{"id":103400,"date":"2025-12-21T04:56:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103400\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T04:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:56:28","slug":"life-size-home-alone-gingerbread-house-opens-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103400\/","title":{"rendered":"Life-Size \u2018Home Alone\u2019 Gingerbread House Opens in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Disney+ and Hulu construction is attempting for a Guinness World Record <\/p>\n<p>The result of 5,700 pounds of all-purpose flour and over 4,200 eggs can be found on the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Open to the public on the evenings of Dec. 18 and 19, Disney+ and Hulu are working to\u00a0nab\u00a0a Guinness World Record title that has been held since 2013: the world\u2019s largest gingerbread house.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Home Alone gingerbread house popup December 2025\" class=\"wp-image-281979\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Home-Alone-Gingerbread-House-1200x675.jpeg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Home-Alone-Gingerbread-House-1200x675.jpeg\" alt=\"Home Alone gingerbread house popup December 2025\" class=\"wp-image-281979\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"  \/>Credit: Walt Disney Studios<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by \u201890s Christmas\u00a0family comedy\u00a0Home Alone,\u00a0the movie tribute\/\u00a0attempt to break a record stands just over 25 feet tall, 58 feet long and 42 feet wide. Its 4,400 gingerbread brick tiles and 800 roof tiles\u00a0is\u00a0held together with 20 gallons of edible glue and 20 pounds of fondant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, you\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0eat it, but Angelenos are welcome to come by for holiday fun. Bringing an\u00a0unwrapped\u00a0toy donation for Toys for Tots is encouraged.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Home Alone gingerbread house popup December 2025\" class=\"wp-image-281973\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Home-Alone_5-1200x675.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Home-Alone_5-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"Home Alone gingerbread house popup December 2025\" class=\"wp-image-281973\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"  \/>Credit: Walt Disney Studios<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisney+ is excited to celebrate a movie that\u2019s become such a holiday staple for families everywhere, mine included,\u201d said Zack Jerome, vice president of\u00a0brand and marketing Strategy, Disney+. \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to bring elements from the film into the real world so people can experience them up close.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles has gotten in on plenty of\u00a0Home Alone\u00a0fun as the movie celebrates its 35th\u00a0anniversary. Among\u00a0its many\u00a0screenings around town,\u00a0the most coveted was\u00a0perhaps the\u00a0Dec. 13 showing at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lamag.com\/arts-and-entertainment\/home-alone-35-years-later-a-sold-out-night-at-the-academy-museum-with-special-guest-macaulay-culkin-the-original-kid-at-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Academy Museum of Motion Pictures<\/a>, which included a conversation between star Macaulay Culkin and director Chris\u00a0Columbus. Across town,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lamag.com\/food\/home-alone-disney-prince-st-pop-up-devember-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Prince St. Pizza<\/a>\u00a0has transformed into Little Nero\u2019s Pizza from the movie until\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSYIoC6Eby_\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Dec. 21<\/a>\u00a0where you can get a lovely pizza just for you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-altfont has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xs-font-size wp-elements-a392843e06eac12cec56e735f4f8219f has-lg-margin-top\" style=\"letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase\">Scroll to continue reading<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Home Alone gingerbread house popup December 2025\" class=\"wp-image-281972\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Home-Alone_4-1200x675.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Home-Alone_4-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"Home Alone gingerbread house popup December 2025\" class=\"wp-image-281972\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"  \/>Credit: Walt Disney Studios<\/p>\n<p>Home Alone\u00a0and\u00a0Home Alone 2\u00a0are currently streaming on Disney+.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Disney+ and Hulu construction is attempting for a Guinness World Record The result of 5,700 pounds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3588,1743,49903,48,52,51,47,50,49,26180],"class_list":{"0":"post-103400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-hollywood","10":"tag-home-alone","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-headlines","13":"tag-la-news","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","16":"tag-los-angeles-news","17":"tag-pop-up"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}