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Ahh, mid-February.  The week we all turn our thoughts to love.  And here we have the perfect Valentine’s Day gift — an adorable Cthulhu figurine!  What better way to celebrate an ersatz holiday popularized by Chaucer than with a Lovecraftian gift?

This design even comes with a lullaby you can sing with your beloved:

Rock-a-bye Cthulhu, In R’lyeh deep.
Dead you may be, or only in sleep.
When you awake, the madness will fall

Romantic, right?  cymon‘s significant other sure is a lucky one.  The only thing you’ll have to worry about it setting the bar too high for next year!

Cthulhu mini - Lovecraft Collection by cymon

Rock-a-bye Cthulhu, In R'lyeh deep. Dead you may be, or only in sleep. When you awake, the madness will fall, Then the Old Ones will teach man new ways to shout and kill and revel, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. This is the first of a new set of pieces designed to be a desktop figures or re-sized to be a suitable replacement for simple pawns in your favorite board games. Print off a whole set to add a touch of madness to any game. PS I now have a flattr account! If you like my stuff please hit my profile for your favorite things and flattr me up!

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Army of Bunnies by zxqueb

As everyone knows, the top of a muffin is easily the most desirable and delicious part.  This is reason for muffin-top pans.  So, it occurs to me that a bunny’s ears are clearly the most delicious part of a chocolate bunny.  With the season of chocolate bunnies and eggs on the horizon, Thingiverse should really have some kind of chocolate mold for bunny ears.  The prizes consist of blog-nods, major kudos, 9000 internet points, and everlasting fame on the internets.  One prize to each of the following:

• First to design a plastic mold for chocolate bunny ears (look to Chris Palmer’s work for inspiration)
• First to print a plastic mold for chocolate bunny ears
• First to create chocolate bunny ears out of a printed plastic mold
• First to directly print bunny ears out of chocolate (use a frostruder or some other kind of chocolate extruder)

Here are a few items from Thingiverse to help you on your way:

3D Scan of Chocolate Bunny by CocoNut

Simplified 3D laser scan of a chocolate bunny that I made a while back. PS. I'd love to see pictures if anybody builds the bunny with a MakerBot!

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PolyChocolate | Icosahedron Alpha V.03 Five Part by chriskpalmer

The first of a series of molds to be made with a makerbot to make chocolate polyhedra. Modified to lay down so there are no overhangs during build. Makes an Icosahedron 3 cm from corner to corner.

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PolyChocolate | Icosahedron V.02 by chriskpalmer

Two part hollow. Try this first. Modified to build from back so there are no overhangs. edit: fixed by hoeken to make it printable.

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Army of Bunnies by zxqueb

This is a remake of the bunny trouble game, which had some hard time printing for me due to the angle of the ears. Also, I wanted the bunny to be a but more chunky in relation to the hex base.

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