Is the LEGO Masters Trophy Glued Together?

No confirmed source says the LEGO Masters trophy, or any of the competition builds, are glued. I checked the show's press materials, cast and crew interviews, and the LEGO Group's own statements, and none of them address glue at all. That is a gap in what has been publicly reported, not a secret the show is hiding.

So if you came here for a firm yes, I cannot give you one, and I would rather tell you that plainly than make something up. What I can tell you is how the trophy and the builds actually work, based on what the show and LEGO have confirmed.

The winning team on LEGO Masters takes home three things: 100,000 dollars, the title of LEGO Masters, and a physical trophy. Beyond that, the show has not published details about the trophy's construction, whether it is a permanent build, or whether any adhesive is involved in how it is assembled or displayed.

Builders and fans have speculated in forums for years, since a trophy that travels to press events and interviews would need to survive more handling than a normal set. But speculation is not confirmation, and I am not going to dress it up as fact.

The bigger mystery fans actually care about is the models themselves, not just the trophy. After each episode, a sorter breaks down every team's build and returns the bricks to the shared supply, called the Brick Pit, so they can be reused in later challenges. That detail is confirmed and it explains why builds do not need to survive forever: most of them get taken apart within days of filming.

That breakdown process is exactly why the glue theory keeps circulating. If pieces were permanently fused, sorters could not return them to the Brick Pit for reuse. The fact that bricks go back into circulation season after season is itself evidence pointing away from widespread gluing, even though it is not a direct statement from the show that no glue is used.

There are exceptions. Some season 1 finale builds were permanently moved to LEGOLAND California in 2020 rather than broken down, and some later winning builds have gone on display at LEGOLAND parks instead of being disassembled. The season 4 winning build, Christopher Lee and Robert Zhang's World Wonderliner, was even turned into an official retail LEGO set, 41838 Travel Moments, released in 2024. Builds that go on permanent display are a different situation than builds that get filmed for one afternoon and then taken apart, and it is possible those display pieces get extra reinforcement of some kind. But again, no source confirms what that reinforcement is.

During judging, the show's two Brickmasters, Amy Corbett and Jamie Berard, walk around each build, sometimes picking pieces up or examining sections closely for the cameras. Both judges are LEGO Group design professionals: Corbett is a senior design manager who joined LEGO in 2012 and has worked on lines like LEGO Friends and LEGO DOTS, and Berard is a senior design manager who worked on LEGO Ideas and LEGO Architecture before joining the judging panel.

With professionals like that handling the models on camera, a build only needs to survive that single day of judging and filming, not months of shelf life. Skilled builders can achieve a lot of structural stability through technique alone: proper clutch power between bricks, internal bracing, and weight distribution. None of that requires glue, and it is the kind of thing serious AFOLs (adult fans of LEGO) train for regardless of whether they ever go on a game show.