Star Wars Scenes at Madame Tussauds Opens

It’s taken a year and 180 creatives but the new Star Wars experience at Madame Tussauds London is open.

There are 11 different scenes featuring the popular heroes and villains.

Fun Facts

•Every hair on each wax figure was inserted by hand – from Yoda’s fine grey wisps to Chewbacca’s mass of brown Wookiee hair – with an average of 10,000 hairs per head

•Amazingly accurate skin colour for each character was achieved using over 100ml per figure of oil paint applied by hand

•The total cost of producing the wax figures alone was £2.5 million

•The smallest wax figures in the experience are Master Yoda and Salacious B. Crumb

?Yoda stands at just 66cm tall and his figure was created using detailed measurements from one of the original Yoda models

?Jabba the Hutt’s court jester, Salacious B. Crumb, is marginally smaller at a diminutive 41.2cm tall and his distinctive ears are 14cm long

•The largest figure is Jabba the Hutt. 1.5 tonnes of clay was used to create the figure, which measures 2.9m long, 1.5m high and weighs in at a whopping 35 stone

•The hairiest figure is 2m tall Chewbacca. It took nearly 1000 hours for a team of 10 expert hair inserters to create his head to toe Wookiee hair in painstakingly accurate detail using real yak hair

•The lightsabers featured in the experience were specially created for Madame Tussauds by the team behind the weapons used in the original films

•The largest scale set is the Duel of the Fates scene featuring Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn in their epic lightsaber battle with Darth Maul. The space spans two floors and the figures are portrayed in front of a gigantic light cylinder featuring 1,600 fibre optic tails to realistically recreate the lightening effect of flickering energy bursts

•The biggest set is Jabba’s Throne Room featuring the massive gangster with Princess Leia and Salacious B. Crumb. The grill of the rancor pit in the floor of the room was recreated using original reference materials from Skywalker Ranch

•Yoda’s harsh swampy home on Dagobah is one of the most atmospheric sets in the experience featuring astonishingly realistic fake trees, swamp foliage and fog effects

•The ‘I am your father’ scene featuring Darth Vader was brought to life using a delicate and extremely detailed scale model of the 1980 scene from the Skywalker Ranch archives

Prices to Madame Tussauds London start from £24.75  for adults and £21.60  for children when you pre-book?at?www.madametussauds.com/London