70-595: Wallace & Gromit's Cracking Contraptions is a British series of ten Wallace & Gromit stop motion animations varying in length from 1 to 3 minutes. Each episode features one of Wallace's new inventions and Gromit's skeptical reaction to it. The series was produced and released in 2002 by Aardman Animations . All ten shorts were aired on BBC One after the television premiere of Chicken Run (2000). The idea for Cracking Contraptions came about when Japanese broadcasters were desperate for new material and asked if there were any shorts they could air on TV. This
140-404: A 10p coin into the electric meter , he and Gromit sit at the table. The device clamps their wrists and ankles to their chairs whilst a powerful vacuum sucks all the debris off the table, after which another mechanism sets it and delivers a piping-hot meal. The energy required to do this severely depletes the meter and as the machine lights the candles (with a typically over-the-top flame thrower),
210-538: A Harvey Nichols store that opened in Bristol (where Aardman is based) in 2008. The pictures show them, and Lady Tottington from Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , wearing designer clothes and items. They were used to prevent a Wensleydale cheese factory from shutting down because of financial difficulties after a member of staff came up with the idea of using Wallace and Gromit as mascots, as Wensleydale
280-435: A sheep costume and heads downstairs; meanwhile, robot arms fluff Wallace's mattress and pillow, place a hot water bottle on his chest, and give him a teddy bear as a record of lullaby music starts playing. After Gromit reaches the dining room, a huge spring built into the floor repeatedly bounces him upward, through a trap door in the ceiling, and into Wallace's bedroom. Wallace literally counts sheep and soon falls asleep, as
350-508: A sou'wester to protect himself). Wallace decides he will have fried eggs, but the Autochef throws them onto Wallace's eyes, which blinds him. It then starts to squirt hot tea around the room saying nonsense. Gromit blocks the nozzle with a banana skin, which makes the Autochef shout more nonsense, getting faster and louder as the pressure increases, saying different phases. Finally, after a brief pause it declares "Knickers!” and explodes, destroying
420-513: A "BunGun". Gameplay for the Project Zoo involve players exclusively controlling Gromit, as Wallace functions as a helper non-player character , but in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , gameplay shifts between the two, and includes two-player cooperative play. Both games were developed by Frontier Developments with the assistance of Aardman, with Peter Sallis reprising his role as Wallace. Project Zoo
490-574: A bronze bench statue of Wallace & Gromit was unveiled in Preston , Lancashire, Park's home town. In January 2022, a new film, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl , was announced, which is due to release in 2024 on Netflix worldwide, except for the UK where it will debut first on the BBC before also coming to Netflix at a later date. Wallace lives, along with his pet dog Gromit, at 62 West Wallaby Street that
560-510: A crutch to limp home. The other wheel comes off at the front door, stopping the trolley and, in the process, dumping the Edam in the garden. Wallace sends Shaun the Sheep to bring it in, but Shaun begins eating the cheese instead. Wallace keeps calling Gromit, who is still in the basement, to stop Shaun, but Gromit, disgusted and not wanting to get involved, ignores Wallace while Shaun happily munches away on
630-541: A faux motion blur . Because a second of film constitutes 24 separate frames, even a short half-hour film like A Close Shave takes a great deal of time to animate. General quotes on the speed of animation of a Wallace & Gromit film put the filming rate at typically around 30 frames per day per animator. Some effects, particularly the fire, smoke and floating bunnies in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , proved impossible to create in stop motion and were rendered by computer animation specialists, MPC film. MPC film studied
700-426: A feature. I think he found it was too much. I think he liked the half-hour format." Sallis died on 2 June 2017 at the age of 96. In 2018, Park said to Radio Times : "[Sallis] was such a special one-off person with such unique qualities, it would be hard to fill his shoes but I think he'd want us to carry on and I've got more Wallace and Gromit ideas." In 2019, Park announced that a new Wallace & Gromit project
