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Speaker 3: On today's podcast, I'm going into the world of Lego
Speaker 3: and the minds of Lego Master's contestants. We're currently competing
Speaker 3: on the Channel nine series. I have Sarah and Henry,
Speaker 3: both returning players. Henry known for winning Series one and
Speaker 3: Sarah back from winning Series three. Both family orientated but
Speaker 3: matched for the first time to take on some of
Speaker 3: the best players we have ever seen on the Channel
Speaker 3: nine Lego Building competition. With week one of the competition
Speaker 3: already done and this Sunday Night's episode upon us, I
Speaker 3: have a lot to unpack and these two will certainly
Speaker 3: get you excited for what is to come. I will
Speaker 3: ask Sarah and Henry about the process of being put
Speaker 3: together and if they both said yes straight away. Sarah
Speaker 3: and Henry will explain everything from toilet breaks and stressful
Speaker 3: situations to if the contestants get to keep their lego builds.
Speaker 3: We will also find out what Hamish, Blake and Brickman
Speaker 3: are really like between takes and if Hamish has up
Speaker 3: to the anti since the show began. Plus, we'll get
Speaker 3: plenty of exclusives from behind the scenes of the latest
Speaker 3: series of Lego Masters, which you can now catch up
Speaker 3: on nine. Now anyway, let's bring Sarah and Henry into
Speaker 3: the podcast. I'm a huge fan of theirs, this is
Speaker 3: why I've picked them. Excuse me for having a cold
Speaker 3: this week, but I honestly hope you enjoy this hilarious chat.
Speaker 3: Thank you both for coming on the podcast and talking
Speaker 3: about the fifth series of Lego Masters.
Speaker 2: Oh thanks for having us mate, It's going to be
Speaker 2: a cracking season.
Speaker 1: I think we've done things that we've nobody's ever done
Speaker 1: before with Lego, so that's going to be amazing.
Speaker 3: Sarah, was it a surprise to get a call and
Speaker 3: be asked to return to the show.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit, and I had a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff that I was doing out of Lego, so
Speaker 1: I wasn't one hundred percent sure whether I was able
Speaker 1: to do it. But then I found out that Henry
Speaker 1: was going to be my partner, and that was just
Speaker 1: a given.
Speaker 4: So therefore I dropped everything.
Speaker 2: And ran You're a sweetheart, mate. It wasn't a surprise
Speaker 2: for me though, Ben I am the original in US,
Speaker 2: so not me.
Speaker 4: Henry is also super humble, as you can tell.
Speaker 3: Had there ever been mentioned to either of you that
Speaker 3: there would be an All Stars, I mean, had there
Speaker 3: been conversations at any stage along the way that you know,
Speaker 3: sit tight and maybe you'll get a chance to come back.
Speaker 2: It was always into that, but again, like anything in
Speaker 2: TV land, you're never certain. Then you just can never
Speaker 2: be assured until you're actually there. So until you actually
Speaker 2: step on set and you're like, oh this is happening, now.
Speaker 3: You're going to wait you've got to be there on
Speaker 3: set and actually doing it exactly.
Speaker 1: And there's always all these little whispers in the Lego
Speaker 1: community about what's happening, like there might be a Lego
Speaker 1: Master's kids, there might be a Lego Master's Grandmasters.
Speaker 4: But you're right, we don't know until it happens.
Speaker 3: Well, Sarah, what was your experience like last time from
Speaker 3: being on the show?
Speaker 4: I actually really really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: It was an opportunity to be super creative because I'm
Speaker 1: a very very creative person, because I'm an artist in
Speaker 1: my normal life, and I met a bunch of really great,
Speaker 1: motivated artistic people as well.
Speaker 4: So I love the whole experience.
Speaker 3: And Henry, what about you. I mean, obviously you had
Speaker 3: a very good experience and the outcome is great. It's
Speaker 3: a bit of a silly question, but what was it
Speaker 3: about your first experience on Lego Masters that made you
Speaker 3: go I want to come back into it again.
