May 1, 2024 • 14 mins
In this episode, we talk about James' trip to England and Aardman animation. We also talk about Wallace and Gromit, Chicken run, and other animations they make. We also check out cool Wallace and Gromit toys. #aardmananimations #wallaceandgromit
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(00:00):
You were now listening to the podcastfor Geeks and the stuff they love were
Each week we'll talk about everything fromanime to movies, games and prop collecting,
but the people who create and loveit. I'm Jeremy, I'm Vince,
I'm James, and vits is yourYeah did you get that? Where'd
you get that? I went tothe Gromitt Undergrounds shop. So Grommet Underground
(00:23):
is an event that they that theythat they did in Bristol because the studios
that, yeah, the one likepeople that made Shawn the Sheep and work
in Grommett and Chicken Round and soon, they're based. Yeah, they're
(00:44):
they're based in Bristol. So Ivisited their studios, but I could only
see it from the outside because theydon't allow people to visit Saturday. As
I've got through toos and videos oflike the thuff that you can see.
Yeah, yeah, what they didone year was they they create it or
they like I think they asked lotsof independent artists to create sculptures or like
(01:04):
statues of Gromid and of feathers McGrawand so on, like in just different
styles, different and they put themand and water is obviously they put them
all around Bristol so that you couldgo out and find them and just take
pictures with them. I think twentyfifteen, I might be rather it might
(01:25):
have been recent, more recent thanthat. But they they're doing it again
next year. And really yep,so I was I was really upset to
find out that it wasn't busy thatthey're doing it next Well, yeah,
I think they talk at all aboutthe fact this is the studio Ardman Studios
is where Aha they've had they've it'sburnt down what twice two or three times
(01:48):
now, and they lose everything,like everything is gone in every every time
every time. The origin they havenext to each other, Oh all the
originals, well, I know theone where they do all this storage of
all the all the original sets andall the you know and and the original
you know figures and everything else.They it keeps burning down. I mean
(02:08):
these are it's fairly wood place.I mean it's I mean I would yeah,
but it's it's kind of sad.Yeah. So so there's none of
the ano the original so so theykind of build from scratch over and over
and over again. But had letme look that up. Uh, but
yeah, man fire, that's whyI looked up r d's my drag stage.
(02:37):
Is that here we go curses?Yeah, yeah, literally. The
Guardian released a an article that theytitled Curses Grummet Fire destroys animation firms uh
studio for the fifth time. Itwas just a couple of time. That's
(02:58):
not good. Oh my gosh.Yeah. Can you imagine like every time
you got all this stuff, theyreally kind of because they it's really used
stuff would be great too, butyeah, it just worded that, but
they keep pushing forward. They'd nevertake it as a you know, maybe
this means something really explain why theytake like breaks between films and stuff.
(03:29):
Maybe like the draft we gotta buildanother studio. Yeah, oh my god.
Oh man, Chicken run by theway, the newest one that got
ah, Yeah, this is prettygood. They changed the voice actors full
(03:51):
of some of the characters there,and it's it's weird. Ginger first one
is like ten or what twenty yearsago? Thirty years ago? I don't
even know. Now it's old.Yeah, no, it's old. It's
all I think it's yeah, nineteenninety nine, maybe no, that sounds
about right. It was when whenmy oldest was pretty young. Yeah here
(04:13):
it is, right, Oh,no, two thousand, you got right
there. I'm very four years ago. Twenty four years, yeah, twenty
four years. But it's crazy,it's it doesn't hit as close to home
as the first one. But Ithink, like the first one is not
important because of like the nostalgic partsof it, like it came out when
(04:34):
we were much younger, and soI want to say furth, but it's
one and it wasn't bad like that. There are people are saying like their
kids watched it and they were sleepingand they just didn't find it as impending
as such. But I see,right, It's it's hard because a lot
of their animations, I think thefirst time I showed some of them,
(04:55):
I think it was one not thefirst, not the first movie that they
made, but one of the Wallsand Garments movies that my kids also kind
of like got tired of where andI think it's just because of the pacing.
But yeah, but every time,I mean I first saw it when
I was in my teens and itwas only with adults in it. I
mean it was this was it becausethey only used to do animation festivals,
(05:15):
so so it wasn't like a thingthat was just generally released, like each
of those was released for the annualAnimation Festival, the World Animation Festival,
and so so you're talking just mostlyadults anyways, and it was it was
like the thing that brought you tothose animation festivals because you always knew that
the last one that they're gonna showwas going to be one of their one
of the balls and grammat movies andand so and then I remember when they
(05:41):
eventually released them on vhs, uhlike vhs and it was hard to get
too and stuff like that. ButI mean, like, yeah, it's
not a Sean the Sheep kind ofmovie. Usually those are right bad.
