Akihiro Mizuuchi makes Lego bricks from chocolate
Japanese designer Akihiro Mizuuchi has created a set of precise Lego moulds that turn melted chocolate into edible bricks (+ slideshow).
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Akihiro Mizuuchi formed moulds around real Lego pieces, which were used to make the individual chocolate bricks that he built into figurines.
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The idea started with a Valentine's Day tradition amongst Mizuuchi's friends to re-create characters from popular Japanese anime television programme Mobile Suit Gundam out of chocolate, documented on a dedicated Facebook group.
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"On Valentine's Day this year, I decided to make a lot of chocolate Lego first and then assemble the characters with the chocolate Lego," Mizuuchi told Dezeen.
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He designed each character in Lego bricks on his computer first, so he could calculate which components he would require and in what quantities.
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He then laid the required bricks out on a Lego baseplate and formed a mould around them. The result is so detailed that it even includes the Danish toy company's logo on the top of each brick.
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Mizuuchi poured melted chocolate into the moulds and waited for it to cool before popping out the individual bricks required to make the Mobile Suit Gundam characters.
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Blocks were made in dark, milk, white and strawberry chocolate to create tonal variation, and Mizuuchi also experimented with colouring to produce green and blue pieces.
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Mizuuchi is an illustrator and designer and also lectures at the Shizuoka College of Design and Tokoha Gakuen University of Art.