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Wallace and Gromit Studio Loses History
TheFarmerInTheDell writes "CNN is reporting that the Aardman Animations building in Bristol, home of Wallace and Gromit, has been destroyed by fire From the article: 'Today was supposed to be a day of celebration, with the news that 'Wallace and Gromit' had gone in at No. 1 at the U.S. box office, but instead our whole history has been wiped out'"
Be on the lookout for a penguin with a rubber glove on its head.
What is music when you despise all sound?
And that is why 11 out of 10 firemen recommend off-site backup! How do you backup clay btw?
Wait, I thought the fire was supposed to come after the /.ing, not before...
Joking aside, this is pretty sad. But I'm sure they'll be back on their feet in no time and making new stuff.
Since The Wrong Trousers made an appearance at a shorts festival, I've been a fan. The good news should be that the clay figures should be ok evermore now that the heat has turned them into...ceramic...
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It's either the smurfs or a rabbit from the Isle of Man.
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Maybe a pyromaniac is burning all the animation studios in alphabetical order?
Well their time zone is ahead of us, so they get the news early. Don't blame /. ;)
Man, I've heard of some crazy stunts for free advertising, but this is crazy.
. . . that Wallace and Grommit are Pottery?
"No beer until you finish your tequila!" -Leela's Dad
If the critics didn't like it a simple it sucked would have sufficed.
They didn't have to resort to arson, unless they felt that Wallace and Grommet are really that evil and must be destroyed at all costs.
Keep the faith guys, from the ashes will rise a phoenix.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
They're pissed that a claymation took top spot over some crappy cookie cutter film and that they didn't need to hire an "actor" at 7 digits to draw a crowd.
Oh, the humanity!
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This is what happens when you beat Captain Malcom Reynolds at the Box Office. I imagine investigators will reveal that the cause of the fire was a "Crazy Ivan" Gorram claymation.
If it was so important to them they should have spend the money to store it in multiple locations.
You're totally right, this is what they get for being so lazy. Had I been in charge of storage I would have carefully hid each bit of priceless memorabelia in a scattering of booby-trapped tombs in the most remote sections of the world. Furthermore, carbon copies of each item would have been blasted into a complex orbit which passed through our solar system only once every 217,326 light years, thereby protecting each piece in the case of Earth's total destruction.
Oh... wait... no, that wouldn't be practical... I'd just keep everything in a warehouse so that I'd know where the hell it was...
*rolls dice*
Come on Disney.
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It's a penguin with a rubber glove on it's head.
...phew!
I used to have a matter duplicator in my basement, but unfortunately it was destroyed in a fire. It was the only copy.
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Police are on the lookout
First the great library of Alexandria, and now this???
Let's hope Western Civilization can withstand the blow.
They're organized, I know it. Ginger, she's their leader, I reckon.
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Careful - In this day and age you could be sued for stealing their intellectual property!
Argh.
don't say that too close to some Star wars/star trek/ghostbusters/whatever movie fans. they get rabid about some obscure piece of fodder from the sets and fawn over owning some random piece of crap one day at an extremely high price.
"This is the cloth they were going to use for darth vader's cloak but changed it before shooting... it's very rare."
"I paid $390.00 for this roll of toilet paper stolen from Wil Weatons trailer when they were filming the last episode with him in it on location! it's very very rare!"
gobs of morons... I mean geeks pine for this crap. it could have made them millions on ebay in a couple of months.
Now I must return to my bidding on a valuable high quality reproduction of the robot from lost in space... It's very rare.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I had a house burn down once, and the thing that ended up being most useful afterward was a videotape showing inventory and carefully showing irreplaceable stuff like a portrait photo of my great grandfather.
If only Aardman had taken the time to create a video archive of all these props and objects... something like a movie...
erm... nevermind.
(Especially on grim days like today, I really miss Emily Latella. And Nick Park's classy reaction to this personal catastrophe impressed the hell out of me. Thanks, Nick.)
A real man with feats of clay?
"Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the beast..."
"She's in Congress?" - Firefly, "Objects in Space
If my office burned down tomorrow, I'd need the offsite backup take restored onto a new server, a new Macintosh, a new desk, and a chair. That's it.
And a source of power and security to guard all that 24-7 in the blackened empty lot that used to be your office building.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Police have identified the suspects as part of the "Garden Gnome Liberation Front" after recieving a video tape claiming the arson was justified because the claymation sets were "going soft". More information on this at 10 pm.
Yeah, he should've used parsecs.
I don't, I sold my famous person atoms on eBay. Some bloke paid an arm and a leg for them.
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Also, Gromit is not a real dog!