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When Jessi and Wallace decide to investigate a mysterious old house, they find themselves suddenly swept by twister into the Land of Oz, where they must help many familiar faces find Dorothy, Ozma, and a host of other missing power players.

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When Jessi and Wallace decide to investigate a mysterious old house, they find themselves suddenly swept by twister into the Land of Oz, where they must help meet up with many of its colorful inhabitants (some of whom are old familiar faces characters, some of whom are original to this story), and end up on a quest to find Dorothy, Ozma, and a host of other missing power players.
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* DystopianOz: Downplayed compared to other DarkerAndEdgier Oz stories. Oz is still a colorful and cheery WorldOfPun with friendly Muchkins and talking animals, but it's gone downhill over the past century. Dorothy, Ozma and the Wizard are missing, Glinda and the Scarecrow are trapped in separate places and unable to help anyone, and Jack Pumpkinhead, who is trying to rule the Emerald City in the absence of Ozma and the others, has gone rotten and is controlled by evil spiders.

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* DystopianOz: Downplayed compared to other DarkerAndEdgier Oz stories. Oz is still a colorful and cheery WorldOfPun with friendly Muchkins and talking animals, but it's gone downhill over the past century. Dorothy, Ozma and the Wizard are missing, Glinda and the Scarecrow are trapped in separate places and unable to help anyone, and Jack Pumpkinhead, who is trying to rule the Emerald City in the absence of Ozma and the others, has gone rotten (literally; his pumpkin head has rotted) and is controlled by evil spiders.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Though Smith & Tinker never actually appeared in the Oz books, when they were mentioned there was nothing to indicate that they were a gay couple. Here they are specifically mentioned to have been a couple, and they even had a son, Jacoby.


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* HasTwoDaddies: Jacoby is the son of Smith and Tinker and specifically refers to them both as his fathers.


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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lurline. She's a [[LittleMissSnarker snarky]] and [[TheEeyore pessimistic]] witch in training with a very haughty and unfriendly attitude, and she ''loves'' to complain, but she's not a bad person.


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* SpinOffspring: Both Lurline and Jacoby are the children of established Oz characters. It's downplayed a little, since their parents never appeared in any Oz books in ''person'', but were just referred to by other characters:
** Lurline is the daughter of Gayelette and Quelala, whose story was briefly told in ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''; Gayelette being the princess and sorceress who originally enslaved the Winged Monkeys.
** Jacoby is [[HasTwoDaddies the son of Smith and Tinker]], the creators of Tik-Tok.
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[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' is a [[TheMusical Musical]] AudioPlay about the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years after Creator/LFrankBaum left off. It started as a Website/{{Kickstarter}} project, and officially premiered released on Jan 29, 2020. It's written and directed by PJ Scott-Blankenship, and brought to life by a host of voice actors, sound designers and musicians.

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[[https://hitthebricks.''[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' is a [[TheMusical Musical]] AudioPlay about the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years after Creator/LFrankBaum left off. It started as a Website/{{Kickstarter}} project, and officially premiered released on Jan 29, 2020. It's written and directed by PJ Scott-Blankenship, and brought to life by a host of voice actors, sound designers and musicians.

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''[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' is a [[TheMusical Musical]] AudioPlay about the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years after Creator/LFrankBaum left off. It started as a Website/{{Kickstarter}} project, and officially premiered released on Jan 29, 2020. It's written and directed by PJ Scott-Blankenship, and brought to life by a host of voice actors, sound designers and musicians.

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[[https://hitthebricks.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Four Sisters in the backstory generally only call each other by their nicknames: "Captain" (the oldest sister), "Sweetheart" (the wisest sister), "Sissy" (the prettiest sister), and "Baby" (the youngest sister).


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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Four Sisters in the backstory generally only call each other by their nicknames: "Captain" (the oldest sister), "Sweetheart" (the wisest sister), "Sissy" (the prettiest sister), and "Baby" (the youngest sister).
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* According to her backstory, Glinda was originally going to be the Witch of the North -- though circumstances changed and she instead became the Witch of the South. This is of course a reference to how she is indeed presented as the Witch of the North in the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz 1939 movie]].

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* ** According to her backstory, Glinda was originally going to be the Witch of the North -- though circumstances changed and she instead became the Witch of the South. This is of course a reference to how she is indeed presented as the Witch of the North in the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz 1939 movie]].
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* According to her backstory, Glinda was originally going to be the Witch of the North -- though circumstances changed and she instead became the Witch of the South. This is of course a reference to how she is indeed presented as the Witch of the North in the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz 1939 movie]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Four Sisters in the backstory generally only call each other by their nicknames: "Captain" (the oldest sister), "Sweetheart" (the wisest sister), "Sissy" (the prettiest sister), and "Baby" (the youngest sister).

