{"id":23274,"date":"2015-12-21T21:23:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=23274"},"modified":"2015-12-21T21:23:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:23:27","slug":"santa-claus-came-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/santa-claus-came-to-town","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus came to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we were thrilled to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/19418-santa-visits-shapeways-factory-brings-reindeer-and-3d-printed-swag.html\">Santa Claus and one of his reindeers<\/a> come to the factory the day before Christmas. It was one of the best ways to cap off a great holiday season, and this year we knew we wanted to include them in the fun once more.<\/p>\n<p>Santa Claus made his return to our factory in Eindhoven and once again brought his reindeer. This year we had the pleasure of scanning the duo and were able to present Santa with his own 3D Selfie!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23282\" alt=\"Social Shot 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-2-625x417.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" data-wp-pid=\"23282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-2-625x417.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-2-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-2-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out that awesome scan! Think Mrs. Claus will like it?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23286\" alt=\"Social Shot 7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-7-625x417.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" data-wp-pid=\"23286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-7-625x417.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-7-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-7-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-7.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just like last year, Santa took a little tour of the factory and checked out all the amazing products being printed and processed:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23284\" alt=\"Social Shot 4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-4-625x417.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" data-wp-pid=\"23284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-4-625x417.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-4-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And of course, he was wearing his 3D printed swag (check out that belt buckle!):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23283\" alt=\"Social Shot 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-1-581x500.jpg\" width=\"581\" height=\"500\" data-wp-pid=\"23283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-1-581x500.jpg 581w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-1-1024x881.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-1-625x537.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-1-313x270.jpg 313w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-1-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-1-800x688.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As always, we love being so connected to a community that helps us make the holiday a little brighter. Santa knows he&#8217;s always welcome to our factory, and we can&#8217;t wait to see him again.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays everybody!<\/p>\n<p><em>Special thanks to: Our amazing community member, Roel Ruwaard, for donning the suit and bringing the Reindeer out to the factory!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we were thrilled to have Santa Claus and one of his reindeers come to the factory the day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":23282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[1267],"class_list":["post-23274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-holiday-2015"],"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Social-Shot-2-625x417.jpg","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Santa Claus came to town - Shapeways Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Last year, we were thrilled to have Santa Claus and one of his reindeers come to the factory the day before Christmas. 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