Footage of Beast Games shows contestants screaming as they're dropped 10ft below ground
MrBeast explained how the stunt worked
New footage of Beast Games has shocked viewers after it shows contestants dropping 10 feet below the ground.
Participants of the Amazon Prime show can be heard screaming as the trap door below them opens, causing them to plummet out of sight.
The first two episodes were released yesterday (December 19) and the show has been described as a reality competition series.
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It was created by MrBeast - whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson - after his elaborate YouTube contests with huge cash prizes earned him a following of 332 million people.
Donaldson now has the most subscribed-to channel on the social media platform and will host the show he created for Amazon Prime.
Beast Games is a televised challenge competed by 1,000 contestants, which is the largest cast for a reality show, and they battle it out for a prize of over $5 million.
It’s the largest single prize money in reality TV history and even beats out Squid Game: The Challenge's prize of $4.56 million.
Footage of the new show was posted on X, formerly Twitter, by a user who wrote: “MrBeast’s Amazon game show “Beast Games” is absolutely insane!”
Viewers were shocked by the clip, which shows people falling through a trap door and dropping 10 feet below the ground.
Many took to the comment section to share their reactions and thoughts to the video as one user wrote: “Production costs gotta be INSANE.”
Another said: “This reminds me of The Hunger Games.”
A third person commented: “Bro making squid game irl.”
A fourth wrote: “No YouTuber will ever top this man’s production quality.”
Another agreed, adding: “For real, it's like watching a blockbuster movie but with real people and real stakes.”
And a sixth person said: “This looks insaneee. How can I play?”
But if you’re wondering how Donaldson pulled off the stunt, he explained it all.
He said: “We worked with the same stunt crew that does all big action movies and that kind of stuff.
“Basically, that tower falls into five feet of foam and there was actually a higher probability that you were gonna drown in the foam than hurt yourself.
“Because the entire top of the tower, you can’t tell because we painted it, but that is just really thick foam.
“We did 5,000 test drops before we filmed this and obviously no one got hurt in it.
He went on to say: “You know the foam pits where you jump on trampolines like 20-30 feet in the air and then you fall and people do all these backflips. That’s essentially a bunch of foam and then underneath the foam is a crash mat as well.”