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* MacGyvering: Jessi's got a real talent for this. Already in the prologue she mends Button-Bright's magic umbrella with a stick of bubble gum, and after that she pretty much comes up with some kind of contraption to help herself and her friends out of trouble roughly OnceAnEpisode.



* TheSmartGuy: Jessi's definitely smarter than the average young fantasy protagonist. She's good at figuring out how things work and how to use that knowledge to her advantage, she's good with logical deduction, and she's got a knack for thinking outside the box.

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* TheSmartGuy: Jessi's definitely smarter than the average young fantasy protagonist. She's good at figuring out how things work and how to use that knowledge to her advantage, she's good with logical deduction, and she's got a knack for thinking outside the box.box and MacGyvering.
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* TitleDrop: In episode 1x2, when Jessi, Wallace and the Sawhorse are going to the Emerald City from Munchkinland, Scraps tells them to "hit the bricks," and the Scarecrow clarifies that she means to follow the yellow brick road. A few minutes later, the three are singing a song titled "Hit the Bricks."

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* TitleDrop: In episode 1x2, when Jessi, Wallace and the Sawhorse are going to the Emerald City from Munchkinland, Scraps tells them to "hit the bricks," and the Scarecrow clarifies that she means to follow the yellow brick road. A few minutes later, the three are singing a SettingOffSong song titled titled, well, "Hit the Bricks."
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* TitleDrop: In episode 1x2, when Jessi, Wallace and the Sawhorse are going to the Emerald City from Munchkinland, Scraps tells them to "hit the bricks," and then clarifies that she means to follow the yellow brick road. A few minutes later, the three are singing a song titled "Hit the Bricks."

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* TitleDrop: In episode 1x2, when Jessi, Wallace and the Sawhorse are going to the Emerald City from Munchkinland, Scraps tells them to "hit the bricks," and then the Scarecrow clarifies that she means to follow the yellow brick road. A few minutes later, the three are singing a song titled "Hit the Bricks."
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* SettingOffSong: [[TitleDrop "Hit The Bricks,"]] sung by Jessi, Wallace and the Sawhorse as they travel to the Emerald City, and then again by Jessi, Wallace and a somewhat reluctant Lurline as they set off on their quest to rescue Dorothy, Ozma and the rest.

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** The Sawhorse lists off various ways to pronounce the word "Kalidah," telling Jessi and Wallace that different people pronounce it differently. Various adaptations of the Oz series have indeed disagreed on how the word should be pronounced.



* {{Prequel}}: Segments at the end of each episode involving the Four Sisters seem to take place far in Oz's past, depicting among other things a still-living Witch of the West.

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* {{Prequel}}: Segments at the end of each episode involving the Four Sisters seem to take place far in Oz's past, depicting among other things a still-living Witch and are in fact [[spoiler:the backstory of the West.Witches of Oz.]]
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* ShownTheirWork: It quickly becomes obvious that PJ Scott-Blankenship really knows his Oz canon, when already in the prologue we get appearances of not only Button-Bright and his magic umbrells, but also much lesser-known characters like the Little Pink Bear, the Foolish Owl and the Wise Donkey. Throughout the series there are several callbacks to some really obscure parts of the books, some of which become quite important to the plot.

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* ShownTheirWork: It quickly becomes obvious that PJ Scott-Blankenship really knows his Oz canon, when already canon. Already in the prologue we get appearances of not only Button-Bright and his magic umbrells, umbrella, but also much lesser-known characters like the Little Pink Bear, the Foolish Owl and the Wise Donkey. Throughout the series there are several callbacks to some really obscure parts of the books, some of which become quite important to the plot.

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* DystopianOz: Downplayed compared to other "darker" Oz stories. Oz is still a colorful and cheery WorldOfPun with friendly Muchkins and talking animals, but it's gone downhill over the past century. Dorothy, Ozma and the Wizard are missing, Glinda and the Scarecrow are trapped in separate places and unable to help anyone, and Jack Pumpkinhead, who is trying to rule the Emerald City in the absence of Ozma and the others, has gone rotten and is controlled by evil spiders.

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* DystopianOz: Downplayed compared to other "darker" DarkerAndEdgier Oz stories. Oz is still a colorful and cheery WorldOfPun with friendly Muchkins and talking animals, but it's gone downhill over the past century. Dorothy, Ozma and the Wizard are missing, Glinda and the Scarecrow are trapped in separate places and unable to help anyone, and Jack Pumpkinhead, who is trying to rule the Emerald City in the absence of Ozma and the others, has gone rotten and is controlled by evil spiders.


