JUSTIN: Previously on Shop Class...
- Welcome to the semi-finals. - (ALL CHEER)
Yes. You were the top finishers in each of your episodes.
- Little free library. - (ALL CHEERING)
JUSTIN: Mini golf hole.
Skate park obstacle.
Bridge.
Picnic table.
Derby racer.
You're building your very own spacecraft.
- I knew it. - (ALL LAUGH)
JUSTIN: Your spacecraft has four eggs on it,
we're about to see how well they do.
(ALL EXCLAIM, GASP)
- DARON: Let's go. - (ALL CHEERING)
Three teams will be moving on to the championship round,
the Gold Team...
the Gray Team...
the Green Team.
The Gray Team, Green Team, and Gold Team rocketed past
the competition with their spacecraft, landing them in the championship.
JUSTIN: That's great.
JUSTIN: Now, the top three teams face off in one final showdown.
- ALYSSA: Oh, that's a wall. - (DRILL MACHINE WHIRRING)
ALYSSA: We're gonna have a roof.
JUSTIN: Building backyard forts that look awesome.
Dude, that's so cool.
JUSTIN: And do something cool.
- Oh, look, candy. - Sweet treats.
JUSTIN: Only one of these three teams will earn the title of Shop Class Champs
and take home an epic grand prize.
Please. Please. Please be us.
Hazzah!
(DARON SIGHS) At it again.
Go, let's do this, guys.
We're here in the finals with the best of the best.
I'm, like, actually about to faint, just...
- ALYSSA: Hello. - KYLE: Hey. Hey, guys.
Nice to see you again.
When I first came into Shop Class,
I was just an artsy person, not some type of amazing builder
like Andrew or Mr. Kyle.
I wonder what the challenge is gonna be this time.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
But now that I'm part of the finals,
I feel really great to be an awesome builder.
- All right. - We have confidence.
- CARRINGTON: Hello. - KIM: Hi.
- BILL: Hey. Hey. - ALYSSA: Hi.
Wow, this is a challenge.
This is pretty exciting.
The judges know we can design, they know we can do origami,
they know we can give them a precise look,
but since it's the finals, we need to bring our A game.
I wanna win this thing.
What?
Congratulations, teams.
And welcome to the Shop Class Championships.
You've all earned your way into the championship, so congratulations.
You should be proud of how far you've come.
We've got the Green Team with Kim, Marco, and Daron.
They first won with their Moon-Shot Mini Golf Hole...
and then launched into the finals
with their ham and egg themed spacecraft.
Next, we have the Gray Team with Kyle, Alyssa, and Andrew
whose mid-century modern little free library
blew us away, and then you shot past the competition
with your ugly duckling-inspired spacecraft.
Rounding things off is the Gold Team with Bill, Carrington, and Andrew
who sped past the competition
with their shark-themed Shop Class derby racer.
Then, of course, you guys blasted past the competition
with your "Save The Earth" themed spacecraft.
All three teams of talented builders have battled through qualifiers,
rocketed past the semi-finals,
and are about to take on one final build challenge.
The top team will earn the title of Shop Class Champs
and take home an epic grand prize.
But before we get building, let's, for the last time,
bring out our panel of judges that will determine the Shop Class Champs.
You already know our regular judges, award-winning maker and architect,
he's no stranger to you, Brooks Atwood.
And award-winning interior designer and home decor expert, Lauren Makk.
Hi, guys.
Finally, please welcome guest judge who's familiar to some of you,
Walt Disney Imagineer, Ms. Kathryn Yancey.
At Imagineering, growth is constant, you know.
There's only one way to go and that is up,
and really, that's the same thing
that we're looking for in the Shop Class contestants.
Are they trying new things, innovation, you know?
Are they pushing the boundaries further than they did before?
You know what to do, go ahead and grab a cart,
and bring it back to your workstation.
Kyle is finally pushing the pushcarts.
I like to see that, I'm a very literal person.
Okay, teachers, on the count of three, I want you to pull those tarps.
One, two, three. Pull.
Well, well, well,
- what do we have here? - KYLE: Oh, wow.
JUSTIN: We got a bunch of wood, a window, knobs, siding material.
You'll also have access to motorized components and new technology.
These are part of everyone's childhood, and they can be found in neighborhoods
all around the world.
Of course, I'm talking about the backyard fort.
- Wow. - Cool.
- Interesting. - JUSTIN: Huh?
Your challenge is to take the basic backyard fort
and to make it contemporary by building what we're calling
an adventure pod.
Backyard forts have been around for generations,
we all know this, have you had a backyard...
Marco, did you have a backyard fort?
- Of course. - Of course.
JUSTIN: And what kind of stuff would you do in there?
- Um, anything I wanted. - All right.
So for this challenge, you'll be designing and building
something cool and structurally sound.
We want an adventure pod that reflects your team's personality.
It will be judged an overall design creativity and build functionality.