Speaker 2: Oh? Look, the first time I went on, I had
Speaker 2: done nothing like it, and I was probably still a
Speaker 2: little bit new to Lego. I wouldn't say that I've
Speaker 2: been a lifelong fan of Lego. I was like anyone
Speaker 2: else who had it as a kid and sort of
Speaker 2: just then got back into it when I had kids.
Speaker 2: That sort of that was my story. But my wife
Speaker 2: was the one who pushed me to go on it
Speaker 2: and said, you know, you'll regret it if you don't.
Speaker 2: Just have a crack. And it was just about having
Speaker 2: the experience, right. I met people that I would never
Speaker 2: meet in normal, my everyday life, my work circles. I
Speaker 2: have a very different job super waring. So it's it
Speaker 2: was a really really wonderful experience for me.
Speaker 3: And you know, mate, I was going to just stay
Speaker 3: with you with this question because being a part of
Speaker 3: the first series and then coming back, but is Hamish
Speaker 3: still the old Hamish? I mean, is he up the
Speaker 3: ante with some of his weird antics because I've watched
Speaker 3: every series and I think he just gets more and
Speaker 3: more stranger.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's It's funny to watch how much the
Speaker 2: gags have evolved. You would have never seen Hamish in
Speaker 2: Amurmaan costume in season one. You would have I don't
Speaker 2: think you would have been game to do it. And
Speaker 2: then now it's just like, oh yeah, I'm wearing a
Speaker 2: murmaid costume.
Speaker 1: Doing the Murmuran costume in season five is what's he
Speaker 1: going to do in season sticks It could be a
Speaker 1: Noodi run, no Lego involved.
Speaker 3: I heard a rumor that he wanted to do the
Speaker 3: Mermaid thing in series one, but it's took him five
Speaker 3: seasons to get his body looking like Sophie Monks, so
Speaker 3: they had to delay it.
Speaker 2: I've seen the Daily Mail article about Hamish's beach body,
Speaker 2: so you can tell he's been putt in the work.
Speaker 3: When he was on goggle Box, they really went to
Speaker 3: town about his what do they call it, man spreading.
Speaker 3: They said his legs were too far apart throughout the
Speaker 3: goggle Box couch moments, and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: Well the Daily Mail will write about Hamish doing basically
Speaker 3: anything they will.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's popular. He could be eating a cake
Speaker 1: and they'd love.
Speaker 3: Him exactly, right, Sarah, what was the process like informing
Speaker 3: you both into one team?
Speaker 1: It was interesting because we've never worked together before.
Speaker 4: We both knew of each other.
Speaker 1: It was a few phone calls before we actually started
Speaker 1: to try and sort of have a chat and see where.
Speaker 4: We're both at. But we got on really really well,
Speaker 4: and I think that really helped.
Speaker 3: I mean you can see that the two of you
Speaker 3: get along, which is great, But I thought, do they
Speaker 3: send photos of potential people? Did they send you like
Speaker 3: a list of three and said pick one of these
Speaker 3: men out of a lineup?
Speaker 1: I think you're maybe thinking of, you know, that other
Speaker 1: show Married at First Sight. But definitely, if there were
Speaker 1: three photos, I definitely would have picked Henry because obviously
Speaker 1: he is the best looking, most intelligent, and has the
Speaker 1: most going for him out of any other contestant.
Speaker 2: There would have been three photos of me. Then they
Speaker 2: would have been three photos of me different angles.
Speaker 3: We're giving you options, and they've got three photos of Henry,
Speaker 3: maybe with like really cheap disguise on, you know, to
Speaker 3: make him look a little different in all of them.
Speaker 1: Henry with different haircut, Yes, different haircut Henry I've got.
Speaker 2: I've had the same haircut for about fifteen years. I
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 3: I love it. But I can still imagine them getting
Speaker 3: out some you know, lego wigs for you to.
Speaker 2: The lego hair right on the minifing. You know, you
Speaker 2: just put a cap on and it's just like snaps on.
Speaker 4: It's like pick the Henry.
Speaker 3: I had no idea I was going to have this
Speaker 3: much fun chatting to the both of you. No offense
Speaker 3: to the pre pregame chat, but you guys are both hilarious.
