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Nail House

Created by RocketJump

The creators of Video Game High School and co-hosts of Dungeons and Daddies, Freddie Wong and Matt Arnold, are bringing you their next feature film - a high-octane martial arts action comedy called Nail House.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Keeping the Wok Hot - $250K and Counting!
4 months ago – Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 02:50:52 PM

Thanks to you - we've officially passed $250K raised!  The more we raise, the more creative control we maintain, which means the movie you’ll see is the one we’ve dreamed of making from the start - so thank you for that!

 🎨 Artist Spotlight: Kenny Leoncito

We have teamed up with Kenny Leoncito for the artist collab poster you can find in the Banquet Tier!

Kenny is a Filipino-Canadian illustrator and art maker based in Canada, specializing in character design, illustration, and visual development for animation. He brings a deep love for representative media and Asian Canadian visibility to everything he does - so we're VERY excited to see what he has in store for Nail House.


First up - congrats to Ariana Keller, who won Mama Wong’s Restaurant Miniature!
Matt will personally paint this piece before delivery, and it’ll be added to your pledge. If you have any questions, just shoot us a message!


One of the centerpiece props from the film, this shrine stands in Mama Wong’s restaurant as the boys pray to their mother.  It’s a heartfelt piece that carries real emotional weight on set… and yes, Freddie might have cried near it.

For a chance to win the shrine, let us know: If you were building your own shrine, what item would you put at its center?

🥢 Still Steaming Ahead
4 months ago – Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 02:04:43 PM

Hey everyone! 
We’re still trucking along and just surpassed $243K - thank you all for the incredible support.

🎲 Today’s Highlight: The Dumpling Dice

We’ve partnered with our friends at FanRoll Dice to bring a little Mama Wong’s to your tabletop. These are sharp-edge resin dice with a dumpling inclusion inside, housed in a miniature steamer basket dice case, because what else would we store them in?


Congrats to Kyle Adamson, who won the Cigarette Prop, and Kyra Walsh, who took home the Placemat!


Today's Prop Drop is a test sample from our upcoming miniature restaurant/pit set! It will be painted by Matt himself before delivery. It’s the very first glimpse of the miniature world we’re building, and you can own a piece of it. Here's a video of Matt showing it off!



For a chance to win the prop - tell us what slogan would be under Mama Wong's restaurant sign in the comments!

A House That Refuses to Be Hammered Down
4 months ago – Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 01:08:13 PM

Happy Halloween, everyone! It seems fitting for Halloween to talk about the most haunted house of all - the one that refuses to die. The name of the film is inspired by the real-life Nail Houses in China.

A “nail house” is a home whose owner refuses to vacate it for property development - leaving it standing alone like a stubborn nail no one can hammer down. The term comes from China, where it’s used to describe homeowners who hold out against developers or government projects, often out of pride, protest, or principle.

In Chongqing, one couple refused to sell their property as a shopping mall was being built, and for weeks, their tiny brick house sat perched on a lone mound of dirt in the middle of a construction pit. In Zhejiang province, another family’s home stood isolated on a raised column of earth while an entire highway curved around it. These “nail houses” became powerful symbols of standing your ground.

That refusal to give in is what drives Dicky & Danny's story in Nail House.



Yesterday’s challenge was to write a fortune cookie message that would make Freddie immediately drop the cookie and stare into the distance.

We got some very hilarious answers - and we decided to let YOU vote for the winner! 

🗳️ Vote in the poll at the bottom of this update.
Poll closes at midnight tonight, and whoever wrote the winning fortune will get the prop cigarettes.

For full context on what’s at stake here, please enjoy this completely serious educational video from Freddie and Matt about the prop cigarettes.
 


🍽️ Today’s Prop Drop: The Placemat
A classic Mama Wong’s mainstay - exactly like the ones Freddie and crew grew up eating off of.

For a chance to win Mama Wong's Placemat - let us know the RocketJump one-liner you still quote to this day in the comments!

💬 About Our Funding Goal
A quick note before we close: Nail House has already hit its base goal - but that number only covers the groundwork. Every dollar we raise beyond that allows us to build the film the way it’s meant to be made, with more control in the hands of the creators and fewer compromises to outside investors or platforms.

We Looked at Over 80,000 Chinese Restaurant Menus To Make This Prop
4 months ago – Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 04:49:21 PM

We’ve been hard at work this week, bringing a little more life to Mama Wong’s Dumpling House. On Wednesday, Freddie stopped by the LA Central Library to meet with Creator-in-Residence Tien Nguyen, who’s doing some awesome work with the library’s 80,000-menu archive.


They looked through decades of Chinese restaurant menus for inspiration, studying fonts, paper types, and all those little details. You can receive a set-accurate print of this collectible in the Chef's Special tier and above, and stay tuned for a whole video documenting the authentic recreation of this timeless classic!


Yesterday’s prop drop winner is Jonathan Forscher, who will take home the real Steamer Basket straight from our set.

🎁 Today’s Prop: Dicky’s Pack of Cigarettes

Straight from Dicky Wong’s bedroom set, today’s prop is his pack of herbal film cigarettes - the same kind used in the movie. This pack was handled on set and made Freddie look really cool.

👉 For a chance to win, comment a fortune cookie message that would make Freddie immediately drop the cookie and stare into the distance. 

Day 2: The Steam Rises.
4 months ago – Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 03:10:18 PM

Hello again, everyone!

First off - thanks for another amazing day! At this moment, we're about to break $170K. We're so grateful for all of you.

Now let's get into the good stuff:



🎉 Yesterday’s Prop Drop
Yesterday's Prop Drop responses were a living timeline of the internet.

About half the crowd discovered RocketJump in the early YouTube era - the freddiew days. Another huge chunk has stuck around since VGHS days - and the rest came from the podcast world.  A few even admitted they thought Dungeons & Daddies was something very different before realizing, “Oh, wait. It’s Freddie Wong.” 

We had over 250 entries to the giveaway - so we're excited to say... Congrats to Roxanne, who won the teapot - the first of our many Daily Prop Drops! It will be added to your pledge.

🎁 Today’s Prop: The Steamer Basket

The Steamer Basket is made of real bamboo and comes directly from our set. You could totally cook with it when it arrives if you're okay that it survived a scene or two. To quote Freddie: "Watch the movie first - we may have touched it in ways you'll no longer want to use it."

For a chance to win the steamer, leave a comment on this update with an answer for:
👉 If you were eating at Mama Wong’s, what would you order first?

We’ll pick one lucky winner and announce them in tomorrow’s update - along with the next prop drop from the set of Nail House.