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Sad fact, all of the original Wallace and Gromit sets were destroyed in a fire in 2005. [1] [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/432

• trimbo 10y ago
  Other history: Nick Park almost lost Wallace and Gromit in a NYC cab in 1996. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/nyregion/07lost.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/nyregion/07lost.html
• dTal 10y ago
  Especially sad as the highly elaborate museum set had several more visual gags than we actually get to see in the movie.
  • mattkevan 10y ago
    When I was a kid I persuaded the parents to take me to an exhibition of the sets. I think we ended up going a couple of times as it was so good. The amount of detail which had been put in, especially to the museum, was amazing. What's impressive is that Nick Park started the first film by himself as a student graduation project, taking six years to complete.
• duncanawoods 10y ago
  I used to work in the building with the turrets you see in the foreground which had a shared wall with that blaze (largest post-war fire in Bristol). Amazingly the building survived because of the astonishing quality of the Victorian stonework. It was an old engineering works where parts of the SS Great Britain were designed. The doorways were > 7 ft high for a cute reason... so the Victorian gents could walk about with their stove-pipe hats on.