Speaker 3: Did you spend a lot of time together to have
Speaker 3: this kind of chemistry?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we spent like we would have post
Speaker 2: episode dinners and talk like you know, so we and
Speaker 2: we actually have a lot of similarities in our personal lives.
Speaker 2: Like we both have three kids and they're all a
Speaker 2: similar ages, and we both have like a younger one
Speaker 2: that sort of came a little bit later than we
Speaker 2: wanted to both have.
Speaker 4: One of the accidental children.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we were like, oh, you have one of
Speaker 2: those as well. I love it.
Speaker 3: It's in the DNA. It's the lego DNA that is
Speaker 3: keeping you both together and living the sliding doors life.
Speaker 2: I think it's great.
Speaker 3: It's brought it together. You know, what are the similarities
Speaker 3: between your builds? I mean, do you both have a
Speaker 3: similar type of interest in building things.
Speaker 2: I think what my interests are outside of the show
Speaker 2: in terms of lego building is really different to what
Speaker 2: we build on the show. My specialty is like I
Speaker 2: love Japanese culture, right, I love anime all those sort
Speaker 2: of things, And it's probably a lot more accepted now
Speaker 2: in terms of anime is pretty much mainstream now, like
Speaker 2: with a lot of you know, a younger generation in that,
Speaker 2: whereas it was a little bit of a niche hobby
Speaker 2: when I was a kid. And so I love building
Speaker 2: massive Japanese robots. That's my thing, that's my niche, right,
Speaker 2: And so building a lot of the things on the
Speaker 2: show is the first time I've done it a lot
Speaker 2: of the times, right, because I just don't do it,
Speaker 2: but it just sort of And I think for Sarah
Speaker 2: as well, she's an artist and she's an amazing artist.
Speaker 2: I'll let you speak for Sarah. Like the same thing, like.
Speaker 1: Right, Like a lot of the stuff that we did
Speaker 1: I've never built before, exactly the same as Henry. The
Speaker 1: only thing I think that we both like is we
Speaker 1: both like a lot of color, yes, And I think
Speaker 1: we're pretty clever with our color choices and our color decisions.
Speaker 1: And I think that's where we're compatible on what we build.
Speaker 5: But our building styles are totally different.
Speaker 3: What would you say the differences? I mean, do you
Speaker 3: both clash at any point, like you're both having to
Speaker 3: work out how to compromise with the way in which
Speaker 3: we are building.
Speaker 1: Not really, it's just I think it was a massive
Speaker 1: learning curve for both of us, and we just work
Speaker 1: together really really well. Henry's building styles different, my building
Speaker 1: style difference, so we kind of had to blend both in.
Speaker 1: But we got on with that really really well. And
Speaker 1: I kind of trust Henry's experience and he trusted me
Speaker 1: with decisions I made, and that's why I think it
Speaker 1: worked really well.
Speaker 3: I can imagine for me if I was wanting to
Speaker 3: stop someone from doing something, I'd be slowly, you know,
Speaker 3: moving the red pieces away if I didn't want that
Speaker 3: to be used Henry.
Speaker 4: Henry did not do that to me once, not at all.
Speaker 3: Imagine that he'd be like, all of a sudden, Henry's
Speaker 3: got all the red bits in his pocket, just giving
Speaker 3: it away.
Speaker 2: Honest.
Speaker 1: Henry at times did it like the way that I
Speaker 1: built things, and may have altered them slightly.
Speaker 2: Okay, Sarah would come back and go, oh that's changed.
Speaker 3: I'll be like, yeah, this is like pulling the small
Speaker 3: brick from the bottom and watching it all collapse, you know,
Speaker 3: for people listening to this at home.
Speaker 1: He would make the smallest like when we did our
Speaker 1: build with the Monster and we had all the little
Speaker 1: shipping containers where the monster was coming out of the ground.
Speaker 5: I used a certain part.
Speaker 4: He didn't like that certain part.
Speaker 1: So I go to the brick pit and I've come
Speaker 1: back and that certain part wasn't there before, and I'd look.
