- Previously on Shop Class. - I'm so jealous.
You're building your very own Shop Class derby racer.
Roll it!
The winning team is the Gold Team.
The Gold Team sped past the competition and impressed the judges
with their derby racer, earning Bill, Andrew and Carrington
the last spot in the semifinals.
Now the top six teams from qualifying take center stage using cardboard tubing
and packing materials to build spacecrafts and launch eggs into the atmosphere.
A complete egg.
With only three coveted championships spots
up for grabs, which of these teams will move on to the next round
and be one step closer to becoming Shop Class Champs?
Whoa.
- We're back. - Hey.
- Wow. - Good. Kyle.
It feels amazing to be back in Shop Class.
I can't wait to get started on this challenge.
Wow, that's a cool shark.
We're up against some pretty stiff competition
'cause this is the best of Shop Class, so, we're gonna have to up our game.
What are you guys doing here?
Thank you. Thank you.
This is so nice. I missed you guys. A lot of familiar faces.
Congratulations teams and welcome to the semifinals.
- Woo-hoo! - Yes. Yes.
You were the top finishers in each of your episodes and you earned your spot.
We have the Green Team with Kim, Marco and Daron
who earned their spot with a hole in one on their mini golf course.
Next, we have the Gray Team, new color, very exciting
with Kyle, Alyssa, and Andrew, of course,
who made it here with a mid-century modern
- Little Free Library. - Our slick Little Free Library
withstood the wind, rain and hail,
but now we've got to withstand the best of Shop Class.
Up next is the Blue Team with Morgan, Gabriel and Henry
who crossed into the semifinals with the best looking and sturdiest bridge.
Next is the Maroon Team with Lance, Chloe and Selah
who slid past the competition to take the win with their skate park obstacle.
So excited to be
in the semifinals. We're here with the best of the best,
so... time to step it up.
Then we have the Orange Team with Chris, Ruthie and Sean
who took the win with a very inventive spin on the picnic table.
Now it's time to up our game
against the best in Shop Class.
That's how earned a seat at the semifinal table.
Thank you, Ruthie.
Rounding things out is the Gold Team with Bill, Carrington and Andrew,
who shot past the competition with their mako shark racer.
I'm gonna "mako" you all see it.
- So... - Ouch.
- No, Henry? No? - No.
- Nope. That one hurt. - Okay.
Six deserving and talented teams have earned their chance to compete,
but only the top three teams, three, will move on to the championship
for a shot at the title of Shop Class Champs
and an epic grand prize. But, before we get building,
please welcome the skilled panel of judges
who will decide which three teams make the grade.
You already know the Shop Class judges.
Interior designer and home decor expert, Lauren Makk.
- Hi, guys. - And award-winning maker and architect,
- Brooks Atwood. - Hey, everybody.
Finally, please welcome guest judge and Walt Disney Imagineer,
who's familiar to some of you. Jeremie Papon.
Hi, everybody.
At Imagineering, especially at R&D, we're always doing new things,
and so it's really important that you're always learning
and you're always able to adapt and to grow.
I'm really excited to see how the kids have grown.
So, they've done this before. Hopefully they'll have learned
from their previous competition about what things are important
to make the team succeed.
Teams, are you ready to find out what you're building?
Yeah!
Woo. Okay. Teachers, get this,
instead of you grabbing the pushcart, this guy gets to do it.
I've been looking forward to this all season.
- Who's ready to watch? - Congratulations.
Yes, thank you. It's gonna be exciting.
Drum roll please, as I head over.
It's heavy. Okay. Okay.
Okay.
Okay, here we go. One, two, three.
- Pull the tarp! - Pull the tarp!
Whoo!
Good job.
What do you think about that tarp pulling?
So, what do we have here? Office supplies,
packing materials, cups, straws, a bunch of tubes, a parachute and eggs.
Teams, you're building your very own...
- spacecraft! - I knew it!
Spacecraft is outside of my wheelhouse.
The picnic table was more what I'm used to making.
So, we've got a lot to figure out here.
So, for this challenge, you'll be tasked with designing and building
a completely green spacecraft.
Instead of being fired off with a rocket motor,
we're gonna send your spacecraft into this sky using compressed air.
The goal is for you to travel as many eggs as you can
on your spacecraft and land back on the ground without breaking the eggs.
This spacecraft will be judged
on overall design creativity and build functionality.
You can send up as many eggs as you want, as long as your total payload
weighs less than one pound.
You'll have just three days to build something that can be launched
and can carry at least one egg to the ground.
