Blake tries to protect $500,000 from escalating attacks: missile strikes, TNT explosions, flaming cars dropped from the sky, and a firestorm. He builds a fortress with shipping containers and water tanks, but the fire melts the cash anyway. MrBeast offers him $100,000 or a chance to try again.
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These 5 tanks are literally about to rain missiles upon this $500,000. And any money that doesn't get destroyed, I'm giving to Blake. But lucky for you, I'm going to give you my credit card and you can spend as much money as you want trying to protect this money from all of the missiles we're going to be launching at your money.
So I just build whatever I want?
Whatever you want. But you only have 24 hours until we fire these tanks.
I need metal. Let's go. All right, let's go, boys.
Oh, he's running. We're kicking this off with a sprint. All right, Blake, where are we going to first? I think in the junkyard. Blake's first 3 hours consisted of sourcing any metal he could find. Trying to protect his money. I mean, this looks like they have metal. Even if that meant spending $30,000.
Definitely want that.
Want that.
All the trucks.
Basically, you just want every car here.
Yeah. Can you give me any of your shipping containers? Yeah. This is good. I feel like those will work well if I put them on top of the money.
And as if buying out the entire store wasn't enough, Blake did the same thing at 2 other industrial stores.
So everything I get from you today, I would need within the next 12 hours. 12 hours. I'm willing to pay double. OK. We'll get it.
He's very quick to throw my money around. $15,000. And while we waited for the materials to be delivered, we headed back to the money and Blake laid out his official plan. You just spent the last hour strategizing. What did you come up with to stop the tanks from destroying your money? Step 1, I want to put a shipping container over the money. That is actually genius.
Step 2, giant water tank.
Do you think that's your best defense?
I think it's good, but it's not the best. Step 3 is containers filled with brick, hay, and wood. Step 4 is my best defense, a fortress of strategically angled cars. From the last video that I saw, those bullets are going to hit cars and ricochet elsewhere.
If he actually builds everything you see here, I will be flabbergasted.
Let's get to work.
Good luck. Unfortunately for Blake, it wouldn't be for another 4 hours until his materials were delivered. So he hired some construction workers to help get the job done.
I'm building a complete fortress. You drop the atomic bomb on this thing, the money's not going anywhere.
This is like an industrial construction site. It started to look like Blake might actually have a chance at protecting his money. But even if the $500,000 survives those tanks, the tanks are actually only the first of 4 phases of attacks Blake will have to defend. Fit. And believe me when I say this, they're going to get much more challenging. For the rest of the night, Blake and his crew worked tirelessly to defend the money. But by the time the sun rose, they still weren't quite done. Looking good. Looking good. That's the money. The tanks are over there. What is this car here for?
This is like my inventory back here, dude.
Put your inventory between the money and the tank. Give me 10 minutes and that white car will be right. I mean, you have 5 minutes.
Ah!
I don't think I even have time to do anything else.
Time is up!
Stop, stop. Time is up. Drop it. Drop it right there. Go far away. Blake, time has officially ended. Seems pretty sturdy. Let's go fire some tanks.
I've been up for about 25 hours now just building and building and building. I mean, I'm looking at it now, and it looks great. But then I turn around, and I see these 5 beasts. And then I see these shells that they're working with. I really had no idea they were going to be that big.
You think a shipping container's stopping that?
Hopefully 3 of them are.
2 of them are. Oh, man.
All right, it's time.
Load up the tanks.
All right, these 5 tanks pointed at your money are about to fire 20 rounds. Blake, fire the first shot.
There's so much dust.
Oh my gosh. Look at his face. Look at Blake's face. No way his money's safe.
So only 19 more, right?
19 more to go.
Chandler, fire! Ah!
This is way too much fun.
Oh my God.
All the way back here. I can count 8 holes in that shipping container.
Yeah, I see those holes.
No shot his money's safe. I'd ask you how you're feeling, but we might as well fire the last few shots.
Let's just get this over with.
5 shots.
4 shots remain.
3 shots remain.
How much money do you have back there?
Uh, like half.
2 remain.
And of course, Blake, you have to fire the last shell. The honor is mine. After this, we'll see if you have any money left.
Let's go! Oh, he's running. He's so fast.
Is there any money?
Hey, it's still there.
Yes! Blake, it looked like your money survived.
We got a fresh stack.
I know you're happy, but we're going to move on to phase 2 of 4. And in 24 hours, we're going to blow up the biggest bomb we've ever detonated in the history of our channel around your money.
Are you going to drop it?
Are you going to shoot it?
