LEGO Masters is an incredible competition show hosted by actor Will Arnett and LEGO set designers Amy Corbett and Jamie Berard. They challenge the contestants with a variety of difficult challenges such as remaking a scene from a Star Wars or Marvel movie, creating a working race car, and even a functional mini-golf course. Introducing new twists and turns along the way, the final four teams are found and then a team is crowned with the title of LEGO Masters.

Over the span of three episodes airing on FOX on December 19th, 20th, and 21st respectively, they built incredible builds that no one had ever thought of before. With the holidays approaching, a spinoff of the original show of LEGO Masters, the LEGO Masters Celebrity Holiday Bricktacular aired featuring celebrity guests like singer Robin Thicke, actress Cheryl Hines, actor Finesse Mitchell, and the late actor Leslie Jordan. They teamed up with previous contestants on the show, Boone Langston, a new set designer for LEGO, Mel Brown from season one, Natalie Cleveland from season two, and Dominic Forte from season three. These celebrities and contestants teamed up to compete in holiday themed challenges. The winner of each challenge received $10,000 that was donated to a charity of their choice, while the overall winner won $20,000 to their charity and a special holiday themed LEGO trophy.

This show is spectacular and it displays the awesome builds that the contestants are able to come up with to meet the unique challenges put in front of them. They are challenged on creativity, design and aesthetic, strength, movement and power functions, play functionality, and the characters used in the builds. For the Holiday Bricktacular it is the same, just with holiday themed challenges.

The teams for this spinoff were Langston and Thicke, Cleveland and Mitchell, Brown and Jordan, and Forte and Hines. In the first episode, the teams had to make a working snowmobile and jump it over miniature LEGO houses by using a ramp. They tried to make them go far, but also look good aesthetically with intriguing characters. For the second challenge, the competitors created a new sleigh for Santa and then saw whose sleigh could hold the most weight. In the finale, contestants had two separate challenges to complete. The first was to invent a new toy that can be played with using power functions and then deliver an infomercial promoting their new toy. The winner of that received an advantage in the final challenge of building a winter wonderland scene inside of a snowglobe.

The only downside to the show is that Arnett’s comedic antics sometimes go too far and take away from the incredible builds being created. He keeps the show entertaining, but he tells way too many cringy jokes. He is obviously attempting to brighten the mood, but it gets annoying very quickly. Sometimes it branches out from just Arnett. As an example, they have a hot sauce competition in the middle of the finale. They also rate each other based on who is on the nice versus the naughty list.

The original show, LEGO Masters, is my favorite TV show to watch, and the Holiday Bricktacular lives up to the expectations that it sets. It is an engaging, comedic show for anyone, but especially LEGO collectors. I would highly recommend this for anyone who likes to watch game shows of any kind.

9.5/10