Easter Egg Dispenser Bunny

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The Easter Egg Dispenser Bunny is a fun and decorative design for use over the Easter season that's easy to print. This bunny features a flip-top head so you can load mini chocolate Easter eggs into an internal channel that runs around the back and out the bottom at the front. A stop is designed in at the bottom to hold the Easter eggs from rolling straight through, allowing them to be dispensed one at a time. When the presented Easter egg is removed, the rest shuffle down the internal channel so the next one is ready to be dispensed. At standard scale, this dispenser measures 150mm x 105mm x 35mm and will take mini chocolate Easter eggs measuring up to 28mm x 22mm. The channel at standard size measures 30mm x 23.5mm, allowing 1.5 to 2mm rolling clearance. If you have a large enough build plate, this design can be scaled up uniformly to accept larger Easter eggs. Before printing, please measure the Easter eggs to be dispensed to ensure they will roll freely in the internal channel. If not, scale up to suit and calculate the increase required, including allowing for rolling clearance. To load your Easter eggs, roll them sideways so they roll through the internal channel easily. You may need to hold the first egg in place during loading, as following eggs being loaded may have enough momentum to knock them out, or dispense all at once. Before loading your Easter eggs, check that the internal channel is free of print debris and as smooth as possible, so the Easter eggs inside can roll down with minimum resistance. Removing or dispensing Easter eggs is easy - just gently remove the available egg, and the remaining ones will move down a space. Please note that removing eggs slowly and gently will ensure the remaining eggs inside cannot gain enough momentum to roll down and jump over the retaining ridge at the end of the channel. This design has been updated in 2019 to strengthen the head-body linking pin, which some people reported breaking when removing the print from the build plate or in use. It is still a thin area but is stronger now. A two-part version of this design is also available for machines with small build plates. Please download the two-part A and B STL files for this requirement. Print this Easter Egg Dispenser Bunny in your choice of colors, and make sure you have plenty of mini Easter eggs on hand - the hard part will be keeping it stocked! Check out my other fun designs on Thingiverse, including the Easter Egg Holder Bunnies.