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Madame Tussaud's Waxworks

Madame Tussaud's Waxworks is located on the promenade just opposite Central Pier. They have hundreds of models in themed areas. There have 13 themed sections and lots more areas covering the making of a waxwork, Big Night In, Lifestyle TV, Crime Drama, Docu Drama, I´m a Celebrity, Football Changing Room, Sports, Coronation Street, Music, Comedy, TV Studio, and the Mirror Maze and Blackpool Pier. These themed rooms are set over 4 floors, you will be able to mix with the models and take your photos with the stars, remember to bring your camera.

Authentic History
To create as life like as possible a waxwork photographs and information of the subject must be compiled and carefully studied. If possible a subject visits the waxworks in Blackpool. During this visit photos and measurements are taken to ensure accuracy.
A sculptor then starts modeling the head in clay. This clay model may take 3 to 4 weeks of work to ensure a true image of the subject. When the clay model is complete a mold of plaster is made. Once this plaster mold is dry it is carefully cut into sections just like a three dimensional jigsaw. This forms a hollow plaster shell, now the molten wax is poured into the plaster mold. When the wax has cooled the plaster mold is removed to reveal the hollow wax head.
Now the process of turning a wax head into a lifelike head of the subject begins. First glass eyes and acrylic teeth are matched to the subject and added to the wax head. Using a combination of oil paint and cosmetics the make up artist colours the head to match the photographs While the make up artist colours the head the hairdresser creates the hair. The hair may contain synthetic hair or even, in the case of King Kong real animal hair. The wax head is now ready for fitting to a fibre glass body and a specially designed costume created to complement the subject and its intended location in the wax works. The average time taken for the whole process is approximately 2 months.

Ripley's Believe it or Not

Ripleys believe it or not is an amazing attraction, it will intrigue, dazzle, and mystify you all in one attraction!! It is located on the promenade in front of the Pleasure Beach.
Ripley's Attraction consists of 8 galleries and 10 Television Screens set over two floors.
To understand Ripley's attraction it's best to look at the man behind it.
Robert Leroy Ripley's life was an amazing adventure. For over forty years, he explored the wierd and witnessed the amazing. He was a world traveller who visited places few people had ever heard of let alone visited, from the temple of heaven in China to a town in Norway called Hell! He was an artist, reporter, an explorer and a collector. The stories he gathered would later appear in his popular Believe it or Not!® Cartoons.
The Ripley story begins on Christmas Day in 1893, when he was born in Santa Rosa, California. A talented self-taught artist, Ripley sold his first drawing to Life magazine when he was only 14! Ripley was also a natural athlete who longed for a career in baseball, but his dreams of pitching in the big leagues were shattered when he broke his arm while playing his first professional game.
After the accident, Ripley returned to his earlier goal of becoming a professional artist. He landed a job as a cartoonist covering sports for the San Francisco Chronicle, but soon after, he left California,
and headed for New York City where in 1918 he landed a job on the New York Globe as a sports cartoonist, he created a collection of odd facts and feats. The cartoons, based on unusual athletic achievements, were submitted under the title "Champs and Chumps". His editor, however, wanted a title that would describe the incredible nature of the sporting feats. After much deliberation, it was changed to Believe it or Not!® The cartoon was an instant success, and Ripley's Believe it or Not!® was born.
From Ripley's travels and his cartoons the museums around the world were born.
The actual Ripleys attraction in Blackpool is a collection of amazing artifacts, stories and things. From 2 headed cows, a holographic skull, to a fertility statue it will amaze all ages young and old alike.

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