Oh god…no..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4326286.stm
this is just awful…
Oh god…no..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/4326286.stm
this is just awful…
Oh…wow. Sorry to heard that, especially after their movie is taking off too. Poor Nick.
Oh, damn that sucks. I adore the hell out of Wallace and Gromit. For the entire works to go up in flame… damn.
It's so sad that everything was lost. I'd have loved to have seen a book of original storyboards and sets (for all I know something like this exists - I need to check) and now it's all gone.
But they'll rebuild and return. I have faith.
Heart snaps
I was RAISED on W+G. This is so awful…
No! This is horrible! I loved the Penguin Movie…. this is sad. :(
Oh god no! I love Wallace and Gromit! I just saw the movie and I loved it! But this cannot be!
Oh, I hope Nick can rebuild everything!
That is truly sad, but it doesn't mean the end of Wallace and Gromit. They can rebuild.
Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park said it was "dreadful" for the company but comparatively "not a big deal".
It's not a big deal compared to what's happening in the world now,but it's a terrible loss to the hundreds of artists who spent countless hours over 2 decades to create the models and animate them.
That is really bad…. I'd hate to lose everything in a fire... god.. but yeah.. they can rebuild but still thats a bad loses.
I heard he still has Wallace and Gromit and also some of the set from the film
This is from mailing list of Aardmans. Luckily only storage burned down. It would have been horrible if it was instead studio. In that case there might have been also lost of lives. So I dont think that it will be end of Wallace and Gromit.
Fire destroys historical Aardman artefacts
Dear xxx
On the day that Aardman celebrate a chart-topping opening weekend in the US with Wallace & Gromit 'The Curse of the Were-rabbit', news of a fire at our storage unit in Bristol has been devastating.
The facility used to store sets, awards, and historical artefacts, is not a part of the Aardman studio, and we are glad to report that no Aardman staff have been affected. However, we have lost a number of irreplaceable storyboards, awards, props and pieces of film memorabilia from our 30 year history.
None of the material from the new Wallace & Gromit film 'The Curse of the Wererabbit' was in storage at the time, but we have lost many original sets from Chicken Run, Creature Comforts, and the three Wallace & Gromit short films, that were used for reference and toured around the world for exhibition.
This will not in any way affect existing or future Aardman productions as 100% of sets and props are purpose built for each production.
Wallace & Gromit 'The Curse of the Were-rabbit': http://www.wandg.com/
That means the original W & G figures were destroyed,not the replica's…
man, so much depressing stuff has happened, and now THIS???? well at least they can rebuild the set