With Hallowe’en imminent, and following the post on the Uncanny Valley, now is the ideal time for a visit to the gloriously bad sculptures in Louis Tussaud’s House of Wax, Great Yarmouth.
These infamous waxworks are, I suppose, a bit of an internet old chestnut, but I find it’s always worth dropping in on the place when one is at a bit of a loss. Aren’t they just terrific? Hover over the pics to reveal the identities of these supposed likenesses.
The Shirley Bassey one is a bit flattering isn’t it?
They only need to describe change Bob Hope to Kelsey Grammer and they’d be onto a winner.
Kelsey Grammer with radiation sickness after a prolonged exposure to nuclear fallout
Well, I got two out of six which ain’t bad.
I feel he’d be more successful if he made them first and decided who they resembled afterwards.
I think you’ll find, Worm, that this is the natural colour of Kelsey Grammer. You forget that he lives in California.
Bob Hope lives and is running the corner shop at the end of our road.
Bob Hope? Noooooooo. Its the late TV chef Keith Floyd.
The spitting image! Especially right now, his having been dead just over a year.
My God, you’re right about the Kelsey Grammar resemblance.
I think the Bassey is more like Michael Jackson and the George Best looks more like almost anyone who has ever lived than it does George Best.
The Prince Charles has the look of Elberry, perhaps it’s the hair.
You should have also mentioned their Chamber of Horrors which is even fummier than the wax effigies above. It is actually quite expensive to vist the House but I suppose anything that bad must be worth the money.
My grandmother lived in Gorleston-on-Sea, the town next to Great Yarmouth and I do vaguely recall the waxworks museum – but the Chamber of Horrors rings more bells, I think there was a hall of mirrors? Anyway, I loved the giant snail rides next to the Pleasure Beach. And the model village. And the trampolines on the beach – where I injured myself regularly. Bizarrely, I wasn’t allowed to visit Madame Tussauds in London as my parents deemed this to be non-educational. I’m curious to know what I’ve missed out on…