Meet the ‘LEGO Master’ behind new Fox reality hit

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You won’t see Nathan Sawaya’s face on “LEGO Masters” — but his LEGO creations are valuable co-stars of Fox’s hit new competition series.

Sawaya, the show’s consulting producer, is better-known as a world-renowned LEGO artist, a former corporate lawyer who quit his rat-race job in New York to open a studio and create artwork out of the toy’s iconic snap-together plastic “bricks” (including a Batmobile, a replica of the Brooklyn Bridge and a life-size Tyrannosaurus rex). “That was really the question: can I leave my six-figure [law] practice to go play with toys, can this be sustainable and can I actually make a living out of this?” Sawaya, 46, says of his 2004 decision to change careers. “That was a time when there wasn’t a job known as a