How Does LEGO Masters Work? Format and Rules Explained

LEGO Masters pairs builders into two-person teams who compete across a season of one-hour episodes on FOX. Each episode gives teams a themed challenge with a time limit, and at the end of it, two judges called the Brickmasters walk the builds and decide who goes home. The last team standing wins $100,000, a LEGO trophy, and the title of LEGO Masters.

The show has run five seasons so far, hosted by Will Arnett from season one through season five. FOX renewed the show for a sixth season with Nick Cannon taking over as host, though as of mid-2026 that season has been pushed to a mid-season 2027 slot with no premiere date locked in yet.

The two Brickmasters, Amy Corbett and Jamie Berard, aren't reality TV hosts playing dress-up. Both are actual senior designers at the LEGO Group. Amy Corbett is a Scottish design manager who has worked on LEGO Friends, LEGO Disney lines, and LEGO DOTS, and holds a product design engineering degree from the University of Glasgow. Jamie Berard is a design manager who leads work on LEGO Ideas and LEGO Architecture, and he came up through the adult fan community (he was part of a LEGO users group in New England) before joining the company roughly two decades ago.

They judge on the same things professional set designers care about: how well the build holds together structurally, how creative the concept is, how clean the color and texture choices are, and whether the team actually pulled off what the challenge asked for. Will Arnett hosted and produced the show but wasn't part of the judging panel.

Every team builds from a shared supply of real LEGO bricks called the Brick Pit. For season one, more than three million bricks were reportedly stocked for the competition. Later seasons are generally described as offering millions of bricks, though an exact updated count isn't confirmed in available reporting.

Here's the part a lot of viewers don't expect: teams almost never keep their builds. After an episode airs, a sorter takes each model apart and returns the pieces to the Brick Pit so they can be used again in future challenges. There are exceptions. Some season one finale builds were permanently moved to LEGOLAND California back in 2020, and a handful of winning builds from later seasons have gone on public display at LEGOLAND parks instead of being broken down.

Each episode centers on one challenge with a theme, whether that's a genre of build, a size constraint, or a technical skill test. Teams work in pairs against the clock, and when time runs out, the Brickmasters review every build and rank them. The team judged weakest is typically eliminated, though the show has used variations like team swaps and bottom-team save twists across different seasons to keep the format from feeling repetitive.

As the season narrows toward the finale, the challenges scale up in scope and difficulty, testing bigger structures, more advanced techniques, and tighter deadlines.

The season finale comes down to the last two or three teams left, who take on the biggest build of the season. Whoever the Brickmasters pick as the strongest wins $100,000, a trophy, and the title of LEGO Masters.

The prize hasn't been perfectly consistent when it comes to what happens to the winning build. In season four, the winning team's build (Christopher Lee and Robert Zhang's 'World Wonderliner') actually became an official retail LEGO set, 41838 Travel Moments, released in 2024. That's the exception rather than the rule though. Season three and season five's winning builds went on display at LEGOLAND parks rather than becoming sets you could buy.

Across five seasons, the winning teams have been Tyler and Amy Clites (season one, 2020), Mark and Steven Erickson (season two, 2021), Nick Della Mora and Stacey Roy (season three, 2022), Christopher Lee and Robert Zhang (season four, 2023), and Ian and Sage Summers (season five, 2025).