Ripley's Believe It Or Not and House of Wax Museum, Grand Prairie, TX 2008


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July 19th 2008
Published: February 22nd 2012
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Also home to the Palace of Wax.
Cubcake and I went to the Ripley's Believe It Or Not and Palace of Wax. It was a spur of the moment decision after a full two days at Hurricane Harbor and Six Flags Over Texas. The place is TOTAL kitsch and while enjoyable really once you see it once you don't have to see it again. Ever.

The first section was the Palace of Wax. The highlight is the plethora of movie stars present, from Star Trek to Dirty Harry to J. Lo. Some are very life-like while others are questionably waxy looking and creepy. Presidents came next, all of them, even the obscure ones like Franklin Peirce and Chester Arthur. Who? By this time it became evident that they ought to hire a stylist. I resisted the urge to just cross over the dividing line and run a comb through some of these wax figures' hair! They needed a bit of grooming. And everybody's eyes looked creepy. Still, its great fun looking for your favorite actor or actress. There is a Hollywood Section (where sitting with Oprah was my favorite), a History Section, a completely useless and overly long Wild West Section, and a World's Greatest Villains Section
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It looks like its made of steel plates.
(complete with red lighting and all your favorite baddies like Hitler, Saddam, The Ayatollah, and a fat and crotch-less Emperor Nero. Yes, we couldn't resist checking!) One of the last two sections included a Biblical Section mostly dealing with the New Testament. There was a lot of Jesus going on, and lots of blond haired blue-eyed Middle Eastern Peoples. The Biblical Section followed the Horror Section quite fittingly, really, I'm serious. Horror fans will like it although the werewolf just looks like a big fuzzy wuzzle.

The second section is the Ripley's Believe It Or Not, which had quirky pieces like rice carved into statues and a Van Gogh reproduced using toast. The World's Greatest Hoax merman mummy instantly implanted itself in my heart as my favorite. Its just a mummified monkey sewn to a mummified fish but combining merman AND mummy? Genius!

The last section was the Mirror Maze and WOW was that cool. I had to walk with my hands in front of me for the first several minutes after running into myself a couple of times. It was dark, eerie music played everywhere and lost souls wandered around everywhere trying to get out. Every now
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Dirty Harry looking all mean and tough.
and then you'd chuckle after running into the same person for the 80th time. Cubcake eventually found a system to walking fast without banging into anything, something about the lights on the floor but I still couldn't figure it out. After about 45 minutes of trying to find the exit we decided to just head back to the entry and swallow our pride and leave there as fast as we could as failures. We saw the entry curtain we had seen a billion times before and exited. The workers there said, "Congratulations! You finally made it out!" We turned and saw the Entry next to us, behind us where we had just come out was the Exit. So, the lesson is: Give Up and Succeed? LOL I don't know, it was very Zen or whatever. Cubcake and I had a good laugh about it.


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J-Lo

Looking feirce tranny!
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On Oprah's Couch

Letting my inner woman out on Oprah...hoping she gives me ONE!!! MILLION!!! DOLLAAAAARS!!!!!!!!!
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Wizard Of Oz

Off to see the wizard......
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Jesus Christ Superstar

Dying for our sins gets the thumbs up!
House of Horrors!House of Horrors!
House of Horrors!

Seriously, the House of Horrors immediately follows the Biblical section at the Wax Museum. Weird.
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Hitler

This one hasn't been beheaded yet.
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Saddam Hussein

All I am saying is give peace a chance.
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Cubcake

Cubcake thinking naughty thoughts about zombies.
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Fishman

World's Greatest Hoax!
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Mirror Maze

We finally made it out after 45 minutes.


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