You'll have just three days to build something that is dynamic,
interactive, and does something cool.
The team that builds the most amazing adventure pod
will be crowned Shop Class Champs and take home an epic grand prize.
- ALYSSA: That's awesome. - DARON: Yeah.
- DARON: Go. - It's a championship.
All right.
On the count of three. One, two, three...
- let's get building. - Let's get building.
- DARON: Yeah, let's go. - ALYSSA: Come on, guys.
As an interior designer, this challenge is right up my alley.
I'm so excited about seeing these kids' ideas.
We've got some grease pencils here.
Building a fort seems like a very easy thing to do,
but creating an adventure pod is taking it to the next level.
ANDREW: I like the idea of having the beach theme, so I think,
if we did, like, a lighter wood, like sandalwood,
and then have lots of windows to make it really open.
Now that we're in the finals, I know the judges are gonna be
way more harsh on us, so we got to come up
with something different to impress them.
ALYSSA: Can there be a part of it that's sunset?
KYLE: Well, how about that? What about paintings?
Sunset paintings? Cool. Maybe dolphin paintings.
On the inside, we're gonna have amazing murals.
On the outside, we're planning to have a climbing wall,
which is really cool.
So there's, like, little climbing holds.
- Like a bell on top or something? - Yeah, it's a good idea.
There is going to be a hammock in the front. A little grassy deck.
- So the front is open, right? - Yeah.
That's lots of light is coming in.
The inside is going to have a place to play games,
a place to chill, places to do artwork or schoolwork,
so we're really pumped.
JUSTIN: The Gray Team is hanging ten with their surf shack-inspired design.
They're going for a 10-foot climbing wall, a full open-air wall entry
and a sleeping loft to maximize space.
KYLE: Nice. I really like that.
DARON: We can go for a military theme.
- You want a military theme? - Yeah, right?
Yeah. My grandpa's in the navy.
Yeah, and so was my uncle and my dad.
The judges said to make sure in this adventure pod,
it's, like, something that means a lot to you.
So Marco and I both have something in common,
his grandfather is in the navy, and so was my dad.
So we're doing that military theme.
- We want it to look like camouflage. - Camouflage.
- Well, I was... Yeah. - The camouflage.
Camouflage would be pretty cool.
Camo on the outside
and on the inside, it's gonna be like cots
and secret contraptions, and everything awesome.
- We could do a little porch. - We could have a little escape hatch.
On the back.
I think we got the championships in the bag.
JUSTIN: The Green Team is going with a military-themed adventure pod
that will have a camouflage exterior, a clear roof,
and an escape hatch in the back.
- This is gonna be so awesome though. - DARON: I would live in there.
I wanna see what you... Ideas you guys have.
Okay, so you can do yours first or I'll do mine first.
- Let's do it at the same time, go, go, go. - So... Okay.
I think we should build a castle
because what shows adventure better than a castle?
- So this is the drawbridge right here. - BILL: Mm-hmm.
Andrew wants to do a castle.
And I wanna stick with the more modern style.
It's like some type of bungalow, I guess you could say.
We'd need about a week... Two weeks for this one.
- For this? - Yeah.
Okay, we can do a different model then or just make it smaller.
We've been coming up with really good ideas.
ANDREW: A drawbridge would be the door and the deck, so...
BILL: Oh. Andrew, I like this idea.
But we can't land on just one.
- Let's make it milk chocolate. - ANDREW: I say castle.
BILL: I think castle's a beautiful idea if we had more time.
ANDREW: Okay, yeah. You're the instructor.
JUSTIN: The Gold Team is on the fence between a traditional castle
and a modern structure that also involves a drawbridge.
Lauren shows up to hear their pitch.
- ANDREW: Okay, so... - Hi, Gold Team.
- How are you guys doing? - Hey. Hi, Lauren. Good.
What are you guys gonna do for us this time?
So our idea was, like, a lounging spot but still modern design.
- Okay. - We are thinking drawbridge.
- Yeah. - What if we made a wall
that could drop and open the entire area.
And it became a patio?
Oh, that's cool. I love what you've got going,
I love the elements that you have incorporated into this.
My only concern is, there's nothing really overwhelming
by a pitched roof and a basic house.
I think if you took the drawbridge and utilize that with the castle,
that'd be super cool.
That would take it over the top, you know what I mean?
Otherwise, this could just look like a shed outside.
- You know what I mean? - Okay. Yeah, that's inspiring.
When Lauren came by,
she really persuaded us to go with the castle.
JUSTIN: The Gold Team is finally locked in their design,
which now is a traditional castle with four round turrets
and a drawbridge that converts into a deck.
That one up there looks kind of weird but if we have the pillars
a little bit higher, it looks better.
So we're trying to make it, like, camouflage.
Like, the bunkers that the military uses.
- Yeah. - Coolest thing about this
is that we're gonna have some escape routes
in case mom comes in, she'll be like, "What are you all doing here?"
