Boring, boring, boring... (Madame Tussauds)

Member Name: Cuchulain

Product:	Madame Tussauds
Date:	19/03/01 (293 review reads)
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Advantages: Kills a few hours while waiting to go to other attractions...

Disadvantages: Out of date - noting inspiringly new here.

first went to Madame Tussauds years ago on a school trip and I was amazed. People like Margaret Thatcher actually looked like Margaret Thatcher to the extent you thought she was standing there in front of you next to Mikael Gorbawotsisface. hat was when I was eleven years old and easily impressed. Jamie and His Magic Torch was blowing my mind and I though that Spectrum+2 computer with a whopping 128kb of memory I had would never die.

This year I went back, now watching such programs as Soprano's and blasting everything that moves on my PlayStation2. First a little history... Madame Tussauds was used by many films in the late 70's all the way through to the early 90's as somewhere special effects were created. Though a decade down the line things have moved on dramatically in the world of movies, yet they have remained the same at Tussauds.

There is nothing here that will astound you for how lifelike they are, and not even the figure of Kylie will have you day dreaming. Due to better special effects elsewhere, when you go to Tussauds you will see more of the inaccuracies, mistakes, and general downfall of the wax works. It can never be compared with digital manipulation that is becoming everyday in the production of Hollywood blockbusters and even homegrown TV programs. The public want more and Tussards cannot deliver. Our higher expectancies are not being met by the artists who design and create the life-like sculptures in central London.

It would be better billed as a look back at an industry at the height of its career in the early 80's, and only then this would be a good day out, but it still clings to the fact that Tussauds is still a high-tech state of the art entertainment. It either needs to wake up and re-market, or get in line with other special effects studios such as those made by film production studios.

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