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Bullets, a 100-Foot Drop, Flaming Cars and a Train: How Blake Kept His Lamborghini on the Third Try

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MrBeast (Jimmy) opens the video with a quarter-million-dollar Lamborghini parked on railroad tracks and a train heading toward it. Before the impact, he gives the car to Blake, a contestant from the channel's two previous videos who is back for "a third and final attempt to win the grand prize." The video is built as a series of escalating attacks on the car. Blake gets 24 hours to prepare for each one. What he isn't told at first is that the train is only the last of four phases. The story follows how he improvised a defense each time, often reusing whatever was left over from the round before, and whether the car would survive.

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0:17

Phase One: 10,000 Bullets

The first challenge is not the train. Jimmy introduces eight soldiers who will fire 10,000 bullets at the Lamborghini, and Blake has exactly 24 hours to build whatever he wants to protect it. Blake calls it "the scariest thing I've ever seen." He lays out a layered plan right away: a wall of cinder blocks as the first line of defense, then shipping containers filled with refrigerators, then "basically just a wall of cars" to stop the bullets.

Jimmy gives him a credit card. Blake drives to three stores and spends $78,000 on supplies. The deliveries include a water truck, several junk cars and a CONEX shipping crate. Blake himself is surprised by the volume: "I can't believe I bought all this stuff. And this isn't even everything."

About five hours in, the first storage container is in place as a front barrier. Jimmy asks whether a shipping container will stop any bullets and gets a flat "Absolutely not." He passes along that the shooters also said it wouldn't, and declares that "as of now, he's screwed." Blake, six hours in, says he feels good now that the container is down.

Reinforcing Through the Night

Jimmy says that once Blake realized he "had to go all out," Blake worked through the night and into the next morning. He brought in railroad ties and stuffed the storage container with a van and "a giant tube." Jimmy admits that the finished build impressed him.

Blake explains the design. The front is a large mass of concrete, and the tallest part of the wall sits in the center to block the "crow's nest machine guns," which he calls "big and scary." His cars are packed inside the storage containers along with a lot of water, and the Lamborghini is tucked away in the middle of it all. Blake believes the build will stop the bullets. Jimmy puts his odds at 50%, which Blake calls "the best odds I've had yet."

Just before the shooting, Jimmy raises the stakes. Blake is now competing for $100,000 in addition to the Lamborghini. Blake's reaction is that this "will be enough to cover the insurance."

The Shooting

The soldiers open fire. The cinder blocks start breaking apart, and the narration notes that the walls are "crumbling." The shooters then bring up an LMG, and the onlookers shout that the wall is "melting" as blocks fall. Someone points out the stakes: a single bullet that gets through will hit the Lambo.

Jimmy uses this moment to tell viewers what Blake doesn't know yet. The guns are "only the first of four phases" designed to destroy the car.

After all 10,000 rounds are fired, the group goes in to inspect. The car is clean. Blake celebrates "10,000 rounds and not one connection," and Jimmy confirms there are no bullet holes in the Lamborghini.

4:36

Phase Two: Catching a Car Dropped From 100 Feet

Phase two arrives as a giant yellow crane, which Blake compares to an oil rig. The crane will lift the Lamborghini 100 feet, and 24 hours later it will drop the car. Blake has to catch it without the car being destroyed. Jimmy calls it "the world's first 100 foot Lamborghini free fall."

At first Blake has no idea what to do. Jimmy asks Chandler for ideas. Chandler's plan is to get all the pillows in the city, then all the mattresses, then a blanket and a warm glass of milk, and Jimmy cuts him off for "just making a giant bed." Blake meets with his crew and asks for suggestions. A construction worker proposes bouncy castles, and Blake decides that "that's not bad at all really."

His plan uses the CONEX containers. He'll arrange them in a square around an X marking the landing spot, fill the square with air mattresses, pillows and bubble wrap, and top it with bouncy castles. He runs into a material problem, though. Everything he bought for phase one is hard, either concrete or metal, and none of it works for cushioning, so "I have absolutely nothing." He sends his crew to buy every pillow and air mattress in the city.

Sleep Deprivation and a Late Start

By the time the soft materials arrive, Blake has been awake for over 24 hours. At four in the morning he says he's going to try to get some sleep. According to the narration, he sleeps much longer than he planned. Jimmy and Chandler arrive to find mattresses, pillows and blankets on site but no Blake, and Chandler jokes that the missing warm milk is "the key to everything."

Blake gets on site late in the day. He notices that one bouncy house works "as a big box" and decides to put it in the middle and inflate it. With four and a half hours left, Jimmy estimates Blake has no more than a 10% chance of catching the car. Another voice adds that even if he does, "there's no shot he's stopping that train later on." In the final couple of hours, Blake fills the rest of the pit with cardboard boxes and bubble wrap.

With one hour left, Blake rides up on the crane to wrap the hanging car in his remaining bubble wrap. Jimmy says he spent his remaining time "failing at trying to bubble wrap his car," and Blake concedes, "It's just not gonna work." Jimmy jokes that the half-finished wrapping "makes it look majestic."