Now, because there's so many of you, we've loaded your build supplies
into your workstations and also the Shop Class supply room.
So, they're all there. Teams, are you ready?
Yes!
- Let's get building! - All right!
- Let's go. - Paper!
What I'm looking to see with the teams is, how are they gonna protect
those tiny little eggs? As a professor, we used to do the egg drop project.
Every student would come up with mind-blowingly different options.
So, there's no right way to protect an egg.
These both hit...
- ...and then the energy goes right past. - Got it.
And then, probably a deployed parachute. Right?
Um, let's see. There's llamas.
I don't even know what a llama
- looks like. What does a llama look like? - Neither do I.
Okay, let's hear your idea that you came up with.
Ham and eggs, because Ham was the name of the chimp...
chimpanzee who was first entered into space.
We beat out our competition in the mini golf course
because we really had a solid theme, and this time, we have a better theme
with Ham, the first chimpanzee into space.
And this proved that the condition
was safe for astronauts to go up into space.
- How many eggs do we want to try to lift? - Eight normal eggs is one pound.
Ooh. Look at this. One on top.
We're hoping to send up three eggs and bring three eggs down to Earth safely.
Green Team's history inspired spacecraft,
with a traditional rocket design,
will attempt to carry a three-egg payload in the nose cone.
The team is still up in the air on whether or not to use a parachute
- for their descent. - That was good.
At Imagineering, especially at R&D, what we do is build new things,
build prototypes all the time, and what I'm hoping to see out of the kids
is them to take that same creative spirit and just throw it out there.
You know, if they think of some crazy idea,
they can put it together and test it and see if it'll work.
It may not come down like that. It may flutter down like this, like a leaf.
So, our plan to keep the egg safe is to use the fins on the rocket
kind of like a roll bar. So, when it finally reaches down to earth,
the canister will be protected by the fins.
Kind of like a way to pull the nose cone off, exposing the parachute.
Our goal is to have the nose cone deploy the parachute
and use cushioning and the rocket's fins to protect our egg.
Each part of it, there's a nest here,
- and these are the eggs. - I like it.
And then, the swan
is kind of coming out of the nest.
When you think about eggs, it's usually from chickens.
But, I took a unique spin, the Ugly Duckling story,
because the ugly duckling turns out to be beautiful.
Gray Teams Ugly Duckling themed spacecraft will carry
a two-egg payload at the base of the rocket.
They'll also incorporate a parachute to help soften impact upon landing.
Like purple and pink in the sky...
- And then... - ...and we can do like, little trees here.
So, you're going up into the universe...
...using different colors.
Our rocket has been designed with kind of a starting from the Earth
through the atmosphere up.
- All right. You got an egg in there? - Yeah.
Drop it.
We've noticed that everyone has a parachute
and we decided to be different.
- Three... - Two...
One.
That sounded fine.
We're doing the crash test dummy.
Wow! Yes!
Maroon Team has chosen not to use a parachute at all.
Instead, it's all about creating a unique way to protect their eggs.
They've designed a trampoline and spring cushion
that will hopefully soften the landing for their three-egg payload.
- Now, we got to drop it from higher... - Should I make more?
...'cause it's gonna be 200 feet in the air.
All right. I'll put it back.
So, right now we're talking about this top structure here,
but then are we still thinking the cups
for these egg canisters?
- Just duct tape it in there. - As an interior designer,
surface becomes my palette.
Of course, with these spacecrafts, there's limited surface area.
So, they're gonna have to make the most of their design.
I am so excited to see you guys back, because, I was beyond impressed
with your bridge. So, how are you gonna bring it this time?
We think we're gonna try to name it the Dolphin One,
because we're the Blue Team, the ocean. You know.
- Yes, got it. - 'Cause dolphins are smart. Right?
Blue Teams three egg payload will be connected to the nose cone
of their spacecraft, which they hope will separate from their rocket
and deploy a parachute to carry their eggs safely to the ground.
My advice would be to really tell a story,
because I want you guys doing something really unique
and like, having like a whole process
- and a whole story. - Yeah.
- Okay? - Yup.
How do you plan on bringing your A-game to this challenge?
Our theme is actually a hotdog rocket.
These are the eggs in here.
- Buns full of eggs? - Buns full of eggs.
Gold Team hopes a hot dog design will help them smoke the competition
with a plan to nestle four eggs into buns,
which will detach and travel safely to the ground using parachutes.