770-490: A film poster. His taste in music has been shown to cover Bach (presumably punning on "bark"), "Poochini" (a play on Puccini ), "McFlea" ( McFly ), "The Beagles" ( the Beatles ) and "Red Hot Chili Puppies" ( Red Hot Chili Peppers ). Gromit gains his own love interest in A Matter of Loaf and Death , when he becomes attached to Fluffles, a poodle. Fluffles reciprocates his affection and joins Wallace and Gromit delivering bread at
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#1733084904610840-476: A full head of hair and a very thick moustache with muttonchops . On the photo that shows Gromit's graduation at Dogwarts, he had lost his beard, but still had a little hair, in the form of sideburns just above his ears. In The Wrong Trousers , he still uses a hair-dryer. In A Matter of Loaf and Death , when Wallace is talking to Gromit, a picture is seen behind Gromit of Wallace with a brown beard and brown hair. Wallace has had three romantic interests. The first
910-447: A good-natured, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, and Gromit, his loyal and intelligent anthropomorphic beagle . It consists of four short films , two feature-length films and has spawned numerous spin-offs and TV adaptations. The first short film, A Grand Day Out , was finished and released in 1989. Wallace was voiced by actor Peter Sallis until 2010 when he was succeeded by Ben Whitehead . While Wallace speaks very often, Gromit
980-576: A more expressive character (animated or otherwise) to grace our screens." Gromit is a beagle , with a cream-coloured short-hair coat and oversized floppy dark brown ears, who is Wallace's pet dog and best friend. He is very intelligent, having graduated from "Dogwarts University" ("Dogwarts" being a pun on " Hogwarts ", the wizard school from the Harry Potter books) with a double first in Engineering for Dogs. He likes knitting, playing chess, reading
1050-422: A punning name, which reflect those of the titles of the films: While he has shown himself to be skilled to some degree in the businesses he creates, an unexpected flaw in the inventions he uses to assist him in his latest venture or simple, but odd, happenstance ends up being pivotal to the resolution of the story. In the first photo shown on The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , it was revealed that Wallace once had
1120-434: A variety of sizes, shapes and materials including glass , ceramic , acrylic , bakelite , copper , brass , aluminium , silicone , wood , stainless steel , marble , and plastic . Some are hollow and are able to be filled with cold or warm water to better roll a desired food. Marble rolling pins are often cooled in a refrigerator for maintaining a cold dough while making puff pastry . An angry housewife wielding
1190-446: Is 12 February. In The Wrong Trousers , he is seen circling the date on a calendar. Gromit has no visible mouth and expresses himself through facial expressions and body language. Peter Hawkins originally intended to voice Gromit, but Park dropped the idea when he realised how Gromit's thoughts and feelings could be known through movement with some canine noises on rare occasions. Many critics believe that Gromit's silence makes him
1260-418: Is a cylindrical food preparation utensil used to shape and flatten dough . Two styles of rolling pin are found: rollers and rods. Roller types consists of a thick cylinder with small handles at each end; rod type rolling pins are usually thin tapered batons. Rolling pins of different styles and materials offer varying advantages, as they are used for different tasks in cooking and baking. Rolling pins come in
1330-527: Is in a part of Wigan in Lancashire. He usually wears brown woollen trousers, a white shirt with detachable sleeves, and a red tie under a green vee-necked knitted sleeveless sweater . He is fond of cheese, especially Wensleydale , with crackers. Nick Park , his creator, said: "He's a very self-contained figure. A very homely sort who doesn't mind the odd adventure." He is loosely based on Park's father and Park has never made it clear as to whether Wallace
1400-423: Is in development. "I can't give too much away because it would spoil it really, but it's Wallace & Gromit up to their old antics." In May 2020, Aardman announced the release of The Big Fix Up , a Wallace & Gromit story in the form of an augmented reality (AR) mobile app . It features the voices of Miriam Margolyes , Isy Suttie and Jim Carter and was released on 18 January 2021. In September 2021,
