falling onto Hamish’s car. The team ends up building a house with falling zombies, a bus being pushed over by zombies, zombies coming out of the trees to put Hamish off the course!
After a tense nine-hour build, time is up! Brickman is impressed by the creativity of Oskari & Aura from Finland and Aussie’s David & G and who secure the top two places. Ultimately, the uniqueness of David & G’s spinning turn table lands them with the Magic Brick, making them safe from the next elimination.
The mood quickly turns sombre as Brickman calls forward two teams in the ‘danger zone’ – it’s two Aussie teams; Trent & Alex and Gabby & Owen – who are the bottom two and because Gabby & Owen only had one giant mechanism that didn’t work they are the third team eliminated from Grandmasters of the Galaxy and a shock elimination strikes the LEGO Masters studio.