Speaker 5: At it and I go hmm. But I totally didn't mind.
Speaker 5: I mean to be honest, the things that he changed
Speaker 5: were better than what I did.
Speaker 4: So we're all good with that anyways.
Speaker 3: Right, and both still talking, so you know, the friendship
Speaker 3: hasn't crumbled. It's totally fun.
Speaker 2: And I'm a massive perfectionist and I think Sarah is too,
Speaker 2: as being an artist, like a work's never done right,
Speaker 2: like a piece of arts never finished. So you have
Speaker 2: to be a perfectionist in those situations because being on
Speaker 2: Grand Masters, every single little detail matters.
Speaker 4: It does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we've seen three builds so far. We saw
Speaker 3: the shipping container city attack. I think I'm remembering that
Speaker 3: off the top of my head. And then there was
Speaker 3: the duck smash yep. Then we had the coat hanger. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's right, like a game of memory, you know where
Speaker 3: they moved them all around.
Speaker 4: But he's done very well.
Speaker 3: I've seen five episodes, so I kind of have to
Speaker 3: remember what you've done before you know, what was your
Speaker 3: favorite out of the three of them, Sarah, did you
Speaker 3: have a particular favor that you were really proud of?
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to say that the closed rack probably
Speaker 1: was the one that I would be most proud of,
Speaker 1: only because now I'm not a great technical lego builder,
Speaker 1: so for me, that was super challenging. But the fact
Speaker 1: of it was a pole and it was really really heavy,
Speaker 1: and it was suspended off the ground, and Henry needed
Speaker 1: to kind of work out the engineering to get those
Speaker 1: four legs, which were on an angle, to actually be
Speaker 1: strong enough to hold the pole up. It was a
Speaker 1: massive engineering challenge, and I don't think that they showed
Speaker 1: enough of that because he did. I made the pieces
Speaker 1: and he essentially put them together.
Speaker 5: It was amazing what he actually did and then it
Speaker 5: actually worked. It was cool.
Speaker 3: Do you both get frustrated on what we don't get
Speaker 3: to see, because you know, like I have to say,
Speaker 3: I'm going to admit I've watched the first three episodes twice,
Speaker 3: and that was only because the second time I went back,
Speaker 3: it was because I was preparing for this interview, so
Speaker 3: I was scooping the episodes to go back, and only
Speaker 3: watch your parts, and then I was thinking as I
Speaker 3: was doing that, I was thinking, God, these contestants would
Speaker 3: get really confused or frustrated sometimes with not having the
Speaker 3: whole story put together for us to completely understand as
Speaker 3: an audience, because I really only picked that up when
Speaker 3: I went back to rewatch them, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you know, a ten hour build being condensed
Speaker 2: into five minutes of screen time, You're always going to
Speaker 2: struggle to get the parts that you want, you know,
Speaker 2: and you just have to trust the process of the
Speaker 2: show to show you in the best light. And ultimately
Speaker 2: that's what happens, right, you know, I do. I do
Speaker 2: get the feedback a lot that you know, the audience
Speaker 2: wants to see more building, more building, you know. You know,
Speaker 2: one are the techniques that you use from the you know,
Speaker 2: the proper I'll call them Lego nerds. They'll say, oh,
Speaker 2: we'd love to see more of them.
Speaker 3: I'm not Look, I'm just going to say this right
Speaker 3: off the bat. I'm not a big Lego nerd. I
Speaker 3: had Lego as a kid, but I have to agree
Speaker 3: with the Lego nerds on this one. And I think
Speaker 3: as if you were you know, I think that is
Speaker 3: what we're interested in seeing more of, you know. But
Speaker 3: we are absolutely talking about the same thing in the
Speaker 3: sense that it's such a short time to compare so
Speaker 3: much into so it's a hard job for them to
Speaker 3: put it all together. But absolutely I agree with you.
Speaker 3: I'd love to see more of the actual techniques and
Speaker 3: the decisions. Why are you doing that?
