Lego Masters contestants had to build a Lego Santa's sleigh that gets launched from a ramp. We had to design the mechanism to launch the sleighs at just the right speed so they wouldn't self destruct from the G- forces.

A holiday special makeover for the Lego Masters set.

Final Challenge set for the kid's reality show KARMA. For each question answered correctly, the teamed earned a letter. First team to spell KARMA won.

Sometimes budgets and timeframes don't always warrant a high tech solution. For this challenge a crew member was put in the box to load each letter and push it up the game board. Whatever works!

KARMA contestants had to stay wedged inside their box as the entire rig was lifted up above the lake and rotated horizontally, dumping them out. Last one remaining won!

For the reality TV show "Kid Nation", we buried dozens of 55 gal. barrels full of colored water in the field. The kids had to carry their oil wells over pipes sticking out of the ground and pump out the "oil" using a hand operated pump. Oil shooting out the top of the well was then collected in buckets and transferred to milk jugs that had to be filled up.

For this game, the kids had to do build and raise their church steeples. The steeples were covered in sheet metal and the kids used magnet backed puzzle pieces to build the colorful steeples. Once built, a hand crank was then used to raise the steeple.

The name of the game? Pork and beans, of course. The kids all dived into a 20ft. diameter frying pan filled with about 1000 gallons of pork and beans looking for puzzle pieces. Live pork was added to make things just a little more exciting.

The military base set from the reality TV show "Combat Mission". Think Survivor type show except with real Army Rangers, Navy Seals, Swat and Black Ops personnel. The compound had a working mess, bunk houses, exercise yard and running water. The main compound here was over 300' x 500'. We also built a 5 acre water complex and huge outdoor obstacle course.

Antartic prison entrance from the movie New Alcatraz.

The prison control room from New Alcatraz.

Prison cell block set from New Alcatraz.

Another set from "New Alcatraz" in which we built an ice tunnel using two part urethane foam and lots and lots of white and blue paint. Most "cave" type sets you see in film are made from this process. Rough frames are made and then covered in either fine window screen, or in this case, crinkled up butcher paper. After the walls are complete, a two part foam, similar to truck bed liner, is sprayed on the walls. The foam expands and hardens in just a few seconds and is then ready for paint.

C-130 interior set from the movie "Epoch".

Another set from "Epoch". For this scene, we built what would be the entrance portal into an alien spaceship. As the entrance was supposed to be hundreds of feet in the air, the scene was shot in front of a blue screen so CGI clouds and military aircraft flying by could be added later in post production.