1470-414: Is largely silent and has no dialogue, communicating through facial expressions and body language . Because of their popularity, the characters have been described as positive international cultural icons of both modern British culture and British people in general. BBC News called them "some of the best-known and best-loved stars to come out of the UK". Icons has said they have done "more to improve
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#17330849046101540-493: Is one of Wallace's favourite cheeses. On 28 March 2009, The Science Museum in London opened an exhibition called "Wallace & Gromit present a World of Cracking Ideas". The family-orientated show, open until 1 November 2009, hoped to inspire children to be inventive. Wallace and Gromit were featured in many exhibition-exclusive videos, as well as one announcing the opening of the exhibition. Rolling pin A rolling pin
1610-484: Is seen at the end of Wallace's alliterative home address on his letters, though his accent comes from the Holme Valley of West Yorkshire and he is especially fond of Wensleydale cheese (from Wensleydale , North Yorkshire). Their films have been widely praised, with the first three short films, A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995) earning 100% on Rotten Tomatoes ;
1680-610: Is seen reading The Republic , by Pluto (a nod to the Disney character of the same name and a pun on Plato ) and Crime and Punishment , by Fido Dogstoyevsky (a pun on Fyodor Dostoyevsky ). Gromit's various possessions make extensive use of puns: A Matter of Loaf and Death features " Pup Fiction " ( Pulp Fiction ), " The Dogfather " ( The Godfather ), " Where Beagles Dare " ( Where Eagles Dare ), " Bite Club " ( Fight Club ) and " The Bone Identity " ( The Bourne Identity ) all as book titles, and " Citizen Canine " ( Citizen Kane ) as
1750-488: Is the character's forename or surname, preferring to leave this ambiguous. Wallace was voiced by Peter Sallis until his retirement in 2010, being succeeded by Ben Whitehead since 2009. Wallace is an inveterate inventor, creating elaborate contraptions that often do not work wholly as intended. Their appearance is similar to the illustrations of W. Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg , where Nick Park has said of Wallace that all his inventions are designed around
1820-526: The stop motion animation technique. After detailed storyboarding, set and plasticine model construction, the films are shot one frame at a time, moving the models of the characters slightly to give the impression of movement in the final film. As is common with other animation techniques, the stop motion animation in Wallace & Gromit may duplicate frames if there is little motion, and in action scenes sometimes multiple exposures per frame are used to produce
1890-575: The Fun Pack the Customise-O-Matic contained wallpapers, screen savers and sounds that could be assigned as system sounds. A sequel Fun Pack 2 was released in 2000 featuring enhanced graphics and two new games as well as a remake of the Great Train Game. The characters were associated with a 144-issue fortnightly digest called Techno Quest, published by Eaglemoss Publications starting in 1997. It
1960-564: The Sheep and Timmy Time websites. British publisher Titan Magazines started producing a monthly Wallace & Gromit comic after the debut of Curse of the Were-Rabbit . The characters still run Anti-Pesto, and both Shaun and Feathers McGraw have appeared in the comic. The two characters appeared in the monthly BeanoMAX comic until its closure in June 2013, and now appear every four weeks in The Beano . They are heavily featured in 'Aardmag',
2030-495: The TV across the room on a telescoping shaft, so that Wallace can reach the on/off and channel buttons. When he accidentally tunes into the wrong program, he finds that he has no more balls available; Gromit hands him the TV remote, but he throws it into the hole instead of using it normally. The remote jams the mechanism, causing the TV to shoot across the room and pin Wallace to the wall. For
2100-427: The Were-Rabbit was released in 2005. The latter three each earned Academy Awards. In January 2007, a five-film deal with DreamWorks and Aardman fell through after three films, due to creative differences, as well as the box office failure of Flushed Away . Park said later that DreamWorks executives wanted to Americanise the very British Wallace and Gromit after test screenings, which would have tarnished some of
2170-552: The Were-Rabbit premiered on BBC One. They were subsequently released on a limited edition VHS and Region 2 DVD by Momentum Pictures . The series was also included as a bonus feature on some DVD releases, such as Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures ; Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit ; and can be found on the Walmart exclusive DVD, Gromit's Tail-Waggin' DVD , packaged with The Curse of
