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Die Hard’s John McClane Gets Made into a Realistic Cake

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No stranger to making unbelievably realistic cakes, pastry artist Natalie Sideserf of Sideserf Cake Studio in Austin, Texas recently made a John McClane bust cake from Die Hard, one of everybody’s favorite Christmas movies. Welcome to the party, pal!

John’s neck is constructed of chocolate modeling clay with alternating layers of vanilla cake and green buttercream making up the inside of his head. That has a coat of buttercream icing covering it to prevent air from getting to the cake and causing it to dry out, and a thin sheet of modeling chocolate acts as his skin. The rest is just sculpting that modeling chocolate and adding his facial features, then painting it all to look just like John McClane from the movie. Simple as pie! Except cake.

What a stunning piece of cake artistry. I’m not sure how I feel about eating somebody’s face though. But I bet Hans Gruber would dive right into it! And by dive, I obviously mean fall from the top of Nakatomi Plaza right into it.

Everything in our holiday gift guide that you can buy for $50 or less

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The movies and books we’d give as gifts

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Die Hard John McClane POP! Action Figure Can’t Make Fists with his Toes

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Die Hard is one of the best of the classic ’80s Christmas movies. And if you don’t think Die Hard is a Christmas movie, you are wrong. It’s got Christmas music, decorations, and parties. And Santa Claus. HO-HO-HO.

Now the beloved Funko POP! line of vinyl action figures has some great new Die Hard collectibles just in time to give for Christmas.

First up is a barefoot John McClane, complete with a bloody face, a tiny walkie talkie, and wearing a blood-stained sleeveless undershirt. The figure can be pre-ordered now at Entertainment Earth.

Naturally, you will also need the Hans Gruber figure to go along with McClane. Though Gruber lacks his surprised face if you plan to throw him off a building. Hans Bubby is up for pre-order now as well. Each figure sells for $10.99 and is expected to ship this November.

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Things You Didn’t Know About “Die Hard”

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Christmas may have come and gone already, but the cool thing about the best Christmas flick of them all – Die Hard – is that it’s not nearly as weird to watch post-Christmas as say, Elf.

A CineFix video was circulating before the holidays that I somehow missed which explains some things about the classic action flick that you might not have known about.

The coolest is in the final scene where Alan Rickman falls from the top of the building. Rickman had agreed to fall 25-feet to an airbag below for that scene. The people handling the stunt told him they would drop him on the count of “three, two, one, GO!”

Instead they dropped him on the “one” to get a more realistic reaction. He was sure surprised. Check out the video for some other cool facts about the classic flick.

[via Sploid]

Die Hard Christmas Ornament: Yippee Ki Yay, Father Christmas

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As a child of the ’80s my favorite Christmas movie was a toss up between Scrooged with Bill Murray and Die Hard – the original only, not the follow ups mind you. If you don’t think Die Hard is a Christmas movie, I hope you choke on an entire buffet of dicks, and by that I mean you are wrong.

One of the most memorable scenes is where our favorite cowboy is slipping through the ductwork of the Nakatomi Plaza bitching about his vacay not going as planned. Some creative bastard made a simple, yet effective Christmas ornament of that scene and it is epic.

I know what I am watching tonight. This is an all-time great Christmas film – so much better than It’s a Wonderful Life.

[via Reddit]

Chocolate Bruce Willis Die Hard Sculpture: Yummy-Ki-Yay!

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This chocolate sculpture of Bruce Willis was made for a press conference in Japan for the release of A Good Day To Die Hard. It looks even more like Bruce Willis than Joseph Gordon-Levitt did in Looper. It’s a good day to bite hard on this delicious sculpture.
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Only the Japanese could take a pointless movie sequel and use it as a good excuse to make a life-sized chocolate treat. Who else is going to do it? No one! Thank you, kind people of Japan.

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Come out to Japan… Check your own likeness in chocolate… Have a few bites. Little did John McClane know that Japanese terrorists had turned the heat up in the building, threatening to melt the sculpture unless they got 640 million dollars in bearer bonds.

[via Kotaku via GeekTyrant]