Studio NOP
voor de mooiste LEGO modellen
Studio NOP
voor de mooiste LEGO modellen
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voor de mooiste LEGO modellen
LEGOMasters NL/BE, season 3, 2022
Episode 1
Build a float that shows off your skills! We both love visiting new countries, and with the idea of impressing with moving parts, we decided to depict numerous countries and incorporate no fewer than five moving functions on a single motor.
We later learned that the jury was very impressed with our design and the micro-building it incorporated. A great boost, and a fantastic start to our adventure.
We also appeared on the float twice. Up front, in our work environment: The Doctor and the Tax Advisor (our TV subtitle) (right). And on the back of the float, a Polaroid of the two of us on vacation with our hands waving (and moving).
Theme song: "Working Nine to Five," Dolly Parton (link)
Episode 2
Build something in an underwater world that is submerged in water and then exhibits movement. Obviously, not with motors, because it's underwater.
We built a school of fish, uh... fish school. A classroom where the lesson is that swimming together is safer. The Greek columns exude additional knowledge, but monsters live in the caves on the sides: a moray eel and a shark. As the object was submerged, an arm with saucers and tires moved so that the monsters crawled out. The jury initially didn't believe it would work, but nothing could be further from the truth.
While the fish teacher demonstrates the lesson on the whiteboard ("Good together, bad alone"), the TV production has our massive structure descend into the water. That wasn't easy! But... a win!
As an extra prize for winning, we both received a signed Lego set of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine!
Theme song: "School," Supertramp (link) and "Yellow Submarine," The Beatles (link)
Episode 3
Act out the song you've been assigned so the judges can guess it!
Surprised that the first song was a song they'd never heard before, Klaartje and Stefan quickly presented us with that unknown record as the winners of episode 2. We were thrilled, because the record is fantastic and captures the imagination: Elvis Presley's Jail House Rock. So: Elvis Presley performing in a prison with his band!
The jury was impressed by the handmade bricks and the movement within the structure. The dancer floated upwards without support columns, as if flung upward in a swift rock-and-roll motion.
The bricks—several hundred had to be made—consist of nine pieces each and were very flexible to position.
Another win!
Theme song: "Jail House Rock", Elvis Presley (link)
Episode 4
Episode four was all about fashion. Our fashion theme was bohemian. First, we made a shawl. After the starting assignment, it was time for a hat. Movement wasn't required, but we couldn't resist and incorporated a few moving features into the hat. The sunflower on the front spun around, and the swing on the tree swung cheerfully back and forth.
Building round hats to wear is not easy, so a hug was needed every now and then to get back on track.
Theme song: "Vogue", Madonna (link)
Episode 5
Cut in Half 2.0. Just like in season 1, an object was sawn in half, and we were allowed to build another creative half. We were given the fax machine, a device so outdated that some of the contestants didn't even quite remember what it was for.
A fax machine is, of course, meant to make fun beeps and chirps, so we demonstrated how it works. We attached birds on sticks to the fax machine, chirping under the guidance of a grasshopper conductor.
We once again embraced the season's theme of "movement," which meant five birds, each with movable beaks to different rhythms, and the conductor's four arms swung back and forth. What wasn't visible on TV was that sound also came from the fax machine, coming from the motors that powered a kind of drum set.
We were really in the flow this episode: everything worked out and went well. Lots of relaxed building and lots of fun. It was inevitable that we'd imitate bird sounds for the camera. Makeup artist Paul suggested the perfect song for this episode.
Theme song: "Thee Little Birds", Bob Marley & the Wailers (link) and "De vogeltjesdans", Electronica's (link).
We weren't the only ones thrilled with this build: the jury was impressed too. And that earned us our third episode win!
Episode 6
For the starting challenge, we all built a structure that would hang from a large balloon. The weight had to be precisely adjusted. We knew right away what to build: a zeppelin, for which we also had the technology ready. This left us time to adjust the weight. After all, you can fill a zeppelin with Lego to get the weight just right.
The second challenge was to build a windmill that also had to make something move in the wind. We connected the windmill via drive rods to a rover, which had to drive around the planet Pegasus 4. The little astronauts collected power from crystals and charged their batteries, while little aliens kept an eye on them.
En wat een spektakel was dat. Alleen ons bouwwerk bleef perfect uitgelijnd hangen. Alle andere bouwwerken crashten tegen de vloer of het plafond. Terwijl ik geconcentreerd met de motorfuncties van onze zeppelin aan het spelen was, zag Arne alles om zich heen ineen storten.
Met als enig overlevend bouwwerk, stond vast dat we deze bouwwopdracht gewonnen hadden.
Theme song: "Keep me hanging on", Kim Wilde (link)
Then things got exciting. The windmill that survived the strongest wind would win, and if all the windmills made it, the most beautiful, fun, and creative one would win. We felt confident, because we had created one of our best structures in terms of design, movement, and story. But then: All the windmills had already survived setting '10,' but how would ours fare?