I'm glad you asked.
I'll be right back. Blake, what do you think's in those green crates?
I don't know, dude. It looks like—
Here, I'll answer for you. This is 100 crates filled to the brim with TNT.
How are you even allowed to do that?
I'm not sure it's legal. And while we prepared one of the biggest explosions in YouTube history, Blake began to strategize on how to keep his money safe.
Step 1, we got to take everything flammable out of here, man. All the wood has got to go. Step 2, water tanks. Step 3, I want to move the shipping containers that I got. I just want to close them in into the other shipping containers. And then step 4 is just walls. Met, bricks, cars if I have to.
Explosion is a lot worse than the tanks.
This is bigger than that safe that blew up.
Yes! Every single thing inside of that destroyed.
Come on.
The first time he lost $250,000 in this video. We going to repeat it? No. And because at this point Blake had been awake for over 24 hours, he trusted the construction workers to finish the job while he got a good night's rest.
Yeah, I'm going to bed. Good night, guys. This is Blake going to Arden.
And because he was so exhausted, Blake slept for way longer than he planned.
All right, I got a good night's sleep. About to find out how much progress was really done overnight.
Like, half empty.
That means nothing has happened since I've been gone.
And with only 6 hours remaining, Blake did what he could by covering his weak spots with spare parts, bricks, and more cars.
Looking good in here. Looking real good.
Oh, Mr. Jimmy, what am I about to witness? If you listen close, you can hear beeping.
It's you're going to see a school bus coming, and it's going to be plopped right where you're standing.
I assume it's not full of children.
It's a short bus.
That is just not what I asked. This is our brand new Feastables bar. New flavor, new branding. You want to try it, Blake?
Yeah.
I'm using our snack products to distract him from telling him where to put the bus.
Dude, honestly, this is better than all the other ones.
All the other ones. I promise.
Anyone want a piece of chocolate?
Oh. Oh! Did you get that? Hey, Blake, 5 minutes till bus. Move!
I need 10 more minutes. Just give me 5 extra minutes. You have 4 minutes. Bro, you're spraying them with water. Probably feels good. I don't think they agree. They're literally getting off the car. They've got 90 seconds left. Blake, you're running out of time.
Go! Go! Come on! Come on! Hey, it's 5 o'clock. Stop. Stop. Stop. Turn it off. Turn it off. Hey! Hey! Blake! Cut it off or I start taking money.
Let's go over to the bunker. You narrowly escaped death from the tanks. Let's see if you can do it again. We let the sun go down, so it's a little darker now. This is the biggest bomb we've ever set off.
Yeah, this is the first bomb I've ever seen.
Blake, are you nervous?
Yeah, I'm sweating now.
This is the detonation device. Here you go.
It's live?
Yes, it's live. 2 days of work, 17 cars, 6 water jugs, 4 shipping containers, $500,000 on the line. Let's find out if you're going home rich or with nothing. When you're ready, Blake!
3... 2... 1... Momma love you!
Oh my gosh! That fire sword is massive!
Can we go put that out?
Before we go put it out— I'm just wasting time.
Run!
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Let the fire swords go!
Go go go! Let's go see if it burns! Oh, no.
Oh, it's on fire over there.
No.
Oh, be careful.
This— Ah! Get off my money!
The fire is still going on up front. Blake is moving sandbags.
Please don't be ashes. Please don't be ashes. What do you see? What do you see?
I see green!
Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, baby! Yeah!
I see a lot of dirt on it, but it seems to survive.
Woo! I knew it! Blake, you've officially passed phase 2.
2 of 4. Do you want to see what the next challenge is?
Yes.
All right, Blake, for your third challenge, we're gonna be dropping flaming cars filled with gasoline on top of your money.
Can you tell me how many cars? A lot.
A lot?
A lot.
This is going to be the hardest phase yet. Blake will not only have to deflect the attack from the sky, but he'll also have to protect his money from the flammable gasoline seeping through cracks of his defense. And after we drop the cars, I have another surprise. Good luck.
I want the crate with the money in it to be stuffed with concrete. That shipping container that's just sitting, plop that on top of the money.
Since Blake had been working so hard for the past few days, he ended up going right to sleep and saved most of his work for the next day. And although he seemed confident, this challenge would soon prove itself to be more difficult than anything he's ever faced in these videos.
All right, this is day 4.
I'm feeling like a zombie. We're gonna take the other shipping container that I have, we're gonna pick that up, and we're gonna put it in a formation to where the point is facing up so it's like a pyramid. The cars will hit it, doom, and fall, but not on the money. We've got to get that shipping container on top as soon as possible. It's starting to worry me a little bit.
