People Say This Wax Museum Is The Worst In The World And Here Are 19 Pictures To Prove It
No one can argue that wax models are fun. Who wouldn’t like a selfie with the life-like Queen Beyoncé or ex-President Barack Obama? But there’s one wax museum that beats its own purpose—the waxworks are such a far cry from the truth, you may need a second (and a third) guess.
Louis Tussaud's House of Wax in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk has achieved cult status with tourists flocking from all over the world to see the infamous monstrosities. From Victoria Beckham looking like a full-blown Karen waiting to see a manager, to Prince Charles ready to hit a drag lip-sync battle, the misshapen models give a whole new perspective on what the waxwork could be. It could be anything. So let's have a look at some of the worst works down below.
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Prince William
Corona virus went on for decades and the royals could only breed among themselves, the result...................
Is that lady who did the restore job on Jesus now working here???
looks like a messed up version of that one guy i just forgot the name of from twilight-
Pretty sure Prince William wouldn't be caught dead in clearance items from the Gap.
The right/left eyebrow and his right Bottom eyelash Are getting to me
It looks more like Captain America if he'd gotten into a car accident.
This looks like a man trapped in a wax body, unable to scream for help
This wax museum is a joke because a child could have done better work then. This!
Rowan Atkinson
The owners, Jane and Peter Hayes, closed the attraction in October 2012 after running it for half a century. The pieces were sold to a secret Czech collector who surely has unique taste. Jane, 83, told Mirror that “all the models and machines and frames were sold in one go.” But the woman doesn’t know who the chap was.
Peter, who ran the museum for 57 years, admitted in 2008 that the models became so old they were no longer lifelike. According to Dailymail, each figure cost around $1,245 to make. The auction estimated that the whole collection was worth up to $14,943, but it’s not clear for how much it was sold to the buyer.
Named after the great-grandson of Madame Tussaud, the museum was located on Regent Road. According to the BBC, it employed three full-time staff members in addition to the Hayeses. People on Trip Advisor expressed their disappointment with the museum’s closure. “It will be sorely missed,” said one user. The other one called it a “sad loss” and said that “Yarmouth will never be the same...”
The Beatles
Prince Charles
Princess Diana
Elvis Presley
This Elvis wouldn’t even be eligible to compete in an Elvis lookalike contest.
Pope John Paul 2nd
Tony Blair
With most of these you can see a very tiny similarity at least in some features/hairstyle but this one is insanely bad
Michael Owen
Note: this post originally had 37 images. It’s been shortened to the top 19 images based on user votes.
These look like training mannequins for students of mortuary cosmetology.
Τhey seem like they're related to Chucky
Now you come to mention it, yes.
It's sad. Someone tried their very best at these, with the limited resources they had, and was probably pretty proud of how they turned out and then they read the comments... My heart aches for them.
I thought that too, but tbh there shouulb be someone on the way to decide if they're okay for the museum or not.
I don’t think so, Louis Tussaud museums are an industry. I’m pretty sure they intentionally make them look bad. There’s already good wax museums, having a bunch that are known for being hilariously bad is much better business.
Shit! You PAY a lot of Money to enter the Wax Museums. I have been a VICTIM.
Bipin Gupta like
Entrance was 5 pounds, so no.
It's so bad and terrifying that it's good.
I didn't/don't know a lot of these I had to go look them up to find a picture of what they actually look like. A comparison pic would have been helpful here
Never heard of 2/3 of them.
I'm not surprised, many are British public figures.
I'm curious which six people you've heard of? Not being mean just truly curious.
Same... I got tired of googling
These are almost scary.
I live in Great Yarmouth and sadly the wax works closed years ago :( they sold everything off and they are now spread around the world. But its always to see this resurface again and that people have no idea who they are ....
At least we now all know where nightmares are made
They look like they bought some mannequins on discount and just tried to make them look like celebrities by adding wax, makeup and hair.
They need a new wax mannequin maker
Lorena Magee follower
Is Phil Collins doing a follow up to his video for 'Land of Confusion'?
The Pope JP 2 one is actually really well done, it looks nothing like John Paul 2nd, but the detail of whoever the hell it is, is marvellous.
