The Chicago mansion made famous by Home Alone is one of our favorite movie homes. While it's been 30 years since the film premiered, the gorgeous brick home (which you can visit IRL!) remains a popular photo opp for fans to date. Recently, we brought you news regarding the Home Alone-inspired Airbnb that one couple created so fans could get the full Kevin McCallister experience. Now another Home Alone house facsimile is creating some buzz and it's a bona fide masterpiece.
For background, Disney+ is currently the only streaming platform where you can watch Home Alone this holiday season. So the network decided to commission a special project to celebrate this beloved title, as well as pay homage to the iconic home in the film. To do so, Disney+ tapped award-winning food artist and sugar sculptor Michelle Wibowo to recreate the house in gingerbread form.
After 300 hours of baking and building, the UK-based creative unveiled a stunning five-foot-tall cookie replica of the home that boasts 63 trees, 33 windows, 14 pizza boxes (!), and six lampposts. In addition to recreating the home and its surroundings, she also incorporated the characters into her display as well as many other memorable details from the film.
Look closely and you'll be able to spot cookie figurines of Kevin McCallister (who is lodged into a snow pile after crashing off his sled) as well as the "Wet Bandits" (a.k.a Harry and Marv). There's also replicas of the Oh-Kay plumbing van that Harry and Marv drove, the Little Nero’s pizza delivery car, the McCallister’s treehouse, the tire swing, and more.
"I jumped at the chance because it is one of my favorite Christmas movies," Wibowo told the Evening Standard of Home Alone. "It doesn’t really feel like Christmas in our house until we have seen it at least twice."
Wibowo's Home Alone gingerbread model is currently on display at the Oak Centre for Children and Young People at The Royal Marsden in Surrey for pediatric patients and their loved ones to enjoy. You can learn more about her creation in the video below.
