Seems like today they'd just go to TrekCore and pull any number of episode frames.
Unique photos taken of the TOS cast for Movieland Wax Museum
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Seems like today they'd just go to TrekCore and pull any number of episode frames.
Maybe, but there's no substitute for being able to take your own photographic reference of the real actors, with control of the lighting and poses, and being able to direct them yourself.
Great photos! Here is a link to a site that contains photos of the various wax museum figures. http://waxipedia.blogspot.com/2015/02/waxipedia-salute-to-leonard-nimoy-today.html
I remember seeing a Star Trek exhibit at, I think, the wax museum in Lake George, NY, some time in the 70s. These pix are great.
ETA: Looks like they sold the Star Trek figures 18 years ago when they became a strictly horror house. Wonder where they went.
ETA: Looks like they sold the Star Trek figures 18 years ago when they became a strictly horror house. Wonder where they went.
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WILL YOU JUST HAND ME THE DAMN REMOTE. AND WHERES THAT BEER
If anyone's interested in the fate of the Movieland figures...
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...ek-wax-figures-get-new-mission-helping-museum
Keep coming back to view these. A couple thoughts:
1. It's interesting that they were photographed in appropriate "poses", i.e. Shatner looking heroic sitting in his chair, Nimoy bending over in one shot (in case they posed him looking at his scanner), Koeing and Takei with their hands out as though at their consoles. etc. As though capturing the actors' true body language was as important as their faces.
2. Shatner in one close-up shot especially, look "waxen" enough.
1. It's interesting that they were photographed in appropriate "poses", i.e. Shatner looking heroic sitting in his chair, Nimoy bending over in one shot (in case they posed him looking at his scanner), Koeing and Takei with their hands out as though at their consoles. etc. As though capturing the actors' true body language was as important as their faces.
2. Shatner in one close-up shot especially, look "waxen" enough.
I remember that exhibit. I have photos of it somewhere in storage. I'm going to have to dig out the old photo albums and see if I can find and post them.
Makes me envision what the cast would've looked like for an early '70s Trek revival. Shatner is foreshadowing his short-sleeved TMP look and De Kelley in that turtleneck with bellbottoms looked ready to step right into sickbay. I always thought Doohan looked great in the '70s with the mustache in TMP and earlier in Jason of Star Command.
This was apparently before Nimoy's "I Am Not Spock" and later "I Am Not Spock Unless There's a Feature Paycheck Involved" phases.
This was apparently before Nimoy's "I Am Not Spock" and later "I Am Not Spock Unless There's a Feature Paycheck Involved" phases.
One thing I don't know about is what, if any, compensation was provided to the cast members for the photo shoots. If there was and if it was on some kind of a sliding scale and if Nichelle was at the bottom of it that might explain why she refused to participate.
No offense to anyone here but those wax figures look terrible to me unless its some trick of the light.
Shatner looked pretty good - I think he chose hair that was most similar to his TOS style.
Hard to believe that's an early 1970s shot of Doohan - looks more like his TWOK appearance. He looked a lot better in TMP.
Hard to believe that's an early 1970s shot of Doohan - looks more like his TWOK appearance. He looked a lot better in TMP.
They're like full-body driver's license photos!
That's how one is expected to look for passport photos.
I give them credit for allowing themselves to be vulnerable like that. How many celebs spend God knows how long posing for selfies? Most of them wouldn't have the guts to be seen so 'raw'.
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