Boy George really looked like that though 😩
Some look like real ppl some don’t. They tried, or it’s meant to be like that. It’s not Madame Tussaud’s after all.
Couldn’t recognise many of them if their names weren’t shown
I went from the bottom up, so I could GUESS who they were before I saw the name. I only got 6 of them right, and mostly from the clothes. You would think Hitler would have been a no-brainer, but I figured it was Charlie Chaplin....
More photos, PLEASE!!!
María B. Kaiser haha
María B. Kaiser -
My goodness, who the heck is the person who did this. Just hideous.
I think the person who bought these 'dummies' probably made them.
Is it intentional? Like, are they that bad on purpose or are they just fucking blind?
I guess the people with the real talent could not be enticed to make wax figures?
Some not to Bad Others Horrible.
Not much. They're fairly frightening.
I thought most of them were at least recognizical
I thought Boy George wasn’t that bad....the rest pretty horrible. I mean Sean Connery? Geeze....that was the worst!
They look like some described them through the medium of mime to a blind and deaf person and this is what they made.
They may not be brilliantly accurate, but they are not awful. The person who made them clearly tried and with some got quite close. Regardless of their accuracy, the models themselves would seem well made. I think public media can be a forum for unfair sneering. I doubt if any who criticise these models could do anywhere near as good a job.
Hey if you're going to have a cut-rate museum then you're going to have cut rate models. Most of them are pretty obvious who they're meant to be even if they're not the best recreations.
They're actually technically well sculpted, they just don't look that much like they're namesakes.
Ay, every artist starts out bad, and needs practice to improve! I'm sure it's better than anything you can do.
I will say this. They nailed Margaret Thatcher. The rest are a disaster.
Frickin scary!
If they were not identified, I would not know who they were supposed to be. Might take a wild guess on on one or two.
Melt the entire lot and make candles!
I say melt the entire lot and make candles! Much more useful!
Where is this?
I just found the nightmare.
There was a 2005 horror movie called "House of Wax" with Paris Hilton in the cast. (It would have been just as bad without her, btw). It's too bad that the museum with these...creations...has closed. It would have been a great setting for a horror movie. No killer would have been needed, the simple plot is some young people are trapped in the museum and they can't turn out the lights, so they are stuck with these monstrosities!
Why are they all the same color?
Spitting image as the inspiration methinks
Beckham is lifelike, he always looks brainless..
Like every soccer player...
Right, we want you to make this list of famous characters, but the modelling clay were bought is flawed and sets in 3 minutes, so...GO!
Part of the fun is working out who they are.
I say we make one giant candle out of em and enjoy...lol
Well they tried...
Great Yarmouth is a very weird place. I did some shop fitting down there a few years ago. After work we went to find a fish and chip shop, when we went in the guy behind the counter was chinese and couldn't speak a word of english so we had to point at what we wanted. He was quite friendly otherwise than that.
They all look stoned af
The worst part is all of the figures' shoulders are just wrong... just a bit too pointy, too flat, and too low which makes the silhouettes freaky.
Why, though? Who'd want to be paid to do a bad job of something?
Had to read most of the titles to know who they are.
I don't even know who most of those people are!
Waxworks my arse, more like cheap plastic. Whoever made these monstrosities should be named and shamed. As for the museum, should be shut down for good.
"The owners, Jane and Peter Hayes, closed the attraction in October 2012 after running it for half a century."
Missed that bit, I was probably half asleep again.
These look like training mannequins for students of mortuary cosmetology.
Τhey seem like they're related to Chucky
Now you come to mention it, yes.
It's sad. Someone tried their very best at these, with the limited resources they had, and was probably pretty proud of how they turned out and then they read the comments... My heart aches for them.
I thought that too, but tbh there shouulb be someone on the way to decide if they're okay for the museum or not.
I don’t think so, Louis Tussaud museums are an industry. I’m pretty sure they intentionally make them look bad. There’s already good wax museums, having a bunch that are known for being hilariously bad is much better business.
Shit! You PAY a lot of Money to enter the Wax Museums. I have been a VICTIM.
Bipin Gupta like
Entrance was 5 pounds, so no.
It's so bad and terrifying that it's good.
I didn't/don't know a lot of these I had to go look them up to find a picture of what they actually look like. A comparison pic would have been helpful here
Never heard of 2/3 of them.
