“Lego Masters” is blasting off with the assistance of a NASA astronaut.
The truth competitors present, which invitations groups of Lego lovers to assemble their greatest 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 workers) Amy Corbett and Jamie Berard kick off the motion with a space-themed challenge (opens in new tab).
“I need to launch season three the best method. Begin issues with an actual huge bang. You realize, simply blast off into this competitors, actually attain for the celebs 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 at first 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 staff.
“Despite the fact that it is the primary problem, we do not make this straightforward for you, as a result of your total mannequin might be suspended by a single attachment level onto that space station,” Berard mentioned, pointing to a large outpost loosely primarily based on the Worldwide Area 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 because the 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 the way 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 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 staff, working outdoors 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 an enormous 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 a terrific 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 youngsters from the time they’re younger and get them enthusiastic about issues just like the STEM fields — science, know-how, engineering and math — and constructing issues, creating issues and simply utilizing that sort of creativity,” she mentioned.
Talking of creativity, when requested about constructing her personal Lego spaceship, Meir mentioned hers can be each private and sensible.
“I am not an engineer, I am a biologist, so to me it will have these sort of scientific components and symbolize loads about nature and ensuring we protect this planet. After all, it will have all the primary features of with the ability to get off the planet and return again efficiently. These are the large ones, ensuring you’ll be able to take off, but additionally you’ll be able to return safely,” she advised 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 tip 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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