There Was An Online Auction Selling Wax Figures Of Celebrities, And Here Are The 30 Most ‘Cursed’ Ones
It might be nowhere near Halloween, but we’ve got a spooky post for you. It’s creepy! It’s terrifying! And the best part is, you can scroll through it from the safety of your home.
Wyatt Duncan went viral on Twitter after he posted a long list of the hundreds of life-sized wax figures that the Hollywood Wax Museum sold via an online auction over a decade ago. Creepy? Check! Cursed? Double-check! Have a look at the photos of the figures below, upvote the spookiest ones, and tell us in the comments which ones you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley. Just remember to wash your hands with some holy water afterward.
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Wyatt told Bored Panda that it all started with him finding a picture of the Seinfeld wax figures. He tracked down where they came from and the rest was history. "I was pretty surprised to see that the bad Seinfeld models weren’t a fluke and that most of the figures were terrible. Decided to save all of my favorites and thought a Twitter thread would be the funniest way to share them." Check out our full interview with Wyatt below.
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Home Alone: Kevin Mccallister
Tom Cruise
Batman
Wyatt opened up about how all that he wanted to do was to make his audience on Twitter laugh and he never thought that his thread would become so popular. "But I’ve had a few viral tweets and you really never know what will take off. Glad people are enjoying the nightmares though!"
"The Julia Louis Dreyfus is very egregious because Elaine was one of the prettiest TV characters ever and you completely botch everything about her and make it hideous. But by far the worst one, in my opinion, is Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. Because it would be impossible to tell who he is just by appearance alone. He looks like a crotchety old man and resembles Leonardo’s old age makeup from J. Edgar," Wyatt shared with us what he thinks are the very worst offenders in the wax figure collection.
"Wax figures are inherently creepy, but a good one will give you the uncanny valley feeling where you’re not exactly sure if it’s real or not. These don’t even have that, they look like the old Disneyland animatronics from when Walt Disney was still alive! And people were paying to see these garbage wax figures well into the mid-2000s," he said.
Seinfeld: Jerry Seinfeld
Back To The Future: Dr. Emmett Brown
Elton John
We were also interested to find out more about Wyatt as a person. He told Bored Panda that he's a production assistant on movies and TV shows. "And when I’m not working on set, I do video editing in my spare time. I’ve currently got a YouTube series called Garf Gab where I go through each episode of Garfield and Friends and riff on them. Other than that, I just post dumb tweets like the wax figure thread for everybody’s amusement!"
From characters from the hit TV show Seinfeld to a life-sized version of Tom Cruise, these are all figures with which you could scare the jinkies out of anyone if you ever put them up in your window (or left them out on your front lawn at night). Wyatt’s thread got over 25.8k likes on Twitter and fascinated people as the post spread across the net.
Olive Oyl
Pulp Fiction: Vincent Vega
Michael Jackson
I honestly did not recognize him. I thought this was a middle aged white woman.
I’ll be completely honest—I’m not a fan of wax figures and I personally don’t think that it’s possible to consistently create good-looking representations of anyone that isn’t a cartoon character.
In my opinion, it’s not even a question of skill (the amount of work done is huge, but it’s rare for the figures to come out great like some figures at Madame Tussauds’): the medium just isn’t right and more often than not, the end results end up slap-bang in the middle of the Uncanny Valley.
There’s just something about the figures’ smiles and their eyes that gives me goosebumps. In other words, wax figures scare me like clowns do some other people. It could be just me, but I always suspect the figures are moving when I’m not looking at them. And before you know it… Tom Cruise has snuck up on you!
Nicole Kidman
Titanic: Jack Dawson
Tiger Woods
Whoopi Goldberg
Popeye
Looks like it's from the movie "Popeye", where he was portrayed by Robin Williams. (Cursed version here, obviously)
Load More Replies...This must be from the movie Popeye with Robin Williams... but still a hard pass.
Apparently no one told him that the green substance he ate wasn't spinach.
Superman / Clark Kent
Seinfeld: George Costanza
Titanic: Jack Dawson
Home Alone: Harry
Marilyn Monroe
Hook: Peter Pan
The movie was called "Hook" and yes it’s about an adult Peter Pan played by the late Robin Williams. My favorite movie as a kid. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102057/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Forrest Gump
Julia Roberts
Titanic: Rose Dewitt Bukater
Men In Black: Agent J
The Matrix: Morpheus
Home Alone: Marv
Jesus Christ
Back To The Future: Marty Mcfly
Pulp Fiction: Mia Wallace
Seinfeld: Elaine Benes
This would make an excellent party game, especially if you were a bit pished. You could have each guest try to guess who the hell these wax monstrosities are.
Some of these I think would be hilarious to put in say a park and watch people react
These figures look like rehearsals for the real thing. Wax figures from hell
Is this the collection John Oliver bought his Dead Presidents from?
Maybe they recycled wax figures of other no longer famous people and took a lighter and a spatula and tried to carve out a more recent celebrity face and slapped that head into a random mannequin body? These are unsettling.
Lighter and a spatula - that really seems about the level of workmanship. Like the famous "Monkey Jesus" repair.
Load More Replies...Ohio's Bible Walk Museum is made up of discarded celebrity wax figures:https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/08/ohios-biblewalk-museum-is-made-up-of.html
Makes me wonder if the creators ever saw the characters these are supposed to be. Or any human, for that matter.
Man, those universally suck. Who would pass those off as worth a look that you had to pay for?
I remember going to the Hollywood wax museum years and years ago; the Diana Ross one still gives me nightmares :P
This would make an excellent party game, especially if you were a bit pished. You could have each guest try to guess who the hell these wax monstrosities are.
Some of these I think would be hilarious to put in say a park and watch people react
These figures look like rehearsals for the real thing. Wax figures from hell
Is this the collection John Oliver bought his Dead Presidents from?
Maybe they recycled wax figures of other no longer famous people and took a lighter and a spatula and tried to carve out a more recent celebrity face and slapped that head into a random mannequin body? These are unsettling.
Lighter and a spatula - that really seems about the level of workmanship. Like the famous "Monkey Jesus" repair.
Load More Replies...Ohio's Bible Walk Museum is made up of discarded celebrity wax figures:https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/08/ohios-biblewalk-museum-is-made-up-of.html
Makes me wonder if the creators ever saw the characters these are supposed to be. Or any human, for that matter.
Man, those universally suck. Who would pass those off as worth a look that you had to pay for?
I remember going to the Hollywood wax museum years and years ago; the Diana Ross one still gives me nightmares :P