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Photos: Wallace & Gromit Thrill-O-Matic at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
The $7.8 million Wallace & Gromit Thrill-O-Matic dark ride is set to debut in 2013 at the United Kingdom's Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
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Nick Park, the Oscar-winning animator who created Wallace & Gromit, visited Blackpool Pleasure Beach with his family as a child and still lives about 20 minutes from the park in Northwest England.
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