Gromit laying track ahead of the train
The train chase from The Wrong Trousers, in which Gromit lays new track a few inches ahead of a moving locomotive, used for the experience of building the tooling while the game was already running.
ImageSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
Checked 2 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Film identity and release year checked against official Aardman pages; exact clip provenance remains incomplete.
- Wallace & Gromit — The Wrong Trousers
The official film page identifies the Techno Trousers story and characters.
- Aardman — Thirty years of The Wrong Trousers
Confirms the 1993 release.
- Essay and image in this repository
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- Source identification does not establish permission to reproduce this asset.
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- Creator
- Nick Park
- Created
- 1993
- Medium
- video
- Rights
- fair dealingThe Wrong Trousers (1993), dir. Nick Park, Aardman Animations
- Reuse notes
- The existing catalogue records a fair-dealing rationale for this use. No asset-specific licence or permission is recorded; this source review does not establish legal clearance.
Used as a joke about method, and an accurate one: the MCP server was extended each time a game hit a wall the existing tools could not get past.
In the essays
- I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke.
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