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MrBeast Sends a Train Into a Giant Pit, and Runs a $100,000 Explosives Bet Along the Way

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In this video, MrBeast (Jimmy) and his crew run a series of large-scale destruction experiments, building up to the one in the title: a train he says he bought, sent at full speed into a giant pit. Along the way they burn down a house packed with fireworks, stage a tug-of-war between a tank and school buses, launch a car powered by ten jet engines, and use cars as bowling balls. Running through the whole video is a challenge for a crew member named Will, who has to protect a pile of cash from thousands of pounds of TNT.

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0:21

A House Filled With 100,000 Fireworks

The first experiment is a house Jimmy calls "my new house," filled with more than 100,000 fireworks. Each of the boys hides a mannequin somewhere inside to see whether surviving is even possible. One puts theirs in the bathtub, reasoning that "water and fire don't mix." Others choose the fridge and the space under the washer. Tareq leaves his on the front porch, where everyone can see it.

The house is set off with a remote. Jimmy warns that pressing one button by accident would set off the whole thing. After the countdown, the house disappears behind the blast and smoke, and the group quickly agrees the mannequins are unlikely to make it. According to the narration, the house burned all night until nothing was left, mannequins included. None of the hiding spots worked.

1:37

Tank vs. Two School Buses

Next is a tug-of-war between a real military tank and two school buses, with the loser dragged into the pit. Nobody can be inside the vehicles because a fall into the pit would kill them, so the tank is driven by remote control. Jimmy says this "feels illegal."

Before the start, one side says there's no way the tank loses. The bus side admits it will probably lose, then argues with itself about it. At full throttle the tank wins easily, and the buses go over the edge. One bus's horn keeps sounding after it lands. The crew then climbs down into the pit to look at the wrecks, nervously telling each other to stop moving on the way down. At the bottom, someone asks why the bus thought it could beat the tank. Another answers that it probably didn't.

2:43

The $50,000 TNT Challenge Begins

From the pit, Jimmy points to where the train will later land, then introduces a side challenge. $50,000 sits in a field surrounded by thousands of pounds of TNT. A crate nearby, he says, holds only about 1% of the explosives around the money. He gives Will his credit card and tells him to spend whatever he likes on protection, whether wood, bricks, or steel. Whatever money survives the explosion, Will keeps.

Will starts by buying 12 industrial water containers and filling them with 20,000 pounds of water. He says he's worried the TNT will still get through. Jimmy's narration says Will should be worried, because this is nowhere near enough.

3:33

Ten Jet Engines on One Car

In an earlier video, a car with one jet engine jumped eight buses. This time they put ten jet engines on a car to see whether it flies ten times as far. The two predictions are far apart. Jimmy expects it to clear every bus and land in the trees. Another crew member thinks it will hit the first bus.

The car is controlled remotely by a driver who is "matrix-ed into the car," meaning he sees what the car sees. During the run the driver briefly loses signal, then gets the car straightened out. The narration says the car easily cleared all 12 buses this time. The jump also broke the ramp and left a crater in the road. Afterward, an engine block sits in the road, still smoking and leaking.

4:47

Mannequins, Bouncy Balls, and a Dropped Car

Back at the pit, the question is whether a person could survive a fall onto a thousand bouncy balls. The first mannequin thrown completely misses the balls. A second one hits them. Then someone asks what would happen if they dropped a car onto it. They do, and Jimmy says the mannequin clearly didn't survive.

5:37

Will's Bunker and the Double-or-Nothing Deal

When they check in on Will, Jimmy says Will is taking the challenge much more seriously than he expected. Will says he hired professionals over the past four days. They have finished one cinder block wall, filled it (the transcript records "matches"), and started a second. He insists the dynamite won't get through.

Jimmy, impressed, offers a new deal: double the TNT for double the money, $100,000. If the explosion destroys it all, though, Will gets nothing. The others shout at Will to take the deal, and he agrees.

6:02

Bowling With Cars

While Will keeps building, Jimmy and the boys go bowling, using cars as the balls. The first car doesn't drive straight. It heads toward the crew, swerves into a field, turns around, and comes back at them. The narration later notes it was still going in circles. The second attempt gets a perfect strike. On later throws the crew has another close call ("we just about died"). One throw is called both the worst and the best yet, and one of the bowling cars is described as Karl's.

7:34

The Seven-Layer Fortress

With double the money and double the TNT at stake, Will finishes a seven-layer fortress. The layers are:

  • 20,000 pounds of water
  • mattresses
  • a cinder block wall
  • four more mattresses
  • a second cinder block wall
  • an additional 32,000 pounds of water
  • a final wall of dirt packed around everything

Will also reveals a layer Jimmy didn't know about: Feastables bars, Jimmy's own chocolate brand. Jimmy asks how he's supposed to blow up Feastables, and Will answers that this is the point.

To set off the blast, Jimmy brings back contestant number 40 from an earlier "1 through 100" video and puts them in charge of the button. The explosion sends up a huge smoke cloud, and someone thinks they see money falling from the sky. Jimmy says the money is "gone for sure." Will, watching seven days of work go up in smoke, says he isn't sure he's won and runs to check. The others run after him without quite knowing why.

The money mostly made it. Many stacks are still intact, and once it was counted, more than $95,000 had survived. Will wins $95,000.

9:05

Train vs. Pit

The final experiment sends the train down the tracks at full speed into the pit. The crew picks where their mannequins will ride. One goes in the cabin, which its owner calls "statistically the safest place to be on a train." Another is strapped to the very front. A Feastables bar also gets a front-row seat.

Jimmy says they have waited their whole lives for this moment, and Nolan sends the train. It runs off the end of the track and into the pit, and Jimmy calls it possibly the coolest thing he has ever seen. The mannequin in the cabin didn't survive either. Jimmy's verdict is "Train versus pit, the pit won," and the video ends with one last explosion.

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