Tussaud's bad wax heads up for auction

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

[#1 posted by Antinous , January 25, 2008 1:40 PM]

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

[#2 posted by ill lich , January 25, 2008 1:42 PM]

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.

[#3 posted by insomma , January 25, 2008 1:46 PM]

Greg Brady! Sweet Lord! Ha!

[#4 posted by miguel , January 25, 2008 1:53 PM]

I thought the last one was Michael Jackson

[#5 posted by Moon , January 25, 2008 1:57 PM]

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

[#6 posted by lamarlowe , January 25, 2008 2:03 PM]

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

[#7 posted by hicks , January 25, 2008 2:11 PM]

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

[#8 posted by pauldrye , January 25, 2008 2:23 PM]

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

[#9 posted by antipax , January 25, 2008 2:26 PM]

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

[#10 posted by mercermachine , January 25, 2008 2:51 PM]

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

[#11 posted by Dizbuster , January 25, 2008 2:52 PM]

Kelsey Grammer!

[#12 posted by Jeremy A , January 25, 2008 3:09 PM]

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

[#13 posted by Sawdust , January 25, 2008 3:12 PM]

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

[#14 posted by okkoto , January 25, 2008 3:18 PM]

i totally thought bob hope was kelsey grammer

[#15 posted by Korpo , January 25, 2008 3:31 PM]

Why is Bob Hope black?

[#16 posted by Takuan , January 25, 2008 3:47 PM]

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

[#17 posted by Fnarf , January 25, 2008 5:06 PM]

The photo is not underexposed.

[#18 posted by Takuan , January 25, 2008 5:11 PM]

guess they left it under a sunlamp then

[#19 posted by Bionicrat2 , January 25, 2008 5:16 PM]

Celebrity zombie heads? I'll take 'em all!

[#20 posted by drewbeatty , January 25, 2008 5:21 PM]

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.

[#21 posted by MoeJoe , January 25, 2008 6:36 PM]

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

[#22 posted by Steve Stair , January 25, 2008 6:37 PM]

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

[#23 posted by macegr , January 25, 2008 7:11 PM]

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

[#24 posted by bjimba , January 25, 2008 7:26 PM]

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"?)

[#25 posted by EH , January 25, 2008 7:51 PM]

Hmm, I was thinking Florian Schneider for #2.

[#26 posted by Squashy , January 25, 2008 9:36 PM]

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

[#27 posted by 850 , January 25, 2008 11:02 PM]

#3 Jason Patric
#4 Liza Minnelli

[#28 posted by HeatVision , January 25, 2008 11:43 PM]

The Bob Hope one looks like Quentin Tarantino.

[#29 posted by Outtacontext , January 26, 2008 5:05 AM]

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

[#30 posted by ProgHead777 , January 26, 2008 10:53 AM]

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

[#31 posted by Antinous , January 26, 2008 2:16 PM]

#1 John Travolta, after a lobotomy

Actually, they call it an 'assist'.

[#32 posted by ill lich , January 26, 2008 2:50 PM]

#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.

[#33 posted by Squashy , January 26, 2008 7:00 PM]

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