This idea stems from the shaping of watermelons into cubes by placing it inside a plastic cube and letting it fill out inside.

Basically the person would take a mold of their face and send it in to the company. They then make a plastic mold of their face and make it into a container. They let the watermelon grow inside the container and... voila! A watermelon with your face on it!

Great for weddings, graduation, funerals (death mask verson)!
-- generaltso, Feb 14 2007

Halfbakery: Gourd Form Celebrity Pack (2002) Gourd_20Form_20Celebrity_20Pack
Similar idea. [jutta, Feb 15 2007]

Flickr: Mickey Mouse Melon (?) http://www.flickr.c...winediva/365929846/
[jutta, Feb 15 2007]

Gourd Form Celebrity Pack Gourd_20Form_20Celebrity_20Pack
[marked-for-deletion] already on the bakery? [theleopard, Feb 15 2007]

Face-shaped vegetable molds http://www.vegiforms.com/
[MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 16 2007]

I'm sure I read, a few years ago, about someone growing aubergines (eggplants) in transparent face-caricature-shaped molds. However, Googling didn't find it, so it may just have been the solvents.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 14 2007


I think a watermelon's surface is too thick for this. Even the cubic ones aren't completely cubic.
-- phundug, Feb 14 2007


But what if both mold and watermelon are gigantic, [phundug]? Using some genet... err... selective breeding techniques we could produce ego-sized watermelons.
-- methinksnot, Feb 15 2007


Squares are kind of extreme - for shapes closer to round, I could see this working. Nice idea for the Effigies-R-Us chain of stores.
-- jutta, Feb 15 2007


I've done some bodycasting, headcasting. All very do-able.
-- normzone, Feb 15 2007


Sounds alot like Bonzai Kittens, but with melons.
-- theleopard, Feb 15 2007


theleopard, are you having one of those write-only days?
-- jutta, Feb 16 2007


Whaddaya mean? I can't be expected to come up with brain-meltingly stupendous and impossibly fantastic ideas every single day, genius is tiring [Jutta]. I honestly thought you would have known that.
-- theleopard, Feb 16 2007


Found it! See link. Baked!
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 16 2007


Man, now I've *really* seen everything.
-- jutta, Feb 16 2007



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