I'm not surprised, many are British public figures.
I'm curious which six people you've heard of? Not being mean just truly curious.
Same... I got tired of googling
These are almost scary.
I live in Great Yarmouth and sadly the wax works closed years ago :( they sold everything off and they are now spread around the world. But its always to see this resurface again and that people have no idea who they are ....
At least we now all know where nightmares are made
They look like they bought some mannequins on discount and just tried to make them look like celebrities by adding wax, makeup and hair.
They need a new wax mannequin maker
Lorena Magee follower
Is Phil Collins doing a follow up to his video for 'Land of Confusion'?
The Pope JP 2 one is actually really well done, it looks nothing like John Paul 2nd, but the detail of whoever the hell it is, is marvellous.
Boy George really looked like that though 😩
Some look like real ppl some don’t. They tried, or it’s meant to be like that. It’s not Madame Tussaud’s after all.
Couldn’t recognise many of them if their names weren’t shown
I went from the bottom up, so I could GUESS who they were before I saw the name. I only got 6 of them right, and mostly from the clothes. You would think Hitler would have been a no-brainer, but I figured it was Charlie Chaplin....
More photos, PLEASE!!!
María B. Kaiser haha
María B. Kaiser -
My goodness, who the heck is the person who did this. Just hideous.
I think the person who bought these 'dummies' probably made them.
Is it intentional? Like, are they that bad on purpose or are they just fucking blind?
I guess the people with the real talent could not be enticed to make wax figures?
Some not to Bad Others Horrible.
Not much. They're fairly frightening.
I thought most of them were at least recognizical
I thought Boy George wasn’t that bad....the rest pretty horrible. I mean Sean Connery? Geeze....that was the worst!
They look like some described them through the medium of mime to a blind and deaf person and this is what they made.
They may not be brilliantly accurate, but they are not awful. The person who made them clearly tried and with some got quite close. Regardless of their accuracy, the models themselves would seem well made. I think public media can be a forum for unfair sneering. I doubt if any who criticise these models could do anywhere near as good a job.
Hey if you're going to have a cut-rate museum then you're going to have cut rate models. Most of them are pretty obvious who they're meant to be even if they're not the best recreations.
They're actually technically well sculpted, they just don't look that much like they're namesakes.
Ay, every artist starts out bad, and needs practice to improve! I'm sure it's better than anything you can do.
I will say this. They nailed Margaret Thatcher. The rest are a disaster.
Frickin scary!
If they were not identified, I would not know who they were supposed to be. Might take a wild guess on on one or two.
Melt the entire lot and make candles!
I say melt the entire lot and make candles! Much more useful!
Where is this?
I just found the nightmare.
There was a 2005 horror movie called "House of Wax" with Paris Hilton in the cast. (It would have been just as bad without her, btw). It's too bad that the museum with these...creations...has closed. It would have been a great setting for a horror movie. No killer would have been needed, the simple plot is some young people are trapped in the museum and they can't turn out the lights, so they are stuck with these monstrosities!
Why are they all the same color?
Spitting image as the inspiration methinks
Beckham is lifelike, he always looks brainless..
Like every soccer player...
Right, we want you to make this list of famous characters, but the modelling clay were bought is flawed and sets in 3 minutes, so...GO!
Part of the fun is working out who they are.
I say we make one giant candle out of em and enjoy...lol
Well they tried...
Great Yarmouth is a very weird place. I did some shop fitting down there a few years ago. After work we went to find a fish and chip shop, when we went in the guy behind the counter was chinese and couldn't speak a word of english so we had to point at what we wanted. He was quite friendly otherwise than that.
They all look stoned af
The worst part is all of the figures' shoulders are just wrong... just a bit too pointy, too flat, and too low which makes the silhouettes freaky.
Why, though? Who'd want to be paid to do a bad job of something?
Had to read most of the titles to know who they are.
I don't even know who most of those people are!
Waxworks my arse, more like cheap plastic. Whoever made these monstrosities should be named and shamed. As for the museum, should be shut down for good.
"The owners, Jane and Peter Hayes, closed the attraction in October 2012 after running it for half a century."
Missed that bit, I was probably half asleep again.