Hometown honours Nick Park for his Oscar-winning animated duo with a thumbs-up from Wallace
A statue of Wallace and Gromit is to be unveiled in Preston, home town of their creator Nick Park. The pair will be sculpted with Wallace wearing the “techno trousers” that brought him grief in Park’s Oscar-winning film The Wrong Trousers.
The statue is intended to attract more visitors to the Lancashire city as coronavirus rules ease and is due to be installed outside Preston Markets in August. It will feature Gromit sitting on a bench reading a newspaper while Wallace – resplendent in his ex-Nasa trousers – balances on one leg giving the thumbs up.
