History Main / PalatialSandcastle

* One of the tracks in ''VideoGames/HotWheelsStuntTrackDriver'' is set in a sandbox that is almost entirely taken up by an enormous sandcastle. The track runs all around it and even pass under arches and tunnels in the castle itself, including through the front gate.

* ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP 3rd Life SMP]]'': The base Grian built on top of the Monopoly Mountain was a sandcastle that is large enough for him and [=GoodTimesWithScar=] to reside in the desert for the majority of the season before it was destroyed on Day 6, resulting in the duo moving away to a bunker.

* ''[[LetsPlay/LifeSMP 3rd Life SMP]]'': The base Grian built on top of the Monopoly Mountain was a sandcastle that is large enough for him and [=GoodTimesWithScar=] to reside in the desert for the majority of the season before it was destroyed on Day 6, resulting in the duo moving away to a bunker.

* ''[[LetsPlay/LifeSMP 3rd Life]]'': The base Grian built on top of the Monopoly Mountain was a sandcastle that is large enough for him and Scar to reside in the desert for the majority of the season before it was destroyed on Day 6, resulting in Grian and Scar moving away to a bunker.

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': Stitch rapidly builds a sand castle tower taller than Gantu as an improvised fortress in one episode and accidentally wins a sand sculpture contest.

** ''Grunty's Revenge'' includes one on the beach in Spiller's Harbor. Only Mouse Banjo can go inside, but it contains a maze and a series of switch puzzles.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' has a massive sand-gate act as a portal to one of the Shine Sprites. As might be expected, though, it will collapse quickly if you don't hurry through it.

* In the "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS2E3LoyaltyToTheKing Loyalty to the King]]" episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', the shaven Ice King builds himself a sand palace in a playground to serve as his base of operations.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAntAndTheAardvark'' short "Dune Bug", the ant builds a sandcastle on the beach and moves into it. Of course, this is just a normal-sized sandcastle, but an ant is very small, so...
* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', the episode "Operation: B.E.A.C.H." features King Sandy, a boy who kidnaps Numbuh Three and takes her to his palace, an enormous sandcastle.
* In the episode "Beach Blanket Bonehead" of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaucers}}'', the title team and their human friends, the Secret Scouts, help a young boy build an absolutely immense sand castle. However, it's based on Reptilonian architecture, so it looks like a bunch of rock outcroppings stacked on top of each other with doors, windows and interconnecting roads.

* Stitch rapidly builds a sand castle tower taller than Gantu as an improvised fortress in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' and accidentally wins a sand sculpture contest.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow,'' Bugs and Daffy build sandcastles to impress a girl. Daffy builds an ordinary castle. Bugs builds one of ''these,'' complete with a drawbridge.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Sand Castles in the Sand", Sponge and Patrick get into a dispute while building sandcastles. As the dispute escalates, their castles become much, ''much'' bigger to the point they end up as big as actual fortresses.
* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': In “Sandcastle”, the Baby Bears build one of these and decide to live in it for a while, believing it to be indestructible... until the first wave comes in and destroys it.

* The Pokemon Palossand introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' is a living, soul-sucking sandcastle which can grow to tremendous sizes thanks to its ability to amass more and more sand to add to its body. The anime actually showed a Palossand that grew big enough to engulf Professor Kukui's cottage whole.

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* Downplayed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBt1vqff7dE&ab_channel=BruvaAlfabusa this]] ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' short. The sandcastle is a normal size, but it survives many whacks from a superhuman before collapsing.

* One of the dream worlds in ''VideoGame/{{Obsidian}}'' has this, on a beach where the player can use a machine to find oil that can transform part of the castle into a real building. The goal of the level is to find enough oil that can change the entire castle.

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* ''Webcomic/BronzeSkinInc'': The Sand King in Chapter 6 has built a giant sand castle and is about to unveil it when a giantess accidentally steps on it. As revenge, he builds another one around her, trapping the Bronze Skin team inside it as well.

* In the "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS2E3LoyaltyToTheKing Loyalty to the King]]" episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime,'' the shaven Ice King builds himself a sand palace in a playground to serve as his base of operations.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In one episode, Timmy makes one big enough to impress Trixie. He had help from his fairy godparents.