Before the drop, Blake says he's "positive" the car will survive, and Jimmy notes that Blake is more certain than he is. Blake explains that he bought every air mattress at Walmart: "If this won't catch it, I don't know what will. I did everything I can." The final tally is three bouncy castles, 150 mattresses, 150 pillows and 2,000 cardboard boxes.

The Drop

On the count of three the car falls. One onlooker says the impact "did not sound good." The crew moves a CONEX crate and clears boxes to get to the car. First, the lights work. Someone says the princess-themed bouncy castle "might have saved this entire car." Then the engine starts. Jimmy says Blake might be the first person in history to catch a Lamborghini.

An official appraiser finds a small crack in the bumper and says it would reduce the car's value by "probably 10 grand."

9:33

Phase Three: Redemption Against Flaming Cars

Jimmy uses the good news to announce phase three, and it's personal. The team has recreated the flaming-cars challenge that, in Jimmy's words, "costed Blake everything last time." The video later says Blake lost $500,000 on that exact challenge. Because Blake has seen it before, they double the number of cars dropped compared to last time, for a total of ten. Blake calls it "redemption day."

He spends the rest of the night taking apart his phase two defense. This time, after a good night's sleep, he starts at 8 a.m. His plan is to cut the bottom out of a shipping container and lower it over the car. Then he'll set two more containers so they lean in to meet at a point above the car and deflect falling vehicles. Jimmy adds the most important rule: "nothing flammable this time." Blake has his crew remove every piece of wood from the container, because wood is what ended his last attempt.

Lowering the container is risky in itself. Someone on the crew warns that the container weighs a lot and could crush the car completely. Another adds that "one scratch can cost some thousands of dollars." The container clears the car by a very small margin, and the crew celebrates. Next they bring the other containers together into a "V." When Jimmy asks what happens if a falling car gets stuck in the V, Blake says that can't happen, which is why they're adding "this pointy thing at the top." He says he's "a hundred percent" sure it will deflect the cars. As usual, Blake works to the last second, and the final seconds go to dumping dirt. Jimmy says he's not sure what the dirt accomplished.

When Jimmy asks whether there's wood inside, Blake jokes "a little bit," then says there's none. He calls the wood last time "one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made in my life."

Ten Cars, a Bowing Crate

The defense is three shipping containers, dirt, concrete and "a weird, like, pointed roof thing," set against ten flaming cars. The first drop lands badly. Jimmy says it looked like "exactly what he didn't want to happen," and Blake admits he's "not as good" and that it's giving him flashbacks. After the second car, the roof already looks like it's buckling.

As more cars fall, Jimmy says Blake gets more nervous, and the impacts start damaging the crate itself. Someone points out that the bottom crate is bowing. In the narration, the container protecting the Lambo is "being crushed by the weight and heat of the cars." Blake says he has thought about this challenge every day since his last attempt. After the final car, an onlooker guesses it must be "a thousand degrees in there" and that the car is probably melting. Fire extinguishers are brought in, and Blake runs to check. The car is okay. Jimmy says that if one more car had been dropped, the crate would have collapsed.

Jimmy also notes that the flaming cars and much of the other material came from a scrapyard, and that the team cleaned everything up afterward.

15:15

Phase Four: Derailing the Train

The train is the final phase, and the timer starts right away. Blake considers it the deadliest attack yet. His idea is that "the best way to stop a train is to derail it." He wedges railroad ties tightly so the train will run into them, and plans to repeat that "a hundred more times." He says the material that cost him last time will now save him: "The railroad ties lost me the challenge last video. This time they'll save me." His win condition is two inches. If the train comes two inches off the track, he wins. Someone answers that "two inches is a lot." Blake plans to pour concrete on top once the ties are in.

Blake and his crew work through the night. When Jimmy arrives in the morning, Blake has lost his voice and says he's "like dying out here." Jimmy reminds viewers that Blake lost money in each of the previous two videos ($250,000 in one and half a million in the other) and says he thinks Blake is "sick and tired of losing." The crew, which Jimmy calls "an army," stacks the burned cars from phase three on the tracks. Blake keeps adding obstacles: shipping containers, mattresses to cushion the impact, and water tanks. A member of Jimmy's team says Blake has worked so hard that "I'm now on his team." Jimmy remarks that Blake "really seems to know what he's doing," and adds that there are only 11 minutes left.

When time runs out, Jimmy points out that Blake's final build uses materials from every earlier phase: the shipping containers from phase one, the mattresses from phase two and the burned cars from phase three.

The Impact

To give the train as much speed as possible, Jimmy has it backed up a long way. Blake says that "sounds awful." Asked honestly whether the car will survive, Blake says, "God, I hope so." The train accelerates to 35 miles per hour right before impact. Blake keeps saying "It's just gonna derail."

It does. The train comes off the track and stops before reaching the car. Jimmy says he has "never seen someone this happy." Blake wins the Lamborghini and the cash prize. After losing in the two earlier videos, Jimmy sums up the third attempt as "third time's the charm."

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