Wallace!

The new Wallace & Gromit flick is on our list of things to see with Kitten — but, alas, tragedy has struck, as a fire has destroyed 25 years of props and sets at Aardman Studio’s archives.

While material from “The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” wasn’t lost because it wasn’t yet in storage, the blaze today ruined what should have been a day of celebration for Aardman after the film’s box-office results, the company Events and Exhibitions Manager Kieran Argo said in a telephone interview from Bristol.

“Our warehouse where we store all of our sets, props, story boards and models from earlier productions has been totally destroyed,” Argo said from the southwestern city. “We’ve lost 30 years of history from Morph in the 1970s up to and including the latest series of ‘Creature Comforts’.”