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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.
Feeling too comfy with your cup of cocoa while watching the snow calmly drift down from the fluffy clouds? No worries, we’ve got you covered! When you’re done with this post, have a look through our article about this wax museum that just might be the worst in the world right over here.
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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#1
Home Alone: Kevin Mccallister
Malakai 4 years ago
Where are his legs? What happened to his face? What's with his hand? Did Harry snap off his cahoneys and boil em in motor oil begore his eyrs after all??
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#2
Tom Cruise
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
Have you heard about what the church of Scientology can do for?
Christopher Walkies 4 years ago
The head is not terrible. But I'm pretty sure the body is backwards inside that suit.
#3
Batman
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
That looks like a poorly made action figure, it can't even stand up they've given Batman a weird tripod look
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.
#4
Seinfeld: Jerry Seinfeld
#5
Back To The Future: Dr. Emmett Brown
Toasty 4 years ago
At least if could tell who this is. He does look like he just woke up in Mexico after a two week bender.
Violet Smith 4 years ago
Looks a bit Elvis-y in the white jumpsuit and his hip jutting out just-so...
#6
Elton John
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
If this was labeled Reginald Dwight the uninformed would would be yeah sure seems right.
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.
#7
Olive Oyl
#8
Pulp Fiction: Vincent Vega
Vanessa Nunez 4 years ago
I'm sorry, but there is no way you could pass that off as John Travolta.
#9
Michael Jackson
chi-wei shen 4 years ago
I honestly did not recognize him. I thought this was a middle aged white woman.
Susan Trevaskis-Owen 4 years ago
My first thought was, "Oh, Sigourney Weaver, only they got the hair wrong. I've seen worse." Then the outfit registered in my brain...
Louchebert 4 years ago
Nah, this is Ripley Jackson... the alienated brother from another planet...
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!
#10
Nicole Kidman
John Hickey 4 years ago
Did "Nicole" piss her pants with her wax urine??Looks very dark around the bottom.....
#11
Titanic: Jack Dawson
Nubis Knight 4 years ago
More like Jack Dawson would have looked like if he got old and fled from a retirement home. O.o
Stephanie Did It 4 years ago
Jack's hair was straight and hung down over his eyes, and not curly even when he slicked it back. And why is he standing like Charlie Chaplin?
#12
Tiger Woods
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
Did the wax "sculptors" (I'm using sculptor in the loosest sense of the word here) fail basic anatomy?
Mishte Tine 4 years ago
Neck too long. Maybe that happens after 5 back surgeries? I deal with intense back pain every day - my neck has not elongated and I don’t have access to helpful medical care., so... the shoulders and forearms - try harder next time...
Johanne Trudeau 4 years ago
Very disproportionate!!! Just awful work to make this wax figure!!!
#13
Whoopi Goldberg
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
The *figure* looks like an ape. The actress does not.
Load More Replies... Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Do the celebrities represented have any say? This one is an atrocity.
hermionelover222 4 years ago
That looks like Kevin Bacon and an alien had a child that smashed its face on a rock and got plastic surgery.
#14
Popeye
Guy MacGregor 4 years ago
Looks like it's from the movie "Popeye", where he was portrayed by Robin Williams. (Cursed version here, obviously)
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staygoldponyboy 4 years ago
This must be from the movie Popeye with Robin Williams... but still a hard pass.
#15
Superman / Clark Kent
#16
Seinfeld: George Costanza
Louchebert 4 years ago
Isn't this the latex salesman of Vandelay Industries – Importing, Exporting and Architecture Company?
Annemarie Mattheyse 4 years ago
That's actually pretty good. Just the hand pose is a bit stiff and strange looking.
Stephanie Stlawrence 4 years ago
It’s like they have turned celebrities into garbage pail kids.
#17
Titanic: Jack Dawson
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
No, no, no, no, no. I refuse to believe that this is Jack Dawson. First and foremost the clothing for the period is entirely wrong. Second of all, it looks like someone clocked him in the jaw. Why are his feet so small? Why does he look like a bloated dad? I have so many questions...
Noel Benavente 4 years ago
the version that survived and became a stunt double for Starsky & Hutch
Kim Shannon 4 years ago
I never knew Jack was a lumberjack. WHO is responsible for the proportions on these things??
Donna Leske 4 years ago
*goes into thrift store, buys a wig and all the wrong clothes* "this will be fine!"