- Ah! (LAUGHS) - You know, "Eating some candy?"
This is a really cool idea.
And here's a really cool thing about what your project is,
because it's a military bunker, it doesn't have to necessarily be
completely, crazy finished on the inside.
- Yeah. - That's kind of the theme,
so really work on the outside, and the exterior being, like,
- a wow factor. - Yeah.
The green team is always amazing at telling a big story.
And I love the idea of adding that military feel to their bunker.
I wanna see those full elements of design to really wow me.
That, at the top, we've got a loft, so that you can read and stuff like that.
And we are planning to put big open windows so you can see the outside.
Oh, so this is like a beach house, a little beach cabana...
- Yeah. - KYLE: And we're thinking
about doing a rock wall on the back,
and then these would actually be painted...
- Little crabs. - ...like crabs.
That's cool. Especially if you could utilize the roof in a cool way, too.
- KYLE: Yeah. - And make that like a lookout.
- That's a really good idea. - Yeah.
- Yeah. Well I'm ready to move in. - Yeah.
I'm really excited, you guys. This is gonna be incredible,
I know it's day one and these are your first thoughts,
so keep thinking because you guys are on the right track.
Okay, Marco, let's go over what we're doing.
KYLE: We're working on the structure.
The foundation, the walls, and stuff like that.
These are gonna be put in like this, and we're gonna nail them in this way.
This is supposed to be what?
- Thirty or forty? - Thirty.
Should we start screw... screwing these in?
- Is that how we're doing this? - Do you have your little screwdriver?
- The baby ones. - Oh, good.
There's a lot of adventure that's supposed to go into this.
But that can't be brought in until we have the basic structure up.
- See these lines right here? - Got it. Yeah?
- We need to make them everywhere. - DARON: To screw them in?
Yeah. Spread them about, about one, once here,
once here, once here.
We're trying our hardest.
He'll probably be fine.
- Get it done. - Maybe.
I'm cutting out the teeth of the top of the turret.
We're the first team to get all four walls up in front of everybody,
so I think we're feeling pretty good.
- Little stressed though. - I'm stressed, I don't know.
It's gonna be tight. It's...
Seriously, this is one of the toughest projects.
It's a big one, we'll be lucky if we get it finished,
so we need every minute we have.
I'm kind of, like, letting the weight of the roller...
do the work because there's a lot of paint on it, so...
I'm not really putting anything.
And now I'm kinda adding more pressure, but when I do, you can see these lines,
so I'm gonna go back, lighten the pressure up
just to kinda get rid of some of those lines.
I think we have an ambitious design.
On the outside, we're planning to have a climbing wall,
and on the inside, we're gonna have amazing murals.
KYLE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Work that.
Yeah, that's looking really good.
And I feel we can let our imagination fly.
KYLE: Yeah, that looks rad, Alyssa.
JUSTIN: While the Gray Team paints their walls
with traditional rollers and brushes,
the Gold Team uses a very unconventional method.
Doing it with the roller makes it go faster,
but it doesn't get it as clean as my hands.
Right now, we're painting our castle.
So the main color on the outside will be gray,
and we're painting, like little bricks on them on all four sides.
- KYLE: Good? - ANDREW: Good.
ALYSSA: Oh, that's a wall.
- We're practicing... - We're practicing
our camo paint and we're not that good at it.
JUSTIN: The cabana walls are starting to take shape for the Gray Team,
but Kyle notices a big structural problem with the climbing wall.
We went big. But maybe too big.
I don't think we are going to be able to engineer it and support all that weight
of kids climbing on the back, so unfortunately,
we're gonna have to take it down at least a foot.
Going into this challenge, time was already against us,
and now it's compounded.
It was a little too tall so we cut it, now we're just...
We're gonna unscrew this, the top plate,
and put it back on the new elevation.
I feel good about the stability, I'm just frustrated
with how it cost us a couple hours.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER) - Hey, Gold Team.
- Hi. - Hey, Brooks.
- How's it going? - Good.
JUSTIN: Day one of building is almost over
and Brooks checks in with the teams and their progress.
So we're gonna have a drawbridge right here.
- Okay. - And then
it'll come up and then come down with a string and a pulley.
You have a drawbridge, and it's gonna be here
- and, like, close up the hole... - Yes.
...to keep out riffraff?
People like me out of the fort? I mean it sounds like you're taking it
to the max, so you might wanna, like throw in some fake cobwebs
and other, like, hay... pieces of hay laying around.
So it looks old and not freshly painted.
It's very difficult to do a theme all the way, too,
so you can't half do it, you gotta go all in.
- Otherwise, it's gonna seem hokey. - Hokey.
- Right? That's a technical term. - Yeah.
It's incredibly difficult to make something authentic-looking
and that's what I'm expecting from this team given the level
of excellence in their previous challenges.
ALYSSA: We have different scenes on the wall.
