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The irresistible appeal of the sucky waxwork
There's something primally satisfying about a truly bad waxwork. I'm not sure whether it's the conventional Schadenfreude of considering all the painstaking shaping of noses and combing of eyebrows and scouring of shops for wardrobe items, only to end up with such an "epic fail" (as I gather it's known in the popular vernacular), or whether it might more specifically be what Joe Queenan has termed Scheissenfreude - the immense pleasure that's to be found in the faecal depths of some things offered up to us in the name of entertainment.
Whichever it is, this certainly does the job: Bob Hope in his Oscar-nominated role as Larry Grayson in The Road to Nuneaton.
After making your best guess at who it's actually supposed to be, go here for the answer (and also check out the Amazing Shrinking Bruce at No. 17).
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Jack Nicholson?
Amazing Shrinking Bruce
Whereas with the Bruce Willis (I've looked now) they've shrunk just his head.
Bob Dylan?
I've seen worse...
Behold!
The wonder that was the Great Yarmouth Waxworks Museum http://rhodri.livejournal.com/59622.html
'Bruce Springsteen' is just *strange*...
he either seems to be melting or is reverting back to a child as in the film 'Big'.
Wasn't number 18 the real one?
My first thought was Bob Hope
I think they got the new commision when a
Bob Hope head was lying around ... it's too good ;-)
Barney Tabasco?
Just without his specs.
No 3 Julia Roberts
Looks incredibly like Pete Burns from Dead or Alive
I think this blog could learn a lot from that site as in...
"Jiahui C. thinks 31 Really Bad Wax Figures is Ew, LOL & WTF. about 16 hours ago ×"
It could save a lot of time. I personally think 31 Really Bad Wax Figures is more WTF than LOL but that's just me
Julia Roberts/Pete Burns
Exactly what I thought, Cookie.
All the female models
look like really ropey post-op transsexuals in their mid 40's.
It's an artists impression
of how MJ would have looked had he lived to his full 3 score and ten.
Alternatively
Here's an artist's impression from Ebony magazine in 1985, predicting what he'd look like in 2000.
what Lando Calrissian ?
so Neverland was just the start. He was planning to build a cloud city.
18
is a photo and 31 - that's Peter Gabriel isn't it?
I went to Madame Tussauds in London recently
Not having been since about 1980 when I thought then it was amazing. I was shocked at how truly poor some of the waxworks were. Do people not sit for these anymore? Some of them were so bad they were laughable, and it's also now full of German stars and other people you've never heard of, probably because no British person ever goes there now.
Bruce
It occurs to me that the waxwork maker has no knowledge of who Springsteen is; has been shown a picture of Bruce with Nils Lofgren and then got the two mixed up.
It seems the maker....
also assumed that he was 11 years old.
Michael J Fox (#8)
Looks like a very small lesbian
truly bad waxworks
if anyone ever goes to Barcelona, there's a wax museum on La Ramblas. Don't go. Some of the shoddiest things I've ever seen. Han Solo and Princess Leia had the same face, but with slightly different hair, and Winston Churchill was thin!!