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If you ever visit the Dallas / Fort Worth area, check out the Palace of Wax |
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601 Palace Parkway |
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| We were driving down Hwy 30 one afternoon, not too long after moving to Texas, when Marisa told me I got her lost, ( I guess I was the navigator). We passed the Palace of Wax on the left, and thought we must be almost to Dallas. We went a little farther then turned around and headed back. We forgot about the Palace of Wax until a few weeks ago, I was listening to the news, during my lunch just before the 4th holiday weekend. The news report was by one of the field reporters that had visited the museum that morning, and it was during an episode about vacationing in the Dallas - Fort Worth area. The memory of the place came back to me and I mentioned it to Marisa. We had a few days off together, and Brandon is out of school, so we decided to go. | ||||||
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| Getting our picture taken with Grandma | Forest Gump and a Joker | Grandpa is taking our picture | ||||
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| Bat Girl, Bat Man and the Joker | John Wayne and friends | Clint Eastwood | ||||
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| The 3 Stooges | Star Trek (original) | Demi Moore and Brad | ||||
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This is one of those places you would expect to see in downtown Orlando, or San Francisco on Market Street, or some other major metropolitan area, but not here, not in Grand Prairie. I like Wax Museums, but I always critique the likeness of each character, like they must look exact or else. Most of the characters looked lifelike, except a few, and some even looked like the ones they depict but some were way off. I also noticed that even though some looked way off in person, photos of them seem to look much more like them. As an example, Dirty Harry looked nothing like Clint Eastwood did in the movie, but if you look at the photo, it's not bad. |
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| Whoopi and Brittney | Denzel and Morgan | Brittney | ||||
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| Marilyn, Dean and Sammy | Rocky | Johnny Cash | ||||
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Jay Leno on the other hand looked nothing like Jay in real life, and the photo doesn't do it any justice. And Sylvester Stallone as Rocky, doesn't even look like a real person, it looks very much like a wax figure, and nothing like Sylvester. Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. looked like their heads were too small, but in the photos, they too don't look bad at all. They definitely all look different in real like then they do here, but our intentions are to give you a taste of the museum so you can decide for yourself if you want to check them out. |
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| Me and Leno | Marisa and Oprah | Letterman | ||||
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| Dr. Phil | Harry Potter and friends | Johnny Depp | ||||
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| George W. | ||||||
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| All of the past President's of the United States | ||||||
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The Presidents of the United States was a good exhibit, most of them we have never seen before, especially an actual photograph, so even if they were a close depiction, they looked right. However when you get to Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan, Bush, Clinton or Bush, they all looked phony to me, but then I have seen them before. |
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| The Magna Carta | (the Great Charter) | |||||
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| Signing of the Declaration of Independence | Surrender of General Lee | |||||
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| Emancipation Proclamation | ||||||
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| Jesus is born | Jesus as a child | |||||
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| The Last Supper | ||||||
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| The Crucifixion | The Resurrection | |||||
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The best part of the Wax Museum was the horror section. They had so many in this section that some of it was actually scary. My camera battery died at this point in the tour, so Marisa had to use her Blackberry Curve to take the rest. We will go back some day and re-tour the Wax Museum, I will update my pictures at that time, but until then, these will have to do. The Blackberry actually takes very nice pictures for a phone, it even has a built-in flash. |
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| Cinderella | Little Red Ridding Hood | Sleeping Beauty | ||||
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| Quasimodo | Hitler | |||||
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| The Wax Museum | Hyde | Dracula | ||||
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| Frankie | Werewolf | Freddie | ||||
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| Alien | Chainsaw Massacre | Predator | ||||
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