A friend of mine posted a slideshow of his trip to the Madame Tussaud's House of Wax (NYC) in his blog. There were many famous singers, everyone from Ella Fitz to Beyonce. I was pretty shocked when I saw the Prince statue, because I don't think they did a very good job!

http://i4.photobucket.com...G_3838.jpg

I know this is a tiny pic, but it looks like they were mixing a few different Prince looks, and it just didn't turn out quite right. If anyone has seen this in person, does it look any better up close?

UCantHavaDaMango said:

Is that a statue of Tamar next to him?

adorable2 said:

Oh, no, that's a friend or relative of the person who went on the trip! That would be funny tho

UCantHavaDaMango said:

i was just picking with u. i likes her Converse

Hahaha no, man it looks just as horrible in real life. Me and my friend cackled at that for a good 10 minutes. They made him look cross-eyed and slightly retarded. And it doesn't resmble him AT ALL.

On the other hand, they made a damn near EXACT REPLICA of Tupac using only PICTURES while P is still alive and the best they could do of him is a Mexican looking Pete Burns...all he needs is an eyepatch...

WTF, Tussaud's???
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FruitToAttractBears said:

Hahahahahaha!!!! That's terrible! They really could have worked on it a bit more. I think they just threw him in because he is famous, but didn't really care about him all that much.

FruitToAttractBears said:

The face isn't too bad from what I can see. But the hair ... what the hell!?

Ifsixwuz9 said:

It looks like the slapped my grandma's wig up on there.

UCantHavaDaMango said:

Yeah! That's why I was mad! The rest of the statues in there look AWESOME! And then you get to P and it's like:

UCantHavaDaMango said:

It doesn't look any better in person. I stood there looking like when I saw it. They made the brotha look like a hot mess . They didn't even give him his usual stillettos. It was a smaller fat heel. Hot mess I tell ya.

FruitToAttractBears said:

For real right! I thought the same thing.

that doesn't look anything like him.

gawd...for the '80s prince they sho' did fuck his hair up. don't they have some perma-aqua net for wax figures or something? the hair's supposed to be big!

and that don't look like prince...it looks like another superstar, but i can't quite put my finger on exactly who.

Here it is a little bigger. It looks worse than I thought. Did they put cowboy boots on him???
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FruitToAttractBears said:

You got something with Pete Burns?

UCantHavaDaMango said:

They really need to update his look. And for Pete's sake get a photo to work from next time!
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gee, the one in vegas is about the same, 2! real dissapointing!!

More like Chamber of Horrors.

That's not Prince...looks like one of those debarge dudes!


The girl in the picture is beautiful!

FrancerulzV99 said:

Can I ask you something?

Is nukleopatra a good album?

FrancerulzV99 said:

I'm sorry. I find much humor in Pete Burns...

miguelbulcao said:

I dunno...after youthquake I decided I better not listen to anymore doa.

FruitToAttractBears said:

why?

what happened?

No, I don't think this is Prince in wax...
I think it is a visitor of Madame Tussauds.
They're all running like this in London.
Believe me....
[Edited 7/18/06 9:23am]

Pellwormer said:

That is horrible. They did him no justice at all. He is a sexy MF. We all know that.

UCantHavaDaMango said:

its exactly the same as the one in London.
its not very good.
The status quo one in London are amazing, i was waiting for them to move it was very eerie.

It looks nothing like him! what an insult, all the other stautes look like who they are surposed to look like and they could not even get his right? PLease people that statue looke nothing like prince at all, what a jip!

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. That's why I just had to post it, to see if my eyes were deceiving me!