Okay. Well, listen. One thing I know about you guys is that you're excellent
at executing a really finished product and I know that that's gonna
be the difference, because no matter what, whether your eggs break or don't break,
we really want to see something cool launching into the sky.
Right now, we're thinking of aliens
and UFOs and...
I like that. I love aliens.
Orange Team is going with an alien abduction theme.
Their three-egg payload is designed to look like a UFO,
which they hope will detach and parachute safely to the ground.
I think making the eggs a cool part of the character of it all
would really be a unique idea.
Right now, the design ideas seem a little unrefined,
but I think if each of these teams can tunnel their vision and of course,
protect their eggs, then we'll see who the real winners are.
Guh. I'm nervous, girl. Okay, go on.
I didn't hear a crack.
So, literally, it pulls this, the thing that's below off of it,
'cause it's having more resistant... It has more air resistance
- than the actual rocket. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I might not have a lot of experience building rockets
but my team definitely does. So,
I'm relying on them a little bit and we're all really excited.
That's good. Okay. Now, you got to mix those really good.
I've worked with paper rockets before, but this is a whole other scale.
Two-part epoxy.
Much bigger, much more launch power.
Glue dries in 15 minutes...
- Okay. - ...but it sets in like five.
Strongest stuff known to man.
Kind of. You got to try to get it right in the corner
and just kind of dab it in there. Yeah.
All right. Perfect.
I'm really excited to see this go up.
- Okay. - Let's go.
High five. There we go.
Ruthie, you're gonna work on the design...
- Okay. - ...for the rocket.
- Sean, you're gonna concentrate on... - Eggs.
...making, something for our eggs to stay nice and safe in.
The Orange Team does not have a lot of experience
with spacecrafts or rockets, so we're winging it.
I am under a pound with all of this, but I figure if I cut down on the weight
of the roof, they can then add more stuff to protect the eggs.
It's gonna help us with the performance. That's for sure.
We were initially gonna do the hot dog design,
but it's always tough to combine design and functionality.
If you go too much into the beauty of it and everything,
you might have a rocket that doesn't do so well.
We were doing a hot dog idea, but our new idea, um, is saving the Earth.
So, we changed our mind and we came up, I think, with a much better design,
and now we're gonna go with one about saving the planet.
The base of the rocket will represent the ocean or the seas,
then comes the land, then the sky the stars and the moon
and at the very top, we have the eggs. Ideally, the eggs will detach
inside their capsule and the parachute will open
and it will just gracefully float down to Earth.
- That'd be cool. - What?
Like, carefully take this and wrap it around to represent the nest.
Yes.
Turns out, all the teams are focused on doing tests.
And it's all about keeping their eggs from getting scrambled on impact.
Yep. It cracked.
I'm gonna use this paper towel tube thing...
for the housing for the eggs.
I am working on egg protection.
Right now, I'm just adding the finishing touches
to my little contraption.
So, my job is to protect the eggs and then beat them up.
That should have done it.
- Don't hit the ceiling. - That's okay.
- There we go. - Yay. We did it.
I've tested a bunch of eggs and I think we've come up with a working strategy.
- He died. - It eventually broke,
but that was after like, ten...
- throws, which is pretty good. - That is pretty good.
- Are you ready to design paint? - I'm making a burrito now.
We took two pieces of foam and one piece of bubble wrap,
put the eggs in a cup, rubber banded the cup.
And so, now I'm gonna take one of these cups and plug it.
Put it in the middle and rolled it up like a burrito.
- I'm gonna steal hers. - No, no, no..
- I'm not gonna... - That's why I said no.
- Here. Have another egg. - Thank you.
Um...
Right now, I'm just coloring the sky for the background that I'm going to paint
- once the other side dries. - It's gonna look like snow
down the mountain.
And we're just gonna use a palette knife or my palette knife and just drag it down.
- So, I'm just gonna do it silver, okay? - Okay.
- That way it looks like real metal. - We're kind of going for more
- of a professional type of look. - It is all silver.
It looks like a real rocket and in the window,
we put Ham and Eggs under it.
We're gonna have Mercury on the side, the name of the mission,
which Ham went up. We have USA stickers on the side, colored red, white and blue.
It's basically going to be very egg-cellent.
You see what I did there? Egg-cellent. We're doing eggs. Yeah.
Wow!
An eighth of an egg.
Don't do it too tight.
- Hey, Green Team. What's going on? - Hey.
With the team's spacecraft builds underway...
- Just throw it. - ...Judge Brooks checks in on the progress
of the team's egg payloads.
Did it work? I didn't hear any cracks.
