Wedding cakes, like people, come in all shapes and sizes — some elaborate and ostentatious, others subtle and understated. But no matter how many tiers you've got or what colour the confection is when you cut into it, there has yet to be a cake baked that couldn't be improved with the addition of some Animal Crossing characters spiked on top.
As brought to our attention via a reddit post from user burritopalace, the custom handmade Animal Crossing cake toppers offered by Etsy seller LootreArt are so incredibly cute that they're almost worth getting married for.
What's that? Why not just buy the cake toppers and save yourself the bother of finding the requisite life partner and rushing in foolishly for the sake of some cute unofficial merch? Sure, you could do that. Not very romantic, though, is it?
Naturally, buyers are able to customise the features, clothing and poses of the figures.
The seller's page is filled with 83 pages(!) of glowing testimonials from delighted customers along with many, many examples of custom figurines that have taken pride of place atop extremely expensive baked goods. We won't reproduce the photos here but we highly recommend giving them a scroll.
The figures are currently priced at £184.97 and are sold out through October 2022. Blimey!
If you you don't have impending nuptials, there's obviously nothing stopping you ordering the figures, adding some villager amiibo around the place, and recreating your New Horizons island in a neat diorama, is there? If you're willing to wait until November, of course.
Let us know below if you'd top your wedding cake (or any other type of cake) with a couple of these.
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Cool figures but WAAAAY too expensive.
Where is the couple of dudes?
Awww these are copyright-strikingly cute!
@Zuljaras not as cheap as an amiibo certainly but for that quality and being just over one day's pay at a decent job, totally worth it for something youll remember the rest of your life!
i had something similar for my harvest moon themed wedding, and dressed as the villager for a friend's wedding.
i'm honestly likely getting these for someone
The fact that there's a WLW couple makes my heart so happy! (And also tells me the creator understands the Animal Crossing audience ❤️)
@noobish_hat That will actually make it a "day they'll remember for the rest of their lives"
@Zuljaras
One of the problems with being an artist is that people will love your work and sing its praises but not want to pay anything for it. "Well, it's just a small painting...it can't take that long to do. Can't you do it for free? You'll get lots of exposure and commissions!"
Exposure don't pay the rent.
@k8sMum Who said to do it for free? That sounds like something a "Karen" would say
From my point of view those figures are too expensive.
Probably because they are listed as luxury goods. Just like some baby clothes etc. are overpriced. Also people know that weddings are kind of an expensive events so what are another 185 pounds on top of that? Probably nothing
If those were not targeted at wedding events they would probably go for half the price if not less But that is just my opinion ofc.
@Zuljaras
Trust me: there are a lot of Karens out there. My portraits start at $200. I cannot count the times people have tried to get them for $25, $50, free or whatever. They don't seem to understand that they aren't commissioning just the finished piece but the time and skill involved, not to mention the materials.
@k8sMum Yep lots of people like to haggle about commissioned stuff. And portraits are expensive because there is extremely high skill involved. Also every time it is different.
I was just referring to those figures that are from let's say a "third party" influenced. ALL of the clients are ordering them because they love Animal Crossing and play with their partners. And like I already said special event "exclusive" items have artificially higher prices
And I know the prices of the good paints, brushes and canvases.
Btw could you, if you don't mind, show me some of your portraits. I would love to see a photo or two of some of them in the Nintendo Artists thread. I really appreciate good art!
@Zuljaras I honestly thought you were one of those people that didnt understand just how much more hand made goods are vs mass produced. But nope..those prices are insa.e
@earthinheritor I know the price of handmade stuff in terms of material prices and the hours you put into it. I love making figures but I never tried selling them Still doing it for fun.
Maybe some day
Well Nintendo is going to shut them down really quickly.
FYI, Hotcakes refers to pancakes not an actual traditional cake.
@k8sMum That is stupid. If you want it for free most folks have a camera phone. But a painting is someone’s interpretation of you and a hand crafted item. (Obviously you know this but it’s baffling to me that you go through this) The worst I have ever done is ask for a payment plan for a commission. Which I paid in full.
On topic I don’t like Animal Crossing like that but that would be cool on like a secondary cake to me. Granted I am not into throwing other people a party to celebrate getting married. Call me unromantic but I believe in either courthouse or very small backyard wedding so the money can go to the house or honeymoon. I suppose if you are rich the party is fine. But I would be thinking about what else we could have bought for the money.
@Deviant-Dork There are many Animal Crossing related stuff like this. Why would they shut it down?
@Slasher maybe because they make all the other animal crossing stuff??
@Anti-Matter Most of these types of things are made to order, so it's possible there wasn't a marriage of that type.
"Unofficial" = cease and desist
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