Speaker 2: And I think as the teams, as you get less teams,
Speaker 2: you get more of that. But when everyone's on the
Speaker 2: floor still, it's a bit hard because you have to
Speaker 2: share the screen time with eight other teams or sorry,
Speaker 2: seven other teams, including yourself.
Speaker 1: It's interesting doing the interviews as well, because Henry is very,
Speaker 1: very reserved and I never ever think about what's coming
Speaker 1: out of my mouth and all of a sudden it
Speaker 1: pops out. So we'd be doing interviews and Henry would
Speaker 1: be going, don't say that, don't say that, and I'd
Speaker 1: be like.
Speaker 5: Like, they screened something the other night.
Speaker 1: I think it was what's the inspiration behind the monster
Speaker 1: that you're building? And I flippantly said, oh, obviously my mother,
Speaker 1: And then I thought, oh.
Speaker 2: My god, oh I've had those moments as well. I've
Speaker 2: had those room.
Speaker 3: It's the best reality TV is all the stuff that
Speaker 3: you say without thinking, you know, because it's the relatable
Speaker 3: moment to the audience, because we all do that. We're
Speaker 3: all watching the show and we all go I've said
Speaker 3: that before, you know. I always talk to my mum
Speaker 3: about this. My mum and I share the same thing.
Speaker 3: We go to bed at night time and we think
Speaker 3: about all the dumb things that we said that we
Speaker 3: shouldn't have.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you're talking about my entire life at the moment.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: There was a funny one that we had where we
Speaker 2: will be interviewed by a current affair and they said
Speaker 2: what's your you know, and they said what's your secret
Speaker 2: weapon to me and Sarah, And straight away I just
Speaker 2: blurted out diversity. I just said, diversity is our secrets.
Speaker 5: Because we're really good looking as well.
Speaker 3: That question has to be a stitch up because there
Speaker 3: are so many things that are wrong that you could
Speaker 3: say with that. So, you know, look that you know.
Speaker 3: I think you both did well to answer.
Speaker 2: What you did.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 1: So I didn't think that the diversity one would actually
Speaker 1: make it to air.
Speaker 2: And I was like, that's too good not to go on.
Speaker 4: I loved it. It was very very cool.
Speaker 3: You know, Henry, I was going to ask you about
Speaker 3: the duck smash. Brickman gave you some advice about that,
Speaker 3: and I thought, you know, it could have been a
Speaker 3: little bit harsh. But how do you go with Brickman
Speaker 3: offering you that advice? Can that be sometimes quite frustrating?
Speaker 3: And do you always agree with what he's saying?
Speaker 2: I think he always comes from a good place, And
Speaker 2: I think it's always hard to put yourself, even for
Speaker 2: Brickman to put himself in your shoes, because I guess
Speaker 2: it's a little bit different pressure, right, Like you're the
Speaker 2: only one that feels that pressure at the moment. And
Speaker 2: the way a build starts, where you start, that's where
Speaker 2: it'll like, you know, like an exponential curve. Where you start,
Speaker 2: you'll end up somewhere totally different depending on where you start.
Speaker 2: So if you go too big at the start, it
Speaker 2: could be way too big and then you've compromised your
Speaker 2: build because you've run out of time. So and that
Speaker 2: was only a two. So Sarah and I were still
Speaker 2: getting to know each other as well and sort of
Speaker 2: going out how do we work on different components and
Speaker 2: still make sure that we're comfortable in what we're doing.
Speaker 2: And that's why By at three see us just go, look,
Speaker 2: we've got two episodes together. Let's just swing for the
Speaker 2: fences and build this giant hat stand. That's and that's
Speaker 2: sort of like we go, oh, look, we're really happy
Speaker 2: with the duck. But yeah, I think By we sort
Speaker 2: of took Brickman's advice and said, you know, maybe we
Speaker 2: do need to go a bit big. And that's what
Speaker 2: the biggest object in the room.
Speaker 4: The thing with Brickman.
Speaker 1: Every time Brickman gives you some advice, you pretty much
Speaker 1: have to do it right. So if he says, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't like the color, you change it because you
Speaker 1: know that he's going to pick up on that in
Speaker 1: the end when judging comes. But sometimes he leaves the
Speaker 1: advice right to the last minute, so you've got like
Speaker 1: half oh.
