Hollywood Wax Museum Myrtle Beach


The Hollywood Wax Museum in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is the fourth wax museum owned and operated by descendants of Spoony Singh.
Opened on June 14, 2014, it is located at 21st Avenue North and U.S. 17 Bypass as a part of Broadway at the Beach. It features replicas of United States celebrities in film, television and music, as well as a NASCAR set and a section devoted to horror villains.
The building is a tribute to the U.S. film industry and includes the 35-foot-tall Great Ape of Myrtle Beach climbing the Empire State Building as a tribute to King Kong

Overview

The museum is part of the Hollywood Wax Museum Entertainment Center. Other attractions in the same facility include Hannah’s Maze of Mirrors and Outbreak – Dread the Undead

Sets and Exhibitions

Wax figures and sets continue to change regularly. The Hollywood Wax Museum also has a gift shop, which offers celebrity souvenirs and memorabilia like Oscar statues.
Movie stars include : Eddie Murphy, Robert Downey Jr. in front of a mural of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Jennifer Aniston & Morgan Freeman on the red carpet, Sandra Bullock & Will Smith, Nicolas Cage in National Treasure 2004, Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean 2003,, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, and Humphrey Bogart, Denzel Washington in Flight , you can "marry" George Clooney, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Meryl Streep, Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Owen Wilson in Midnight in Paris 2011, Canadian Jim Carrey, action stars like: British Jason Statham, Vin Diesel in The Fast and the Furious, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg in a Boston setting, Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump 1994, Jennifer Lawrence & Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Hong Kong native Bruce Lee, Dame Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra , Canadian Brendan Fraser in The Mummy, Twilight stars British Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bradley Cooper, Sylvester Stallone as Rocky, Al Pacino in The Godfather, British Daniel Craig in Cowboys & Aliens 2011, Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables, Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde 2001, British Christian Bale, Jamie Foxx, British Catherine Zeta-Jones, Matthew McConaughey, Canadian Keanu Reeves, John Travolta, Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski 1998, Sir Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October, Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry, Australian Nicole Kidman, Demi Moore, Julia Roberts, British Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy film stars of the 1930s, British Charlie Chaplin, Australian Mel Gibson, Canadian Ryan Gosling, Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds , and Channing Tatum and Dear John filmed in Charleston.
TV stars include: Lucille Ball in I Love Lucy, Leonard Nimoy & Canadian William Shatner in , Princess Diana, Martha Stewart, Elvira's Movie Macabre, Tales From the Crypt, Paris Hilton in 00s tabloids, Hugh Hefner .
There's also a display of film props like a golden ticket from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, a Darth Vader mask from Star Wars in 1977, a ticket from Coming to America, dogtags from Top Gun 1986, the Men in Black 1997 neuralyzer, Wilson the volleyball from Cast Away 2000, a ring from Lord of the Rings 2001 and a Mockingjay pin from The Hunger Games 2012.
A section on horror film villains includes: Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, Ghostface from Scream, The Crypt-Keeper from the 90s Tales from the Crypt, Alien, The Lord of Darkness in the Tom Cruise film Legend, Boris Karloff in The Mummy, Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, Hellboy 2004, Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Elvira's Movie Macabre show, and Bela Lugosi in Dracula.
Musicians include: Pop musicians: a 90s Michael Jackson, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, Katy Perry, P!nk, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, Jennifer Lopez, Puerto Rican Ricky Martin, Donnie Osmond & Marie Osmond, Frank Sinatra, Rappers: Eminem in a Detroit setting, Will Smith.
Country musicians: Taylor Swift & Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton & Johnny Cash, Rock stars: Elvis and Mexican-born Carlos Santana. The museum is very complete with its musicians since it has the best-selling musicians of the 50s-Elvis, 80s-Michael Jackson, 90s-Mariah Carey, 00s-Eminem, and 10s-Taylor Swift. And Frank Sinatra was one of the best selling musicians of the 60s.
Deceased wax stars at the museum include Robin Williams, Michael Jackson, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lucille Ball, Leonard Nimoy, Hugh Hefner, John Wayne, Bruce Lee, Dale Earnhardt, and Princess Diana.
Sports stars include Tiger Woods from the late 90s and 00s, Dale Earnhardt & Dale Jr., and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky 1976.

Other Locations

The original Hollywood Wax Museum in Hollywood, California, was opened in 1965. The Hollywood Wax Museum Branson in Branson, Missouri, was opened in April 1996, and the Hollywood Wax Museum Pigeon Forge in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, opened in May 2012.