Forum:"Wallace & Gromit (franchise)" or "Shaun the Sheep (series)"?

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Shaun the Sheep in Santa's sack with the TARDIS on the cover of TV & Satellite Week's 2015 Christmas bumper issue.

I believe this cover artwork constitutes an official crossover between the DWU and… the universe from which Shaun the Sheep originates (and Star Wars, but that's irrelevant here).

If I am correct in this assumption (by all means tell me if I'm not), what should the scope of the crossover page be: just the Shaun the Sheep series by itself, or the Wallace & Gromit franchise as a whole? WaltK ☎ 19:25, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Discussion

Is the cover art technically licensed? If so, covering cover art is a whole discussion of its own (perhaps the caption could be taken as a title?), but I believe series pages would be warranted. I can't think of any references to the DWU in W&G itself, but Shaun the Sheep has had a couple, and one might be licensed? Anyway, if it's licensed, I personally think an overview of Shaun the Sheep would be most reasonable, but feel free to disagree. Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 22:01, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

(Oh, also do you know what the car behind BB-8 (assuming I'm remembering its name correctly) is?) Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 22:05, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

It's hard to say. This is also not the only TV&SW Christmas illustration to feature the TARDIS, which we shall probably also get to at some point. WaltK ☎ 22:38, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Hmm, TV&SW issues usually have a copyright thing on the first page for whatever the cover photo is, but the Christmas illustrations just credit the artist. I like to think, if they have the license to cover DW elsewhere in the issue, then that surely means the illustration is "official" too. WaltK ☎ 22:42, 2 January 2024 (UTC)