This is the one under the loft, so it's where you're facing
when you're doing your desk work.
Are each of the... Is this gonna bleed into the other walls
or each wall inside the cabana is a totally different theme?
Each wall we're planning to put in as a different scene.
Wow, that's a lot of craziness going on in the same tiny space.
This is so beautiful and powerful as it is,
you might wanna just bleed this around to the other surfaces, like...
- Yeah. - Yeah.
That's a lot for me to say, that it might be too much,
but then it might be too much.
They have such amazing artwork, but...
nothing, there's nothing here, there's no windows,
There's no roof. There's... Time is running out very fast.
We're going to have some secret ways you could leave,
so when your mom's coming saying, "What are you guys doing in here?"
- Yeah, run. - You're playing games.
- Make a run for it. - You've got candy on the bookshelves.
You push down, like, a window and you jump out.
So you have an escape hatch?
- We've got an escape hatch. - Through the window?
- So it's like a false window? - Yeah.
- And you just book through there. - Yeah.
- These are great ideas... - Yeah.
...you guys. This is so cool.
Wow, you're really taking architecture to another level and also
creating a totally immersive space, I love all these ideas,
I would just say like bring those things that give you goose bumps
with your grandpa and your dad being military guys which is amazing,
thank you for their service, bring those like personal touches to that.
Green Team has a military theme which is great,
and they have really touching stories that are very personal to them,
but I just want them to get the essence of those ideas into the space,
so when you walk in, it looks like someone has been here,
and somebody loves the space,
and it's all about those little attention to detail.
Okay, good luck.
That was a good day, we got a lot done,
this painting looks rad, we're almost finished with this.
There's a lot we need to do. Yeah, a whole lot.
We have to finish the painting, get the interior done, finish the roof.
- Don't forget our trapdoors. - Yeah.
- Or escape doors. - Yeah.
- Escape wall. - All the extras inside, yeah.
Well, get a good night rest, we've got a busy day tomorrow.
- Okay. - All right.
- See you, guys. See you. - Bye.
As contestants advance in the competition, I'm really looking for them
to step up their game in terms of storytelling.
Are those details there? Are those tiny little aspects
that allow me to invest into their story.
Their ideas are great, but can they execute and am I wowed?
JUSTIN: It's the start of a new day for our Shop Class finalists.
And with two days to go, the pods are starting to take shape.
But with a long way to go.
All right, you guys, we got a big day ahead of us.
Last night, when I got home, I started thinking about
the monstrosity we have here, and I think we need to...
We need to change the design.
We really wanted to go big on this project
and with the amount of time we have left,
the design roof that we were hoping to really wow the judges,
it's just not in our cards right now.
JUSTIN: To save time, Gray Team changes their design
from a standard roof to an airy fabric canopy.
It might actually make the whole structure look better really.
Start carefully, carefully...
painting the brick walls that you see here.
- Painting them what? - Kind of a light...
- A very light gray. - Gray?
This is a huge challenge and it's the biggest one we've done yet.
I don't know how we're gonna do it if we don't have an extra day or two,
which we don't, so it's gonna be tough.
- KIM: Hey, you guys gonna paint? - Yeah.
Painting it, floors, doors.
- Roof. - Roof...
you know, the basics, we gotta get that done in one day.
Because right now you have circles, we don't want circles for sure.
Let me just show you...
and then you take the other colors,
and you do the whole thing like that, splotting like this.
I wanna get the camo painting done because I feel like it will bring
more to the table because it just looks really good.
It would be faster for you to do that, right?
And it looks better.
DARON: Get down here, Marco. Paint some of these sections.
I'm painting the words to say, "vertical crab walk."
We're gonna put this on hinges, and that's, like a little compartment.
You guys are really doing a great job. Don't swirl it.
Oh, good job. Did you see something?
- DARON: Oh, wow! - Hey. Did I surprise you?
- You startled me. - Sorry, it's just me.
- So what do we got here? - So, right now,
for our adventure pod, we want...
- Can I touch? - Yup.
No. No.
You're not on the same page.
Well, I don't need to touch, I know, I've touched things
- like that before. - Yeah. So, our theme,
we're kinda going for, like a military style.
That's cool.
DARON: We're going for, like, a military style.
Now, my hands are camo, can you even see them?
- No, I can't see it. - Right?
- No, I can't see it. - Classic camouflage.
- So, what's gonna happen up here? - There'll be like a comforter up there.
Oh, okay. So what's next?
We wanted to add a rock-climbing wall on this side.
The middle table is the game table.
- Where's the table gonna be? - Table's gonna be here.
Oh, I like this table, it's an imaginary table?
- Yup. For now, at least. - It's cool.
I can have my imaginary French toast, that was a bad miming thing,
that's not how you eat French toast, it's more of a spoon situation.
Okay, cool. So how do you feel about...
Do you feel like you... You're gonna make it?
