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Wallace & Gromit breakfast machine recreated in real life
A YouTuber has painstakingly recreated the famous breakfast machine in The Wrong Trousers in real life.
Joseph Herscher, better known as Joseph’s Machines, made the bed on hinges that dropped him into his clothes, followed by the jam being catapulted onto a slice of toast popping out of the toaster.
Joseph had to find unique solutions to make the piece as similar to the original as possible, putting his video and the original animation aide by side and even revealing that the trousers he used were lent to him by Bristol-based Aardman.
Writing on YouTube, Joseph said: “I’m sure it comes as no surprise that Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers was a favourite of mine growing up, so this machine has been extra special to create!
“This video not only contains TWO different versions of the final result, but I also take you through my process of figuring out dangerous stunts, solving sticky jam complications and treating dog stage fright.”
The Joseph’s Machines YouTube channel has a staggering following of 7.62m and more than 4bn views.
He is a kinetic artist from New Zealand who specialises in making chain reaction machines for his online audience, having started his creative journey at the age of five with his first invention, ‘the Lolly Machine’, which could store his sweets.
The 40-year-old started his YouTube channel in 2008 with the video, ‘Creme that Egg!’, which racked up 3m views online.
The success of his first video encouraged Joseph to create more and more elaborate machines, and with this came participation in the Venice Biennial, appearance on numerous television shows including Sesame Street and a lecture at Parsons School of Design in New York.
He now creates his content at his studio in London that he says “solve everyday problems using familiar objects in unfamiliar ways”.
The breakfast machine video was almost an exact replica of the famous scene from the second Wallace & Gromit animation, with the two being placed side by side at the end of the video showcasing their incredible similarities.
Throughout the video, Joseph also had to face various challenges and setbacks, including the training of a whippet named Archie to play the role of the well renowned pooch, Gromit.
Another test of his creativity was with the ‘jam catapult’.
Joseph did struggle to make it so that the jam was contained within a specific area so that it would cover the toast well.
His solution to this was one he found on social media, where he mixed the jam in a gram of sodium and placed it in a bowl of water in which contained calcium lactate.
This caused the jam to have a thick skin making it bond together and able to handle. Plus, once it landed on toast, it splurged, covering the toast as it would in the animation.
This feature made the rest of the video a delight to watch and made it even more accurate to the original.
In total, the only visual difference noticeable in the comparison was that the toast in Joseph’s remake emerged from the toaster ever so slightly later.
Joseph’s video though was a cracking take on Wallace & Gromit IRL, showing the Bristol classic in a more realistic light.
Main photo: Joseph Machines / Aardman
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