
Notre-Dame de Paris
The Architecture set that finally nails Gothic detail without punishing your wallet.
The result is hidden so you can read the season without spoiling the finale. Reveal it when you are ready.
Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson · 2021
Brothers from Atlanta, Georgia; finale was billed as a 'battle of the brothers' among the top 3 teams
Prize: $100,000 and the LEGO Masters trophy
Season 2 had 12 teams. The full lineup with each team's finishing place is behind the reveal, since the placements give away who went home when.
| Team | Relationship | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson | brothers | Winner |
| Zack & Wayne | brothers | Runner-up |
| Caleb & Jacob | brothers | Third place |
| Natalie & Michelle | friends | eliminated episode 11 |
| Dave & Richard | friends | eliminated episode 9 |
| Bryan & Lauren | siblings | eliminated episode 8 |
| Maria & Philip | married couple | eliminated episode 7 |
| Susan & Jen | friends | eliminated episode 6 |
| Syreeta & Randall | friends | eliminated episode 5 |
| Paras & Moto | friends | eliminated episode 4 |
| Zach & Tim | father and son | eliminated episode 3 |
| Jack & Dawn | siblings | eliminated episode 2 |
Twelve new teams each built a self-reflective parade float that included a moving component.
Floats were designed to express each team's personal identity or story, with a motorized element in motion for the parade.
Teams built an action-movie style hero scene featuring an explosion, captured as a dramatic freeze-frame moment.
Builds were rigged to create a slow-motion-style explosion effect for a cinematic hero shot.
Teams built structures designed to withstand a simulated earthquake test.
Builds were shaken on a rig to test structural integrity, with judging based on how well they held together.
Teams built a wearable LEGO hat to be modeled on a runway-style fashion show.
Hats had to be sturdy enough to be worn and paraded without breaking apart.
Teams built a large structure balanced entirely on a single LEGO Technic brick or connection point.
The engineering challenge centered on achieving balance and stability from one narrow support point.
Teams first rebuilt a scene from memory, then built vehicles for a derby-style destruction event.
The derby phase tested how well the vehicle builds held up to collision-style destruction.
Teams built a windmill-style structure that had to withstand winds of up to 60 mph.
Builds were tested against high-powered wind machines to judge structural resilience.
Teams built a LEGO puppet and used it to perform in a live puppet show.
Puppets needed functioning moving parts so they could be operated during a live performance segment.
Each team member individually built one half of a creature, one a land animal and one a sea animal, then combined them into a single hybrid build.
The hybrid land/sea creatures combined each partner's individually built half into one cohesive animal.
Teams were given a poorly designed LEGO house build and had to renovate and transform it into a dream home.
The renovation format was styled after home-improvement shows, with a 'before and after' reveal of the transformed house.
Teams built a castle built into or hanging off the edge of a cliff.
Builds had to convincingly integrate the castle structure with a dramatic cliff-edge base.
The three finalist teams, all pairs of brothers, had an extended build (reported as around 24 hours) to create a master build that transformed or displayed differently between a day mode and a night mode, competing for the $100,000 prize.
Mark & Steven Erickson's day-and-night master build won the season over fellow brother teams Zack & Wayne and Caleb & Jacob, in a finale press-covered as a 'battle of the brothers.'
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