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2240-407: The Were-Rabbit . Cracking Contraptions was also included as a bonus feature on the Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection Blu-ray . Episodes first appeared on the internet for free viewing 15 October 2002, and the entire series for paid subscribers 21 October 2002 – July 2003. Starting April 2003 Microsoft sponsored free viewing of individual episodes, one per week. Christmas Cardomatic
2310-401: The annual Grand Snowman Competition, Gromit is building a snowman that depicts Wallace as Rodin 's " The Thinker ", but is interrupted by the arrival of Wallace with his new Snowmanotron machine. It builds a crude snowman and crushes the body of Gromit's creation, whose head falls off in his paws. An annoyed Gromit goes back into the house, slamming the door hard enough to dump a load of snow off
2380-538: The barrage, but when Wallace stops to load in more balls, he dons a vest and gloves that inflate to completely block the goal. Wallace suggests that they switch to tennis ; after the credits, he serves a ball that bounces off Gromit's vest, then calls out, "15-love!" Episodes were broadcast individually on BBC One throughout the Christmas period, 2002. All ten episodes were later aired as a 25-minute compilation on BBC Three during Christmas 2008, shortly before The Curse of
2450-489: The cheese (alluding to the final scene in A Close Shave ). This short contains numerous references to NASA , especially the Apollo 13 mission. To avoid the necessity for cooking, Wallace activates the Autochef, a robot chef equipped with a tea nozzle, frying pan and blender. He has it cook scrambled eggs, but they end up on Gromit's head instead of a plate (Gromit clearly suspects something like this will happen as he has donned
2520-399: The dining room in the process. A weary Wallace resigns himself to having a continental breakfast the following day. Wallace has built a machine to make Christmas cards, with a camera hooked up to take the pictures for them. He has set up a crudely built snowy landscape in the living room, and Gromit - dressed in a bird costume - is reluctantly posing for the pictures. Wallace is pleased with
2590-472: The duo's nostalgic charm. The fourth Wallace & Gromit short, A Matter of Loaf and Death , was Park's first production since the end of the DreamWorks deal. It was the most-watched television programme in the UK in 2008. A Matter of Loaf and Death won the 2008 BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010. In 2013, Peter Lord stated that there were no plans at
2660-435: The end of the film, and the three drive off into the sunset, making a delivery and listening to " Puppy Love " (performed, according to the record cover, by "Doggy Osmond"). NASA named one of its new prototype Mars explorer robots after Gromit in 2005. On 1 April 2007, HMV announced that Gromit would stand in for Nipper for a three-month period, promoting children's DVDs in its UK stores. Although not overtly setting
2730-414: The feature film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) has also received acclaim. The feature film is the second-highest-grossing stop-motion animated film , outgrossed by Chicken Run (2000), another creation of Park's. A fourth short film, A Matter of Loaf and Death , was released in 2008. A second full-length feature film, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl — marking
2800-510: The fire occurred. Additionally, a set from A Matter of Loaf and Death , which was produced after the fire, is presently on display at the We The Curious science centre. The music featured in every film was written by British film composer Julian Nott . The theme song was used to wake up astronauts aboard space shuttle mission STS-132 in May 2010. It has been suggested on BBC Radio 4's PM that
2870-717: The free online magazine that is unofficial but supported by Aardman Animations. Nick Park guest-edited the 70th birthday issue of The Beano weekly, and so this issue contained numerous Wallace & Gromit references. On 17 May 2010, they began appearing daily in The Sun . It is credited to Titan and Aardman, with scripts written by Richy Chandler, Robert Etherington, Mike Garley, Ned Hartley, Rik Hoskin, David Leach, Luke Paton, J.P. Rutter, Rona Simpson and Gordon Volke, art by Sylvia Bennion, Jay Clarke, Jimmy Hansen, Viv Heath, Mychailo Kazybrid and Brian Williamson. It replaced George and Lynne . A graphic novel compiling all 311 daily strips
