Season 2

LEGO Masters Season 2: winner, teams and every episode

Aired June 1, 2021 to September 14, 2021FOXHost: Will ArnettJudges: Amy Corbett and Jamie Berard

Who won Season 2?

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Reveal the Season 2 winner

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

The teams

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.

Show the teams and how they placed

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

Every episode

Ep 1
LEGO Day Parade
Twelve new teams each built a self-reflective parade float that included a moving component.
What each team built (12 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Zack & Wayne: Built the parade float "Soaring Dragon," featuring blue and red dragons with vertical movement, celebrating their Chinese heritage.
- Syreeta & Randall: Built the parade float "Journey Through the Elements," a hip-hop themed float with a DJ, break dancers, and graffiti artists.
- Paras & Moto: Built the parade float "Present Day," displaying parent and child robots to represent their shared experience as engineering parents.
- Susan & Jen: Built the parade float "Becoming," centered on a large swan symbolizing motherhood and personal reinvention.
- Caleb & Jacob: Built the parade float "A Lifelong Exhibition," depicting explorers on a quest to retrieve a diamond ring and restore peace.
- Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson: Built the parade float "The World Serpent," showing a monster chasing Viking warriors using theatrical building techniques.
- Dave & Richard: Built the parade float "Iconic Eats," featuring Chicago pizza and New York hot dogs with rotating letters revealing each city's name.
- Zach & Tim: Built the parade float "Four Seasons," representing Michigan's climates with a rotating clock marking the passage of time.
- Bryan & Lauren: Built the parade float "Sibling Storytime," depicting a prince clinging to Rapunzel's hair.
- Natalie & Michelle: Built the parade float "Color-Splosion," showing paint cans with dripping paint and a spinning lid creating a splatter effect.
- Jack & Dawn: Built the parade float "Kelsey's Butterfly," a tribute to their late great-niece featuring butterfly movement.
- Maria & Philip: Built the parade float "Bedtime Story," celebrating storytelling with their children through sheep and related imagery.
Show what happened
Floats were designed to express each team's personal identity or story, with a motorized element in motion for the parade.
Ep 2
Hero Shot!
Teams built an action-movie style hero scene featuring an explosion, captured as a dramatic freeze-frame moment.
What each team built (2 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Bryan & Lauren: Built a ladybug-hero freeze-frame scene with a frog explosion effect for the slow-motion hero shot challenge.
- Jack & Dawn: Built a hero shot scene with an explosion effect that judges found did not break apart enough.
Show what happened
Builds were rigged to create a slow-motion-style explosion effect for a cinematic hero shot.
Eliminated: Jack & Dawn
Ep 3
Make And Shake
Teams built structures designed to withstand a simulated earthquake test.
What each team built (2 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Dave & Richard: Built an earthquake-resistant structure that reached the highest reading on the show's "brickter scale" and was noted for its bright color palette.
- Zach & Tim: Built an earthquake-resistant structure that scored the lowest reading on the "brickter scale" and was judged low on creativity.
Show what happened
Builds were shaken on a rig to test structural integrity, with judging based on how well they held together.
Eliminated: Zach & Tim
Ep 4
Hats Incredible!
Teams built a wearable LEGO hat to be modeled on a runway-style fashion show.
What each team built (10 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Zack & Wayne: Built the "Archery Hat," a wearable design praised as one of the strongest entries.
- Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson: Built the "Pirate Hat," a large brown-based design with added color details.
- Syreeta & Randall: Built the "Sunday Best Hat," combining church-hat inspiration with Egyptian design elements.
- Natalie & Michelle: Built the "Abra-Couture Top Hat," an asymmetrical rotating headpiece.
- Paras & Moto: Built the "Serpent Safari Hat," a dramatic serpent design that broke apart during the runway show.
- Maria & Philip: Built the "Celestial Hat," a design that incorporated lights.
- Susan & Jen: Built "Grandma's Famous Hat," detailed on the front but left plain on the back.
- Dave & Richard: Built "Pride of Carnival," an oversized feathered hat that broke apart during the runway show.
- Caleb & Jacob: Built "The Baker's Crown," a large chef's hat that had structural concerns.
