'Emmerdale' has grown a custom maize maze for this year's huge stunt storyline.
Emmerdale maze
The ITV soap has teamed up with Head of Design Gillian Slight and designer Duncan Howell to create the amazing set piece - which will be a focus of the epic week later this month - outside the village in Leeds, and it took five months to grow.
Producer Kate Brooks said: "We wanted something that was unique to the 'Emmerdale' landscape that also packed a dramatic punch.
"The idea of a maize maze really captured our imagination as we felt that it would provide the perfect backdrop for the high-octane drama to unfold.
"Duncan Howell and his team have done an amazing job of bringing the maze to life."
Two exact replicas of the maze have been made, each measuring 100 metres squared, and the paths were plotted with a GPS before being cut to "absolute accuracy" before they hit 10 inches.
The mazes have now hit a height of around three metres, and Duncan admitted the design was "complicated".
He added: "It was a complicated design with lots of different journeys and dead ends but we also needed crew access because it’s a set and we needed escape routes also.
"I had a model made which I took on the recce with me. I’m really happy with the finished result."
Plot details for the upcoming episodes are being kept under wraps, and viewers still have no idea how the maze will be used in the storyline.
However, producers have revealed that serial killer Meena Jutla (Paige Sandhu) looks set to take another victim during one of the "most gripping and thrilling weeks" in the ITV soap's history.
A recent video teaser saw Meena dressed as the grim reaper in the maze, where several villagers were desperately trying to escape.
At the end of the promo, she smirked and chillingly said: "There's no way out."
Producer Kate has said: "This is 'Emmerdale' at its most ambitious as we take viewers on an exhilarating journey through a series of show-stopping stunts.
"As the twists and turns come thick and fast, viewers will be left on the edge of their seats, and with Meena at the heart of the story it means only one thing; not all our villagers will survive."