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2940-585: The image of the English world-wide than any officially appointed ambassadors". Park has made pointed references that he was inspired by his childhood through the 1950s and 1960s in Lancashire in Northern England . Although not overtly set in any particular time – with the 1960s being the optimum time period placement, except for the considerable number of anachronisms – but with very shaky geography, where Wigan
3010-791: The letters WN . This address can be seen in the Cracking Contraptions episode "Shopper 13". Wallace's accent (voiced by Peter Sallis ) comes from the Holme Valley of West Yorkshire . In the Cracking Contraptions episode " The Soccamatic ", Wallace says to Gromit, "How do you like my Preston North End soccamatic, Gromit?". The episode references famous English footballers of the 1950s and '60s, including Nobby Stiles , Tom Finney and Bill Shankly (all of whom played for Preston in their careers) as well as Geoff Hurst and Stanley Matthews . The nostalgic quality of Wallace & Gromit 's world has been compared to 1950s Beanotown . The Wallace & Gromit films are shot using
3080-409: The machine and rides it like a rodeo bull. Gromit ties a knot in its suction hose, causing the rear end to burst and get both Wallace and the area of the room around him coated in dirt. He then disgustedly asks Gromit to get the dustpan and brush that Gromit had been using at the start. While trying to repair the Autochef, Wallace tries a new contraption, the ceiling-mounted Turbo Diner. After inserting
3150-504: The many ways they contrast with each other as characters. Gromit seems to have a significant interest in encyclopaedic, classical and philosophical literature, and popular culture, including film and music. Electronics for Dogs has been a firm favourite since A Grand Day Out , and in The Wrong Trousers Gromit's bookshelves feature titles such as Kites , Sticks , Sheep , Penguins , Rockets , Bones and Stars , while he
3220-408: The mechanism continues to bounce Gromit, who gets bored and starts reading the newspaper. Wallace and Gromit head to the local football field for a bit of practice, with Wallace shooting and Gromit playing goalie. Frustrated at the ease with which Gromit blocks every shot, Wallace activates his Preston North End Soccamatic, a machine that kicks dozens of balls toward the goal. Gromit ducks to avoid
3290-404: The meter runs out leaving the pair clamped to their chairs, unable to move. It also results in a power outage . After the candles burn out leaving the pair in darkness, Wallace says, "Don't worry, I've got a great idea", in homage to The Italian Job . Wallace can't sleep after eating too much cheese, so he activates his Snoozatron to remedy the problem. The device wakes up Gromit, who puts on
3360-566: The moment for a new short film, and Park announced in the following year that the declining health of Wallace's voice actor, Peter Sallis , had the possibility of preventing any future films despite the availability of Ben Whitehead . On 4 May 2017, Lord stated that more projects with the characters are likely while speaking at an animation event in Stuttgart , Germany. He said, "When Nick [Park]'s not drawing cavemen, he's drawing Wallace & Gromit ... I absolutely assume he will do another, but not
3430-485: The newspaper, tea and cooking. His prized possessions include his alarm clock, dog bone, brush, and a framed photo of himself with Wallace. He is very handy with electronic equipment and an excellent aeroplane pilot. He often threatens the plans of the antagonists he and Wallace encounter in their adventures. Sometimes, Gromit ignores Wallace's orders, such as in A Close Shave and Shopper 13 , where Wallace orders him to get rid of Shaun, but Gromit does not. Gromit's birthday
3500-492: The penguin enclosure of West Wallaby Zoo, where he was "imprisoned" at the end of The Wrong Trousers , and takes over the entire zoo, kidnapping young animals and forcing their parents to work for him, helping him turn the zoo into a diamond mine. In 2005, a video game of The Curse of The Were-Rabbit was released for PlayStation 2 and Xbox , following the plot of the film as Wallace and Gromit work as vermin-catchers, protecting customers' vegetable gardens from rabbits, using
