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255:. Money raised from the London sculptures benefited Wallace & Gromit's Children's Charity, and money raised from the Bristol sculptures benefited The Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity. 5 miniature Shauns – ‘Little Princess’, ‘Jetsetter’, ‘Catch of the Day’, and two Shauns decorated by young patients in Bristol – were also auctioned in aid of Bristol Children's Hospital. 116:
On 24 March 2015, Shaun in the City launched to the public and press in London. A number of sculptures were driven across Tower Bridge and London Bridge on a trailer drawn by a tractor. Nick Park, creator of Shaun the Sheep, was also in attendance, helping to unveil more sculptures in a sheep pen
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Following the end of the Bristol trail, all 120 Shaun sculptures from both the London and Bristol trails were united for two special 'Great Sheep Round Up' exhibitions, the first in Bristol at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway, and the second in London's Covent Garden. There was extremely high public
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The auction raised £1,087,900 in total for the two charities. The Shaun sculpture which attracted the highest bid on the night was ‘Globetrotter’ by Sarah Matthews, selling for £28,000. ‘Sparkles the Unicorn’ by Emily Golden was also the subject of a bidding war, finally selling for £25,000.
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App Store chart for paid-for apps. By the middle of the Bristol trail over 1,000,000 sculptures had been ticked off using the app, which also allowed visitors to complete special trails, learn about the sculptures and artists, and earn interactive trophies.
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to rescue his flock from being turned into dog food by a malfunctioning robotic dog. In 2007 he was given his own stop-motion animated television series, and in 2015 he starred in a feature-length movie, titled
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On 8 October 2015 all 120 sculptures were auctioned to raise money for sick children in hospitals across the UK, in a special evening hosted by
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The charity project aims to raise funds for sick children in hospitals across the UK, with funds from the London trail supporting
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The 70 sculptures were then distributed around the city for the beginning of the trail on 6 July, with locations including
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Wallace & Gromit's Grand Appeal and the digital team at Aardman Animations developed an interactive app called
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The Bristol trail launched on 2 July 2015, with Shaun the Sheep creator Nick Park driving a vintage tractor across
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demand for tickets for the Bristol exhibition, with over 25,000 visitors attending over the course of nine days.
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The 50 London sculptures were placed in famous locations and green spaces around the capital including
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placed on the streets of Bristol in 2013, raising £2.3 million at auction for The Grand Appeal.
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was a public charity arts trail organised by Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation and
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devices. Within 24 hours of release the app took the number one spot in the Apple
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is an unusually clever sheep who first appeared in the 1995
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were displayed in famous locations and green spaces around
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Index

Aardman Animations
Shaun the Sheep
London
Bristol
Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Charity
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal
Bristol Children's Hospital
Gromit Unleashed
Gromit
Nick Park
Aardman Animations
Shaun the Sheep
Oscar
A Close Shave
Wallace and Gromit
Shaun the Sheep the Movie
Radio Times
British Film Institute
Trafalgar Square
Tower Bridge
The London Eye
Covent Garden
St. James's Park
The Shard
Shaun in the City Youtube Channel
David Gandy
Clifton Suspension Bridge
Bristol Temple Meads station
Staple Hill
Bedminster

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