When when we rewatching them recently theday really shure they're like four minutes each
(06:02):
except for the whatever it was thatwas the limit of what they were given.
I mean you can't. Yeah it'sa film festival, so yeah.
But but yeah, how great werethose? I mean they were so classic
and stuff his story behind them too. I mean even of being able to
get the main actor h was funnybecause like he was the one that they
(06:24):
had in their head just you knowfrom from the shows, the TV shows,
so he used to be in uhstuff. The way that he acts
and the animation is literally the way. They're like, he's the only only
can do it, like we haveto ask him, and sure enough he
was willing to do it. Theycan't do it with anybody else and stuff
like he's kind of the one thatcarries most of that wall does and up
(06:46):
screensaver to get them through the moonand everything. Yeah, that's pretty good.
Oh yeah, I had they theydid release again this is an adult
purchase that I made. Uh,they had a kit that it was a
clay kit and then it came withsome additional piece as he was sticking.
But it was to make the characters, including the penguin, and so I
(07:11):
think it must have come out rightafter that one and so but yeah,
it was pretty cool and you gotto put it together, even though they
don't make them with actual you know, putty or clay anymore. Like I
think there's only Movie one or Movietwo that they stopped doing that. So
they're all pre formed now and thenthey're you know, you swap out pieces
in there, they're plashed to form. They actually have they actually have a
(07:32):
part of that in the MS Shedmuseum. So in Bristol right next sample
where they've got like train rides andstuff, they have a museum of British
ship called Sorry of Bristol History,and they have a section like just like
that where they have what is hishead with a section where he doesn't have
(07:54):
his mouth and they have different theoptions. Yeah, voice sounds that I'm
doing there. So let's hear yourLet's hear your best, your best Wallace
impression. Give me your best linefrom Wallston drummitt there, James, you
do a copy. I'll do myversion. Yeah, I mean anything I
(08:18):
can do with geeeze, yeah,cracking cheese grammage. Oh wow, yeah,
I'll get the bound that. Yeah, yeah, that's not too shabby.
(08:39):
Voice that one. But that inDutch you were talking about the will
much and stuff. I am twoalarm cloaks like Willison Grum. It seemed
along cloaks like from the hand fromtwo different films. I can let's give
the new Oh really ah, keepingup at your parents place, I think
(09:01):
most of my lego was up thereis that. I think I think all
the things it would be worth mostmoney were the things that I left behind
at my parents And now there wassome point where they really come back and
get it and you can have itand it's like a let it go.
Oh look at that. So thatis way more than what it was expecting.
(09:22):
This one, this one sadly wasdefiled by my brother and system.
But this one seems pretty wed.Oh my gosh, that is pretty cool.
I like that one too. Sodoes that have action? Then?
Does do they do something? Yeah, the sheep or something, but the
sheep is like the off button.Okay, gosh, Well times have the
(09:46):
bike these therounds so when you watchhim from the fund, you can actually
see him watching the turning it.Oh that's pretty good. Really slow should
rework that cross theme met with Backto the Future, sure boy? Yeah
(10:07):
yeah. And then this one,that one like the medium was sorry Grummit's
bowl and then you could press theslippers to the different functions or really what
what is what do the buttons onthe earth? Did they light up or
anything? On the water? Well, uh, they're supposed to be all
of these with the with the lightsand stuff, but on you have what
(10:30):
I think these just let's up.I think it was like a little if
you had an allow mode or likepluck mode or whatever. That's a clock,
though not gonna look like one.But it's probably a lot of money
too. Let's see see how muchthe thing is. That's intra curious.
It's west coat, but help isit west coat? That's gonna be a
(10:54):
tough bind. I guess. Let'swait, Wallace and Croment. So how
old are you you got this?Uh? I should have typed. Oh
there it is right there, sixtybucks or best off or plus fifteen dollars
shipping. Oh, there it isin the box. In the box,
(11:15):
it's a hundred bucks easy, allright. Oh there's your other one too.
Your other one is about sixty buckstwo hundred nine dollars. Some people
are trying to sell it for records. Yeah, yeah, that's the one
of the additions. Oh here's onewhere they actually even have. There's one
where they sit in front of thefireplace and there's a clock. It must
be the same company. I thinkI did one for every film. Wow,
(11:39):
I might have to get that.I like that a lot. That
made me wear something I get tobuy, Not like I haven't bottom on
of stuff this week already. Butsame time, that is, I have
a very I have a I havea special place in my heart for Wallace
and Grummot for sure. Oh yeah, definitely represent a good, good portion
(12:01):
of my life. At the conventionwas this hartist that was doing cross sections
of the ones in Roment. Isaw that. Yeah, so I went
back three times. First time Iwaited a life for a guy who was
very interested with thunder words, andhe just he asked the commissioned himim for
a painting or drawing in this inthis book of cross sections. Excuse me?
