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Hiya Animation
10-10-2005, 11:24 AM
This is sad. A fire just destroyed the Wallace and Gromit warehouse :( :(

Luckely none of the stuff from "Curse of the Were-Rabbit" was destroyed but all the sets and props from "Chicken Run" and the moviesa they made before it was all destroyed :( :(
Luckely no one was hurt.
Here's an article:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/10/aardman.fire/index.html

James :crying:
Daffy Dork
10-10-2005, 11:34 AM
All their History gone.....

Thankfully, noone was hurt.... but Aardman has made some of the best cartoons ever, and to have it all go up in flames is really shocking...

:crying: :crying: :crying:
Movie-Brat
10-10-2005, 11:37 AM
Ok, how did the fire started anyway? It's not like fire just to pop out of nowhere.
Daffy Dork
10-10-2005, 11:37 AM
Ok, how did the fire started anyway? It's not like fire just to pop out of nowhere.
We don't know yet, the article says they're investigating
Buster Bunny
10-10-2005, 11:41 AM
Ouch, that must really suck for em. Hope it wasnt done on purpose by some crazy head :sad:
PeppeRaskell1
10-10-2005, 11:41 AM
Guess it was bad luck for them to use the word "rabbit" in their advertising.
Buster Bunny
10-10-2005, 11:42 AM
LOL omg. :p
Movie-Brat
10-10-2005, 11:44 AM
Guess it was bad luck for them to use the word "rabbit" in their advertising.
If it was bad luck then why did Wallace & Gromit become Number 1 at the box office?
King_of_doom
10-10-2005, 11:49 AM
If it was bad luck then why did Wallace & Gromit become Number 1 at the box office?
PeppeRaskell1 was only joking about it, remember the other thread that people dont like the word "rabbit".
Movie-Brat
10-10-2005, 12:02 PM
PeppeRaskell1 was only joking about it, remember the other thread that people dont like the word "rabbit".
Ok but people disliking the word "rabbit" is from another country.
Ed Liu
10-10-2005, 12:59 PM
Howdy,

Where was UNICEF (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=151750) when this fire broke out? Can we confirm or deny with certainty that there were not warplanes carrying incendiary munitions circling overhead before the fire?

Seriously, this is pretty sad news, but at least nobody was hurt. We'll always have the films, at least.

(And thanks for making my job as a TZ reporter that much easier...)

-- Ed/Ace
Hordesman
10-10-2005, 01:02 PM
It's probably material-related. There's all these chemicals involved in stop-motion production and some are bound to be more flammable.
Dee
10-10-2005, 01:11 PM
Fires happen. They're usually accidental or the result of not taking care. In the case of something like this, it could have been anything. I'd figure electrical. It doesn't take much.

Edit: And I edited the thread's title because 'sad news' was quite vague.
Peter Paltridge
10-10-2005, 08:26 PM
Just thinking about Feathers McGraw and Shawn the Sheep being reduced to a singular bubbling puddle of clay makes me sad.
Conekiller
10-10-2005, 09:53 PM
That's really sad :crying: such awesome animation landmarks....gone
Sharklady
10-10-2005, 10:24 PM
*heavy sigh* As if the news wasn't awful enough recently...

We can at least be glad this didn't happen while 'Curse of the Were-Rabbit' was still in production. I was going to see that tomorrow anyway; now I have an added incentive since it'll help Aardman Animations a bit.
nachonaco
10-10-2005, 10:35 PM
Wow, this sucks.

Who wants to blame Eisner? :p j/k
Marvin Tikvah
10-10-2005, 11:51 PM
Blame Eisner for the heck of it?

This is very sad news. All those clay models melted into gooey puddles.
Conan-san
10-11-2005, 03:30 AM
Guess it was bad luck for them to use the word "rabbit" in their advertising. Let's not start that again.

Anyway, At least this should be the end of Planet Sketch, if we must see a Silver lining in this.
Dudley
10-11-2005, 06:57 AM
I can't believe this happened. An entire history erased.
:sad:
nakak
10-11-2005, 10:03 AM
I'm hoping that the original negatives wern't in that building.
Captin "Hank" Murphy
10-11-2005, 07:44 PM
If the negatives survived, then they would probally be worth a who lot more now. Now when you talk about the classic films, you can say "when they made this film, they broke the molds..... literaly".
Chris Wood
10-11-2005, 10:20 PM
Curse that damn penguin!
Agent S7
10-13-2005, 05:26 PM
This is...

Awful.

Ike.

~s7
(OT: YAY! A four word post! Er...a nine word...no...a thirteen...DARN IT!)
Kurtman
10-13-2005, 06:25 PM
Wow. I'm very shocked by this. All their history has gone up in smoke........
MonkeyFunk
10-15-2005, 08:02 AM
Anyone catch the Have I Got News for You report on this last night?

"They've had a fire in Bristol and they've lost all the animals and bicycles and penguins!"
"...Bristol penguins?"
"I think the real trouble is that they tried to escape, but they move pretty slowly, those plasticine penguins."

"The Lurpack butter man's gone! So's Morph!"
"But the police think Morph did it."
"They need to send in a plasticine Columbo."


"Nick Park told the Sun:"


In light of other recent tragedies, this doesn't seem so bad.
"However, this didn't stop the Sun from reporting:"


Rocky and Ginger - DEAD.
Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy - DEAD.
Douglas the Lurpack butter man - DEAD.
Martin the nervous octopus - DEAD.
Various scared chickens - DEAD.
Tony Hart's chums Morph and Chas - DEAD.
Sharklady
10-15-2005, 12:58 PM
I salute Nick Park for keeping this sad loss in perspective, and I wish him every success in the future.

Speaking of which: I urge anybody here who hasn't seen 'Curse of the Were-Rabbit' to go do so. It's well worth the ticket price!