3570-493: The perfect straight man , with a pantomime expressiveness that drew favourable comparisons to Buster Keaton . He does at times make dog-like noises, such as yelps and growling. According to the fortieth anniversary documentary A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman , Gromit was originally supposed to be a cat, but the idea was dropped as Park realised that animating a dog was easier. Generally speaking, Gromit's tastes are more in vogue than those of Wallace; this being one of
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#17330849046103640-454: The pre-made screensaver games. The Boston Herald offered a rating of 2.5 stars, noting that creativity is limited. In September 2003, Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo was released for the PlayStation 2 , Xbox , GameCube , and Microsoft Windows . This separate story sees the duo take on Feathers McGraw (of The Wrong Trousers ) again. Still obsessed with diamonds, he escapes from
3710-622: The principle of using a "sledgehammer to crack a nut". Some of Wallace's contraptions are based on real-life inventions. For example, his method of waking up in the morning uses a bed that tips up to wake up its owner, an invention that was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 by Theophilus Carter . To finance the development of his inventions, Wallace runs independent business ventures to varying levels of success. He adapts his house with increasingly elaborate contraptions, employing his devices & gadgets in various ways. Each business has
3780-771: The regular characters, including Bitzer, Shirley and Timmy. In 2015, Shaun starred in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs pantomime at Bristol Hippodrome . In 2003, Aardman produced a cinematic commercial for the Renault Kangoo starring Wallace and Gromit. The ad played in front of several summer blockbusters in top British cinemas. The commercial, entitled "The Kangoo-matic", was Wallace & Gromit 's first advertisement. Later Wallace & Gromit commercials were made for Jacob's Cream Crackers, energy supplier Npower and beverage PG Tips . The duo were used to promote
3850-399: The results, then hoists the backdrop away and walks off, not noticing the picturesque winter scene outside the window. The birds perched out there wave to Gromit, and one blows a party noisemaker at him when Wallace calls out for him to lick the stamps. To activate the TV set without leaving his chair, Wallace launches a tennis ball into a hole in the wall. It triggers a mechanism that extends
3920-607: The return of the penguin Feathers McGraw , the villain from The Wrong Trousers — will be released at the end of 2024. The franchise has received numerous accolades , including five British Academy Film Awards , three Academy Awards and a Peabody Award . The first short film, A Grand Day Out , was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1991. The short films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave followed. The full-length feature The Curse of
3990-428: The rolling pin and falls, triggering the vest so that it launches him upward with enough force to embed him in the ceiling. To speed up Gromit's chores of sweeping, Wallace activates the 525 Crackervac, a vacuum cleaner with sharp metal teeth that can suck up cracker crumbs at high speed. When it starts trying to snatch a packet of Wallace's crackers, he yanks the box away and throws it to Gromit, who eventually lassoes
4060-417: The roof and onto Wallace so that it covers him completely. Realising that he now has a better-looking snowman than before, Gromit adds a carrot nose and eyes. He wins the competition, and Wallace, while later thawing himself out, says "Well done, Gromit. But I thought that snowman was abominable!”. On a stormy night, Wallace nervously ventures into the kitchen to get his tea, not noticing a figure that hides in
4130-541: The series in any particular town, Nick Park had previously hinted that its milieu was inspired by thoughts of 1950s Wigan , reinforced by an A–Z Wigan being displayed on Wallace's Anti-Pesto van in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit . In The Wrong Trousers , Gromit picks up a letter at the Wallace & Gromit residence addressed to "62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan". The address includes a postcode of WG7 7FU, though this does not match any street in Wigan, whose postcodes begin with
4200-409: The set for three months to create clay-like animation to match the stop-motion production. By paying close attention to detail, MPC was able to make the animated bunnies blend in with the clay bunnies. Adding imperfections such as fingerprints along with texture to the animated bunnies helped enhance the effect. MPC's collaboration resulted in over 700 effects to aid the film along with colouring to match