(12:26):
Do you take only cash or anythingelse? Yeah? Only catch?
So I had to go back tothe atm some catch. I went to
it all calm and went back liketwenty minutes later. The same guy I
was sitting there with another book,another thing in the book, but I
was like, wait then the guyturned and looked at all the cool detail.
I like, yeah, yeah,cool, nice, But I do
(12:48):
have a photo shoot up with theMachini graves. I want, I want
to go on. But the guyitself was drawing. It was like having
a good time, and I wasactually the guy in front of him was
obviously a big fan. But Iwas like, I mean, just you
know, let me get like fiveeuros in for a preside copy I can
(13:09):
get you in and out, didn'thave it. I went back the third
time after the photo shoot and itwas still the same guy sitting there.
So, so do you think he'llkeep baking Willison Grima movies? I mean,
I really, yeah, is hestill alive? I don't know if
he's still alive or not. Idon't know. Be interesting to find out.
(13:33):
I guess if he's not, Idon't know if it would be the
same. Honestly, he's gotta be, like I mean, because he was
he was in shows so back inthe day. I used to watch other
shows that he was in that hadhave been produced back in the seventies or
eighties, early eighties, and andyou know here he kind of is a
little older at that point in time. I think, Uh, when you
(13:56):
find out no looking for some ofthat I'm on, But it's a different
Dutch guy Steve Odekirk. Oh yeah, he makes stumbars and all that.
I thought it was the same studio. Oh no, well, uh yeah,
stay tuned. I know this isa little bit of sure one,
(14:18):
but I wanted to kind of fitin there. Uh, stay tuned for
our next episode. If you've enjoyedthis podcast and want more to stay tuned
for that, but also check outour channel and join the community on YouTube
that goes by the same name andyour geek Fix. Be sure to check
out Vince on Twitter at massive dmgUnderscore and on his YouTube channel Massive Dmg.
(14:39):
Check out James at mister Malta fouron Instagram and the replica prop for
him. We also want to hearfrom you, so be sure to send
your questions, stories, and otherprojects to your geek Fix at gmail dot
com. In the meantime, thishas been your geek Fix
You were now listening to the podcastfor Geeks and the stuff they love were
Each week we'll talk about everything fromanime to movies, games and prop collecting,
but the people who create and loveit. I'm Jeremy, I'm Vince,
I'm James, and vits is yourYeah did you get that? Where'd
you get that? I went tothe Gromitt Undergrounds shop. So Grommet Underground
(00:23):
is an event that they that theythat they did in Bristol because the studios
that, yeah, the one likepeople that made Shawn the Sheep and work
in Grommett and Chicken Round and soon, they're based. Yeah, they're
(00:44):
they're based in Bristol. So Ivisited their studios, but I could only
see it from the outside because theydon't allow people to visit Saturday. As
I've got through toos and videos oflike the thuff that you can see.
Yeah, yeah, what they didone year was they they create it or
they like I think they asked lotsof independent artists to create sculptures or like
(01:04):
statues of Gromid and of feathers McGrawand so on, like in just different
styles, different and they put themand and water is obviously they put them
all around Bristol so that you couldgo out and find them and just take
pictures with them. I think twentyfifteen, I might be rather it might
(01:25):
have been recent, more recent thanthat. But they they're doing it again
next year. And really yep,so I was I was really upset to
find out that it wasn't busy thatthey're doing it next Well, yeah,
I think they talk at all aboutthe fact this is the studio Ardman Studios
is where Aha they've had they've it'sburnt down what twice two or three times
(01:48):
now, and they lose everything,like everything is gone in every every time
every time. The origin they havenext to each other, Oh all the
originals, well, I know theone where they do all this storage of
all the all the original sets andall the you know and and the original
you know figures and everything else.They it keeps burning down. I mean
(02:08):
these are it's fairly wood place.I mean it's I mean I would yeah,
but it's it's kind of sad.Yeah. So so there's none of
the ano the original so so theykind of build from scratch over and over
and over again. But had letme look that up. Uh, but
yeah, man fire, that's whyI looked up r d's my drag stage.
