Bristol, U.K.
Fire has destroyed the warehouse that housed sets and figurines for several Wallace and Gromit movies. The popular Claymation series about an eccentric inventor and his precocious dog was just celebrating its latest hit, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, when the fire struck. The set from the new film is safe, but all the clay figures from previous films were lost. Kieran Argo of Aardman Animations, the company that makes the movies, said it was a shame that Wallace hadn’t designed the warehouse. “There would have been a ‘sprinklomatic’ system in place,” he said, “detecting smoke well in advance of any flames.”
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