- Bryan & Lauren: Built the "Phoenix Rising Hat," featuring fire-ribbon details wrapping around the structure.
Show what happened
Hats had to be sturdy enough to be worn and paraded without breaking apart.
Eliminated: Paras & Moto
Ep 5
One Floating Brick
Teams built a large structure balanced entirely on a single LEGO Technic brick or connection point.
What each team built (9 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Zack & Wayne: Built "Squid & Whale," a large-scale aquatic build balanced on a single technic brick, praised for being big and stable.
- Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson: Built the "Floating Gnome Forest," noted for consistent levelness viewed from every angle.
- Caleb & Jacob: Built "Floating Fields," described as fun with a strong 360-degree presentation.
- Bryan & Lauren: Built the "Palace of the Sky Painters," an inventive build that judges felt lacked character detail.
- Dave & Richard: Built a "Jack and the Beanstalk" themed build with clouds and a story judges called powerful.
- Susan & Jen: Built a "Birthday Party Treehouse," a smaller-scope design with balloons.
- Maria & Philip: Built a "Sea Turtle Lighthouse," called a big risk that was well-crafted.
- Natalie & Michelle: Built "Whisper's Planter," praised for not looking like it was made of traditional LEGO bricks.
- Syreeta & Randall: Built a "Hot Air Balloon" design that judges felt didn't fully cohere visually.
Show what happened
The engineering challenge centered on achieving balance and stability from one narrow support point.
Eliminated: Syreeta & Randall
Ep 6
Demolition Derby
Teams first rebuilt a scene from memory, then built vehicles for a derby-style destruction event.
What each team built (3 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Caleb & Jacob: Won the first-round challenge by rebuilding a LEGO Lamborghini model from memory; their subsequent demolition derby vehicle was not named in available recaps.
- Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson: Built the demolition derby vehicle "Toxic Titan," praised by the judges for its aesthetic design.
- Zack & Wayne: Built the demolition derby vehicle "Purple Punisher," which dominated the derby event before getting stuck on a tire.
Show what happened
The derby phase tested how well the vehicle builds held up to collision-style destruction.
Eliminated: Susan & Jen
Ep 7
Bricking Wind
Teams built a windmill-style structure that had to withstand winds of up to 60 mph.
What each team built (7 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Natalie & Michelle: Built "A Child's World," a windmill scene that withstood winds up to 45 mph before failing.
- Zack & Wayne: Built "Oasis," a windmill scene that held up to 55 mph winds and was praised for its storyline.
- Bryan & Lauren: Built "Tidal Turbine Tango," a predominantly gray-based windmill scene that collapsed at 55 mph.
- Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson: Built "Wind Powered Terraforming," a colorful windmill scene that withstood the maximum 60 mph wind test.
- Dave & Richard: Built "Gnome Matter the Weather," a quirky, colorful windmill scene that shattered at 50 mph.
- Caleb & Jacob: Built "Portal to Atlantis," a highly detailed windmill scene that also withstood the maximum 60 mph wind test.
- Maria & Philip: Built "New Tinkerton City," an imaginative and colorful windmill scene whose windmill component failed at just 20 mph.
Show what happened
Builds were tested against high-powered wind machines to judge structural resilience.
Eliminated: Maria & Philip
Ep 8
Puppet Masters
Teams built a LEGO puppet and used it to perform in a live puppet show.
What each team built (6 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Zack & Wayne: Paired with Dave & Richard for the puppet-show pairing that produced DJ Treatz, with a bobbling head and moveable hair, and Panachio, a pirate-style fencer with a flowing cape and moving eyes and mouth; the recap did not specify which team built which puppet.
- Dave & Richard: Paired with Zack & Wayne for the puppet-show pairing that produced DJ Treatz, with a bobbling head and moveable hair, and Panachio, a pirate-style fencer with a flowing cape and moving eyes and mouth; the recap did not specify which team built which puppet.
- Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson: Paired with Caleb & Jacob for the puppet-show pairing that produced Bernie the Burnt Out Dragon, praised for its sculpting, and Princess Samantha, noted for extensive mechanical articulation; the recap did not specify which team built which puppet.
- Caleb & Jacob: Paired with Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson for the puppet-show pairing that produced Bernie the Burnt Out Dragon, praised for its sculpting, and Princess Samantha, noted for extensive mechanical articulation; the recap did not specify which team built which puppet.