(02:37):
Is that here we go curses?Yeah, yeah, literally. The
Guardian released a an article that theytitled Curses Grummet Fire destroys animation firms uh
studio for the fifth time. Itwas just a couple of time. That's
(02:58):
not good. Oh my gosh.Yeah. Can you imagine like every time
you got all this stuff, theyreally kind of because they it's really used
stuff would be great too, butyeah, it just worded that, but
they keep pushing forward. They'd nevertake it as a you know, maybe
this means something really explain why theytake like breaks between films and stuff.
(03:29):
Maybe like the draft we gotta buildanother studio. Yeah, oh my god.
Oh man, Chicken run by theway, the newest one that got
ah, Yeah, this is prettygood. They changed the voice actors full
(03:51):
of some of the characters there,and it's it's weird. Ginger first one
is like ten or what twenty yearsago? Thirty years ago? I don't
even know. Now it's old.Yeah, no, it's old. It's
all I think it's yeah, nineteenninety nine, maybe no, that sounds
about right. It was when whenmy oldest was pretty young. Yeah here
(04:13):
it is, right, Oh,no, two thousand, you got right
there. I'm very four years ago. Twenty four years, yeah, twenty
four years. But it's crazy,it's it doesn't hit as close to home
as the first one. But Ithink, like the first one is not
important because of like the nostalgic partsof it, like it came out when
(04:34):
we were much younger, and soI want to say furth, but it's
one and it wasn't bad like that. There are people are saying like their
kids watched it and they were sleepingand they just didn't find it as impending
as such. But I see,right, It's it's hard because a lot
of their animations, I think thefirst time I showed some of them,
(04:55):
I think it was one not thefirst, not the first movie that they
made, but one of the Wallsand Garments movies that my kids also kind
of like got tired of where andI think it's just because of the pacing.
But yeah, but every time,I mean I first saw it when
I was in my teens and itwas only with adults in it. I
mean it was this was it becausethey only used to do animation festivals,
(05:15):
so so it wasn't like a thingthat was just generally released, like each
of those was released for the annualAnimation Festival, the World Animation Festival,
and so so you're talking just mostlyadults anyways, and it was it was
like the thing that brought you tothose animation festivals because you always knew that
the last one that they're gonna showwas going to be one of their one
of the balls and grammat movies andand so and then I remember when they
(05:41):
eventually released them on vhs, uhlike vhs and it was hard to get
too and stuff like that. ButI mean, like, yeah, it's
not a Sean the Sheep kind ofmovie. Usually those are right bad.
When when we rewatching them recently theday really shure they're like four minutes each
(06:02):
except for the whatever it was thatwas the limit of what they were given.
I mean you can't. Yeah it'sa film festival, so yeah.
But but yeah, how great werethose? I mean they were so classic
and stuff his story behind them too. I mean even of being able to
get the main actor h was funnybecause like he was the one that they
(06:24):
had in their head just you knowfrom from the shows, the TV shows,
so he used to be in uhstuff. The way that he acts
and the animation is literally the way. They're like, he's the only only
can do it, like we haveto ask him, and sure enough he
was willing to do it. Theycan't do it with anybody else and stuff
like he's kind of the one thatcarries most of that wall does and up
(06:46):
screensaver to get them through the moonand everything. Yeah, that's pretty good.
Oh yeah, I had they theydid release again this is an adult
purchase that I made. Uh,they had a kit that it was a
clay kit and then it came withsome additional piece as he was sticking.
But it was to make the characters, including the penguin, and so I
(07:11):
think it must have come out rightafter that one and so but yeah,
it was pretty cool and you gotto put it together, even though they
don't make them with actual you know, putty or clay anymore. Like I
think there's only Movie one or Movietwo that they stopped doing that. So
they're all pre formed now and thenthey're you know, you swap out pieces
in there, they're plashed to form. They actually have they actually have a
(07:32):
part of that in the MS Shedmuseum. So in Bristol right next sample
where they've got like train rides andstuff, they have a museum of British
ship called Sorry of Bristol History,and they have a section like just like
that where they have what is hishead with a section where he doesn't have
(07:54):
his mouth and they have different theoptions. Yeah, voice sounds that I'm
doing there. So let's hear yourLet's hear your best, your best Wallace
impression. Give me your best linefrom Wallston drummitt there, James, you
do a copy. I'll do myversion. Yeah, I mean anything I
(08:18):
can do with geeeze, yeah,cracking cheese grammage. Oh wow, yeah,
I'll get the bound that. Yeah, yeah, that's not too shabby.
(08:39):
Voice that one. But that inDutch you were talking about the will
much and stuff. I am twoalarm cloaks like Willison Grum. It seemed
along cloaks like from the hand fromtwo different films. I can let's give
the new Oh really ah, keepingup at your parents place, I think
(09:01):
most of my lego was up thereis that. I think I think all
the things it would be worth mostmoney were the things that I left behind
at my parents And now there wassome point where they really come back and
get it and you can have itand it's like a let it go.