The eggs, we're thinking, could go in here
and we could mount four or five around here with the parachute...
- Yeah. - ...and then when it reaches the top
of the flight, this hopefully will separate.
- It's just gonna slide right off. - Like that.
- Right. - The story is the Ugly Duckling,
and so, on the bottom there, each panel has scenes
about how it grew up and then, the body of the rocket
is going to be a swan and when it shoots up into the air,
- it's like, it's taking flight. - Everything you just said,
100 percent love that.
There's... I see screws sticking out.
- Cha-ching. - There's nothing in here. Okay.
- This is what you're gonna look for. - What do you got? What's in there?
Here we have the egg. It's surrounded by the packing peanuts.
And what about this part of the egg? That's cool?
Um, we're gonna crinkle some more packing peanuts on top of that.
Okay, so and then it's hiding inside of this shell?
- Yes. - Okay. Good luck.
Good luck. Protect those eggs.
Seeing the designs of the rockets, they're already beautiful and stunning,
but how the eggs float back down to Earth is what I'm really excited...
I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it.
- We can put this on, by the way. - Yeah.
- We probably could, couldn't we? - Yep.
Maroon team has one more design addition up their sleeve.
You're gonna name it. Right? We're gonna name it.
Um, Mary Jackson.
We're adding girl power to the spacecraft.
So, we're naming our rocket Mary Jackson
because she was the first black woman to work as an engineer for NASA.
Along with Mary Jackson, the names of other renowned NASA women
will be painted on the sides of the spacecraft.
- A little mood... moon? - Yeah.
- So, I was thinking, um, balloons. - Yeah.
I'm thinking Pathfinder that went to Mars, NASA actually released with balloons
that just started bouncing right when it hit the surface of Mars.
When this is on here, where are the balloon's gonna be?
All around it right there.
If we're gonna make our way to the finals, we have to do something different.
So, we re-used these gloves and made it into a balloon.
Green Team decides to protect their three eggs by using a cluster
of balloons that they'll attach to their spacecraft
- using a ring and netting. - So, we're balancing it out...
- Yeah. - ...by attaching
- three different units to right here. - Sure.
With little time left in day two, Disney Imagineer
and former rocket scientist, Jeremie Papon, drops by to talk
- to the teams about their designs. - What is this you got right here?
So, this part probably during flight is just gonna float off and...
- And bring our eggs back safe. - With a parachute.
One little suggestion I'd say maybe...
...is try to get these
to be a little more aerodynamic...
...'cause you're gonna have a lot of force
- incurring at the top here. - Yeah, yeah.
Seemed like all of the teams got their basic rocket principles down,
so they're all putting the center of gravity above the center of pressure,
which is gonna give it stability as it flies.
So, how are you gonna dissipate the impact for us?
- Show him the burrito. - We take that, and we put it around.
- Tape it, put it inside. - Put it in there
- and then put straws around it. - Straws?
That's a really good idea.
Are you using a parachute at all?
- We're thinking... - No parachute?
We are going to have, like how
NASA did it, in the Pathfinder landing in 1997...
- Sure. - ...how they had the airbags.
Cool. I really like how you guys went with a totally different design
than some of the other teams. That was a really crazy idea
when they first did that with the lander...
- Yeah. - ...but it was super successful.
So, hopefully you will be too.
So, as an Imagineer, at R&D especially, when I start a new project,
I need to go and talk to creative types. I need to talk to other technical people.
So, we need to balance what the creatives would like to create
and what the technologists think is actually possible.
- Check that thing out. - It's day three and the teams
are rushing to finish their elaborate spacecraft designs.
- You guys ready to test it? - Let's go test!
Green Team is running some final tests
on their innovative egg protection system...
Sounds like it broke.
...to make sure the balloon clusters
will actually separate from the rocket and protect the eggs.
- Are you sure it's cracked? - Yeah, I'm sure.
Yeah, it... it's cracked.
How will the parachute have... Carry the eggs?
Parachute will just come down with...
No... Carry this?
Gold Team decided to make one more design change
to their spacecraft, moving the egg pods from the top of the craft to the bottom
to better protect the eggs.
They're also attaching an external parachute
that will sit atop the nose cone, which they think will create
a better chance of deployment.
- Won't it need to catch some air? - It does. That's always the tricky part,
is to get it to grab the air.
The folding should be, I think, more systematic
rather than just crumpling.
Gray Team has taken a slightly different approach
- to deploy their parachute. - You want to fold this to there?
- Yeah. - Adding a streamer that they hope
will create enough drag to pull the parachute out of the spacecraft.
