The wishes of a young friend visiting London for the first time recently took me, as a seasoned old Londoner, to Madame Tussaud's for the first time (as an adult). After my initial double take at the price (c£25 per head - ouch!), I swallowed and booked two tickets. It was heaving so they must be doing something right. We had much more fun than I imagined possible taking pictures with celebrity and other famous waxworks, and had to admire the attention to detail accorded, for example, to slightly sagging skin, or widespread freckling faithfully reproduced. Oddly, there was also "Scream" in the dungeons, where real people try and shock you by pouncing from behind pillars, and the Marvel 4D experience in the old planetarium, complete with 3D glasses, water spray and "smoke".
All in all a much more enjoyable couple of hours than I could possibly have predicted. Essential accessory: at least one teenager.
SB
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