介绍:
From London to Paris to New York, Madame Tussauds Wax Museum has become major attractions in metropolitans around the world. Recently, the museum has opened its doors in China's capital city, Beijing. This is the fourth Madame Tussauds' in China, following Hong Kong, Shanghai and Wuhan. Having been to another Madame Tussauds in Canada, I was excited to find out which celebrities I would see in a wax museum in China.
I am standing right in front of the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum of Beijing. It is located right across the street from the Qianmen subway station. It's a very old street with some very ancient Chinese architecture. So we're going into the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum right now and let's see what's inside.
So I just entered Madame Tussauds and the entrance is decorated with a lot of Chinese lanterns. At the entrance, you can take a picture of yourself riding on a rickshaw and I'm going down the stairs right now to see what's on the first floor.
The first wax figure I see is Mei Lan Fang, the great Chinese opera star. He's got a lot of fans. A lot of people want to pose with him. Next to him, there are some head dresses and masks that people can wear when they're taking pictures with him.
It looks like the first floor is devoted to Chinese celebrities. There's also the famous Chinese volleyball player, Lang Ping. These wax figures are extremely real right down to the texture of their skin. So I'm now going to touch Lang Ping's skin. It feels very rough. It doesn't feel like a skin texture. Feels like plastic. But it still looks very real. And you can guess who that is. It's the Chinese astronaut, Yang Liwei, in his space suit. Behind him is a space capsule �C not made of wax but of metal.
We're entering the International celebrity area. There's Queen Elizabeth in her crown and mink fur. A lot people taking pictures with her. Right across from her is Prince William and his wife, Katherine. Catherine is as fashionable as ever in a light purple dress and a diamond bracelet.
In the next room, there's a wax figure of President Obama. He's standing next to his chair in the Oval Office. Right across from him is a wax figure of Nelson Mandela and Vladmir Putin.
Now we continue onto the third floor for more attractions.
So a little bit about Madame Tussauds. She grew up in 18th century France and had sittings with Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin and made figures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, using death masks of their guillotined heads. After the revolution, Madame Tussauds brought her wax figures to England and founded one of the world's most famous attractions, Madame Tussauds. The methods used in sittings and figure making have been passed down from generation to generation �C spanning almost 250 years.
The next set of attractions is sports figures. The first one, the most famous of them all, is David Beckham. Looking very handsome in suit and tie in a locker room. I think these are life size because these basketball players looks very tall, especially Yao Ming. Kobe Bryant isn't that tall. But, as for Yao Ming, I come up only to his hips.
So the next is the international celebrity section. The first one of the most famous Marilyn Monroe in a white dress. Next to her is another female celebrity, Audrey Hepburn on the set of Breakfast at Tiffany's. There's also James Bond, the Daniel Craig portrayal of the iconic 007. There's Bruce Lee, who seem to on the movie set of Enter the Dragon.
I met a young girl named Lili here. She's here with her aunt and cousin.
"Who's your favorite?"
"Audrey Hepburn."
"Why do you like her?"
"I saw a lot of her old movies like Roman Holiday. She was beautiful."
"Do you see any differences with the real person?"
"Not really. It looked real, especially her hair."
Downstairs on the second floor are more international celebrities. There's Carina Lau, the wife of Tony Leung. She's placed next to Johnny Depp. Right across from them is Leonardo DiCaprio. On the other side of DiCaprio is Kate Winslet, his costar on Titanic.
These wax figures looks extremely real. And the dresses that they wear are actually real, not made of wax. These are made of cloth. These celebrities are decked out in jewelry. They're wearing diamond earring, diamond bracelet and diamond rings.
There's also a wax figure of Li Bingbing. Her eyes just follow you everywhere. Quite creepy. And as we exit the wax museum, there's George Clooney looking very handsome sitting on his couch.
There's even a wax figure in the gift shop. Steve Jobs is standing next to his Apple products. Now, we're exiting the gift shop and the museum.
That was a great experience. You get to see so many Chinese and international celebrities without leaving Beijing. I can tell that the sculptors of these wax figures paid a lot of attentions to details to make them exact replicas of the real people they're representing. If you're in Beijing and would like to meet your favorite celebrities, come to the wax museum. They will be happy to take some photos with you. But it's uncertain whether you will get autographs.
For Studio +, I'm Doris Wang.
