The much-loved animated characters will be cast in bronze in their creator's birthplace of Preston.
Wallace and Gromit are set to have their own "cracking" statue in animator Nick Park's home of Preston.
The comedy duo will be sculpted in a bid to draw more visitors to the Lancashire city as Covid rules ease. Four-time Oscar winner Mr Park said: "It is such a great honour for me, as a proud Prestonian, to see my characters Wallace and Gromit cast in bronze and given pride of place in my hometown."Inspired by scenes from The Wrong Trousers film, it features the pair next to a bench and will go up outside Preston Markets.
It was designed by Mr Park and Bristol's Aardman studios with Preston sculptor Peter Hodgkinson, who has previously made statues of the city's late football legend Sir Tom Finney and artist LS Lowry.Nick Park pictured with the late actor Peter Sallis, who originally voiced Wallace The piece is being made at the Castle Fine Arts Foundry in Wales, will be funded from the government's £3.6 billion towns fund.John Chesworth, chairman of the Preston Towns Fund Board, said: "Nick is one of our most famous living Prestonians and it's great that we can celebrate his achievements with this new sculpture."image copyrightThe Wallace and Gromit franchise has won three Oscars for The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
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