- Pumped. Yeah, yeah. - JUSTIN: Pumped, good.
Good luck. I'll see you guys later.
(GROANS)
A regal congratulations to my building subjects.
By the way, this isn't a real scepter,
it's just a block of wood I found. Fooled you.
So, what do you have left to do?
We've got the floor, we have the ceiling.
- Uh! - We have the turrets.
- Details. - BILL: We have the bench.
Minor.
- BILL: The patio drawbridge. - CARRINGTON: Drawbridge.
- JUSTIN: Oh, wow. - Which will hopefully be electrified.
JUSTIN: Well, you guys are very ambitious.
Enough chitchat, you got to get cracking so.
- Adieu, my loyal subjects. - Adieu.
- BILL: Thank you.
Keep working. Work away or you'll be banished from my kingdom.
We started the day off slow...
with that wall and then we had like a growth spurt.
Those vines make it look really nice.
These are wall panelings that are gonna go on each side.
A little bit left to do of the floor then move on to the roof.
Okay. Now you pull that side.
(DRILL MACHINE WHIRRING)
Kinda going for medieval time.
JUSTIN: With only a few hours left in day two, Imagineer Kathryn Yancey
surveys the team's builds while getting the lowdown on their creative visions.
I'm really excited.
So it's crunch time right now.
You can see everybody is in the thick of it.
It really is exciting to see where they're at
and where they're gonna end up.
You look at the outside, it's like the house
is going to be an adventure but when you step in,
- it's going to be a complete other world. - Okay.
I notice for the Green Team, the details and the paintwork
was very intricate and it's those things that really immerse you
into the entire experience.
I'm painting different colored crabs for the rock wall on the back.
Awesome. The color palette is beautiful, and I think it probably ties in
very nicely to the rest of the aesthetic for your experience.
For the Gray Team, I think that the beachy theme
is definitely coming through in their work.
Just the imagery, even with the dolphins,
is authentic to their team and I think it will be
an amazing experience once it all comes together.
- Knock, hello. - Hey.
- Hi. - This is impressive.
Originally, we started kind of modern and we went back in time.
- So we're in the castle theme. - I love it.
This is our patio combination drawbridge.
We will have a patio that lifts with a remote control.
I love, you know, the addition of technology,
I think that's extremely thoughtful and innovative.
The Gold Team, I think their construction is amazing
and the little extra drawbridge, I think, might be a wow factor
when it comes together. So I'm very excited to see that.
All right. Thanks.
You know, those judges, they know what we can do
and they have high expectations.
They wanna see a lot of fine detail work on our project.
It just glides right over.
I just hope we have enough time to really pull it off
and get those little details taken care of so they really see what we can do.
DARON: Okay, so I got the "Bravo" sign done.
We're bringing everything to this table. It's the finale.
Woo!
We got to push every remaining thing we have and put it on the table
so we have a nice adventure pod at the end.
KIM: We're gonna have a roof.
We've had quite a few design changes but with the judges seeing what we can do
and what we've done, I think they're going to think it's great.
Line it up like this and then make sure it's not overlapping.
JUSTIN: Before the second build day ends, there's one last test
that can make or break the Gold Team.
The power bridge...
Uh, I'm really hoping we can get it to work
because I think that would make our build really special,
but I don't know how it's gonna go. I'm... I'm nervous.
You know, being the Gold Team, we're going for the gold.
And we have to hold it for three seconds to activate it, okay.
And I don't wanna disappoint the kids but we've really bitten off a big project.
This is big. If it works, it'll be really nice.
Yeah. It'll be awesome.
I hope we can do it.
Are you ready?
(MACHINE WHIRRING)
(BILL EXCLAIMS)
Woo-hoo!
Looking around in the build zone, to our left, we have the camo,
to our right we have the castle, their walls are up,
their interiors are coming along pretty well.
It's pretty intimidating, but that's how we've been rolling,
we always kind of come out from behind and take it.
So I think we're gonna be consistent with that.
Imagineering means to me endless possibilities.
I think it allows you to escape
into another world and I'm really looking for these teams
to pride something magical.
I wanna be awed by the splendor of their magical creation.
All right, guys, we have so much to do.
Oh, that was cool.
JUSTIN: With only a few hours left to finish their adventure pods,
the three teams are racing to put the finishing touches on their builds.
If given the choice, always choose adventure.
Yeah, I'm feeling the pressure big time right now.
- KIM: What are we doing first? - DARON: Bravo Zulu flag.
- MARCO: Flag. - And then we do all this, okay?
- So, go, go, go. - Okay.
JUSTIN: The Green Team has completed all of the major build elements for their pod,
including the escape hatch.
Dude, that's so cool.
We're fighting the clock right now,
but I feel like we're bringing the most adventure.
DARON: We are the best of the best in Shop Class.
Marco, you're good?
This isn't that sticky. Dang.
No, that's good.