At setting 10, a part came loose, which also knocked one of the propeller blades off course. It was still spinning, but had sustained damage. Were we out now? We had also made it to setting 10, hadn't we? The windmill was approved, but still no winner was declared. Unfortunately, especially since we felt the odds were very much in our favor.
Theme song: "Wild is the Wind", David Bowie (link)
Episode 7
A short, quick (10-minute) assignment that doesn't require us to dwell on it too much. Build an object that fits inside a plastic ball. Oops, I didn't measure correctly, so it didn't fit. Lots of laughter and jeering.
Afterward, we got to act out a movie for our ET. In the adapted story, ET stays happily with his girlfriend Gertie, from whom he receives a flowerpot (just like in the movie), and here his injured finger is bandaged while boys in the background are traveling across the moon on their bikes.
ET's large head was quite a challenge to keep in place.
Despite some tense moments while placing ET's head, everything worked out in the end. A kiss from Gertie on ET's nose and all was well.
The judges enjoyed it too!
Theme song: "E.T. Theme Song", John Williams (link)
Episode 8
An episode with highs and lows, but always a lot of fun building. To start, we were assigned an animal, and halfway through, another animal was assigned to create a new combination.
Of all the beautiful, inspiring animals we could have, we got... the guinea pig and the dog. It became a blind guide guinea pig dog. We had a lot of laughs, but perhaps not our best build.
How different with the big build. We were allowed to build a cloud, but only at the top and bottom, with a connection between the two sides. We came up with the idea of Eric the Cloudsmith.
Clouds sometimes look like cloud animals. And that idea led us to the creation of Eric the Cloudsmith. A blacksmith who lived alone in the clouds and was constantly trying to make a friend in the form of a dog. He kept trying to make a dog out of clouds, but different animals kept coming out of his hands, and he ended up throwing them down the chute. At the bottom of the chute, the other animals also started spinning around.
Downstairs, Eric can look out over the gravestone from his rocking chair to see if he could spot a dog, but so far, he's alone. While building, we found inspiration in thefilm Up, the short film Geri's Game, and Eric Carmen's song "All by Myself" (hence the name Eric).
Theme song: "All by myself", Eric Carmen (link)
We used the theme of "loneliness" frequently. An empty dog kennel, an empty picture frame, the seating area where one chair is worn out and the other is brand new, and the chess set where the first move has been made, but no one is there to make the second.
The jury was impressed, with a lump in their throats, silence, and almost tears. Spot on!
After the broadcast, we received so many wonderful reactions to this creation.
We used the theme of "loneliness" frequently. An empty dog kennel, an empty picture frame, the seating area where one chair is worn out and the other is brand new, and the chess set where the first move has been made, but no one is there to make the second.
The jury was impressed, with a lump in their throats, silence, and almost tears. Spot on!
After the broadcast, we received so many wonderful reactions to this creation.
Episode 9: the finale
The finale! Where we had 28 hours to build whatever we wanted.
Everyone had expressed their desire to create a dragon or monster beforehand, but that wasn't a good idea for a TV show. The jury also asked for something that would surprise them and that they had never seen before, and our plan fit perfectly! So we switched to The Journey to Valhalla! Two brave heroes journey through the wondrous world of Norwegian mythology to reach Valhalla.
The journey began in a village where our two heroes, Vidar and Hilda, received a diamond from the village chieftain to take to Valhalla. It spiraled counterclockwise, following the outer edge of the mythical serpent Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent that encircles the entire world.
After arriving by boat, they encountered dark skeletons and spiders in the burned-out land, ultimately leading to the head of Jörmungandr, which they had to navigate. The head was one of the engineering marvels of the construction. It swung back and forth at its neck on two pivots. Its mouth opened and closed while its eyes burned with a light.
While Vidar tried to reach the other side of the rickety bridge with the diamond, Hilda stood ready to distract the monster with bold attacks.
Past the monster and its tail, which also sways back and forth, our heroes arrive at the stairs. But, the stairs are blocked by large basalt blocks! Now, onward! They place the diamond in a central column, and sure enough, the basalt blocks sink into the ground, another motorized feature, of course. The varying heights of hexagonal stones descend precisely enough to reveal the stairs to Valhalla.
Beyond the basalt blocks, the towering palace can be seen in the distance. The palace rises in two stages, with the central section rising even higher than the ring around it, where a large statue of Thor stands in the center as a tribute, all of it towering high above the clouds. Crows circle the clouds, like Huginn and Muninn, the crows of the supreme god Odin.
Theme song: "Stairway to Heaven", Led Zeppelin (link) and "Round here", Counting Crows (link)
Extra
Some extra photos to show how Arne and I learned to build together, and some photos of the season 3 participants, a structure I built with cubes during breaks, and the farewell structures used to honor the eliminated participants.
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