Waxy Build-Up

Ms. Foster, waxing poetic
Ms. Foster, waxing poetic

Looking for the perfect gift for the actor-obsessed loved one in your life? Then you might want to check out this auction. Apparently, the Hollywood Wax Museum is going to auction off several wax statues from their collection. Included in the auction are life-sized statues of Laverne and Shirley, Kirk and Spock, the Fonz, Terminator 2 Ahnold, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman (looking strangely like Sarah Ferguson), Marilyn Monroe (looking even more strangely like a young Betty White), Travolta and Thurman from Pulp Fiction, zombie Michael Jackson, some Star Wars blokes (no Jar Jar), the Scream Killer, Forrest Gump – three pages of nothing but wax statues up for sale.

The problem, however, is that the statues look only minimally like their corresponding characters/actors. Case in point: this wax statue of Jodie Foster from Maverick.

Um. No.

Looks like her in the same way that your reflection in a car door kind of looks like you…but not really. I’m actually kind of shocked at how unlike the actors most of these statues look. Madame Tussauds apparently makes the statue process look so much easier than it really is.

Of the statues that I looked at, probably the closest to realistic I saw were Darth Maul and the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz. However, they don’t even showcase the Tin Man on the main page; you have to click on the Dorothy photo to see him (Dorothy actually scares me a little; she looks more like early-in-the-movie Regan from The Exorcist).

However, skip ahead to page 4, avert your eyes from the wax crucified Jesus at the top of that page (really?), and you’ll see some pretty cool costumes, including one of Robert Englund’s Freddy Krueger outfits (minus the glove, unfortunately). I wouldn’t mind that, actually