4270-488: The shadows. He sits down to eat a cracker, only for it to be snatched out of his hand and reappear in a cupboard. The figure turns out to be Gromit, who advances on him threateningly with a rolling pin , but Wallace activates the Bully Proof Vest strapped to his chest. A spring-loaded boxing glove pops out, knocking Gromit across the room and through a door, and Wallace declares the invention a success. However, he trips on
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#17330849046104340-545: The theme should become the England football supporters' song, instead of the main title theme of The Great Escape . A Wallace & Gromit interactive CD-ROM game from 1996, named Wallace & Gromit Fun Pack , was released for the PC , containing the Crackin' Compendium with three mini-games based on the three original animated shorts as well as brief video clips. The other program in
4410-596: The visuals. Most models were destroyed in the 2005 Aardman studio fire , but some still exist, such as a small scale model for the Cooker from A Grand Day Out and Feathers McGraw whilst trapped in a bottle from The Wrong Trousers . The set and several props from the museum featured in the latter short film survived as well, as they were being kept at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford , West Yorkshire, before
4480-555: Was designed to get children interested in science and technology. In 1997, an animated screensaver themed video game entitled Wallace & Gromit Cracking Animator was released. Screensaver games were made by Dibase. Players could create their own multimedia animations through the collation of things like sound effects, sets, characters and props. Players could manipulate the facial movements of characters to synchronise their expressions with dialogue. Players could choose to make their finished creation their screensaver, or choose one of
4550-524: Was published by BAM! Entertainment , while The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was published by Konami . In July 2008, developer Telltale Games announced a new series of episodic video games based on the characters, called Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures . The first episode in Grand Adventures , "Fright of the Bumblebees", was released on 23 March 2009. The second episode, "The Last Resort",
4620-482: Was released on 5 May 2009. Two more episodes, "Muzzled!" and "The Bogey Man", were released in later 2009. The four episodes have separately been released on Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 . On 25 July 2024, a Wallace & Gromit -themed course was added to the virtual reality game Walkabout Mini Golf as downloadable content . There are also several interactive games on the official Wallace & Gromit , Shaun
4690-489: Was released on 8 October 2013, and a second volume followed on 4 November 2014. A third volume was released on 25 March 2015, and a fourth volume was released on 9 September 2015. In November 1997 the characters appeared in a play called Wallace And Gromit™ Alive on Stage in a Grand Night Out . On 9 March 2011, Shaun the Sheep made its live theatre début in Shaun's Big Show . The 100-minute-long musical/dance show features all
4760-426: Was the first Wallace & Gromit production to be in widescreen . Because no dogs are allowed into the shop, Wallace deploys a remote-controlled trolley equipped with a camera and accessories to retrieve cheese from it and carry it home. Though it successfully picks up the largest wheel of Edam in the shop, the weight causes one wheel to fall off. Gromit guides it to grab a loaf of French bread , which it uses as
4830-564: Was viewable free in December 2003. The series is now available free online on the Aardman YouTube channel, as well as the Wallace & Gromit YouTube channel. The episodes appeared as comic strips in the 2010 Wallace & Gromit annual . Wallace %26 Gromit Wallace & Gromit is a British stop-motion animated comedy franchise created by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations . The series centres on Wallace,
4900-419: Was wool shop owner Wendolene Ramsbottom, which ended quickly when Wendolene told Wallace that she was allergic to cheese. The second was Lady Campanula Tottington in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , whom Wallace fondly calls "Totty". In A Matter of Loaf and Death , Wallace becomes engaged to Piella Bakewell, who turns out to be a serial killer of bakers. "Gromit doesn't ever say a word, but there has never been
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