Okay. Let's plug in the desk lamp and the desk lamp can go over there.
Today's the last build day
and I think we're feeling a little overwhelmed.
JUSTIN: The time Gray Team has saved by changing their roof design
has given them a chance to catch up with the other teams,
but there's still a ton of work to do.
(GRUNTS)
What happened with the ceiling?
It's really low. Was it always that low?
- ALYSSA: Yeah, it is kind of low. - ANDREW: Wait, I can maybe tighten it up.
You're gonna do the pillows and get them all set up.
JUSTIN: The Gold Team has made a ton of progress over the last 24 hours.
But some major challenges still remain,
including the mechanical and paintwork on their catapult.
Drive the head of the nail down so that it's about an eighth of an inch above.
ANDREW: There?
BILL: Great. That's great. Perfect.
It's crunch time, we still have a lot to do.
We have to paint the outside of the drawbridge,
we need to put the fire in.
But, hey, we're hustling, we're trying our best.
No, a little bit higher up. A little bit higher up.
That's good. That's good. That's perfect. Perfect.
- Dude, this looks so cool. - MARCO: Should I just like...
In the navy,
they have a flag for each letter in the alphabet.
So this right here stands for B which is Bravo,
and then the other side stands for Z which is Zulu. So Fort Bravo Zulu.
KYLE: This one right here is a drippy drip, it may...
It looks like it's not gonna go any further but...
ALYSSA: Okay.
- Oh, yours are way better than mine. - (CHUCKLES)
- Not really. - No, I think they are.
Thank you.
-ANDREW: No, leave it there.
- Leave it there. - BILL: Okay.
CARRINGTON: No, because it's a secret entrance.
- BILL: Because these little ones just... - ANDREW: Yeah, it's supposed to be secret.
- CARRINGTON: Oh, okay. - (ANDREW LAUGHS)
This is mirror writing so it has a secret message in it
when you hold that mirror up to it.
They're gonna go on a treasure hunt to find the secret exit.
A royal decree from the king.
Attention my subjects, peasants, Andrew.
- ANDREW: What? - One hour, you have one hour.
Come on, help me.
Okay, hold this, I'm gonna jump down. No, I'm kidding.
- ANDREW: Like that? - BILL: Yeah, it looks good.
Bye, everyone.
So we'll just
- hang in on that one for now. - ALYSSA: Mr. Kyle, can I use...
Just do a nice check. No, no, no, yeah, that's good.
BILL: Nice, very nice. Great. And now we can do the shield.
KYLE: Maybe lean it, like, over on that side.
CARRINGTON: I'm gonna start washing the floor.
- BILL: Okay. - CARRINGTON: Okay.
- Oh, look. Is this a... - Hammock, yeah.
- A hammock. - Although I wouldn't lie down on it.
ALYSSA: Oh!
- That wasn't very nice, Andrew. - Yeah, I wouldn't lie down on it.
That would be worse if you lied down on it.
JUSTIN: What happens if I lie down in it?
- KYLE: The walls fold... - ANDREW: The walls will fall.
...and the ceiling collapses.
Miss Kim, the rope is mixed... Missed... Maxed...
- What's the word? Messed up. - Okay, can you try to...
(GROANS)
KIM: Lift it up so it doesn't touch the ground.
BILL: Nice.
KYLE: Get the screwdriver,
- the grass is a little loose right there. - ALYSSA: Yeah.
KIM: There we go.
BILL: It's different, this is called a flat-head, this is a torx head.
- DARON: Um... - KIM: The whistle.
The screw disappeared in front, in the transit.
- Who's there? - That's Morse code for one minute.
- DARON: Really? - I'm surprised you didn't know that.
DARON: One minute, Miss Kim.
KIM: Put the ammo box, like, in that corner.
BILL: Put some hay in there, too, for the floor.
(BOTH GRUNT)
KIM: Everything has to look good.
I never laid floor before.
- KYLE: It looks really good. Yeah, yeah. - Okay.
ALYSSA: The wall's dirty so I need to wipe it with water.
- Ten, nine, eight... - ANDREW: Go, go, go.
- ...seven, six... - Oh my God.
...five, I'm gonna miss you guys, four, three, two, one.
Tools down, Andrew.
(EXCLAIMS) Shake it.
- Yeah. - All right, guys.
Hey, you guys have done such a great job.
- ALYSSA: Good job. - Yeah. Good job, you guys.
Good job.
Whether we win or lose, this was awesome.
- Good job. - Yeah.
I love the ceiling you guys did.
Can you believe we're sitting in this place?
My dad would... I think he'd break down in tears seeing this.
The vines you did, everything, very nice.
You guys did such a good job and worked your butts off.
- Good job, Kim. - All right.
- Thank you. - Carrington.
What an incredible journey this has been,
and I'm so grateful to have been a part of it.
Let's start with Green Team.
Daron, as the team's unofficial spokesperson,
how do you feel like your team has grown
over the course of these three builds?
