Not sure if it was mentioned but the fire at the Aardman Animations was pretty tragic.
My son loves Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Timmy Time. I dgidn't know anything about a fire. A googling I must go!
"Meanwhile, on 10 October 2005, a serious fire at a storage facility used by Aardman and other Bristol based companies destroyed over 30 years of props, models, scenery and awards collected by the company. This warehouse was used for storage of past projects and so did not prevent the production of their current projects at the time. In addition, the company's library of finished films were stored elsewhere and were undamaged. An electrical fault was determined to be the cause of the blaze.[11] Referring to the 2004 South Asia earthquake and tsunami, Park was quoted as saying, "Even though it is a precious and nostalgic collection and valuable to the company, in light of other tragedies, today isn't a big deal."[12]"
Anyone ever seen any of the costumes from John Carpenter's 'The Thing'? Are they warehoused somewhere? I've never seen any of them surface.
Some are hidden away in private collections.
On the disney backstage tour about 17 years ago the helicopter from Blue Thunder or Airwolf was just dumped at the side of the road. I think that is Wisteria Lane now on Desparate Housewifes. Anyway thats when I realized that old movie props are not always treated like museum pieces.
Desperate House wives is shot at Universal Studios Hollywood, me thinks.
Anyone ever seen any of the costumes from John Carpenter's 'The Thing'? Are they warehoused somewhere? I've never seen any of them surface.
With rare exception, it seems that most everything that Winston retained was maintained/refurbished for display; it's not clear to me whether his company had an exhibition space (did the material serve as a sort of portfolio?) or they intended that the stuff go to collectors or what.
It was the "boneyard" part of the backstage tour. It was the mockup Blue Thunder used for inserts, the one used to film actors sitting in it pretending to fly.On the disney backstage tour about 17 years ago the helicopter from Blue Thunder or Airwolf was just dumped at the side of the road.
Nearly everything was destroyed from 2001. The sets props wardrobe Etc.. Kubrick did want a sequel to ever be made so it was all destroyed. Except for a few small pieces