“Lego Masters” kicks off Season 5 Monday with some fairly loopy twists that go away rivals with their mouths hanging open, asking, “What the…?” First up: the clock is turned off, which is pure torture for these poor souls.

“It’s a type of reminders, you gotta watch out what you want for,” jokes decide Jamie Berard. “On day one, the builders are like, ‘I want that clock would go away.’ And it goes away! Then they’re like, ‘No! Convey it again!”

Berard’s judging associate, Amy Corbett, provides, “Particularly if you’re within the zone; you’re creating, and you may completely lose observe of time. So constructing with out seeing the clock is completely wild — however we don’t need to make it straightforward for our builders.”

A few of the theme builds this season of the Will Arnett-hosted present embrace “Star Wars,” “Depraved” and “Batman,” and challenges like a masquerade social gathering, an enormous wedding ceremony cake… and the incorporation of an actual, jumbo-sized waterfall. “It’s certainly one of my favourite challenges,” Berard says. “We even have a waterfall that the builders need to make a personality that goes over the falls. It’s tremendous dramatic, but additionally tremendous emotional. If you see these characters, you may simply inform that that water is simply melting like everybody’s coronary heart. It’s so good.”

If you have a look at the present over the course of its 5 seasons, one can’t assist however marvel what it’s like sitting round a desk at Lego headquarters in Denmark, pitching construct and problem concepts.

“We’ve got an entire crew that works on these concepts and a few of them are only a one-hit marvel. Others are like years within the making that yearly we expect it might be so cool if we might do a problem with water, for instance,” Corbett says. “So there’s lots that goes into them, however we additionally do a variety of testing of the challenges. We attempt them out. We see how can we make them extra thrilling? How can we push them additional? How can we make extra spectacular builds? It’s actually a course of.”

Berard provides: “We even have a really lively fan neighborhood that may be very comfortable to share with us their needs, what they like, which episodes have been tremendous thrilling to them. It conjures up much more challenges to come back about. So it’s undoubtedly a collaborative effort. We attempt to actually discover those which might be particular — that permit everybody’s creativity to be challenged simply sufficient, however then to floor in ways in which no person anticipated.”

Because the challenges get extra difficult and require trickier shifting — but secure — elements, so does the amount of and varieties of bricks on the contestants’ disposal. In reality, the numbers will blow you away:

The present additionally ups the variety of bricks within the brick pit each season, which makes it even crazier once they blow up their creations and bricks fly in all places. An off-stage, brick pit stockroom is organized very equally to its onstage counterpart, to make sure speedy restocks. “We’ve got a magical crew of helpers who assist [clean up] when the explosion occurs. Jamie and I attempted a few occasions. It’s… lots. These items get completely in all places,” Corbett says with fun.

“Lego Masters” is casting for future seasons, with a stay open name at Legoland California. For extra particulars and to RSVP, go to legomasterstv.com.