I thought this was meant to pull this whole thing out?
- Well, no, it's meant to kind of... - Unfurl it, like that.
- Yeah. - That makes sense.
And while Orange and Blue Teams put together the final versions
- of their egg pods... - We have to have our eggs well insulated.
...Maroon Team is hard at work installing the rubber bands
for their egg protection trampolines.
There is the web...
of trampoline.
I think it'll work.
Yay.
Okay, teams. It's time to take your spacecraft
- to our desert mission control center. - Okay, let's go.
The teams start packing up their spacecrafts, pods and eggs
to be shuttled to the top-secret Shop Class launch site.
I'm very curious about how it's gonna work.
But I feel like we have a big chance to win here. Keep our hopes up.
I cannot wait to see this thing launch.
It's gonna go...
...and you're like, wow.
We definitely know that the eggs are gonna go up,
but we're not sure how they're gonna go down.
Teams! Welcome to launch day. Exciting.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Scale of one to ten, how excited are you, Alyssa?
- Ten. - Whoa! Pretty good.
Over the past three days, you designed and built
your very own spacecraft. The goal was for your spacecraft
to carry your egg payload up into the air and back onto the ground
without breaking the eggs. Maroon, you guys are first.
- Yeah! - All right! Woo-hoo!
- All right. - Yeah!
Okay, so Selah, what was the inspiration for your spacecraft?
At night, when I look up at the stars, I just love it. It's super pretty...
- It's the best. - ...and I also love mountains.
We're the one team with two girl students, so we have some names on there.
Mary Jackson, Sally Ride, and then we have Nancy Boggess.
They're all first women to work in NASA on certain things.
Wow. All right, Lance, what is it about that design
- that is gonna protect the eggs? - We added a trampoline effect
on both ends of our egg carriers...
...to provide a little bit of...
Interesting. Okay. Well, judges, let's go take a closer look
at the space craft.
I'm a little bit concerned that the eggs are so high that it's just gonna make
- the rocket like crash right back down. - It is a little top heavy.
- Like you want the weight down here. - The paint job is immaculate.
- Stunning, yeah. - It looks like a professional
- painted this thing. - Yeah.
I mean, even the blending and the ombre.
- All right, Maroon Team? - Yeah!
Let's get to launch positions.
Um, Chloe, how many eggs did you put into your spacecraft?
Three? Well, let's see if those three eggs survive.
Okay, teams. You ready?
- Yeah. - Yes.
We are go for launch...
in T minus five, four, three, two, one. Liftoff.
It's not coming down the way I thought.
- Your mountains. - Touchdown!
Thoughts? Thoughts? What do you think?
We're dead.
- What? Really? What do you think? - Um, I don't know.
Okay. Lance, go ahead and do me a favor.
- Get your spacecraft and run it back. - All right.
So, Maroon Team's rocket built without a parachute launched perfectly,
but landed almost flat on its side, rendering the egg trampolines useless.
Okay. Let's see how those eggs survived. Let's open up your payload.
Yeah, that one's a good for the grill anytime now.
- Okay. - I'm feeling good about this one.
Anyone want some egg in a cup?
Yeah, you have two scrambled eggs so far.
- Two scrambleds. - Okay. You still have one left.
- Don't drop it now. - And...
Whoa!
- This one says something. - It says...
"Brooks."
It does say "Brooks."
- Hey you guys... - Yeah!
We had three eggs go up.
- And one come down. - One come down unscrambled.
- Yeah. - We got one egg.
Now let's see how Gold Team does. All right, Gold Team. You are up.
Carrington, take me through the inspiration for your spacecraft.
What are we looking at?
Um, so, you're looking at, like, a save the Earth.
Great concept. So, we have sea and then, it moves into land here.
- Correct. - And then the air,
- and now finally, space, right? - Yes.
What is this? I see there's a little dunce cap on the top.
It's just a simple cap...
...to cover the parachute.
So, when it gets to the top of the flight, the cap is supposed to fall away.
The parachute is supposed to open and then it's supposed to gracefully float
- to the earth. - Judges, you want to take a closer look?
- Yes. - Yeah.
I like this extra contraption out here. You have this, the fins are also enclosed
with this extra piece to hold them all in, and the rubber bands look tied
in an incredibly intricate way that I've never seen ever done before.
This design of this dunce cap, as you were calling it, looks really good.
And looks like this might actually disengage and the parachute
might come out, which is a really hard thing to do here.
It's wishful thinking, but sometimes wishes come true.
