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. 

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. 

Hey everyone!

We're off to an incredible start and just broke 100k! Thank you all for backing Nail House. Now let's get into the real fun!



🎁 The Prop Giveaway
We built the entire set for Mama Wong's Dumpling House and hand-picked many of the props. Each day of the campaign, we're giving away a real prop directly from the set. Check back each day to see who won and to enter in the next giveaway!

 ☕ Today’s Prop: The Teapot

We're starting with a classic. This is the exact teapot that was once found in many Chinese restaurants, the teapot Freddie remembers fondly. It will now sit on the very tables where Dicky and Danny Wong’s story unfolds. It has seen things. It has been played with by Freddie himself.



 Want it? We’ll keep it simple today.
 👉 Leave a comment on this update and tell us what first got you into RocketJump.

We’ll pick one lucky winner and announce them in tomorrow’s update, where we’ll reveal the next prop up for grabs.

Join us for the premiere of The Boxcar Fight - a proof-of-concept action short and feature-length documentary. You'll get a peek behind the scenes at the making of Nail House, which just so happens to be going live on TUESDAY. 

Make sure you follow the campaign! We'll send you a reminder when we launch, AND you'll receive a collectible set-accurate print of Mama Wong's Dumpling House Menu with your physical pledge. Just for clicking a button? Pretty sweet.

This is more than just a background prop; we dove deep into Chinese American restaurant lore and the Los Angeles Public Library's extensive database of actual '80s Chinese restaurant menus to recreate this collectible relic.