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* ShownTheirWork: It quickly becomes obvious that PJ Scott-Blankenship really knows his Oz canon, when already in the prologue we get appearances of not only Button-Bright and his magic umbrells, but also much lesser-known characters like the Little Pink Bear, the Foolish Owl and the Wise Donkey. Throughout the series there are several callbacks to some really obscure parts of the books, some of which become quite important to the plot.
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* TheHeart: Wallace. He's a sweet, sympathetic and kind-hearted guy who just wants to help, and who is always trying to keep the more cynical Jessi's spirits up.


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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Lurline Quelala is named after the fairy queen Lurline.


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* TheSmartGuy: Jessi's definitely smarter than the average young fantasy protagonist. She's good at figuring out how things work and how to use that knowledge to her advantage, she's good with logical deduction, and she's got a knack for thinking outside the box.
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* WorldOfPun: It's been a hundred years, and while several things have changed in Oz, ''this'' aspect of it hasn't. Any given character may launch into a HurricaneOfPuns at the slightest provocation.

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* WorldOfPun: It's been a hundred years, and while several things have changed in Oz, ''this'' aspect of it hasn't. Any given character may launch into a HurricaneOfPuns at the slightest provocation.provocation.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Jessi dyes her hair blue, which makes her rather popular among the Munchkins. Eureka, who is of course pink, thinks blue is a garish color for hair.

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* DystopianOz: Downplayed compared to other "darker" Oz stories. Oz is still a colorful and cheery WorldOfPun with friendly Muchkins and talking animals, but it's gone downhill over the past century. Dorothy, Ozma and the Wizard are missing, Glinda and the Scarecrow are trapped in separate places and unable to help anyone, and Jack Pumpkinhead, who is trying to rule the Emerald City in the absence of Ozma and the others, has gone rotten and is controlled by evil spiders.
* MythologyGag:
** Much like in ''Podcast/TheChroniclesOfOz'', the phrase "What did the Woggle-Bug say?" appears here, as a reference to the newspaper serial ''Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz.''
** Sissy can't remember the name of the Good Witch of the North, calling her "Locasty-poo." This of course references that the Good Witch of the North didn't have a name in [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the original book]], but later books, stories and adaptations have switched between naming her "Locasta" and "Tattypoo" -- the former was the name L. Frank Baum gave her in the stage play adaptation, and the latter was the name she was given in the book ''The Lost Princess of Oz'' by Ruth Plumly Thompson.



All you gotta do is hit the bricks\\

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All you gotta do is hit the bricks\\bricks
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All you gotta do is hit the bricks\\

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All you gotta do is hit the bricks\\bricks\\
* WorldOfPun: It's been a hundred years, and while several things have changed in Oz, ''this'' aspect of it hasn't. Any given character may launch into a HurricaneOfPuns at the slightest provocation.
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* TitleDrop: The third episode, when Jessi, Wallace and the Sawhorse are going to the Emerald City from Munchkinland, Scraps tells them to "hit the bricks," and then clarifies that she means to follow the yellow brick road. A few minutes later, the three are singing a song titled "Hit the Bricks"

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* TitleDrop: The third episode, In episode 1x2, when Jessi, Wallace and the Sawhorse are going to the Emerald City from Munchkinland, Scraps tells them to "hit the bricks," and then clarifies that she means to follow the yellow brick road. A few minutes later, the three are singing a song titled "Hit the Bricks" Bricks."
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* {{Prequel}}: Segments at the end of each episode involving the Four Sisters seem to take place far in Oz's past, depicting among other things a still-living Witch of the West.

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* {{Prequel}}: Segments at the end of each episode involving the Four Sisters seem to take place far in Oz's past, depicting among other things a still-living Witch of the West.West.
* TitleDrop: The third episode, when Jessi, Wallace and the Sawhorse are going to the Emerald City from Munchkinland, Scraps tells them to "hit the bricks," and then clarifies that she means to follow the yellow brick road. A few minutes later, the three are singing a song titled "Hit the Bricks"
-->We’re gonna hit the bricks\\
Gonna hoof it ‘til we make it\\
Gonna hit the bricks\\
It’s easy once you try it\\
When you hit the bricks\\
There’s really nothing to it\\
All you gotta do is hit the bricks\\
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* {{Prequel}}: Segments at the end of each episode involving the Four Sisters seem to take place far in Oz's past, depicting among other things a still-living Witch of the West.
* YourCheatingHeart: Jessi and her mother have moved from California to Kansas following Jessi's father having an affair with her lacrosse coach.

