made its triumphant debut on Monday night as a host of new teams take on a reno project for the ages. The Island Cove Villas - once a sweet little haven on Phillip Island - is now more akin to an and the new Blockheads have to gussy them up and sell them to the highest bidder. We already know this season will be fraught with drama (and plenty of fun!), with of the competition halfway through.
We've also been promised some of the most spectacular finished results the show has ever seen so hold on to your hard hats! Of course, it wouldn't be The Block without the fans calling it as they see it, and the first episode was certainly not exempt from the armchair critics who noticed a very odd detail in the premiere. "Um..
..why is she going to Heidelberg????," one confused fan wrote in an online forum.
The reference was to Mimi taking a two-hour trip out of Phillip Island and all the way to the Melbourne suburb to go to Reece Plumbing. This was a particularly curious choice considering there is a Reece Plumbing in Cowes - exactly 7 minutes by car from the construction site! "Is that the closest Reece??? Strange," one viewer questioned. "Literally one on the Island!," another laughed.
"I was just thinking the same. Bloody long drive from the island," said another fan. "They'll drive past at least 5 Reece on the way to Heidelberg Reece.
Cranbourne, Narrewarren, Dandenong, Knox and Ringwood. What a waste of fuel!" added someone else. "It seems weird to drive past so many others to get .