It was also reissued as a DreamWorks Pictures release along with The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave in the Wallace and Gromit in 3 Amazing Adventures DVD on 20 September 20 2005 by DreamWorks Home Entertainment. With his master otherwise engaged, it's up to Gromit to rise to the occasion and solve the mystery before Wallace becomes the next victim of the 'cereal' killer. Credit subject to status, UK residents only, Entertainment Magpie Limited t/a Music Magpie acts as a broker and offers finance from a restricted range of finance providers, PayPal Credit is a trading name of PayPal (Europe) S. The only solution is to get in his homemade rocket and head for the biggest block of cheese in the universe: the moon. The short won the first BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation awarded in 1990, beating out Park's other nominated short, Creature Comforts.

We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. A Grand Day Out was finally finished and transmitted on Channel 4 on Christmas Eve, 1990 - 6 years after production began! Unable to climb up the ladder, the robot cuts a rectangular hole into the fuselage using a can opener.Wallace, meanwhile, is oblivious to the danger, having fallen head over heels for former Bake-O-Lite bread babe, Piella Bakewell. Wallace takes the robot's truncheon as a souvenir, inserts another coin as payment, and prepares to leave with Gromit and the cheese they have gathered. Extras: DVD 9, Anamorphic (16:9), Language(s): English, Hard of Hearing Subtitles: English, Interactive Menu, Screen ratio 1:1. The original story was that Wallace and Gromit were going to go to the Moon and there were going to be a whole lot of characters there.

Four animated adventures featuring Nick Park's inimitable pair of plasticine heroes: cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his long-suffering dog Gromit. Initially distraught at losing its chance to go to Earth, the robot fashions dislodged scraps of the rocket fuselage into skis and starts skiing across the lunar landscape. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. It repairs a broken piece of the Moon that Wallace had cut off by using glue, issues a parking ticket for the rocket, and becomes annoyed by an oil leakage from the craft.Wallace was originally a postman named Jerry, but Park felt the name did not match well with Gromit.

We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads.Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at ourwarehouse. Cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, while trying to decide where they will spend their bank holiday, find that their house is bereft of cheese. Wallace panics, thinking the robot is angry over the cheese he is taking with him, and he and Gromit retreat into the rocket. The robot sneaks up on Wallace and prepares to strike him using a truncheon, but the money Wallace inserted runs out, and it freezes. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.

A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit, later marketed as A Grand Day Out, is a 1989 [4] British stop-motion animated short film starring Wallace and Gromit. In the United States, it was released on DVD on 10 February 2009 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment and HIT Entertainment. Park wanted to voice Gromit, but he realised the voice he had in mind— that of Peter Hawkins— would have been difficult to animate. Entertainment Magpie Limited t/a Music Magpie is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority FRN 775278. In 'The Wrong Trousers' (1993), Wallace and Gromit encounter difficulties with the demonstration of the inventor's 'Techno Trousers' and encounter a rogue chicken.A Grand Day Out is followed in the series by 1993's The Wrong Trousers, 1995's A Close Shave, 2005's The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and 2008's A Matter of Loaf and Death.