WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Legendary Season 2, Episode 6, "Plastic Fantastic," which aired Thursday on HBO Max.
This week on HBO Max's Legendary, things were shaken up. Instead of the usual two challenges leading to the elimination of one house, no one would be eliminated, and they are competing for a chance at $30,000, with the first challenge -- plastic fantastic -- being worth $15,000, the second challenge -- European runway -- being worth $5,000 and the final challenge -- duck walk -- being worth $10,000. While no one went home and the scores for challenge one were not revealed until the end of the episode, the following will contain major spoilers for Legendary, Season 2, Episode 6, "Plastic Fantastic."
Category Is Plastic Fantastic
This week's first challenge, plastic fantastic, is all about bringing toys to life while also focusing on floor performances. First up is Miyake-Mugler, and their toy of choice is a 1980s rainbow color doll, like Rainbow Brite. While they were clocked last week for being cold, that is not the case this week, as they stepped out of the box to give their strongest performance so far, earning 46. Following them is Garçon, whose focus is a toy car, but they also channel major Transformers energy; however, the house's strengths were not fully utilized, placing in the bottom at 34.
Next up is Balenciaga, coming hot off their win from last week, and they bring it again this week as paper dolls with a Barbie flair. Everyone's individual talents, as well as the house's talent as a whole, were on display, and their references were clear, placing them in second at 48. Tisci follows up with an even stronger act as toy soldiers. They cemented themselves as the house to beat, taking home the $15,000 with a near perfect score at 49. Last up is Oricci, and they are a family of marionettes. The production value of their performance is high quality, but the performance itself left the judges wanting a lot more, and they were awarded a 39.
Category Is European Runway
For the second challenge, category is European runway, with $5,000 on the line. Each house will choose two to three members to perform in a synchronized runway walk. Each house needs 10s across the board to move to round two, and those who do go on will select one member to compete on their house's behalf; however, Balenciaga will go to round two regardless because they won an advantage from last week.
Mugler and Garçon are chopped while Balenciaga, Tisci and Oricci move forward. Balenciaga's ChaCha goes against Oricci's Gillette first, with the former winning. ChaCha then takes on Mother Gia from Tisci, and wins again, giving House of Balenciaga $5,000.
Category Is Duck Walk
The final category is duck walk, which is one of the hardest elements of vogue. The winning house will take home $10,000, and like the last challenge, each house will select a few members to compete in the first round, and those who earn 10s across the board will then put up one performer to compete head to head with the other remaining houses.
Mugler, Garçon, Tisci and Oricci all receive 10s, while Balenciaga is chopped. Tisci and Oricci are the first to go head to head, with House Tisci winning, and they would continue to win each match, knocking Garçon anf Mugler out of the competition and winning an additional $10,000, so the house takes home $25,000 at the end of the episode.