| The BunVac 6000 | |
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| Appeared in | The Curse of the Were-Rabbit |
The BunVac 6000, a pest-extraction device, is one of Wallace's more recent inventions. It uses suction to pry rabbits from their holes and safely contain them in a large glass container.
After receiving an emergency call from Lady Tottington of Tottington Hall, Wallace and Gromit drive to the premises as Anti-Pesto Pest Control to deal with the surprisingly large number of rabbits inhabiting the area. Wallace and Gromit activates the BV6000, which was attached to the back of their van, and Wallace carefully extracts the rabbits from the land and into protective custody. Lady Tottington sees the BunVac at work and marvels at the device, while her fiancé, Victor Quartermaine, is skeptical about it.
Back at their home, Wallace stores and tends to the rabbits. However Wallce devises a plan so the rabbits can be released back into the wild with no harm to them or the local crops. To accomplish this feat, Wallace attaches the BV6000 to another recent invention, the Mind Manipulation-O-Matic to mass-brainwash all the lagomorphs at once. Wallace activates both devices at once, which send his thoughts, via the BunVac, into the bunnies' brains. The plan works until Wallace accidentally reverses the BunVac, hitting 'blow' instead of 'suck', which forces rabbit-like insticts to be transferred into his mind instead. When Gromit breaks him free of the device, Wallace tries to feed one of the rabbits with a carrot. When the rabbit refuses the vegetable, Wallace declares his invention a success - however later that rabbit, named Hutch, begins to gain Wallace-like qualities while Wallace himself becomes a Were-Rabbit.
One of the BunVac 6000's last jobs was to release the captured rabbits back into Tottington Hall, which was made into an animal sanctuary by Lady Tottington herself.