Awesome and enormous 3D R2D2 cake

Mark sez, "My amazing and beautiful wife arranged had an R2D2 cake made for my 40th birthday. It was made by Stacked Cakes which is located in a small country town 20 kilometres outside Canberra in Australia. The link is to their log where there are photos and video of it being made."

They also include downloadable templates for making your own R2D2 monstercake.

R2D2 Step By Step (Thanks, Mark!)

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Locobot

Wow, in 3D! Much more filling than those two and four dimensional cakes.
- niktemadur
  
  Right, those 4D cakes fill me up sideways in time, then I end up waking up before I go to sleep.
- Pliny_the_Elder
  
  A two dimensional cake would be WAY more impressive than a 3D one
autark

she should have done her hair like Leia for the video
Punchcard

This brought back some some very fond memories of an R2D2 cake pan we had when I was a child. That thing was awesome.
niktemadur

No… I musn’t… can’t… AAAARGH!
“THIS IS NOT THE CAKE YOU’RE LOOKING FOR!”
Aleknevicus

Very impressive.

But there’s something about having embedded electronics that makes it “not a cake” for me.
bcsizemo

“My amazing and beautiful wife arranged had an R2D2 cake made for my 40th birthday.”

Is someone named arranged?
Brad H.

Honestly, nothing that is fun or cool is actually within Canberra and the ACT. Except the pub (Wig & Pen). It’s a good pub.
pjcamp

I’m sorry, polystyrene is not cake.
- http://twitter.com/frederikvdz Frederik
  
  Yeah, that was a little dissapointing. It looks impressive, untill you realize it’s made of wood and polystyrene painted with cake frosting. That’s a model, not a cake.
kringlebertfistyebuns

Lawsuit from Lucasfilm in 5…4…3…
markellis

Apologies for the typos. English is our second language in Australia.
hollander

Nice, but did they do Lady GaGa riding Sharktopus like my wife did? She also did R2, Yoda, dragons, etc but common… also her cakes are cake…almost 100% edible. Take a look.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25981437@N07/6644380673/in/photostream/