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Rubbing Shoulders With Celebreties
By Anil Gupta
Madame Tussauds offers an unique opportunity to hang out with the wax counterparts of all the most famous (and infamous) stars of stage, screen and sport, as well as politicians, religious leaders and a whole host of fictional and historical heroes and villains.
Madame Tussauds invites you to experience what it is like to be famous as one joins a host of the world's hottest celebrities. With exciting interactive attractions running throughout the year,there's always something different happening at Madame Tussauds.Try to deliver one's best chat up lines to see if one can tempt George Clooney into marriage or join stars from Indian film industry dancers on stage and learn moves from the movie Bride and Prejudice.
Madame Tussauds has been enthralling people all over the world for two hundred years - they have attractions in Hong Kong, Amsterdam, New York and Las Vegas to name just a few. Madame Tussauds offers the unique experience to feel famous for a day as one can rub shoulders with the stars, pose for photographs and dance and perform with celebrities including Britney Spears, Beyonce and Kylie.
The spectacular Spirit of London ride takes visitors on a journey through 400 years of the capital's life, from the Great Fire and the reign of Queen Victoria, to the Blitz and the Swinging Sixties, all courtesy of the wonders of animatronics. There's also the terrifying Chamber of Horrors to be faced if one is daring enough.
There really was a Madame Tussaud, a collector of wax figures in 1770s France who started her career modeling the heads of guillotine victims during the French Revolution. She brought her collection of wax models to Baker Street in 1885, and visitors have been queuing around the block to see them in the grisly Chamber of Horrors ever since. Nowadays, Madame Tussauds is more about glamour than gore. The life-size models of the famous and infamous change regularly to reflect current celebrity trends, and others are updated as their real counterpart's age. The Queen, for example, is on her 22nd figure, and Robbie Williams' figure has been replaced because ardent fans wore out the last one. Tussauds have a refreshingly unstuffy attitude, where visitors can be photographed cuddling up to celebrities or even having a "personal audience" with the Royal family. One can even have a dinner date with George Clooney and he'll either propose or present one with the bill depending on your responses. It's highly commercialized, slickly done and highly camp in presentation, but it's the easiest way to rub shoulders with the rich and famous without taking on their minders.
The degree of resemblance between wax figure and celebrity ranges from uncanny to a little bit Stars In Their Eyes, but one can be sure that no effort or expense has been spared. Each figure costs around £100,000 to create and takes around three months to make. What follows is much more than a bunch of dummies. It's an all-round multimedia experience, as you can swoon over James Dean, ogle Marilyn Monroe and bow at the feet of the Dalai Lama. The unforgettable experience.
About the Author
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