“We had a jubilee scarecrow competition in the village (in 2022) and I did papier-mache Gromit in the plane and then I had Wallace on top of the fence with a rocket attached to his back and since then, we’ve been known as the Wallace and Gromit house in the village,” she said.
Mel Harrison, 43, said she has been “absolutely blown away” by all things Aardman since she was a child, with her first memory of the animation studio’s creation Wallace and Gromit being the short film A Grand Day Out.
On why she has an affinity for Gromit, she said: “I think it’s just the way he reacts to the things that Wallace does, I see a bit of me in him, like when he raises his eyebrows and I like that he shows so much emotion yet he doesn’t talk.
“Then we had another festival at the time of the Olympics (in 2024) so I made Wallace and put him in Union Jack shorts to pay homage to movie The Wrong Trousers but with an Olympics spin, and then I had Feathers McGraw controlling him and Gromit was sitting there ready to beat up Feathers McGraw.”.
A Wallace and Gromit superfan who has more than 1,000 items of memorabilia has said she is “really pleased” the “amazing” franchise has enjoyed success through Baftas and a Feathers McGraw tattoo trend.