Sometimes they do.
All right, Gold Team. It is time for liftoff.
Your spacecraft has four eggs on it. We're about to see how well they do.
We are go for launch in T minus,
five, four, three, two, one. Liftoff.
No!
So, Bill, go ahead and grab your spacecraft.
Gold Team's big launch started strong and the parachute deployed as planned...
but it ripped off sending the craft hurling to the ground and upon impact,
their egg pods went flying in several directions.
Okay. You had four egg pods. Here's the first one.
- Hey! Egg number one. - One.
- Okay. - Very good.
- Two. - Two! All right.
Number three. All right.
I think it...
No.
- No. - Well, we got three back to safety.
But you got three out of four. That's not bad. So far, that's the best.
Blue Team, you're up. Whoa!
Okay.
Before we get your spacecraft ready for liftoff,
- let's hear a little bit about it. - Basically, we wanted to find a way
to not have to take the entire rocket,
like body down
- because that's incredibly heavy. - Yeah.
So, inside of there,
there's actually a parachute and hopefully the parachute will come out,
deploy and we will hopefully have a safe landing.
We are go for launch...
- All right. - ...in T minus five, four, and a three,
- two, one. Liftoff. - One.
- Liftoff! - Whoo!
Detach! Detach! Detach!
There goes the eggs.
- Man. How do you feel about that? - I just hope my padding kind of worked.
- Yeah. We don't know. We don't know... - It might be okay.
Let's see how the chicken capsule did.
Okay. I think it landed on this one and this feel...
- Yep, that's... that's definitely... - That's, yep. Don't even look.
- Don't look. - ...definitely dead.
Okay. This is egg number two.
- Definitely smashed as well. - Yeah, yeah. That did not hold up.
- Maybe number three. - All right.
Going into the last pod.
Okay.
- We have an egg! - Yay!
- A complete egg. - One egg.
Nice. Well, I'll bet you'll take it.
- I'll take one. - What are we looking at here, Ruthie?
- It's me, Sean and Chris. - Yes.
We're actually being abducted by aliens from our house.
So, Chris, what did you do to protect the eggs?
The eggs are using rubber bands as little trampolines...
- Okay. - ...and the hope is that the cone
will pop off and the parachute will come out
and it will land cone first...
- Cone first. - ...and the eggs will be able
- to have some movement when they land. - Okay, cool.
Judges, you want to take a closer look and, see what you think?
This is so adorable. I love everything you've done, from the story at the bottom
with the housing, with the roof being separated,
like you were snatched out of the roof. And I just love that you actually,
you know, personalized it by putting your individual characters on this rocket,
- and these aliens are so sweet. - The aliens do seem friendly.
Maybe you shouldn't be so scared.
'Cause maybe you're going to a better place.
- They have smiles. - Yeah.
Sean, speaking of time, do you know what time it is?
- Launch time. - It sure is.
- I'm excited, but I'm also really nervous. - Yeah.
We're really hopeful that the cone will deploy
and all of our eggs will be safe.
Orange Team, are you ready?
- Yeah! - Yes!
We are go for launch in T minus,
five, four, three, two, one. Liftoff.
That was terrible.
- That was the worst. - Well, that wasn't as good
as it could've been.
Chris, will you go ahead and grab your spacecraft
and bring it back? Let's find out.
The Orange Team's rocket proves top-heavy.
The parachute does not deploy, and it crashes cone first
into the ground and snaps in half.
- It's pretty gory. - It is.
- It's a gory scene. - It's gonna be messy.
Come on! All right.
- How did that happen? - Wow. That's actually...
It's a miracle egg.
Egg pod number two, the egg is actually gone.
- It's disappeared. - So, we're gonna...
- He's left. - ...we're gonna assume the worst.
- We're gonna assume that... - I think we should just say
- that one's gone. - So, we got number three.
- Do you want to even... - No.
- ...attempt to open that? - Not at all.
- At least it's there. - It is there. We know that one is there.
Yeah.
All right, Green Team. You're up.
Let's get your spacecraft ready for liftoff.
But, before we do that, where are the eggs, actually?
In each of these balloons, there's an egg floating around?
- One of the balloons, it's in them. - Okay.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- How are they gonna protect the eggs? - There's a ring on there that's attached
- all of the balloons. - Okay.
So, we want the ring to fall off.
- Okay. - So then, it's just the balloons
and the eggs going down, so the eggs will basically land
on the balloons and hopefully...
- be safe. - Yeah. Great.
Okay, judges. Well, let's take a closer look.