Oh look at that. So thatis way more than what it was expecting.
(09:22):
This one, this one sadly wasdefiled by my brother and system.
But this one seems pretty wed.Oh my gosh, that is pretty cool.
I like that one too. Sodoes that have action? Then?
Does do they do something? Yeah, the sheep or something, but the
sheep is like the off button.Okay, gosh, Well times have the
(09:46):
bike these therounds so when you watchhim from the fund, you can actually
see him watching the turning it.Oh that's pretty good. Really slow should
rework that cross theme met with Backto the Future, sure boy? Yeah
(10:07):
yeah. And then this one,that one like the medium was sorry Grummit's
bowl and then you could press theslippers to the different functions or really what
what is what do the buttons onthe earth? Did they light up or
anything? On the water? Well, uh, they're supposed to be all
of these with the with the lightsand stuff, but on you have what
(10:30):
I think these just let's up.I think it was like a little if
you had an allow mode or likepluck mode or whatever. That's a clock,
though not gonna look like one.But it's probably a lot of money
too. Let's see see how muchthe thing is. That's intra curious.
It's west coat, but help isit west coat? That's gonna be a
(10:54):
tough bind. I guess. Let'swait, Wallace and Croment. So how
old are you you got this?Uh? I should have typed. Oh
there it is right there, sixtybucks or best off or plus fifteen dollars
shipping. Oh, there it isin the box. In the box,
(11:15):
it's a hundred bucks easy, allright. Oh there's your other one too.
Your other one is about sixty buckstwo hundred nine dollars. Some people
are trying to sell it for records. Yeah, yeah, that's the one
of the additions. Oh here's onewhere they actually even have. There's one
where they sit in front of thefireplace and there's a clock. It must
be the same company. I thinkI did one for every film. Wow,
(11:39):
I might have to get that.I like that a lot. That
made me wear something I get tobuy, Not like I haven't bottom on
of stuff this week already. Butsame time, that is, I have
a very I have a I havea special place in my heart for Wallace
and Grummot for sure. Oh yeah, definitely represent a good, good portion
(12:01):
of my life. At the conventionwas this hartist that was doing cross sections
of the ones in Roment. Isaw that. Yeah, so I went
back three times. First time Iwaited a life for a guy who was
very interested with thunder words, andhe just he asked the commissioned himim for
a painting or drawing in this inthis book of cross sections. Excuse me?
(12:26):
Do you take only cash or anythingelse? Yeah? Only catch?
So I had to go back tothe atm some catch. I went to
it all calm and went back liketwenty minutes later. The same guy I
was sitting there with another book,another thing in the book, but I
was like, wait then the guyturned and looked at all the cool detail.
I like, yeah, yeah,cool, nice, But I do
(12:48):
have a photo shoot up with theMachini graves. I want, I want
to go on. But the guyitself was drawing. It was like having
a good time, and I wasactually the guy in front of him was
obviously a big fan. But Iwas like, I mean, just you
know, let me get like fiveeuros in for a preside copy I can
(13:09):
get you in and out, didn'thave it. I went back the third
time after the photo shoot and itwas still the same guy sitting there.
So, so do you think he'llkeep baking Willison Grima movies? I mean,
I really, yeah, is hestill alive? I don't know if
he's still alive or not. Idon't know. Be interesting to find out.
(13:33):
I guess if he's not, Idon't know if it would be the
same. Honestly, he's gotta be, like I mean, because he was
he was in shows so back inthe day. I used to watch other
shows that he was in that hadhave been produced back in the seventies or
eighties, early eighties, and andyou know here he kind of is a
little older at that point in time. I think, Uh, when you
(13:56):
find out no looking for some ofthat I'm on, But it's a different
Dutch guy Steve Odekirk. Oh yeah, he makes stumbars and all that.
I thought it was the same studio. Oh no, well, uh yeah,
stay tuned. I know this isa little bit of sure one,
(14:18):
but I wanted to kind of fitin there. Uh, stay tuned for
our next episode. If you've enjoyedthis podcast and want more to stay tuned
for that, but also check outour channel and join the community on YouTube
that goes by the same name andyour geek Fix. Be sure to check
out Vince on Twitter at massive dmgUnderscore and on his YouTube channel Massive Dmg.
(14:39):
Check out James at mister Malta fouron Instagram and the replica prop for
him. We also want to hearfrom you, so be sure to send
your questions, stories, and otherprojects to your geek Fix at gmail dot
com. In the meantime, thishas been your geek Fix
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