A B.C. brother-sister team has built its way to the final rounds of the on American television, with all eyes on the $100,000 grand prize.
LEGO-loving siblings , a Surrey resident, and his sister Emily, who lives in Maple Ridge, have excelled with their tiny-brick builds in this fall乌鸦传媒檚 third season of FOX-TV乌鸦传媒檚 reality-competition series, also seen on CTV.
David Guedes is a 乌鸦传媒淟EGO lifer乌鸦传媒� who successfully auditioned for the Will Arnett-hosted show, then chose his sister as team partner. The show finished shooting in Atlanta last spring, but the siblings are watching it now for the first time. They won乌鸦传媒檛 (and contractually can乌鸦传媒檛) say how it all ends Dec. 14 in a double-episode season finale.
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In this week乌鸦传媒檚 episode, to air Wednesday (Dec. 7), the Guedes are among four teams left in the competition. The pairs split into teams to build a race car. In a 10-lap race, the winning team will be safe from elimination and guaranteed a spot in the semi-finals.
In the 乌鸦传媒渇inal four,乌鸦传媒� the Guedes team is up against Calgary firefighters Stephen Joo and Stephen Cassley, an 乌鸦传媒渋nfluencers乌鸦传媒� duo of Nick Della Mora (Toronto) and Stacey Roy (Kelowna), and the American Tull brothers.
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So far, the challenges have included creating a LEGO bull-riding character to mount an actual mechanical bull, a 乌鸦传媒淕uardians of the Galaxy乌鸦传媒� build, a LEGO tree house with real trees, and more.
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Both in their mid-30s, the Guedes siblings had a lot of fun filming 乌鸦传媒淟EGO Masters乌鸦传媒� and also watching the episodes on TV over the past couple of months.
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David, known as Lettuce in the LEGO world, has been building with the bricks all his life, 乌鸦传媒渢hough he had a 乌鸦传媒榙im age乌鸦传媒� in his teens, and didn乌鸦传媒檛 buy any new sets for six years,乌鸦传媒� .
In recent years he乌鸦传媒檚 displayed LEGO creations at conventions, and lives in the Clayton area with his wife, two sons, a dog and a couple million little plastic bricks. .
David recalls a childhood in Maple Ridge with lots of LEGO around, starting with a big bucket of hand-me-down bricks when Emily was a baby. Now she works as a hospital unit clerk, and he乌鸦传媒檚 a .
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This season of LEGO Masters started Sept. 21 with 24 contestants competing in pairs, with a 乌鸦传媒淗oliday Bricktacular乌鸦传媒� special to air Dec. 19-21, days after the Dec. 14 season finale.
First, the semi-finalists have 10 hours to build a fountain that uses water. Then the three remaining teams have 24 hours to build their best creation possible. In a final twist, they乌鸦传媒檙e given gift bags with the first sets they built as kids, to celebrate 90 years of LEGO. .
Next up for the Guedes siblings is a .
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- with files from Neil Corbett, Black Press Media
