Show guide
LEGO Masters, read as a builder
Most guides to LEGO Masters treat it as a reality competition first and a building show second. We do it the other way round. On the bench we judge finished sets on how they are built, so when we watch two people empty a wall of bricks into a 15 hour sprint, what we are really watching is technique under pressure: how a silhouette gets its weight, how a joint survives being carried across a studio, how a colour block reads from the back of a room.
This is our running guide to the FOX version and the wider franchise, written from that angle. Every season page below is a builder's breakdown, not an episode-by-episode recap. Winners are kept behind a click so a season you have not caught up on stays unspoiled. And where a challenge lines up with something you can actually buy and build at home, we point you at the reviews that cover it.
LEGO Masters premiered on FOX in 2020 and has run five completed seasons so far, with a sixth renewed and in the pipeline. It is hosted across those first five seasons by Will Arnett, judged by two LEGO Group designers, and built around a simple engine: two-person teams, a themed brief, a hard clock, and a shared mountain of bricks known as the Brick Pit.
Season by season, read as a builder
Each one is a build breakdown, not a recap. Winners stay behind a click.
- 2020Season 1: the format finds its feet
Season 1 of LEGO Masters put breakaway sculptures, a 1,000 pound bridge test, and a Star Wars finale run on the clock. Here is what a builder can steal from it.
- 2021Season 2: mechanism takes over
Season 2 leaned into motion and mechanism, from Make And Shake to a full demolition derby. Here is the building craft worth lifting from it.
- 2022Season 3: building a story, not a statue
Season 3 went big on licensed briefs and narrative dioramas, from Jurass-brick World to Marvel Masters. Here is the storytelling craft a builder can borrow.
- 2023Season 4: the season that became a set
Season 4 is the one whose winning build became an actual retail set. Here is the craft behind it and what it tells you about designing to be reproduced.
- 2025Season 5: the craft gets confident
Season 5 mixed licensed nights with a Great Ball Contraption challenge. Here is the building craft worth taking from the most recent completed run.
- UpcomingSeason 6: renewed, with a new face at the front
LEGO Masters season 6 has been renewed at FOX with a new host and in-person auditions. Here is what is confirmed and what is still unannounced.
The people
The host and the two people who actually judge the bricks
Who hosts and judges LEGO Masters, what the Brickmasters actually look for in a build, and how their design backgrounds shape the scoring.
The franchise
The same bricks, three very different shows
LEGO Masters Australia has outrun the original. Here is how the Australian, UK, and US versions differ, and which one a builder should watch.
The questions builders actually ask
Why a review site cares about a game show
The interesting thing about a timed build is that it strips away the instruction booklet. A retail set hands you a designed solution: someone at Billund already solved the angles, the SNOT panels, the internal bracing, and your job is to follow it well. LEGO Masters removes that safety net and shows you the reasoning that normally stays hidden inside the box. You see people improvise a hinge, cheat a curve, or hold a roof up with a technique you can copy into your own shelf builds.
That is why we keep coming back to it. The challenges are theatre, but the building underneath is real, and a lot of it maps directly onto how we score sets: build flow, finished design, clever parts use. Watch enough of it and you start noticing the same things a judge does, which is exactly the muscle that makes you a sharper buyer.
How the format works
Teams of two compete across a season of themed challenges, from breakaway sculptures to load-bearing bridges to full narrative dioramas. Each challenge runs on a fixed clock, usually a single long build day, and ends with the two Brickmasters judging the results and sending one team home. The last teams standing get a final open brief and a shot at the trophy, a cash prize, and the title.
Builds are made from genuine LEGO elements pulled from the Brick Pit, a supply reported at more than three million bricks in the first season. After judging, most models are broken down and the parts go back into circulation, which tells you something honest about the medium: on this show, nothing is precious, and the value is in the making rather than the keeping.
Where to watch
- FOX broadcast network, for the live US airing.
- Hulu, which carries next-day streaming of aired episodes and, in many markets, FOX live.
- FOX.com and FOX One, the network's own streaming home for the series.
Common questions
- How many seasons of LEGO Masters are there?
- The FOX version has five completed seasons, which aired between 2020 and 2025. A sixth season has been renewed but had not aired at the time of writing. Counting the separate Australian franchise, the LEGO Masters format has run for well over a dozen seasons worldwide.
- Who hosts and judges LEGO Masters?
- Will Arnett hosts the first five FOX seasons. The build judging is done by two LEGO Group designers billed as the Brickmasters. Our hosts and judges page breaks down who they are and what they actually look for in a build.
- Is LEGO Masters worth watching if you build regularly?
- In our view yes, more so than for a casual viewer. The challenges surface techniques you can lift straight into your own building, and the judging vocabulary lines up closely with how we score finished retail sets on the bench.
Sets that scratch the same itch
Everything the show teaches about building, we turn around on the bench, judging whether a boxed set delivers the same craft. Start with the themes the show leans on hardest.