I feel like we've all come a long way. I've learned a lot from Miss Kim,
and how to just use our creativity, and imagine, and, you know,
take a step back before we build and envision what we're going to do.
So Gray Team, what was the most challenging part of the build?
I would say the size of it. We wanted to have a deck out on the front
and a rock wall on the back.
So just incorporating the extra work to build those walls was pretty intense.
I bet. Lady Carrington,
a question for thine is what inspired thy medieval castle theme?
- Sorry, what inspired your castle theme? - Oh, okay.
At first, we all started to just put different ideas, of course.
- JUSTIN: Toss them all in there. - I had more of the modern theme
and Andrew really wanted to do the castle, so we did and we just...
I think it looks actually pretty good.
- Does that catapult actually work? - Yes.
Okay. Over the past three days, you guys have built
and designed your very own adventure pods.
We wanted you to take the idea of a basic backyard fort
and make it contemporary and cool.
I am not a good judge of what's cool, but fortunately, these three are.
So we're about to find out.
Let's start with the Green Team.
Daron, what are we looking at here?
So the theme we went with was kind of like a military style.
Marco and I have something in common, we both have military families
and, yeah, if you look, we have like a camo style, right?
- Yeah. - DARON: And the alphabet for the Navy,
they have a flag for each letter of the alphabet.
So, this stands for Bravo Zulu which means "Job Well Done".
Well, Bravo Zulu to you, guys.
- DARON: Thank you. - MARCO: Thank you.
If you don't mind me taking that. There's an inside, this is great.
LAUREN: Very nice, boys.
- BROOKS: Oh, awesome. Holy... - JUSTIN: Wow!
- It smells so good and woodsy in here. - LAUREN: Look, there's a secret code.
- What does it say? - "Go low and right."
- Go low and right. - Go and right.
Wait, there's another secret message over here.
- Okay, go see it. - What does that say?
- Hello, Justin. - Hello, Brooks.
- Yeah, I'm here. - Let's go by the secret passage.
Under the flowers, a sweet treat. There's a...
- Under the flowers? - I left you.
- Oh, look, candy. - Sweet treats.
You guys, we found the secret stuff.
LAUREN: Hey, there's candy over here, too.
- No, that's toilet paper. - I can eat it.
Brooks, what do you think of the design?
I love it. I think it's amazing.
I even love this translucent roof. This is so cool.
- Yeah. - You'll be able to see out at night,
the full moon, the stars, but I love the, like,
being inside and outside. I love the space in here,
it feels like it's the right amount of space.
JUSTIN: Lauren, what do you think of the space,
- how they've used the space? - I think it's brilliant that they used
the rustic aspect of a fort and really played that up
with this wood paneling, it's just... It's completely genius
and it really adds to the flavor of the space.
- I love these secret compartments, look. - There's a secret space.
- That's cool. - Hey, look, I think I noticed
- another one over here. - (ALL LAUGHING)
Oh, it's an escape chute, you guys.
- Oh, yes. - Look, you can get out,
quick, when your mom comes.
Kathryn, as our Imagineer, what are your thoughts
- on this adventure pod? - KATHRYN: You know something is great
when you come in and you start playing.
You know, we're adults and I wanted to immediately...
- Totally. - ...play around, the secret messages.
That means it is a fully immersive experience.
- They have thought through every detail. - Yes.
KATHRYN: And it really takes you to another place.
Okay, thank you, Green Team. Thank you so much.
Gold Team, you guys are up next.
- Come on in. - KATHRYN: All right. Thank you.
- BROOKS: Wait, water balloons. - CARRINGTON: Right there.
- There's definitely something in here. - Yeah.
Wow. Look, a secret hiding spot.
- So you can hide from mom. - You can go all the way out.
You can go out of it if you... If you want to.
- You can go... - There's an exit strategy?
Yeah, there's a little hook, and you take it out, and it opens.
Kathryn, what are your thoughts on Gold Team's castle, castle, castle?
Yeah, it's pretty magical, I think, you know.
We're taken to a different time, they transported us...
but it's cozy, I think I could stay by this warm fire for a while
and play some chess.
JUSTIN: Lauren, what are your thoughts when it comes to...
- From a design point of view? - I absolutely love that they took
the textured brick and used it inside. And even furthermore,
gave it a lot of depth with the paint.
It's really unique, very smart way to use the product.
I love the chest pieces on the wall,
and the coat of arms, you know, even the books on the mantle,
the dragon... they just kept consistently coming up with the same theme
and I'm really impressed.
And I love that they utilized the gold as an accent
because they are Team Gold, they really took account
- of every little detail. - JUSTIN: I wanna see the drawbridge now.
- LAUREN: Yeah, for sure. - Let's check that out.
Okay. We're gonna... We're gonna check out this drawbridge.
- Let's raise the drawbridge. - Ready to clap?