Speaker 5: It's great TV, but you've got half an hour to
Speaker 5: go and you're like, oh my god.
Speaker 4: What are we going to do?
Speaker 1: So you've got to kind of work out whether you
Speaker 1: change something or whether you just leave it because you've
Speaker 1: got no time to finish.
Speaker 4: And it makes amazing TV because everybody's rushing.
Speaker 3: Obviously, are there other influencing voices or anything else that
Speaker 3: happens through the production of the show. I mean, are
Speaker 3: they out the contestants of bring you any advice? Or
Speaker 3: only the producers saying thing?
Speaker 2: I think the first time you go on, and Sarah,
Speaker 2: you probably agree, right. The first time you go on,
Speaker 2: it's like you're sort of unaware of all those aspects,
Speaker 2: Like you don't really pick up on the cues because
Speaker 2: you're new to it, right, But then we've both actually
Speaker 2: been on three times now, and so you just sort
Speaker 2: of go you get a bit of a sixth sense
Speaker 2: about you know, Oh, look, I think they're trying to
Speaker 2: tell me something, and you pick up on all the
Speaker 2: different viues, and it sort of ruins it in a
Speaker 2: little in a way because you're like, oh, I know
Speaker 2: what you mean. Sure, I'll do it, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. Whereas whereas on the first time you do it,
Speaker 2: it's like seeing a magic trick being revealed. You know,
Speaker 2: that's the best way to put it. You know, it's
Speaker 2: like you know how the trick's done. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: would say, act a little bit differently and you're probably
Speaker 2: more aware of some of the little acuse that's the
Speaker 2: right word. Yeah, what do you.
Speaker 3: Guys, think about that. I mean, you know, having so
Speaker 3: much to do with the show over the five years,
Speaker 3: is there an understanding because you'd be the best people
Speaker 3: ask this question. Is there a way they could up
Speaker 3: the ante with it? I mean, it is a very
Speaker 3: tight show of it is quite familiar to go back
Speaker 3: to it. I think that there's obviously some nostalgia and popularity,
Speaker 3: and that are there ways of looking at doing this
Speaker 3: show a little bit differently.
Speaker 2: More prize money, actually.
Speaker 4: I agree with that. I wreckon more prize money and
Speaker 4: free cars for everyone.
Speaker 2: You get a car, you get a car, You get
Speaker 2: a car.
Speaker 1: Now, guys, somebody's got a car under their chair today,
Speaker 1: but we're not going to tell you who it is.
Speaker 4: That would so much better for me.
Speaker 2: Actually, you know what, Ben I thought about this as well,
Speaker 2: like to up the ante? What would be like it's
Speaker 2: already done for this season, but like I mean, what
Speaker 2: would be funny is if you brought people on like
Speaker 2: the Grand Masters, And I thought this could happen where
Speaker 2: we all walk in the room, sixteen of us and
Speaker 2: they just go, you're all switching partners. Now, Yeah, that
Speaker 2: would be Antie.
Speaker 3: The old married at first sight. You're meant to be
Speaker 3: with that person. But we'll start you off married with
Speaker 3: this one, and you will definitely end up with that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, build do to builds with your partner, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you've got a partner swap.
Speaker 4: I don't know how people would cope with that.
Speaker 3: I actually think that that would be quite amazing television.
Speaker 3: I think they would add a different dynamic to it,
Speaker 3: you know, it would How long are they shooting these
Speaker 3: episodes for? I think you might have revealed this a
Speaker 3: little bit earlier. One of you might have let out
Speaker 3: a little squeal about this. But from the time you
Speaker 3: get on set to the time they let you go home,
Speaker 3: how long are you there for?
Speaker 1: Well, it's a long day because you start relatively early.
Speaker 1: So we were getting picked up sometimes at five thirty Henry,
Speaker 1: and occasional nights we get back about nine nine thirty.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's too much lego. That's too much lego for anyone.
Speaker 5: You've got all the set up as well, and obviously
Speaker 5: we eat in between that.
