Tuesday, 1 October 2013
London Day 1 - Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum
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So, I visited London during my winter break this year for about 10 days, and I absolutely loved it! Okay, I'm lying. I didn't really enjoy myself the first few days but after meeting up with a few friends and seeing London outside of a tourist's eyes, I fell in love with it. But that's another story I will share another day. Right now, I want to show you pictures I took from Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum!
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| This right here is Mr Ripley himself in holographic form. |
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| This is Text Art: Barack Obama, by Daniel Duffy. It is created entirely of the words of President Obama's first inaugural speech on January 20th, 2009. |
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| This is a camel bone sculpture depicting the emotions felt universally by horses when encountering a dragon. |
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| This is a lipstick kissing (literally) portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge (aka Kate Middleton)! |
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This is a portrait of "The King of Pop", where Michael Jackson is made entirely of candy! The hair and jacket are made of liquorice, the skin is gummy bears, and the background is hard peppermint candies.
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Now it's time to see some special faces!
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This man could cover his lower lip and chin!
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This guy wears crocodile-tooth dentures!
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| Dubbed the "Human Unicorn"! |
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| This man had a hole drilled in his head into which he put a lit candle in order to give night tours of his city's dark neighbourhoods! |
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| Ooohh some creepy shit right here as a break from the freaky faces! |
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| Born in Russia with a rare genetic disease, Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Man travelled for years with the Barnus & Bailey Circus. His entire body was covered with long silky hair. The hair on his face grew to over 20cm long! |
Discovering that he was dying, woodworker Masakichi carved an exact replica of himself. He then painstakingly plucked every hair from his body, along with his fingernails, toenails, and teeth, and attached them to his sculpture!
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Disliking his wide's gossiping, a Nigerian chief padlocked her nose, threatening to padlock her mouth unless she hushed! Mistaking it for decoration, the Djerma tribeswomen adopted locks as jewellery, wearing them instead of traditional nose rings!
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This man lost his nose in a sword fight and replaced it with a glued-on one made from solid gold!
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| Ching Foo of Shensi, China was born with a blue face, although the rest of his body was normal. |
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| This man could dislocate his eyes out of their sockets at will! |
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This man was born with double pupils in each eye!
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World's tallest man compared to the brother and yours truly! I am clearly very short if I barely reach this man's hip!
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| The heaviest recorded man in history! Already a robust 92kg by age 6, he eventually tipped the scales at 485kg! |
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| And here's a trippy picture of my flash-like brother and myself with glowing teeth! |
And that, my friends, are only about one-eighth of the pictures I took in the museum. The best part of the museum, I'd have to say, is the laser beam room where you had to pretend to be spies from
Mission Impossible (where I have no idea whether the theme song was actually playing out loud or it was just all in my head) and roll, jump, slide etc. across the room, without touching the laser beams, to get to the end. It comes with varying difficulties and it was really, really fun!
So yup! Up to this point, even though the museum was quite entertaining, I was still not pleased with the city itself, but that will soon change within the next few days, which I will update on next time. :)
Labels: family, london, museum, ripley's