Over the next few hours, Blake did everything in his power to place the top shipping container at an angle to deflect the cars. Even if that meant using wooden logs to prop it up.
If this container does not go exactly where I want to right now, I'm probably losing a lot of money.
What's up? We did it!
Oh, that makes me feel really good.
The water tank, we bring that over to, like, right here, fill that thing with bricks, and then we're gonna take the last car we got, put it right here.
That's gonna block all this. It's gonna look great. We got a plan, baby.
But what Blake didn't know is I was about to introduce a twist. Do you want to know what the twist is?
Yeah.
Follow me.
See that flag over there? That's a catapult. So as cars fall from the top, giant flaming balls are gonna be hurled from the side.
Dude, I've been guessing millions of things. I never thought catapult. I have like no more materials. I have nothing else to use.
Throughout the final hour, Blake raced to cover the weak spots of his fortress. However, there was still a key part missing. His water truck, which he sent to refill in the morning, was painfully late. He has 90 seconds left. All right, here we go. As always, it comes down to the wire with Blake.
60, 59, 58, 54.
He's drenching everything in water before we drop the cars to try to protect his money from the fire. 30 seconds remain. You really think this is gonna stop the fire? Oh yeah, baby.
3, 2, 1, drop it! Just for that, I'm not showing mercy on the last one.
You knew that was gonna happen.
That was intentional.
Oh man, moment of truth.
Look how high up that bad boy is. This is only the the first of 5 flaming cars we're gonna be dropping on top of the 5 flaming death balls from the catapult. You ready, Blake?
Get this going, dude.
Light it on fire! Now drop it! Oh no! Oh my gosh!
Oh, hold on, everything is actually setting on fire right now. The burning car successfully rolled off the container. However, the wood that Blake used to prop it up quickly engulfed in flames.
Dude, what's going on? What is happening?
What in there is on fire?
But I don't— I, I, I don't even know what to say.
All right, what was on top of the shipping container?
All right, there is wood there. Let's not jinx it. Knock on wood.
You put wood and you knew we were dropping flaming cars?
I needed to use them, dude.
Luckily, Blake did surround his money with cinder blocks, so there's still a very high likelihood his money is unburnt. And since we're about to go into the coolest part of this video, obviously now I'm going to tell you about Acorns. Their debit card is meant to help you grow your money, not just spend it, which I'll tell you more about in a second.
Fire!
Acorns just launched the new Mighty Oak debit card that they made with Dwayne Johnson. Cool thing about this debit card is every time you make a purchase, it automatically rounds up to the nearest dollar and invests the difference for you. Believe it or not, your money is also under attack, not by giant flaming death balls, but by thieves. Things like bills, spending, and inflation. And when you're not spending, your money will be hard at work in two of the highest APYs available. Chandler, what does APYs mean? It means you can fight back against bills and inflation by growing your money just by having your money in your account. Blake, how you doing, buddy?
I'm remembering what it feels like to lose one of these things.
Whoa!
Oh, it's a direct hit.
Oh, right on the money! And just from signing up, Acorns and I are giving you $20 to start growing your money. So go to acorns.com/mrbeast to learn how you can make your money work for you.
Light it on fire! Drop it!
The rain of fire continued all throughout the night.
Oh!
And as the flames only grew bigger, things sadly started to look really bleak for Blake's money. No, no, no. That fire was raging for over an hour and a half.
It's either all going to be there or it's not going to be there at all.
That right there is a bunch of logs of wood. He accidentally created a giant bonfire. He thought he was making a fortress, but he was actually making a furnace.
I mean, there's still a chance the concrete protected the money.
Blake, moment of truth. Did the cinder blocks protect your money?
No.
Or was the fire just too much? Oh my God. Oh no. Oh. Oh, those are ruined. Wait, hold up. The money is fried. It's 1,000 degrees in there. Let's be real with ourselves, Blake. It's gone. As you saw, most of the money looks like this.
Another loss. Yeah, this one hurts more than the laser one. What hurts the most is that I worked so hard for nothing. Yeah, it sucks.
The challenge is officially over. And before you go, Blake, I have an offer for you. You have two choices. You can either walk away with $100,000 or you can get a third and final chance to compete in a future video.
All right, I'm coming back. You're coming back?
I'm coming back. Okay.
Blake's final chance to be in a video is going to be right here, but it won't be uploaded until February. I don't think me, the audience, everyone can bear to see you lose a third time. I'll see you then!
