Archive for the 'News' Category

Wrong Trousers Day – June 24th

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Wallace and Gromit’s annual Wrong Trousers Day falls on June 24th this year. While it doesn’t mean a whole lot to those of us in the States (not sure what my boss would think if I wore crazy pants on Friday), it’s an important fundraiser for the Wallace and Gromit Chidlren’s Foundation. You can donate […]

Frontier Aquires Rights to Mobile WnG Games

Saturday, June 18th, 2005

Frontier, the intependent UK-based game developer that already has release rights to the WnG movie on the big consoles, now has the rights to release for mobile-technology (mobile phones, pocket pcs, etc). Frontier Developments Ltd. (‘Frontier’), the leading independent games developer, announced today that it has acquired exclusive worldwide rights to publish mobile games based […]

Westco Toys on amazon.co.uk

Sunday, May 29th, 2005

Steven Attenborough dropped me an email yesterday letting me know about Westco movie toys previewed on amazon.co.uk. Just go to the site, and do a search for Wallace and Gromit in the toys section. None are for sale yet, but here are previews of a few: Wallace & Gromit Talking Garden Figurine Hang on old […]

BBC Buys Rights to Air WnG Movie in 2008

Friday, May 27th, 2005

Wednesday I learned that the BBC has recently purchased the airing rights for the new Wallace and Gromit movie in 2008. The film will be shown in UK cinemas from October, while the BBC plans to show it in 2008. … BBC controller of acquisitions George McGhee said: “The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is the […]

New Trailer and Pictures

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

June Toy dropped me an email yesterday to let me know about the new trailer for the WnG movie, and an article with some newly released pictures! The trailer is now up on moviefone. I haven’t found a direct download address though, if you can find one I’d be interested in downloading. You can stream […]

WnG Game Trailer

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Frontier Developments has released a trailer for the new Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit video game in production. Currently being worked on at David Braben’s Frontier Developments, W&G is set for release on PS2, Xbox, Cube and PC later this year. Our new trailer shows off some of the game’s crazy environments, comedy […]

Gromit at Cannes

Friday, May 13th, 2005

I mentioned in a post a couple days ago that there would be a Wallace and Gromit sneak peak and tribute at the Cannes festival on Thrusday, and indeed there was! the studio brought a huge blow-up Gromit to the party, which towered above some of the beach front hotels. Nick Park, the creator of […]

Movie Poster

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

June Toy dropped me an email today letting me know about the release of the movie poster, woo! Thanks June. Now with the movie release date there will be a lot of news coming out and I might not be able to grab it all myself like I have in the past. I really appreciate […]

Game screening at EICC and movie Sneak peak at Cannes 2005

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

Taking place from 10th -14th August 2005 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) and shaping up to be one of the gaming events of the summer, EIEF will premiere ‘Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit’ Industry legend David Braben (Chairman and Founder of Frontier Developments) and Aardman Animations’ Design and Product Development […]

More details about McFarlane Toys

Saturday, May 7th, 2005

Once again June Toy has helped me find more WnG news, this time it’s an article from action-figure.com McFarlane will be producing figures from the movie, both 6″ figures and 3-inch figure sets. Now McFarlane have released line-ups for both of these assortments. According to the article the 6 inch figures are: Wallace 1, Wallace […]