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Building Blocks is the eighth episode of the third series of Numberblocks. It is the 38th episode overall.
Synopsis[]
When an alien ship crashes into Numberland, the Numberblocks help the alien get back home.
Story[]
Nine and Ten see something unusual: An alien, whose spaceship has crash-landed onto Numberland. The alien shows them her home planet, so Ten decides to rocket her there. She starts to count down, but the alien stops her and tries to build a tower with the blocks from the broken ship. Ten begins to point out she'll need more blocks to reach the planet, but then the alien suddenly levitates and scans her, rearranging her into strange and new shapes in the process. The alien begins to create inanimate duplicates of Ten's blocks, and Nine and Ten get to building a tower. The alien scans Nine and shoots out his shapes, and Nine builds with his blocks.
Six and Seven admire their construction. They then get scanned and their shapes come out. A montage of the Numberblocks building the tower of the blocks skips to the next morning, where they are getting tired, but the alien shows no intent on stopping.
Six points up to the alien's planet that the aliens are building their own tower. Quickly, they build the tower again until it almost touches the top of the aliens' tower, but when the alien shoots out a 9-block shape, it accidentally falls off the tower and lands on the ground, leaning against a block of the tower and causing it to become unstable.
Six, Seven, Nine, and Ten call for help, and Eight appears. The alien scans Eight, who starts rapidly building with his shapes, until the whole tower falls. The Numberblocks 6-10 hang on to each other at the edge of the aliens' tower for dear life while the alien climbs them to her home planet. Ten says goodbye to the aliens as she and the other Numberblocks safely drop down with her parachutes.
They feel guilty that their tower is all over the place, but Seven suggests they could build something else instead, and they end the episode building their own structures.
Characters[]
Trivia[]
- This episode is similar to Fred. Interestingly, both episodes have the same writer.
- This episode aired 6 years after Win.
- This episode marks the first time that only Six to Ten appear.
- This is the first episode where every Numberblock from 1-5 are absent.
- This episode also marks the first time that One is absent. The second time is The Way of the Rectangle.
- This is also the first episode with characters that debuted in Series 2 and Orange Level 2 only appeared in this episode, with the second being Ten in the Bed.
- As a result, this is the first episode where Six is the smallest number. The second is Rescue Racers.
- This is the first and currently only episode with only Numberblocks Six to Ten.
- The Numberblocks 6-10 have many new arrangements in this episode:
- Six:
- 6×1
- 2L+2C+2R
- (1×2)R+3+1L
- S-shape
- 2+1+3
- Seven:
- 1+3+3 left
- T-shape
- Bolt-shape
- 1+1+1+1+3
- 2+2+2+1
- Eight:
- Horizontal
- L-shape
- 4+2+2 center
- U-shape
- 3+3+1+1
- Nine:
- Horizontal
- Scrambled
- C-shape
- 1+3+5
- Center triangle
- Trident
- Ten:
- Bolt-Thing
- 5×2
- Sideways Shifted Rectangle
- 4+4+2 right
- Pointing Down 1
- 2+4+4 center
- Pointing Down 2
- Second Finger
- Thumbs Up
- Eight's wrench shape and swingset shape from Blast Off and Numberblock Castle respectively also return in this episode.
- Some of the shown shapes are never actually used in the tower.
- Six:
- This episode and the Alphablocks episodes Book and The End all aired on Halloween 2018.
- The alien planet appears to be blocky and cubic.
Statistics[]
The list of building blocks used in the tower is shown below. Rotation and reflection are ignored. The number after each building block shows how many times the shape is used.
Six: (56 building blocks, 336 blocks in total)[]
- 3×2 rectangle (28)
- Step shape (28)
Seven: (65 building blocks, 455 blocks in total)[]
- Line (63)
- T-shape (2)
Eight: (at least 62 building blocks, 496 blocks in total)[]
- Line (6)
- 4×2 rectangle (30)
- Swingset (16)
- Top hat (4)
- C-shape (4)
- 3+3+1+1 (2)
- (possibly several more, unrecognisable)
Nine: (71 building blocks, 639 blocks in total)[]
- Line (3)
- Square (60)
- Isosceles triangle (4)
- Weird triangle (4)
Ten: (109 building blocks, 1090 blocks in total)[]
- Line (8)
- 5×2 rectangle (39)
- Triangle (28)
- 4+4+2 side (16)
- 4+4+2 center (2)
- Weird hill (16)
Total: approx. 3,016 blocks[]
- 336 + 455 + 496 + 639 + 1090 = 3016
Video[]
@Numberblocks- Building Blocks 👷👽 - Full Episode - Learn to Count