Tussaud's bad wax heads up for auction

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Now is your chance to own a fantastically awful waxwork from one of the world's worst wax museums. Louis Tussaud's House of Wax in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, is auctioning off 75 wax heads from its collection. The auction will take place at Keys on February 12. According to The Telegraph, each disembodied head is expected to go for between £50 to £80. Seen here, from left to right, John Travolta, Bob Hope, Tom Jones, and Shirley Bassey. Link

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EH

Hmm, I was thinking Florian Schneider for #2.
Squashy

That Bob Hope head was probably made about fifty years ago, surely.
850

#3 Jason Patric
#4 Liza Minnelli
Antinous

I was thinking Travolta, Kelsey Grammer, Greg Brady and Judy Garland’s mummified remains.
HeatVision

The Bob Hope one looks like Quentin Tarantino.
ill lich

They can just label the Bob Hope one “L Ron Hubbard” and sell it for a fortune to Tom Cruise.

I tell ya. . . these will make great candles.
insomma

Greg Brady! Sweet Lord! Ha!
Squashy

I guess that is quite useful if you only have a small waxwork museum.
miguel

I thought the last one was Michael Jackson
Moon

I was thinking the second one was Fred Thompson, but that didn’t make any sense. Bob Hope??? Wow, that is awful.
lamarlowe

Mystery solved! Thank you, Miguel! Shirley Bassey is the pre-rhinoplasy Michael!! And all this time I thought he wanted to be Audrey Hepburn.
hicks

Man, I thought the second from the left was Quentin Tarantino.
Outtacontext

Kelsey Grammar for #2 but #4 is definitely Oprah! Definitely.
pauldrye

I’ll throw in a vote for Kelsey Grammer on #2 as well.
antipax

I can’t believe Boing Boing isn’t reporting Anon’s war on Scientology yet.
mercermachine

I also vote Kelsey Grammer for #2. I thought #3 was Dennis Miller and #4, Victoria Beckham.
Dizbuster

Kelsey Grammer!
Jeremy A

Another Kelsey Grammer from me. It wouldn’t even be that bad if it was supposed to be him.
Sawdust

Funny that the bad Bob Hope is a good Kelsey Grammer. I thought the rightmost one was a bad Rosanne Barr.
okkoto

i totally thought bob hope was kelsey grammer
Korpo

Why is Bob Hope black?
Takuan

odd. I would have asked; why is the photo underexposed
ProgHead777

#1 John Travolta, after a lobotomy
#2 David Lee Roth (seriously, go find a recent pic)
#3 Greg Brady
#4 Lena Horne
Fnarf

The photo is not underexposed.
Takuan

guess they left it under a sunlamp then
Bionicrat2

Celebrity zombie heads? I’ll take ‘em all!
drewbeatty

This post seems to imply that there are actually good (or at least better) wax museums. I don’t actually believe this is the case.
MoeJoe

Here’s my $0.02:
#2 is Jack Paar
#3 is the guy who plays Booger in the Revenge of the Nerds films
#4 is an overexposed Oprah
Steve Stair

At least the John Travolta head makes you think they were going for Travolta, the others make me think the creator was on LSD.
Antinous

#1 John Travolta, after a lobotomy

Actually, they call it an ‘assist’.
macegr

These will work great with my 75 straight-sided 2-gallon glass beakers, and a lot of green Jello. In the year 3000….
bjimba

Yep, I too thought it was a very good Kelsey Grammar. I never would have said Hope.

#21 – the actor you’re thinking of is Curtis Armstrong, and I don’t think it looks a thing like him. (Did you notice that it was Curtis who played Ahmet Ertegun in “Ray”?)
ill lich

#25 EH

Good call on the Florian Schneider.

That head is vague enough that he could be Bob Hope, Kelsey Grammer, or probably about 7 other people.