A bakery has made a six-foot replica of Star Wars hero Han Solo frozen in carbonite entirely out of bread. Sci-fi fan Hannalee Pervan, 37, spent 100 hours on the life-size sculpture, which she dubbed Pan Solo.
Ms Pervan is the head chef and co-owner of One House Bakery in Benicia, Califonia. She said she grew up watching the Star Wars films with her mum Catherine Pervan, who helped her with the creation.
Hannalee said: "My mom and I had been brainstorming iconic images in the sci-fi universe. We settled on Han Solo stuck in carbonite because it was one of our favourite moments in Star Wars.
"It was also a little scary for Halloween and we thought we could really make it look cool using the properties of the dead dough."
Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford, becomes frozen in carbonite towards the end of The Empire Strikes Back, the 1980 sequel to the original Star Wars film. It has become one of the defining images of the sci-fi series.
The bread sculpture took a month to complete, and another two months to plan. The mother-and-daughter pair painstakingly crafted each feature for the sculpture by hand out of flour, water and sugar before baking them individually.
They made the basic body shape first before moving on to the face and hands. "We start with a rough idea and then me and my mom just jump in and start making and baking things and seeing if they work," Ms Pervan said.
"Sometimes we get it in the first try and others we have to bake multiple times. We had many reference photos and we obsessed over the smallest details in them.
"We would work our normal 12-14hr shift and then work together on Pan Solo for another 3-4 hrs at night, sometimes more. In total it’s probably around 100 hours."
