HELO1{"id":23650,"date":"2017-08-24T08:05:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T07:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickfanatics.co.uk\/?p=23650"},"modified":"2017-08-24T04:38:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T03:38:23","slug":"lego-masters-launches-tonight-on-channel-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/lego-masters-launches-tonight-on-channel-4","title":{"rendered":"LEGO MASTERS launches tonight on Channel 4","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first episode of the new brick based building challenge TV series, <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow rakuten\" title=\"LEGO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\" data-shortcode=\"true\">LEGO<\/a> MASTERS, airs tonight on Channel 4.<\/p>\n<p>At 8.00pm tonight on Channel 4, eight teams of builders will begin to compete to be given the title of\u00a0<a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow rakuten\" title=\"LEGO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\" data-shortcode=\"true\">LEGO<\/a> MASTERS. The new four episode series takes cues from the format of shows such as The Great British Bake Off, but centred around <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow rakuten\" title=\"LEGO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\" data-shortcode=\"true\">LEGO<\/a> building.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode sees 48 pairs of <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow rakuten\" title=\"LEGO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\" data-shortcode=\"true\">LEGO<\/a> fans audition to take part in the series, before eight teams are selected to compete for the <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow rakuten\" title=\"LEGO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\" data-shortcode=\"true\">LEGO<\/a> MASTERS title. The teams include 9 year old <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Friends\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/friends\" data-shortcode=\"true\">friends<\/a>, Cambridge University engineering students and a few prominent AFOLs \u2013 Nate Dias and Steve Guinness,\u00a0Nicolas Geerhaert and his son Kobe, Jessica Farrell and her son Faolan. The first challenge sees the teams construct the best <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow rakuten\" title=\"LEGO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\" data-shortcode=\"true\">LEGO<\/a> banquet they can, with\u00a0structural engineer Roma Agrawal guest judging the builds along with <a class=\"thirstylink nturl\" rel=\"nofollow rakuten\" title=\"LEGO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brickfanatics.com\/product\/lego\" data-shortcode=\"true\">LEGO<\/a> Vice President of Design, Matthew Ashton.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/1156037547\/HJvisXgVg_default\/index.html?videoId=5543638028001\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fans looking to get prepped for tonight&#8217;s episode should check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickfanatics.co.uk\/lego-masters-meet-the-builders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this\u00a0handy guide to each of the build teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The series is four episodes long, with the first episode airing tonight on Channel 4 at 8.00pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first episode of the new brick based building challenge TV series, LEGO MASTERS, airs tonight on Channel 4. 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