Speaker 1: But you know, you've got all the setup and all
Speaker 1: the mic up, and you know, walking through the door
Speaker 1: and getting all the right angles, so things can be
Speaker 1: done multiple times. So with the filming and also the
Speaker 1: Lego they are really really long days.
Speaker 3: Does everyone have to stop to take a bathroom break?
Speaker 3: If like just one person stops for a bathroom break,
Speaker 3: did they stop the clock or what do they do?
Speaker 3: Do they kind of get you to all hold on
Speaker 3: and then just go at the same time. What's the
Speaker 3: toilet rule?
Speaker 2: Oh Ben, There's there's so many funny stories about toilet rule,
Speaker 2: Like we all get so accustomed to going to the toilet.
Speaker 2: When you're allowed to, you know, everyone's like, you know,
Speaker 2: the production managers like okay, now you can all go
Speaker 2: to the toilet, and everyone's like okay, cool, and then
Speaker 2: you come back on the floor and then when you
Speaker 2: go home, you're like, oh am I allowed to go? Now?
Speaker 2: Do you want need to ask someone?
Speaker 1: It's like being in primary school and going it.
Speaker 2: Takes about Yeah, it takes about eight weeks to adjust
Speaker 2: your bladder to Lego mast off the Lego master's clock.
Speaker 1: It takes about eight weeks to get someone to notice it.
Speaker 1: You need to go to the louver.
Speaker 5: And when you're my age and you've had four thousand
Speaker 5: children going to the loo, it has to be I
Speaker 5: need to go within five minutes because if I don't
Speaker 5: go between five minutes, then everything's off the table.
Speaker 3: From that point, it's just yellow blocks across around the
Speaker 3: ground where you've been standing, just like yellow blocks.
Speaker 5: And I've never run as fast in my life, let
Speaker 5: me tell you that much.
Speaker 3: I also have to ask you about these builds, because
Speaker 3: I've been watching this for five seasons and I've wanted
Speaker 3: to note, do you get to keep some of these
Speaker 3: lego builds? I mean, obviously not the ones that you smash,
Speaker 3: but are you allowed to keep some of these builds
Speaker 3: because they're quite amazing?
Speaker 2: Unfortunately not, because it seems the brick pit is unlimited,
Speaker 2: but it's not. You need to restock it. So this
Speaker 2: was something that was quite evident on grand Masters because
Speaker 2: we're all using very similar techniques because we're all I
Speaker 2: guess grand masters. Yeah, Like we're all using similar bricks,
Speaker 2: similar things. So we would chew through certain type of
Speaker 2: bricks and we'd be like, we need them from our
Speaker 2: old build. Go smash it, just get it, like that
Speaker 2: sort of thing.
Speaker 1: I think we used every brown tile that was in
Speaker 1: the brick pit to do our hatstand.
Speaker 3: I just want to quickly say that hatstand was so
Speaker 3: amazing because my mum has the same hatstand in her house,
Speaker 3: and it was just quite surreal. People be like, Ben,
Speaker 3: stop talking about yourself. No one cares. But I don't
Speaker 3: mention that your mum's got the hatstand. But she had
Speaker 3: the exact same hatstand at her house. So I was like,
Speaker 3: it was unbelievable. What you guys meant to do with that.
Speaker 5: We actually modeled that off your mum's hat stand.
Speaker 3: Oh you went there first, Yeah.
Speaker 5: We did.
Speaker 4: We took her hat stand. We took it.
Speaker 5: We took it to Lego Masses.
Speaker 4: We use that as our model.
Speaker 3: Hell, mum, that hat stand is gone, and I noticed
Speaker 3: took it. They're on television. They're probably going to win,
Speaker 3: they might get more money. They owe your hat stand goodbye.
Speaker 3: I guess another good question to ask you, guys is
Speaker 3: about the relationship that you have with the other contestants.
Speaker 3: You know, some seasons it looks like there's more of
Speaker 3: a camaraderie than others. You know, with the game being
Speaker 3: at this next level, what was the vibe between all
Speaker 3: of you? Was it hyper competitive and were you getting
Speaker 3: along or was there a bit of tension?