#18
Home Alone: Harry
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
Are we sure that is not one of the prop dummies Kevin used to fake the party?
Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago
That's what you look like after getting hit in the face so many times.
#19
Marilyn Monroe
BB Watson 4 years ago
This look more like Betty White dressed as Marilyn Monroe for Halloween! 😂
#20
Hook: Peter Pan
Olivier Caissy 4 years ago
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
Truth Monster 4 years ago
I think of Never Never Land when I see this. Never gonna buy this. Never.
#21
Forrest Gump
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Can also work as Michael Keaton around 2010. It's multi-functional so better than single-person waxworks.
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Shannon Parrott 4 years ago
Who's making these? They don't look like who there supposed to be.
#22
Julia Roberts
Mohsie Supposie 4 years ago
Nope! Nothing like her. Not in a million years. I need to speak to the manager!
CatWoman312 4 years ago
That’s not the Julie Roberts that’s just some random woman named Julia roberts
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Where do those 'sculptors' think female breasts are situated? I guess they can't know that from experience ...
#23
Titanic: Rose Dewitt Bukater
Jill Pulcifer 4 years ago
She looks like she is part of the Home Alone set and should be saying "KEVIN!"
#24
Men In Black: Agent J
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago (edited)
Ok, insert generic black guy, that'll do....nice *facepalm* he even looks disappointed in what they've done!
#25
The Matrix: Morpheus
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
Morpheous looks like a balding middle-age white man whose secretly discovering his "metrosexual" side after suffering a midlife crisis.
columbokateUK 4 years ago
If the skin tone was darker I can kinda see it .... with squinted eyes ....
Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
And standing on your head...and looking at its reflection in a funhouse mirror...
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#26
Home Alone: Marv
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
This rubbish is what you get when the USA tries to copy English attractions
#27
Jesus Christ
Christy Smith 4 years ago
Someone forgot to tell this 'artist' that Jesus was born in the Middle East ... so not white with white ppl hair.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
Jesus looks like he would be the guitarist in a progressive Finnish hard-metal band with a name like "Apokalypsi".
ZooMom 4 years ago
I will go ahead and risk my immortal soul....this ain’t it
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Back To The Future: Marty Mcfly
Billie Templeton 4 years ago
With his expression and that hair.... "It puts the lotion on its skin....." Creepy
#29
Pulp Fiction: Mia Wallace
Violet Smith 4 years ago
Sure, Uma Thurman has a bit of an odd mug that might be hard to capture well, but at least get the hair right...
Billie Templeton 4 years ago
I believe I would gone with the adrenaline-injection-protruding-from-heart look.
#30
Seinfeld: Elaine Benes
#31
Joker
Tantalum_Radium 4 years ago
This is the stance I take when I want my other half to know he’s about to get real lucky.
#32
Bruce Springsteen
#33
Seinfeld: Cosmo Kramer
#34
Jay Leno
Stephanie Did It 4 years ago
I think you mean likeness; you're right though
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace: Darth Maul
Little Zoologist 4 years ago
At least Maul's face is much better than the others but wtf is that hand?! This sculptor has terrible lightsaber skills...
#36
Beetlejuice
Bad Asterisk 4 years ago
This looks like an old homeless lady after someone stole her mangy cat and brown-bag bottle of alcohol...
staygoldponyboy 4 years ago
All I hear when I see this is Gilbert Godfrey's voice saying "Whaaaat, Ain't you gonna call my name?!?"!
#37
The Beatles: George Harrison
#38
The Wizard Of Oz: Dorothy
Martz Migraña 4 years ago
The hands looks like those bizantine Jesus pairings. The same gesture tho
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
I don't think we're in Kansas (or even on this planet) anymore, Toto!
#39
Hook: Captain Hook
BoredDragon 4 years ago
Why is he so short in this? (Not that height matters, but like, he was tall and intimidating in “Hook”)
#40
Road House: Dalton
Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
he looks annoyed that he got into work before realising that he forgot to put shoes on.
#41
Titanic: Rose Dewitt Bukater
#42
Michael Jordan
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Why bother? "all black guys look alike anyway" ... (warning: sarcasm and cynicism!)
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On Golden Pond: Norman Thayer Jr.
#44
George H. W. Bush
#45
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Anakin Skywalker
Vic 4 years ago
What are Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi wan Kenobi doing with Annabelle?
