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Post by LUCY on Sept 8, 2003 13:00:59 GMT
I'm assuming that the wax figures of the Beatles on Sgt Pepper are reasonably anatomically correct, mostly in respect to height.
John & Paul are relatively the same stature.
Faul is clearly a few inches taller.
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Post by onlooker on Sept 8, 2003 16:11:09 GMT
Yes, and I think that's why the newer set of Beatle wax figures are SITTING on a couch - you can't tell how tall they are. The "Paul" figure's face is rather different than the first set, too.
At Madam Tussands, the figures from history (i.e. Mozart, Beethovan, any older figures) that were done as far back as the 1800s have never been "revised" - even though some of them are not true anatomical accounts of the subjects. Seems that perhaps they jumped on a revision of the Beatles....
onlooker
P.S. I was just there about 2 months ago.
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Post by Rojopa on Sept 8, 2003 19:49:05 GMT
Here is a picture taken from 'The Beatles Unseen Archive' book of the wax figures in Madame Tussaud's gallery.  How weird they all look! |
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Post by SunKing on Sept 8, 2003 22:00:23 GMT
Ladies and Gentlemen: THE ORIGINAL BEATLES From "Sgt. Pepper" Front Cover |
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Post by LUCY on Sept 8, 2003 22:18:20 GMT
The newer wax figures are just a disinformation tool. thanks to who's ever idea was to include the originals in the sgt peppers photoshoot. I see very little reason we can't use it as a major point in the argument PID. They must of taken countless of(possibly LIVE) measurements of the Beatles.
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Post by joejoe on Sept 9, 2003 1:13:17 GMT
I have been to the New York museum and the wax figures are as bad as the photo suggests. They look like a cheap, shoddy piece of work with no resemblance to the group. Yet many of the figures on display are amazingly lifelike. People sitting on chairs are often mistaken for dummies. In fact a couple of young ladies were about to have their photo taken standing next to me, when their photographer friend asked who is this guy? I said " Joe, nice to meet you." :>)
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Post by Eggman on Sept 9, 2003 13:15:18 GMT
The one and only truth about heights:  From HDN film  |
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Post by Eggman on Sept 10, 2003 2:58:47 GMT
i went to madame tussauds in london and the figures are just great. the only one that looks fake is paul, but the other three are almost perfect. The only way it must be my friend!!!! |
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Post by IanSingleton777 on Sept 10, 2003 16:32:55 GMT
Point well taken re: Tussaud's Wax figures. I have been to the Niagara Falls, Canada, museum and they don't even have Beatles there. But, one can see in all the figures they are famous for every niggling detail in reproduction. I seem to remember the original 1964 figures even had actual Beatle suits donated by the band...
Therefore, back in 1964 the group must have been measured, photographed, and such for their initial figures; perhaps the ones from the 'Pepper' cover.
Tussauds has went on record as proud of the fact that as the Beatles' looks and clothes styles changed, they updated and changed the wax figures; we're talking the 'heyday' period of 1964-1970.
So, somewhere in England there is a full room full of Beatles wax figures, unless they destroyed them.
I feel (gut instinct) the terrible, off-handed figures in the NYC museum are further disinformation and distortion of the Faul cover-up.
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