Speaker 2: I think there was. We all definitely were fans of
Speaker 2: each other, like definitely, like you know, we will all
Speaker 2: be like, oh wow, like I love this thing you
Speaker 2: do or I love this you know, like we're all
Speaker 2: fans of each other. The funny thing was, and Sarah
Speaker 2: will attest to it, because there was an age gap
Speaker 2: between a lot of our the contestants. There's definitely an
Speaker 2: adults table and a kid's table.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree with that. There wasn't an adult kids table. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they just had chips and nuggets and we had like
Speaker 1: the seil on Stak.
Speaker 3: The boys that won last year. What are their names?
Speaker 2: Johssin Henry picked them last.
Speaker 3: Year to do this chat, you know, as the first
Speaker 3: week happened, So you can't reveal anything because I'll get
Speaker 3: myself into trouble and so were you. But I wonder
Speaker 3: whether or not picking you guys means that I've picked
Speaker 3: the winners again.
Speaker 5: Totally obviously obviously obviously.
Speaker 3: Well, just before we go, every time everyone that joins
Speaker 3: the podcast asked this question, what is something And I
Speaker 3: don't know which one of you wants to answer this?
Speaker 3: What is something from behind the scenes, something that fans
Speaker 3: of Lego Masters wouldn't necessarily know, Maybe a funny story,
Speaker 3: something that happened behind the scenes that might be like
Speaker 3: a funny anecdote.
Speaker 2: I've got one right, you know how Sarah was saying that,
Speaker 2: you know, the bus would pick us up at five
Speaker 2: point thirty in the morning and that sort of think.
Speaker 2: Usually it's a really drab, you know, community service bus,
Speaker 2: right that just comes and picks you up and says
Speaker 2: takes you set. For some unknown reason, this party bus
Speaker 2: picked us up and it was like a full on
Speaker 2: party bus. And the guy that was driving it at
Speaker 2: five thirty in the morning was proper lit and he
Speaker 2: just said like he must have picked up that we
Speaker 2: were all asleep or something, and he was just like, guys,
Speaker 2: you need to get more energy. And he's just like
Speaker 2: turns on the smoke machine, turns on the disco lights
Speaker 2: in this bus, and.
Speaker 4: All of the time o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: At five o'clock in the morning, Owen picks like some
Speaker 2: full techno hardcore song to put on the bluetooth speaker
Speaker 2: on the bus and it's like a full on dance
Speaker 2: party in the bus at like five thirty in the morning,
Speaker 2: and we were just like everyone was just going off
Speaker 2: like it was like wow, this is a full on
Speaker 2: like party right now that.
Speaker 3: It makes me want to leave phill It was funny
Speaker 3: because we kind of enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: But he never came back after that city.
Speaker 2: No, he did it. It was just like, was he
Speaker 2: actually meant to pick us up? Or was he just
Speaker 2: some guy that just took it.
Speaker 3: No, Henry, you've got a lot of pool. You've got
Speaker 3: a lot of pool. You've put in a letter. You
Speaker 3: put it a letter of complaint.
Speaker 2: To the wise.
Speaker 3: Never do that to me again. Goodbye.
Speaker 1: Another funny thing is we also always used to be tired,
Speaker 1: so when we're in our green room, some of us
Speaker 1: would actually pull asleep, and Scotty would go around and
Speaker 1: take photos of people when they were asleep.
Speaker 4: Did you get one, Henry?
Speaker 2: I did? I did, and I slept a lot.
Speaker 3: Like I said, he's been twelve months. You know the
Speaker 3: twelve month calendar of Henry sleeping?
Speaker 2: Now you probably could.
Speaker 3: Can I just say, I've had so much fun talking
Speaker 3: to the both of you. I knew this would be
Speaker 3: a good chat, So don't listen to what I was
Speaker 3: saying before. I can't wait to watch the rest of
Speaker 3: this series. It seems like a lot of fun and
Speaker 3: I hope I am right. I hope I am right,
Speaker 3: and then you guys take out the competition, banks bed
Speaker 3: banks bed