Twitter Thread: Old Wax Figures are Some Prime Nightmare Fuel

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Eric Lund
Feb 6, 2021 10:00 AM EST

Wyatt Duncan takes us on a journey of really not great wax figures that are presumably somewhere right now, moldering away in people's basements and love dungeons. Judging by how many creepy wax figures we've seen, it must be really hard to do this correctly. For some insight on why these are so creepy, here's a tumblr thread on the uncanny valley aspects of why unrealistic animation is less unsettling than realistic animation. 

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    Outerwear - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan More than ten years ago, the Hollywood Wax Museum held an online auction and sold off hundreds of life sized wax figures. These figures were auctioned for thousands and thousands of dollars. This is a thread of the most cursed figures that were sold in this auction. SEINFELD
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    Shirt - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan · 20h Replying to @WyattDuncan THE THREE STOOGES
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    Smile - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan - 20h NICOLE KIDMAN and TOM CRUISE
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    Outerwear - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan - 20h ... PULP FICTION
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    Muscle - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan 20h POPEYE
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    Outerwear - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan - 20h ... BACK TO THE FUTURE
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    Outerwear - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan - 20h ... TITANIC
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    Outerwear - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan - 20h ... SUPERMAN & BATMAN
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    Outerwear - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan - 20h HOME ALONE
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    Smile - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan - 20h ON GOLDEN POND ...
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    Clothing - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan 20h ... JFK, NIXON, REAGAN, and HW BUSH
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    Dress shirt - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan - 20h FORREST GUMP
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    Outerwear - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan 20h MICHAEL JACKSON, WHOOPI GOLDBERG, RODNEY DANGERFIELD, and JAY LENO
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    Outerwear - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan 20h STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE
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    Product - Wyatt Dunkin @WyattDuncan - 20h ... Closing out this thread with the worst one of all. BILL COSBY
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