…to join my new Rifftrax Blog obsession, wax museums.
Congrats to Brit, who wins the New Blog Obsession Contest which began roughly seven years ago. Brit suggested we obsess on “rubbish waxworks,” presumably rather lousy work in that medium. He thereby narrows the bloggability field to a mere 93% of the wax museum pieces out there.
Thank you to everyone who entered the contest. The response was overwhelming, with many potentially fun obsessions offered. I hope to revisit some in the future, with all due credit (or shame, where appropriate) to whoever suggested it.
Brit, please email ERIK AT RIFFTRAX DOT COM for the Rifftrax of your choice. Erik is a nice man who will help you, being employed by Rifftrax solely* to give blog contest prizes.
Thanks again, all!
(*In rare times he’s not busy doing that, Erik runs the site.)
28 responses so far ↓
1 Lord Bob on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:13 am
I thought my suggestion was a good one, but I guess we all got waxed.
2 Carolina on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:15 am
congratulations to Brit!
Wax museums are the creepiest things in the world, closely tailed by carnies with handlebar moustaches.
3 Wesley Stamper on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:19 am
Congrats to Brit!
And, yes, this is going to be a creepy ride for the next week. I can’t wait.
4 Kris on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:19 am
Congrats, Brit!
Now, please explain what Wax FDR did or said to Wax Winston to elicit such a naughty hand gesture and annoyed facial expression.
5 Ben on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:20 am
Why just regular wax figures when you can enjoy EARWAX SCULPTURES!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG57kTTILE0
When you are ready to attempt your own, you will probably need this device. Thanks, Japan!
http://www.techtickerblog.com/2006/04/21/gadget-for-your-ears/
6 Widgett Walls on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:27 am
Kris: In reality, Churchill is trying to poke the Invisible Man in the eyes. That being said, I want someone to explain why FDR looks like Thurston Howell III having been the victim of a bad hair bleaching.
7 Erica on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:34 am
According to the Man Who Knows All, Alex Trebek, Madame Tussaud started the waxing process with, heads that had been on necks that had been guillotined. Will there be an elaborate blog entry about that? If so, let me just say, um…. ew?
8 Erica on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:36 am
Yes, I still think Faulkner would be a good blog obsession but I guess I’ll have to do that myself if I am ever brave enough to start one.
I’ll comfort myself with the guess that Faulkner would probably be anti-blog anyway.
9 Erica on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:36 am
Of course, congratulations, Brit – didn’t mean to sound bitter above
10 Erica on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:42 am
I’d like to know why they appear to be sitting in rubble.
11 Erica on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:47 am
They both kind of look like character actors that might appear on “Law & Order.”
12 spiro agnew on Apr 14, 2009 at 11:51 am
Wait a second “Rubbish Waxworks” is an anagram for “Whisk Rubs Ax Brow”… It’s a conspiracy I tell ya!!!!!!
13 Onil on Apr 14, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I never knew FDR attended Hogwarts.
14 awfulgoodmovies on Apr 14, 2009 at 12:48 pm
‘Peace out’ – Sir Winston Churchill
15 Remmie Barrow on Apr 14, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I have always been curious about what would happen if you really did turn up the heat in one of those wax museums…Would there be fail-safes to prevent melting?…Or would they start to melt right away?
16 Tony on Apr 14, 2009 at 1:18 pm
And if you want a wax figure of your very own, you can bid for one here:
http://www.profilesinhistory.com/new/
Click on “Auctions”, then “Spring 2009, Wax Auction”. Some aren’t too bad, but some of them are pretty creepy…
17 Brit on Apr 14, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Oh God…. oh, I am so SORRY Lord Bob, Carolina, Erica… oh God who’s the other one? oh… ANGELINA! …oh I’m so- this is a…ok. Now… forgive me. GATHER…. Is this really happening? oh… I’m going to try and do this…on the cuff. ok…Gather. Oh God… oh please wrap up? oh you have no idea how much I am not wrapping up!… Oh God, GATHER.
I’d like to thank my mother, her mother, your mother, the Queen of course, the late, great Margaret Thatcher, Alex de Large, all of you at Rifftrax, the Hollywood Foreign Press, Andrew Bonar Law, my beautiful agents Hilda and Dallas, I’ve known then since I was fiften…ok, who comes next? I want to thank WB Yeats, the late great WB Yeats, also Enderby, Geoffrey Hill, Dick Madeley, Barack Obama, Nige, Malty, the late great Bryan Appleyard, the cast of Red Dwarf for doing that terrible comeback, Peter Burnet, Elberry, Steven Gerrard, Bagpuss. oh God who else?
Oh, the Belgians! The Belgians for inventing wax, and the Ancient Greeks for inventing the concept of making a thing that looks like a person… and of course Madame Tussaud, the late great Madame Tussaud, for putting the two together
Above all, I want to thank Dean Smedley and Terry Tickle of the late great band Black Lace, and to say that I support them in their case.
My God, thank you so much, thank you so much…
18 Tony on Apr 14, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I was just taking a look at the figures displayed (Hulk Hogan! Stephen Seagal! Patrick Swayze from “Road House”!!), when I just had to remark on this one of the Masked Killer from the movie “Scream”:
http://www.profilesinhistory.com/new/index3.php?option=com_auctions&catid=35&task=view&id=6590
“This figure was originally Clint Black but converted and fitted with a black hooded robe, black gloves, and signature “Scream” mask.”
You’ve gotta admit, the resemblance to Clint Black is truly striking!
19 Erica on Apr 14, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Well deserved, Gatherer!
20 Scarlett on Apr 14, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Congratulations Brit! Looking forward to the creepy, yet completely entertaining prospects of this new obsession.
21 Earl Fando on Apr 14, 2009 at 10:12 pm
FDR told Sir Winston that he looked a lot like Edward “The Equalizer” Woodward.
22 Setsuled on Apr 15, 2009 at 4:10 am
Looks like Claude Rains and Karl Rove. Tiny feet, in any case.
23 MonkeyCheezPants on Apr 15, 2009 at 9:12 am
FDR and Churchill? That is quite clearly John Houseman giving Stacy Keach a rude gesture.
The Houseman/Keach rivalry is legendary. It mostly has to do with Keach’s many hairdos being more entertaining than anything Houseman did, up until his Naked Gun cameo.
24 Brit on Apr 15, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I would also like to thank David.
25 David on Apr 15, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Suck on that, Burnett.
26 Elizabeth on Apr 17, 2009 at 9:32 am
I am concerned that the person who carved the FDR wax figure quite possibly saw a photo of the actor who played FDR in Annie and simply got the two confused. If that’s the case, I think it would be lovely to see more historical figures replicated by the actors that played them.
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