A B.C. brother-sister team has built its way to the final rounds of the on American television, with all eyes on the $100,000 grand prize.
LEGO-loving siblings , a Surrey resident, and his sister Emily, who lives in Maple Ridge, have excelled with their tiny-brick builds in this fallB次元官网网址檚 third season of FOX-TVB次元官网网址檚 reality-competition series, also seen on CTV.
David Guedes is a B次元官网网址淟EGO liferB次元官网网址 who successfully auditioned for the Will Arnett-hosted show, then chose his sister as team partner. The show finished shooting in Atlanta last spring, but the siblings are watching it now for the first time. They wonB次元官网网址檛 (and contractually canB次元官网网址檛) say how it all ends Dec. 14 in a double-episode season finale.
B次元官网网址淒oing reality TV was completely new for me,B次元官网网址 David said. B次元官网网址淚B次元官网网址檝e spent a lot of time building LEGO over the years, but never on camera.B次元官网网址
In this weekB次元官网网址檚 episode, to air Wednesday (Dec. 7), the Guedes are among four teams left in the competition. The pairs split into teams to build a race car. In a 10-lap race, the winning team will be safe from elimination and guaranteed a spot in the semi-finals.
In the B次元官网网址渇inal four,B次元官网网址 the Guedes team is up against Calgary firefighters Stephen Joo and Stephen Cassley, an B次元官网网址渋nfluencersB次元官网网址 duo of Nick Della Mora (Toronto) and Stacey Roy (Kelowna), and the American Tull brothers.
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So far, the challenges have included creating a LEGO bull-riding character to mount an actual mechanical bull, a B次元官网网址淕uardians of the GalaxyB次元官网网址 build, a LEGO tree house with real trees, and more.
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Both in their mid-30s, the Guedes siblings had a lot of fun filming B次元官网网址淟EGO MastersB次元官网网址 and also watching the episodes on TV over the past couple of months.
B次元官网网址淔ilming the show was so much fun,B次元官网网址 David said, B次元官网网址渂ut IB次元官网网址檓 really enjoying watching it now. Despite knowing what happened when we were there on set, you donB次元官网网址檛 know how itB次元官网网址檚 going to be portrayed on television and what happened with the other teams. When we were there we were so focused on what we were building, we didnB次元官网网址檛 see what everyone else was building.
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David, known as Lettuce in the LEGO world, has been building with the bricks all his life, B次元官网网址渢hough he had a B次元官网网址榙im ageB次元官网网址 in his teens, and didnB次元官网网址檛 buy any new sets for six years,B次元官网网址 .
In recent years heB次元官网网址檚 displayed LEGO creations at conventions, and lives in the Clayton area with his wife, two sons, a dog and a couple million little plastic bricks. .
David recalls a childhood in Maple Ridge with lots of LEGO around, starting with a big bucket of hand-me-down bricks when Emily was a baby. Now she works as a hospital unit clerk, and heB次元官网网址檚 a .
B次元官网网址淪heB次元官网网址檚 a great teammate,B次元官网网址 David said. B次元官网网址淲e get along better than anyone else.B次元官网网址
This season of LEGO Masters started Sept. 21 with 24 contestants competing in pairs, with a B次元官网网址淗oliday BricktacularB次元官网网址 special to air Dec. 19-21, days after the Dec. 14 season finale.
First, the semi-finalists have 10 hours to build a fountain that uses water. Then the three remaining teams have 24 hours to build their best creation possible. In a final twist, theyB次元官网网址檙e given gift bags with the first sets they built as kids, to celebrate 90 years of LEGO. .
Next up for the Guedes siblings is a .
B次元官网网址淚B次元官网网址檒l display there as well as Emily and some others from the show,B次元官网网址 David reported. B次元官网网址淲e get together any chance we get, at conventions all over the place.B次元官网网址
- with files from Neil Corbett, Black Press Media