- Natalie & Michelle: Paired with Bryan & Lauren for the puppet-show pairing that produced Betty Bricks, a singing grandmother puppet with curlers and an expressive face whose arm detached mid-performance, and Hazel the Princess Pup, a cute puppet with few moving parts; the recap did not specify which team built which puppet.
- Bryan & Lauren: Paired with Natalie & Michelle for the puppet-show pairing that produced Betty Bricks, a singing grandmother puppet with curlers and an expressive face whose arm detached mid-performance, and Hazel the Princess Pup, a cute puppet with few moving parts; the recap did not specify which team built which puppet.
Show what happened
Puppets needed functioning moving parts so they could be operated during a live performance segment.
Eliminated: Bryan & Lauren
Ep 9
Land & Sea
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.
What each team built (5 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Caleb & Jacob: Built "Chameleobster in the Bricky Bog," combining a chameleon with a lobster into a hybrid land/sea creature.
- Zack & Wayne: Built "Lair of the Lioncroc," merging a crocodile and a lionfish into one hybrid creature that judges called terrifying.
- Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson: Built "Jelraffe in Kelp Savannah," placing a giraffe head atop a jellyfish body in an aquatic setting; judges noted it read as somewhat literal in design.
- Natalie & Michelle: Built "Rateelian in Goudapest," combining a rat with an electric eel, though judges felt the surrounding gouda-cheese-world setting distracted from the creature itself.
- Dave & Richard: Built "Poco Rocko in Seebee Geebees," turning their penguin and coral builds into a mohawked "punk rock penguin" that judges felt wasn't a true land/sea mashup.
Show what happened
The hybrid land/sea creatures combined each partner's individually built half into one cohesive animal.
Eliminated: Dave & Richard
Ep 10
Flip My Block
Teams were given a poorly designed LEGO house build and had to renovate and transform it into a dream home.
What each team built (4 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Zack & Wayne: Renovated their assigned house into a "Flying Pig Home" with wings that rotated in a circle.
- Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson: Renovated their assigned house into a "Rock N' Roll Haunted House" featuring a moving plant monster.
- Natalie & Michelle: Renovated their assigned house into "Under the Big Top," a circus-themed home with a spinning big-top tent, cotton candy trees, a popcorn machine, and a clown car.
- Caleb & Jacob: Renovated their assigned house into a "Ski Resort" with an erupting volcano, a ski hill, and a moving ski lift.
Show what happened
The renovation format was styled after home-improvement shows, with a 'before and after' reveal of the transformed house.
Ep 11
Cliffhanger!
Teams built a castle built into or hanging off the edge of a cliff.
What each team built (4 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson: Built the "Gem Mine Castle," featuring a gem dragon bursting out of a gate to chase down a rogue miner racing off with a prized jewel.
- Caleb & Jacob: Built the "Collapsing Castle," depicting a jousting final while a fisherman catches a creature that begins pulling down the entire structure.
- Natalie & Michelle: Built the "Kids Cardboard Castle," telling the story of a boy named Elmer who builds a castle from cardboard boxes.
- Zack & Wayne: Built "Heaven's Castle," an homage to Asian architecture dedicated to Wayne's deceased friend, extending six feet from the cliff wall.
Show what happened
Builds had to convincingly integrate the castle structure with a dramatic cliff-edge base.
Eliminated: Natalie & Michelle
Ep 12
Master Build - Day & Night
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.
What each team built (3 builds; reveals who was still in)
- Zack & Wayne: Built "Pagoda of Our Lives," the physically largest finale structure, with four scenes covering ninjas, a sushi restaurant, archery, and family life, topped by a dragon's-gate silhouette and two dragons representing balance, with interior lighting revealing a night view.
- Mark Erickson & Steven Erickson: Built "Warden of the Woods," a 1,000-year-old, 375-foot forest guardian creature with the builders positioned in its hands, featuring a lit staff, glowing yellow eyes, and flowing water effects for the night mode.
- Caleb & Jacob: Built "Lands of Time," showing two distinct worlds, day and night, hanging in the balance of an hourglass, with a daytime everyday-life scene and a nighttime scene of bats and explorers that lit up in the dark.
Show what happened
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.'
Won: Mark & Steven Erickson (season winner)