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#46
John F. Kennedy
DC 4 years ago
Ken. Barbie's ... what is he, husband, boyfriend, guy who comes around to adult with, ... brother? All of the above?
Mishte Tine 4 years ago (edited)
Why do I get the feeling some of these faces are painted then printed on flexible fabric laid over the wax? Because I’m up too late, that’s why
#47
Richard Nixon
#48
Rodney Dangerfield
Stephanie Did It 4 years ago (edited)
OK this at least captured the essence of Rodney. He existed before Caddyshack.
#49
Bill Cosby
Truth Monster 4 years ago
I feel like he's going to ask me if I would like some quaaludes in some pudding...or jello.
Capelli rosa e patate 4 years ago
This could be incredible looking and it would still be cursed 😂
Mishte Tine 4 years ago
Ew... a single creepy entity of this monster is one two many. Don’t duplicate it.
#50
The Wizard Of Oz: Miss Gulch, The Wicked Witch Of The West
#51
The Three Stooges: Larry
#52
The Three Stooges: Moe
Christopher Bowers 4 years ago
If they ever make another Three Stooges film or show, they need to get Kyle Chandler to play as Moe.
#53
Ronald Reagan
chi-wei shen 4 years ago
Exactly what I thought, and that trousers are way to long.
Load More Replies... Shannon Parrott 4 years ago
Why do the clothes fit so bad on a lot of these? The body's look weird
#54
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace: Sabé
Little Zoologist 4 years ago
Where's Padmé? Is she safe, is she alright? Also, "Padmé", NOT Sabé!
Joshua Nowell 4 years ago
actually, this was most likely a doubleganger, since in the first movie, she usually had someone else in the royal gowns and have herself as one of the servants for safety
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Truth Monster 4 years ago
Knowing what we know now about Palpatine...is it possible that Padme's bodyguards are all Padmes?
#55
The Wizard Of Oz: Nikko
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
I had an irrational fear of the flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz as a kid. Ugh, now that irrational fear has returned...he looks like he would tell you bad Dad jokes before dismembering you.
Susan Trevaskis-Owen 4 years ago
I finally understand why the flying monkeys gave my sister nightmares as a kid...
#56
The Beatles: Paul Mccartney
#57
The Beatles: Ringo Starr
Stephanie Did It 4 years ago
Except his pajamas are also huge. Don't correct me pls, I know it's Sergeant Pepper's for pete's sake
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Braveheart: William Wallace
Truth Monster 4 years ago
that would be a hilarious art installment, lightning sparking out
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
As a Scot, I'm deeply offended by this monstrosity. FREEDUMB, FREEDUMB!
#59
Men In Black: Agent K
#60
The Three Stooges: Curly
Belandriel 4 years ago
No, just no. This guy looks like a psychopathic child molester who has no problem with twisting and turning arms and legs till they rip off.
Christopher Bowers 4 years ago
Looks like this would been on a Hannibal Lecter movie poster from the 1950s.
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
If curly just escaped an insane asylum and it was on Halloween and he was ready to exact his revenge.
Shannon Parrott 4 years ago
Is it me or does this one look like he would come to life and be a serial killer? Who bought these
#61
Jerry Lewis
ZooMom 4 years ago (edited)
Lmfao! Wrong Jerry!! This is the comedian not the Great Balls of Fire singer Jerry Lee Lewis. Not that the resemblance works either way. :)
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#63
Fonzie
MRS FLASHMAN 4 years ago
Why does he look like he is standing in the living room of the All In The Family set?
P Douglas Innes 4 years ago
His proportions are the same as his old toy a0b30ad52c...201267.jpg 
#64
The Beatles: John Lennon
#65
All In The Family: Archie Bunker
#66
All In The Family: Edith Bunker
#67
On Golden Pond: Ethel Thayer
DippityDooDerp 2 years ago
Oof. A lot of extremely judgemental comments from people who probably couldn't even come close to making one of these
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What do you think ?
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
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.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
Some of these I think would be hilarious to put in say a park and watch people react
Jeff Diamond 4 years ago
These figures look like rehearsals for the real thing. Wax figures from hell
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Is this the collection John Oliver bought his Dead Presidents from?
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
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.
Truth Monster 4 years ago
Some of these I think would be hilarious to put in say a park and watch people react
Jeff Diamond 4 years ago
These figures look like rehearsals for the real thing. Wax figures from hell
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Is this the collection John Oliver bought his Dead Presidents from?
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