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* {{Prequel}}: Segments at the end of each episode involving the Four Sisters seem to take place far in Oz's past, depicting among other things a still-living Witch of the West.
* YourCheatingHeart: Jessi and her mother have moved from California to Kansas following Jessi's father having an affair with her lacrosse coach.
West.
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''[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' is a [[TheMusical Musical]] AudioPlay about the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years after Creator/LFrankBaum left off. It started as a Website/{{Kickstarter}} project, and released on Jan 29, 2020. It's written and directed by PJ Scott-Blankenship, and brought to life by a host of voice actors, sound designers and musicians.

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''[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' is a [[TheMusical Musical]] AudioPlay about the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years after Creator/LFrankBaum left off. It started as a Website/{{Kickstarter}} project, and officially premiered released on Jan 29, 2020. It's written and directed by PJ Scott-Blankenship, and brought to life by a host of voice actors, sound designers and musicians.
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''[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' is a [[TheMusical Musical]] AudioPlay about the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years after Creator/LFrankBaum left off. It started as a Creator/{{Kickstarter}} project, and released on Jan 29, 2020. It's written and directed by PJ Scott-Blankenship, and brought to life by a host of voice actors, sound designers and musicians.

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''[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' is a [[TheMusical Musical]] AudioPlay about the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years after Creator/LFrankBaum left off. It started as a Creator/{{Kickstarter}} Website/{{Kickstarter}} project, and released on Jan 29, 2020. It's written and directed by PJ Scott-Blankenship, and brought to life by a host of voice actors, sound designers and musicians.

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''[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' Is an AudioPlay on the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years in the future. Started as a Kickstarer Project,
and released on Jan 29, 2020. Written by PJ Scott-Blankenship and crew.

The stories starts with two kids, Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams being thrown by a twister, into the land of Oz. Trying to find a way back home, they discover that Oz is going though a tumultuous situation. As both Princesses, Ozma and Dorothy, are missing. Needing help to go back home, they go on a quest to find them.

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''[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' Is an is a [[TheMusical Musical]] AudioPlay on about the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years in the future. Started after Creator/LFrankBaum left off. It started as a Kickstarer Project,
Creator/{{Kickstarter}} project, and released on Jan 29, 2020. Written It's written and directed by PJ Scott-Blankenship Scott-Blankenship, and crew.

The stories starts with two kids,
brought to life by a host of voice actors, sound designers and musicians.

When
Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams being thrown decide to investigate a mysterious old house, they find themselves suddenly swept by a twister, twister into the land Land of Oz. Trying to Oz, where they must help many familiar faces find a way back home, they discover that Oz is going though a tumultuous situation. As both Princesses, Ozma and Dorothy, are missing. Needing help Ozma, and a host of other missing power players.

!!''Hit the Bricks'' contains the following tropes:
* BanOnMagic: As in many Oz works, magic has
to go back be specially sanctioned by those in charge. However, the current ruler is Jack Pumpkinhead, who seems especially keen on enforcement, to the detriment of our protagonists.
* PartingWordsRegret: Jessi is especially anxious to get
home, they go on a quest as her last conversation with her mother before leaving was an argument.
* {{Prequel}}: Segments at the end of each episode involving the Four Sisters seem
to find them.take place far in Oz's past, depicting among other things a still-living Witch of the West.
* YourCheatingHeart: Jessi and her mother have moved from California to Kansas following Jessi's father having an affair with her lacrosse coach.
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''[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' Is an AudioPlay on the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years in the future. Started as a Kickstarer Project, released on Jan 29, 2020. Written by PJ Scott-Blankenship and crew.

The stories starts with two kids, Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams being thrown by a twister, into the land of Oz.

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''[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' Is an AudioPlay on the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years in the future. Started as a Kickstarer Project, Project,
and
released on Jan 29, 2020. Written by PJ Scott-Blankenship and crew.

The stories starts with two kids, Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams being thrown by a twister, into the land of Oz. Trying to find a way back home, they discover that Oz is going though a tumultuous situation. As both Princesses, Ozma and Dorothy, are missing. Needing help to go back home, they go on a quest to find them.
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''[[https://hitthebricks.com/ Hit The Bricks]]'' Is an AudioPlay on the the adventures Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams through The ''Literature/LandOfOz'', about a hundred years in the future. Started as a Kickstarer Project, released on Jan 29, 2020. Written by PJ Scott-Blankenship and crew.

The stories starts with two kids, Jessi Hugson and Wallace Williams being thrown by a twister, into the land of Oz.

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