The Playground Set Was Designed to Look Like an Actual Playground
The playground set was enormous so that the contestants would feel like kids in a playground. The show’s director as well as the producers wanted the actors to become familiar with the set before they started filming. But because the sets were all made from scratch, they were also extremely expensive. In fact, it cost approximately $12.3 million to make the series and that cost was astronomical primarily because all the sets were very expensive to make.