- Yeah. - All right.
Wow. This is a really unique contraption going on here.
- This was used, I think. - You really got to hand it to them
for this one.
- I don't even see where... - They're hidden in, they're hidden.
Eggs are right in the middle.
- They're in the middle. - They're in there.
- This is really smart. - That's brilliant.
That's a really clever design. I think it might actually work.
Okay. Well, we're about to find out if it's gonna work,
- because it is launch time. - Failure to launch,
that's my biggest fear. We hear a big...
- ...and it just goes... - And then, all the fins fly off.
- They come down, right. So... - It sounds like a nightmare.
...it could happen.
We are go for lunch in T minus,
five, four, three, two, one... Liftoff.
Nice!
Congratulations, boys! We did it!
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Kim, would you please go grab those eggs.
Got them.
- Okay. - I'm going.
Green Team's rocket spirals in the air, does a full flip and yet,
the balloon pods deploy as planned.
Let's see just how hard of a hit each of the three egg pods took.
Okay, so you had three eggs. This is egg number one.
Looking pretty good.
- All right, we have an egg! - We have one.
- Let's try this one. - You want to try this one?
- This seems like it's... - This is feeling kind of wet.
- I'm gonna be honest. Yeah. - Okay. It's feeling wet.
Failure.
- Hey! Okay. Nice, two. Two eggs. - Two!
Have you ever been so excited about seeing an egg?
- Never. - Yeah.
All right, Gray Team. What am I looking at here?
It looks, I'll tell you, just from an outside observer,
- it looks like it's a nest. - We themed our egg capsules after the nest
of the Ugly Duckling.
The eggs are wrapped in bubble wrap and placed inside there.
So, these things are not, these are...
- They're not really... - Yeah, those are hollowed out.
Hollowed out eggs. Okay, judges. Should we take a closer look?
- Yes, please. - Yes.
So, that's supposed to deploy the parachute. Is this something
that you told them, because I don't think that's gonna work at all, Jeremie.
- You're getting teased by the brainiacs. - I like the idea.
Streamers like this, that's something they do on real rockets to deploy parachutes.
- Really? - Yeah. It's a drag
- to plane of flight. - So it actually might work.
- We'll see. - Okay. All right.
This paint job is absolutely immaculate,
- how you gradieted... - Swan!
-...from white to blue,
and I also love the detail, how you characterize these ducks,
even by adding this duck as if he cracked out of that.
- That's really cute. - Okay, Gray Team, time for blast off.
We are go for launch in T minus,
five, four, three, two, one. Liftoff.
No! No!
Kyle, it's time to find out if that was a mission success
or a mission failure. Go ahead and grab your spacecraft.
We are having some doubts right now. I'm not sure that this is gonna work out.
You had a two-egg payload. Should we see how they held up?
Yeah.
This is looking...
- All right. - What?
We have...
a full egg.
All right.
What the... what?
- All right. - We sent two eggs up and two came down.
It's amazing. I feel so great.
Teams, welcome back to Shop Class mission control
and congratulations again on building truly, truly amazing rockets.
Remember, successfully transporting the egg payload only counts
for part of your score.
So, let's hear from our judges. Shall we?
Jeremie, as an Imagineer, what are your thoughts
on the Gray Team spacecraft?
I really liked the paint job on the Ugly Duckling.
I mean the nose cone, I think looked the best out of any
of the nose cones on the rockets. It was just fantastically painted.
As an Imagineer, I liked how they had all the little vignettes
- and they were really telling a story... - Yeah.
...about the growth of the ugly duckling.
They had two of their eggs out of two survive
which is just fantastic. So, they kind of went a little riskier there,
only doing two eggs, but they both made it.
So, 100 percent. Can't argue with that. That streamer that didn't come out
- didn't really succeed at all. - I love that.
They got a little bit lucky in that the rocket tumbled and so,
the eggs didn't break. So, I'd say going forward,
try to test your engineering designs a little more
and see if it'll actually deploy and work.
Brooks, what are your thoughts on the Green Team spacecraft?
By far the most outlandish, absolutely stunning test of all time.
You went way out on a limb to do something incredible
by surrounding your eggs with a bunch of blown up hand balloons.
If you're gonna make something mind-blowing, that would be it.
Nobody has ever seen
- a rocket like that before. - Yeah.
Yeah.
My notes would be Ham and Eggs. Where's the ham and where's the eggs?
Get the full story to come out. There was no chimpanzees
painted on the rocket. I'm not getting the full story.
