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The world's worst waxworks to be sold off at auction
« on: January 19, 2008, 05:57:59 PM »
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Visitors to Louis Tussauds House of Wax are unlikely to forget the experience - no matter how hard they try.

For the museum in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, has garnered a unique reputation for creating the worst waxworks in Britain, if not the world.

Its 150-plus life-sized figures are, in almost every case, remarkable for how little they look like their subjects.

Nonetheless, the museum - run by Peter Hayes, 80, for half a century, and named after Madame Tussaud's great grandson - has attracted a legion of connoisseurs who delight in its unparalleled naffness.


Hayes claims that thousands of visitors come to see the show - and now, for the first time, he is offering fans a chance to take home their own wax figures, with 75 being auctioned off to make room for more, er, up-to-date models.



Made of wax or Greased Lightning..? Click the image to find out who

The museum gained cult status on the internet several years ago when visitors started posting images of the supposed likenesses on the web.

While some waxworks are nearly doppelgangers of famous faces, others have left people struggling to guess who exactly they are meant to be.

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Most of the pictures are of British celebrities so they won't mean much but ...

 
this one you would have a good chance at.



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Re: The world's worst waxworks to be sold off at auction
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2008, 06:02:15 PM »
Dr. Frasier Crane?

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Re: The world's worst waxworks to be sold off at auction
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2008, 06:02:44 PM »
Is that Bob Hope?!?  

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Re: The world's worst waxworks to be sold off at auction
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2008, 06:03:35 PM »
Is that Bob Hope?!?  

Yes. Abysmal isn't it?  :-)



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Re: The world's worst waxworks to be sold off at auction
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2008, 06:05:09 PM »

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Re: The world's worst waxworks to be sold off at auction
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2008, 06:07:33 PM »
Guess who this is..... :rotf:




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« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2008, 06:11:57 PM »
Guess who this is..... :rotf:





Greg Brady?

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Re: The world's worst waxworks to be sold off at auction
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2008, 06:25:42 PM »




I cheated and followed the link.


Cheaters never win...  :loser:

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« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2008, 06:29:43 PM »

Cheaters never win...  :loser:

 :old: "Honesty should count for something."

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« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2008, 06:32:26 PM »

Cheaters never win...  :loser:

 :old: "Honesty should count for something."

Ok...this time. :-*

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« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2008, 06:36:26 PM »

Cheaters never win...  :loser:

 :old: "Honesty should count for something."

Ok...this time. :-*

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Re: The world's worst waxworks to be sold off at auction
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2008, 07:09:51 PM »
Is that Bob Hope?!? 

Yes. Abysmal isn't it?  :-)
I thought it was Richard Keil of James Bond "Jaws" fame...

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