Using a HAT and a MUG, Alphablocks H and M build sandcastles. Alphablock I thinks it’s a competition and decides to be the judge.

A SNAIL starts to CHOMP through the Alphablocks’ vegetable garden. In a FLASH, it becomes large and fast. They follow its TRAIL and figure out that it needs its own GREEN patch.

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