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Being immortalized in wax is a particularly harsh price of fame, don’t you think? Even the dummies reproduced on the cover of Sgt. Pepper (surely the best of a bad lot) seem to have at best a distant relationship to their human counterparts.
But this one, provided by friend and fellow Beatlefan Stephen Kroninger, takes the cake. If you have better (or worse), put ’em in the comments. This dubious quartet resided in Louis Tussaud’s House of Wax in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, famed throughout Britain as the world’s worst wax museum. It was closed in 2013; Jean, Paol, Jorge, and Ringoo—along with the rest of the collection—was snapped up by an overseas buyer.
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It looks like a Beatles tribute band from New Zealand has been immortalized in wax .
I kept thinking of clever replies to how creepy these waxworks are, but @hologram sam pretty much sums it up.
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I am riveted by the way their heads are oh-so-slightly tilted. So weird.
Ringo at least sort of looks like Ringo, hairstyle aside, but John and George are way off, and Paul looks like Dana Carvey in Tony Montana mode from Master of Disguise. Yikes.
Jean looks oddly like Peter Noone, of Herman’s Hermits fame, to me. It’s like someone built dummies using a generic “British Invasion” set of features.
Ja ja ja.The most accurate parts are their noses.
Panoptikum… This museum in Hamburg seems to have great quality, ironically although the Beatles figures look good, there is not much resemblance to them.
I would provide the link to the photo but is a very large string, you can find it in Google images though.
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So, as the kids say, cursed.
The one in Hong Kong is pretty good.
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https://c8.alamy.com/comp/F0KXG6/the-beatles-and-visitor-madame-tussauds-hong-kong-wax-museum-at-the-F0KXG6.jpg
Here’s a better version without the watermark: https://img.traveltriangle.com/blog/wp-content/tr:w-700,h-400/uploads/2018/09/Beatles.jpg
James Corden did a “Maybe I’m Amazed” parody of the current occupant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C76XMCJCVs