LEGO Masters Season 5 Winner: Who Won and the Fan Debate

Ian Summers and Sage Summers, a sibling duo, won LEGO Masters season 5. The finale aired July 28, 2025, and judges Jamie Berard and Amy Corbett named them LEGO Masters after they presented a wizard-themed build called 'Our Story,' a piece built around the story of their bond as siblings. For the win they took home the $100,000 cash prize, a LEGO trophy, and the title of LEGO Masters. Their finale build was put on permanent display at LEGOLAND New York.

The runners-up were brothers Ben and Michael, who finished second. Third place went to Anthony and Joe, a coach and band director duo whose finale piece was a build called 'Ballerina.'

Season 5's finale was called 'Hall of Fame Finale,' and it gave the two remaining teams, Ian and Sage against Anthony and Joe, 18 hours to construct a master piece for permanent display at LEGOLAND New York. Ian and Sage built their wizard-themed 'Our Story,' and Anthony and Joe built the emotionally charged 'Ballerina.' Getting to that final two took a full season: the pair survived ten episodes covering everything from a wedding cake challenge to a 90s-themed 'Is it Brick?' round to a semifinal built around ping-pong-ball contraptions, according to the season's episode record.

Ben and Michael, the brothers who finished second, had actually won more individual episode challenges than either finale team across the season, including the 'Rebuild the Galaxy' premiere and the 'Wicked' episode, but they were eliminated before the final round.

There wasn't a scandal here in the sense of a vote-rigging accusation or a disqualification. What actually generated discussion, according to a season 5 finale recap from Entertainment Now, was a genuine split in fan opinion between the two finale builds. Anthony and Joe's 'Ballerina' drew a lot of attention from viewers for its polish, elegance, and broad appeal, with some fans arguing it had the strongest shot at becoming an official retail LEGO set. Ian and Sage's 'Our Story' impressed judges and viewers with its narrative depth and structural ambition, but per that same recap, some viewers felt its more personal, sentimental focus gave it less obvious mass-market appeal than 'Ballerina.'

That same recap noted a second thread of viewer commentary during the episode: some fans questioned why finalists arrive at the last challenge without a fully pre-mapped master build already in mind, given how much time pressure the 18-hour finale format puts on teams. Neither of these threads amounts to a controversy over the legitimacy of the result. Judges Berard and Corbett made the call, and 'Our Story' won on its merits in their eyes.

Not this time. Unlike season 4, where Christopher Lee and Robert Zhang's winning 'World Wonderliner' build was turned into an official retail set (41838 Travel Moments, released in 2024), Ian and Sage's 'Our Story' was not turned into a retail product. It went on permanent display at LEGOLAND New York instead, which is actually the more common outcome. Season 3's winning build followed the same LEGOLAND-display path rather than becoming a set.