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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:

A House That Refuses to Be Hammered Down
11 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
11 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.
11 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. 

Funded in 3 hours & Day 1 Prop Drop!
11 months ago – Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 02:30:38 PM


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.

The Boxcar Fight - A RocketJump Feature-length Documentary
11 months ago – Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 06:19:53 AM

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. 

Watch the premiere live at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET / 4 PM GMT. 👇👇



Only Two Days Remain until Launch

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.