{"id":118996,"date":"2024-12-20T21:01:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T21:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/20\/see-elton-johns-gravity-defying-new-figure-at-madame-tussauds-london\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T21:01:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T21:01:30","slug":"see-elton-johns-gravity-defying-new-figure-at-madame-tussauds-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/12\/20\/see-elton-johns-gravity-defying-new-figure-at-madame-tussauds-london\/","title":{"rendered":"See Elton John’s gravity-defying new figure at Madame Tussauds London"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Madame Tussauds London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most celebrity wax figures at Madam Tussauds museums show the star standing up or sitting down. But a new figure of Elton John<\/strong>, unveiled<\/a>\u00a0Dec. 20 at the museum’s London outpost, shows the Rocket Man lifting off\u00a0\u2014 literally.<\/p>\n

The figure depicts Elton in the ’70s, doing one of his famous keyboard handstands<\/a>: His hands are on the keyboard of a piano and the rest of his body is suspended in midair. The pose and Elton’s outfit are based on his 1975 one-day festival performance at London’s Wembley Stadium. In fact, he gave the museum’s team the original bedazzled Bob Mackie<\/strong> jumpsuit<\/a> he wore during that performance so they could replicate it.<\/p>\n

The figure is also wearing copies of the glasses and platform shoes Elton rocked at that concert; the baby grand piano the figure is playing is covered in 24,000 rhinestones. In a statement, the museum’s general manager describes the statue as “one of our most technically ambitious figures to date” and “a pose that we have never done before.”<\/p>\n

Elton’s first Madam Tussauds wax figure was created in 1976, and that one was historic, too: It was the first Madam Tussauds figure that could smile and talk, with Elton providing the voice recordings for it.<\/p>\n