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Now in 3D is the 16th episode of the fifth season of Numberblocks. It is the 106th episode overall.
Synopsis[]
Octonaughty returns with a whole new dimension of naughtiness. This calls for a whole new dimension of superhero!
Plot[]
The Terrible Twos have built a new machine called the Dimension-ator, allowing Octonaughty to enter a cube form and assume new heights of power. Using these newfound powers, he easily spins out other Numberblocks into awkward 3D shapes, leaving them trapped and not able to rearrange. First, he spins Six, Four, and Nine, then spins to Rectangle Retreat, where Twelve, Eighteen, and Twenty-Four are meditating. Octoblock attempts to stop him, but he too falls victim to Octonaughty, as do the super rectangles.
Now imprisoned by Octonaughty and his dimensionator, Eight can't rearrange and is trapped in a 3D shape. He attempts to use the Octo-Signal to get help, but Octonaughty covers his up with his own. Regardless, Twenty-Seven sees it. Not knowing what the signal is, she assumes that someone needs a cube, spinning towards it.
Having located Octonaughty's hideout, she is quickly disassembled by him when he throws her onto the controls, as Octonaughty kicks the remainders of her out and blocks the entrance with two more doors. In a sudden twist of events, Twenty-Seven reassembles as a "Super Cube", and now has a “Cube mask” and breaks into Octonaughty's hideout again as three floating Nines. They all proceed to break the Dimension-ator by sneezing at it. With Eight now freed, he becomes two Fours, as Twenty-Seven becomes the Three Three Threes (nine Threes in total) to trap Octonaughty. He easily escapes and attempts to become a cube again. Much to his misfortune, since the Dimension-ator is damaged, he ends up becoming flat, and is sent over the horizon from an explosion.
Learning Objective[]
This episode's learning objective is to learn about cubes, and other ways of arranging blocks in three dimensions.
Characters[]
- One
- Two (as Terrible Twos)
- Three
- Four
- Six
- Seven (faceless)
- Eight (Octoblock & Octonaughty)
- Nine
- Ten (faceless)
- Twelve
- Eighteen
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Seven
Math Magic[]
- 4 × 2 = 8
- 27 ÷ 10 = 2 R7
- 7 ÷ 1 = 7
- 7 × 1 = 7
- 2 × 10 + 7 = 27
- 27 = 3 × 3 × 3
- 27 = 3 × 9
- 3 × 9 = 27
- 9 - 1 = 8
- 8 = 2 × 4
- 2 × 2 × 2 = 8
Trivia[]
- This is the third time Octonaughty appears, and his second major appearance. (First being, Octoblock to the Rescue!, and second, Ten's Top Ten).
- Octonaughty possesses stranger eye movements than his last appearance. It's noticeable when he laughs and calls Octoblock "Octo-flop" the first time.
- Additionally, Octonaughty's voice has changed since Octoblock to the Rescue.
- This is the first time 8 is seen as a 2x2x2 cube.
- This is the first time figured-out 27 is in a 2D shape, since her debut 2D shapes were there when she was a compound.
- This is the seventh time the Terrible Twos appear and the first time since Terrible Twosday.
- This is the first time since Series 2 where when the Nines sneeze, the Eights don't have tentacle limbs. Unlike the other times, this doesn't appear to be an error.
- Twenty-Seven has a new design starting with this episode.
- Eighteen's voice, for some reason, sounds almost like that of Fourteen's, after he's spun out.
- After each one of the Ones hits a light from the Dimension-ator, they T-Pose. It's unknown if this is an oversight or intentional.
- It is unknown why Octonaughty needs the Dimension-ator to even rearrange into 3D shapes, when Numberblocks are shown to have been capable of rearranging into 3D shapes all by themselves.
- This episode marks the only time Octonaughty stood tall.
- Octonaughty calling Octoblock "Octoflop" might be a reference to Robbie Rotten calling Sportacus "Sportaflop" in the kids' show, LazyTown.
- Arrangements on the game board: (arrangements marked in bold is a new arrangement)
- 1: 1
- 2: 1x2, 2x1.
- 3: 2+1L, 1x3.
- 4: 3+1C, 2x2.
- 5: 5x1, 1C+3+1C.
- 6: 3+2L+1L, 3x2.
- 7: 3R+2L+(1x2)L, 1x7.
- 8: 2x4, 3+1[>]1+3.
- 9: 1CL+2L+4+2C, 3x3.
- 10: 1x10, 1R+2R+3R+4.
Errors[]
- Octonaughty's cube sign isn't in harmony with the poof effect when it appeared.
- Eighteen and Twenty-Four are seen meditating, despite easily being the least relaxed characters.
- The door to Octonaughty's hideout is very obviously sealed when Twenty-Seven first arrives. Somehow, Twenty-Seven manages to get in the first time, despite obviously being impossible to.
- When Twenty-Seven splits into Nines for the first time this episode, her voice can be heard among the Nines.
- Twenty-Seven's borders keep shifting between covering her sides entirely and only covering her vertices, before she becomes a Super-Cube (after that the borders only cover vertices).
- Octonaughty's tentacles in-explicitly become the same colour as Eight's when he throws Twenty-Seven onto the controls.
- One of the Ones shot out by the Nines clips below one of the Eight's Numberling.