BRISTOL, England, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A warehouse fire at Aardman Animations' warehouse in Bristol, England Monday destroyed props from the Wallace and Gromit and "Chicken Run" films.
An Aardman spokesman told the BBC Monday the company's "entire history" was in the warehouse.
The fire hit the same day the new Wallace and Gromit film, "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" climbed to the top of the U.S. box office chart, spokesman Arthur Sheriff noted.
"It couldn't have come on a worse day -- we were supposed to be celebrating, but instead our history has disappeared in a couple of hours," Sheriff said.
Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, who joined Aardman in 1985, called the fire "dreadful" from a nostalgic point of view, "but in the light of other tragedies it's not a big deal."