Clap on.
Yes.
(IMITATING TRUMPET)
It's so quiet.
- Wow. - Single drive point.
That's impressive. Nicely done.
- Very impressive. - That's cool.
- Very impressive. - Hazzah!
- (ALL CHEER, HOOT) - JUSTIN: A royal success.
To use a medieval phrase, that was dope.
You know, that was really cool.
Let's launch this catapult.
- Well done. - CARRINGTON: Yes.
- All right. - ANDREW: All the way down.
- BROOKS: All the way down. - CARRINGTON: All the way.
- ANDREW: Go. - Brooks.
(THUDS)
- Hazzah! Most royal success. - It launched all the way over.
All right, Brooks, let's head over to the Gray Team.
What do we have here, brah?
We wanted something that would be beach themed
and we wanted to incorporate a lot of different secret,
little things that you could figure out.
- For sure. - So we've got a few things in there.
Cool. All right. Do you mind if we take a closer look?
- Yeah. - Let's do it.
Judges, let's check it out, bro.
I don't know if I told you guys this,
but this is definitely a way to my heart if I were a judge.
I love goldfish.
- Yeah, yeah. - I love goldfish.
It's goldfish because it's the beach theme so they're fish!
- Absolutely. - Yeah, I know, Alyssa.
- Yeah. - Brooks, what do you think
- about the design construction? - It's extraordinary.
It's amazing that you have the open roof,
you have the two windows.
- Sorry, we're just discovering... - There's even a little sand table
down in here.
- And that's kinetic sand? - Yeah. See?
Whoa! That is really... This is what kinetic...
I've never experienced this.
Kathryn, what are your thoughts on the Gray Team's beach cabana?
You know, it really just draws you in.
You wanna come in and take a load off and relax
and I think it's really welcoming.
And I love the aspect of your open windows,
like, I think it really is inviting the outside in
and that's something that adventure allows you to soar and go places.
On the back side, we have a 10-foot climbing wall.
And it's called the vertical crab walk, so you can chill
and you can go back there, and we also have a secret moon passage.
So you can slide the moon over and hand people...
- We gotta see that. - Yeah.
- Do you mind if we see it? - We're gonna show you
- one last piece of technology. - One last thing?
Cool, yeah. Show us how it works.
Hey, adventure pod, turn on the lights.
(ALL GASP, CHEER)
I wanna see the secret climbing wall.
I think you guys should check out what they have in the back.
- Let's do it. - LAUREN: I'm gonna send you up something.
- JUSTIN: Look at that. So... - KYLE: Here, pull down this part.
JUSTIN: It's the perfect size. You can put things in the pail.
- In this case, we have shells inside. - Oh, great.
I was looking for snacks, but I got this shell instead.
Well, judges, you certainly have your work cut out for you.
So, let's head back and discuss.
Yeah, I was... (WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY)
JUSTIN: The judges confer one last time to choose
who will be Shop Class Champions.
Okay judges, let's give the teams the news.
- Yeah. - Okay.
So builders, all season, you know,
I've been talking about this epic grand prize,
and you're probably thinking to yourselves,
"How epic could it be?"
Well, I'm happy to announce that the Shop Class Champs
will each be taking home the ultimate 3D design and tool suite,
I'm talking a large-scale 3D printer, design software,
a professional turntable scanner and a brand new, top of the line laptop.
BILL: Wow.
(ALL CHEER, HOOT)
The runners up are also going home with something awesome
for all their future builds, a fully stocked rolling tool chest
work bench, and design station that includes a drafting table
and a designer chair.
Builders, this was a truly difficult decision...
and you've all done an amazing job, but as you know,
only one team can be crowned Shop Class Champs.
CARRINGTON: My team and I want to be Shop Class champions so bad.
For me, more than anything, I really want it right now.
I'm like in a blur right now, because I'm in the finals
and I'm one step closer to becoming a Shop Class champion.
I was like please, please, please be us.
I'm feeling really confident that Justin's gonna call us right now
because Beach Shack Adventure Pod looks so amazing.
And the Shop Class Champions are...
The Green Team.
(CHEER) Yes!
(ALL CHEER, APPLAUD)
I'm so excited right now. We've come such a far way.
JUSTIN: All three teams delivered amazing adventure pods,
but it is the Green Team's battle-ready bunker that impressed the judges the most,
earning Kim, Daron, and Marco the title of Shop Class Champs.
It's been a lot of hard work but it's also been a lot of fun,
and it's just been wonderful working with these two,
they're really great people and I consider them my friends.
KYLE: I'm so proud of what we've accomplished here at Shop Class
and I hope Andrew and Alyssa keep building on for a long time to come.
LAUREN: Congratulations, you guys all are winners.
Miss Kim has taught us that we can do things that we never imagined
and dreams can come true
if you try as hard as you can and you have the best team in the world.
Oh, yeah.
Shop Class Champs!
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)