English football legend Wayne Rooney is again in the spotlight after a wax figure purporting to be the former Manchester United forward went viral on social media.
Found in the Tower of Secrets Wax Museum in Gdańsk, northern Poland, the figure has hit the news following a Reddit post made a few days ago.
Greeted with a mixture of laughter and disbelief, some have likened the frail, pale figure to having more in common with the former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.
Others have drawn comparisons to Britain’s erstwhile Conservative Party leader William Hague.
Clad in an outsized red Adidas windcheater, the Gdańsk figure depicts Rooney looking haggard, unshaven and in a startled state of confused desperation.
However, this is not the first time the waxwork has gone global. Back last year, British tabloid the Daily Star also wrote about the figure after it began doing the rounds on social media. “I scrolled past this picture ten times today and just assumed it was something Star Trek-related,” quipped one person.
“Why does he look like the coach of a Sunday league team whose players always say, ‘he was on the books of a Premier League club when he was younger, drink ruined him’,” said another.
The museum’s management, though, have defended the waxwork: “Each of our figures is the individual vision of the artist who created it.”
Continuing, the museum pointed to the largely positive feedback it has received: “The vast majority of visitors leave satisfied, which is confirmed by the very positive opinions we get on the internet. It’s difficult for us to relate to individual comments though, because this is art and everyone has the right to interpret it in their own way.”
Reduced to tears of laughter, the trio were filmed in hysterics as they viewed bizarre figures such as a disheveled and jaundiced Adolf Hitler, a wild and skeletal Mick Jagger, and a constipated-looking Donald Trump.
Frequently dubbed ‘the worst waxwork museum in the world’, the figures of Kate Middleton and Prince William have in particular tickled the public, with one online pundit famously likening Wills to “Hugh Grant after 20 Jagerbombs.”
Greeted with a mixture of laughter and disbelief, some have likened the frail, pale figure to having more in common with the former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.
Others have drawn comparisons to Britain’s erstwhile Conservative Party leader William Hague.
Clad in an outsized red Adidas windcheater, the Gdańsk figure depicts Rooney looking haggard, unshaven and in a startled state of confused desperation.
One Reddit user opined: “Looks like the old git that starts fights outside the pub.” Another joked: “It's like an alternate timeline, in which Wayne suffers a career-ending injury very early on and spends the next 40 years down the men's club. Smoking a lot.”Still laughing at this Wayne Rooney waxwork from the museum in Gdansk 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Bj3xnxjoRo
— Wayne (@wayneleedsfan) May 11, 2023
However, this is not the first time the waxwork has gone global. Back last year, British tabloid the Daily Star also wrote about the figure after it began doing the rounds on social media. “I scrolled past this picture ten times today and just assumed it was something Star Trek-related,” quipped one person.
“Why does he look like the coach of a Sunday league team whose players always say, ‘he was on the books of a Premier League club when he was younger, drink ruined him’,” said another.
The museum’s management, though, have defended the waxwork: “Each of our figures is the individual vision of the artist who created it.”
Continuing, the museum pointed to the largely positive feedback it has received: “The vast majority of visitors leave satisfied, which is confirmed by the very positive opinions we get on the internet. It’s difficult for us to relate to individual comments though, because this is art and everyone has the right to interpret it in their own way.”
— Seth (@sethdarby) March 14, 2024The Gdańsk museum is not the only Polish waxwork exhibition to be mocked on the world stage. In Kraków, the Polonia Wax Museum has also often found itself ridiculed, most recently on Amazon’s Grand Tour series hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond.
Reduced to tears of laughter, the trio were filmed in hysterics as they viewed bizarre figures such as a disheveled and jaundiced Adolf Hitler, a wild and skeletal Mick Jagger, and a constipated-looking Donald Trump.
Frequently dubbed ‘the worst waxwork museum in the world’, the figures of Kate Middleton and Prince William have in particular tickled the public, with one online pundit famously likening Wills to “Hugh Grant after 20 Jagerbombs.”
Source: Trojmiasto.pl / Daily Mail
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