With a little over a month to go until the opening of its Star Wars experience, Madame Tussauds London has unveiled two more of its wax sculptures, this time depicting the fearsome crime lord Jabba the Hutt, along with Princess Leia in her slave outfit from Return of the Jedi…
“These two figures are actually two of the most challenging of the cast of 16 characters we are creating,” commented Principal Sculptor on the project, Stephen Mansfield: “With Jabba we have sheer scale – he is 2.9m long, 1.5m high and weighs a whopping 35 stone. We used fibreglass moulding techniques to create the body mass, which has then been hand coloured in precise detail over a six week period. His massive eyes are made from glass and are each the size of a melon. Leia, of course, is portrayed in one of the character’s most iconic looks, in her gold bikini. We are acutely aware of the responsibility we have to get this right for fans, and we have been very lucky to work with the jeweler that made the original hair pieces worn by Princess Leia to recreate this level of detail.”
Tickets for Madame Tussauds London’s Star Wars exhibition are on sale now, and you can order tickets here.
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Originally published April 13, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
