Building this tall castle also meant creating a unique and creative ‘home’ for the chosen minifigure. Wrecking Balls To The Walls also had storyline criteria requirement. Images used with permission ©2022 FOX MEDIA LLC. The colours and brick work that easily read as a black corruptive force overtaking the bright pink walls was wonderful. I just want to give their build a shout out. Centred around the Troll Queen minifigure, they crafted a story of a cursed queen-turned-troll at the hands of evil magic. Joining them in the safe zone were Emily & Liam and their ‘The Cursed Keep’ build. It wasn’t enough for top 2 but it was still an amazing build. Building a bridge castle was very clever and they really delivered on their promise. The build itself was wonderfully detailed. And their build, ‘Troy’s Troll Bridge’ actually did it! Kudos to them for building a ROCK solid base that actually caused bounce and stalling in the wrecking ball. Their character was the Troll Giant, the only big fig style character. They made it their mission to build as sturdy as possible in the hopes of beating, breaking or stopping the wrecking ball. Our resident fire fighters took a different approach this week. Dave & Emily win that very helpful immunity spot with over 5 feet of castle goodness. Just when it looked like they had it, the star fell off while moving the model into place.

At the final moment Nick & Stacey placed a star at the top that just eked out the Canadian siblings. It was a classic race with quite the ending. Nick & Stacey and Dave & Emily built high and relatively strong right away. Two teams took on this particular goal in hopes of immunity. But it was a risk as height alone would mean sacrificing time on other areas. And to incentivize the risk of building upwards, the team with the tallest finished structure would win immunity for this challenge. Wrecking Balls To The Walls was primarily a height challenge. OH, and just to make it extra tough, no technic elements allowed! Savage. With 9 hours on the clock, it was time to build their character a house. Each fig is a nice medieval character with classic elements to bring to the design. It’s a fun bit of surprise and it should help the teams get straight into their builds without struggling to find inspiration (at least not too much). I like when there’s randomized selection like this. That minifig would then inform each pair on what direction to take. Instead of picking their own thematic inspiration, each team got to pick a minifigure out of a crown. Now the overall theme of the episodes is Castles, but with a skyscraper style twist. And hopefully some kind of good overtime pay. So to them let’s all give a round of applause. Imagine millions of ’em?! How big is that team of brick sorters and cleaners? They must find pieces for days after a challenge like this. I can’t even stand sorting my tiny pile of bricks. What about all that sorting? Once a build is done it most likely gets disassembled.

Before getting into the builds, I just want to give a shout out and thanks to probably the unsung heroes of this show: The cleaners.

Lego skyscraper destruction