- Got it. - All right, moving on to Orange Team.
Lauren, what did you think of the Orange Team spacecraft?
Of all of the rockets, I absolutely loved this one.
I loved the story that you guys told. I thought it was so unique
how you personalized it with each one of your own characters,
down to the shirts. The paint job was absolutely brilliant.
I loved the aliens at the top. It was adorable.
You guys did an incredible, incredible job.
I think my biggest note for you guys would be you had three eggs at the top
and it became a little top heavy I think, and when it crashed,
and didn't land the right way, one egg broke,
one egg got abducted and one egg survived.
Where is that egg though?
- I know. - I have to know where the egg is.
Moving on to Blue Team. Jeremie, as an Imagineer,
what are your thoughts on Blue Team's spacecraft?
Well, I think Blue Team has a beautiful rocket
and I love the craftsmanship. You can tell they really paid attention
to the details. Those fins are perfectly crafted,
glued on very symmetrically. It looks like they tested their mechanism
for landing them safely pretty well.
Unfortunately, their nose cone didn't come off, which a number
of the designs had that flaw.
So, they only had one of the three eggs survive.
- Which kind of stinks. - Brooks, what are your thoughts
on Maroon Team's spacecraft?
I love the girl power and the women in NASA.
It's an incredible story, especially coming
from two amazing young women getting into space and engineering.
It's dear to my own heart. I absolutely love it,
and the paint job was phenomenal. My note would be maybe fly the rocket
a little differently, so it landed in a more gentle way.
And it just like pancaked down, in the most beautiful way of course.
Besides the fact that it crashed spectacularly,
one of the three eggs survived. But that one egg
- did have my name painted on it. - That's got to count for something.
That was cool.
Let's move on to Lauren. What do you think about the Gold Team's spacecraft?
Gold team, your spacecraft was brilliantly executed.
Yours is the only one who had the parachute and it actually deployed.
I'm so proud of you. On top of that, your design was so beautiful.
Your paint job was impeccable. I love the ecosystems,
how you went from the ocean all the way to space. It just looks beautiful.
It was really incredible to watch your project fly into the sky.
- Thank you. - My notes for the Gold Team is,
if you guys win this challenge, I'd like to see a little bit more
from you on your next build.
I really want to see something incredible next time.
Thank you, judges, so much. Thank you for your feedback.
Teams, can you just give us a moment while we discuss?
- Okay. Yeah. - Yeah.
All right, so, I mean. Just, overall, all the rockets were...
All the other teams' designs are really cool,
but I feel like the theme Ham and eggs will carry us to the finals here.
I loved all the, failures,
- I loved all the prototypes. - Yeah.
All our eggs survived, and the judges oved our design.
l I'm feeling really confident
that Justin's gonna call us right now.
Okay, judges, let's give the teams the decision.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Yeah? - Yup.
Okay, teams. As you know, only three of the six teams here
will be moving on to the championship round.
The judges have deliberated and it's time to announce the final three teams.
Okay. And the first team moving on is...
the Gold Team!
Woo!
- We made it to the finals. This is crazy. - Congratulations, Gold Team.
We'll see in the championship. Well done.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
Only two more opportunities to move on to the championship round.
So, the next team moving forward is...
- the Gray Team! - What?
Yes! He called Gray Team. I can't wait to get started in finals.
- Congratulations on the gray-t job. - Nice.
You knew it was coming. Well done, guys. Very well done.
Now, it's getting a little bit more heated.
Unfortunately, only one final spot remains for the championship.
My God. I'm shaking so much right now. Please call Green.
And the final team moving on to the championship round is...
- the Green Team. - Yes!
Come on guys. We're gonna go to the finals.
- Let's do this thing. Handshake time! - Let's do it!
- Green! - Green!
- You didn't do the high five! - Come on!
Good job.
- Great job. You guys are awesome. - Congratulations, Green.
- We will see you in the championship. - Yep.
The Gray Team, Green Team and Gold Team
rocketed past the competition
with their spacecraft, landing them in the Shop Class championship.
And to the teams that are not moving on, Maroon, Blue, Orange.
You're not moving forward, but you are going home
with something awesome for all your future builds.
A Shop Class design station set up, including a drafting table
and designer chairs. Come on!
Yes, Sean!
I'm gonna miss seeing you guys. I hope you had fun.
But keep on building. Okay?
- Yeah! - Well done.
I'm gonna go home and have a lot of fun doing some more projects
and this amazing opportunity has just kind of built up my confidence.
Congratulations!
Yay!