“Lego Masters” is blasting off with the assistance of a NASA astronaut.
The fact competitors present, which invitations groups of Lego lovers to assemble their finest brick-built creations, returns to Fox on Wednesday (Sept. 21) with “Able to Launch,” the primary new episode of the third season. Host Will Arnett and Brickmasters (and Lego staff) Amy Corbett and Jamie Berard kick off the motion with a space-themed challenge (opens in new tab).
“I wish to launch season three the suitable manner. Begin issues with an actual large bang. You realize, simply blast off into this competitors, actually attain for the celebrities and I feel it is fairly apparent the place I am going with this. We’re going to space!” Arnett tells the 12 groups of two firstly of the episode. “Say goodbye to Earth as a result of to your first problem, you are going to construct your very personal personalised spacecraft!”
The contestants are commissioned to construct a enjoyable, colourful, personalised spaceship that tells the judges one thing about their group.
“Although it is the primary problem, we do not make this simple for you, as a result of your total mannequin will likely be suspended by a single attachment level onto that space station,” Berard mentioned, pointing to a large outpost loosely based mostly on the Worldwide House Station however entirely built from Lego toy bricks.
That’s not the one shock for the groups, which this season embrace a mom and son, a brother and sister, pediatric hospitalists, firefighters and grandfathers.
“I like space and have adopted it ever for the reason that Sputnik was first launched,” grandfather Patrick mentioned. “I have been ready 70 years to do one thing like this.”
To encourage the groups and advise them as they design their builds, Arnett welcomes a particular visitor who isn’t any stranger to spacecraft.
“I watched a six-minute YouTube video about find out how to be an astronaut, so no one right here is aware of extra about space, fairly actually,” boasts Arnett as Jessica Meir walks in. “Everybody, we have got a real-life NASA astronaut on set!”
A marine biologist who joined NASA’s astronaut corps in 2013, Meir logged 205 days on the International Space Station in 2020. Throughout her time in orbit, she made headlines as one-half of the first all-female spacewalk group, working exterior of the orbiting laboratory with fellow NASA astronaut Christina Koch.
“It was superior!” Meir mentioned, describing her time on “Lego Masters” in an interview with collectSPACE.com. “I’m a giant fan of Will Arnett [and] it was actually neat to satisfy the opposite hosts, who’re the actual engineers who design the Lego units. It was an important expertise to be there and it is very nice that NASA has this collaboration.”
“It is nice to have these sorts of partnerships that may actually encourage children from the time they’re younger and get them all for issues just like the STEM fields — science, expertise, engineering and math — and constructing issues, creating issues and simply utilizing that kind of creativity,” she mentioned.
Talking of creativity, when requested about constructing her personal Lego spaceship, Meir mentioned hers could be each private and sensible.
“I am not an engineer, I am a biologist, so to me it will have these type of scientific parts and characterize quite a bit about nature and ensuring we protect this planet. After all, it will have all the fundamental capabilities of with the ability to get off the planet and return again efficiently. These are the large ones, ensuring you may take off, but in addition you may return safely,” she informed collectSPACE.
Meir didn’t get to see the ultimate builds whereas on the “Lego Masters” set, however she mentioned she was impressed by how completely different every of the groups’ concepts have been.
“I’m very excited to see the top outcomes. I will have to look at the present to see that,” she mentioned.
“Lego Masters” Season 3, Episode 1 airs Wednesday (Sep. 21) at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on Fox.
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