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The fire broke out 5:30 yesterday morning, having devastating effects upon models and storyboards from Wallace and Gromit shorts A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. The cause of the fire has yet to be identified.
Props for the duo's new feature-length adventure Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit were left unharmed.
Variety quotes Aardman's Arthur Sheriff as saying that the fire "had nothing to do with the studio. It was a storage warehouse on the other side of Bristol.
"Everything from Morph to Chicken Run has gone," he explained. "All the sets, all the props, a lot of the models and particularly the storyboards. When any director works on one of our projects, the storyboards have a lot of comments on them, and we save them for exhibition purposes. It is devastating."
Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park added: "Even though it is precious and nostalgic stuff -- and valuable to the company -- in light of other current tragedies in the news, it's not a big deal."
Curse of the Were Rabbit, currently dominating the US box office chart, hits UK screens this Friday.
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