CHINA: HONG KONG UNVEILS WAX FIGURINE OF CHINESE LEADER HU JIANTAO.

Record ID: 677142

  • Title: CHINA: HONG KONG UNVEILS WAX FIGURINE OF CHINESE LEADER HU JIANTAO.
  • Date: 27th September 2004
  • Summary: (L!1)HONG KONG, CHINA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) ( ** BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) EXTERIOR OF THE PEAK TOWER VARIOUS OF LAUNCH CEREMONY OF THE WAX FIGURE OF HU JINTAO TRACKING SHOT FROM THE BACK OF THE WAX FIGURE VISITOR SALUTES AND WAVES HIS HAND NEXT TO WAX FIGURE (SOUNDBITE)(English) EDWARD FULLER, MADAME TUSSAUD'S HONG KONG GENERAL MANAGER, SAYING
  • Embargoed: 12th October 2004 13:00
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  • Location: HONG KONG AND BEIJING, CHINA
  • Country: China
  • Topics: Entertainment,Quirky,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAC3PD6O39PDOYB0RWJERUBLC3I
  • Story Text: Hong Kong unveils wax figurine of Chinese leader Hu Jiantao.
    Madame Tussaud's Hong Kong has launched a new interactive experience called "Proud to be a World Leader"
    featuring the wax figure of Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday (September 27).
    It took the Madam Tussaud's London creative team four months to finish the Hu Jintao wax figure and it's now being displayed with over 100 lifelike wax figures of the world's most famous people.
    In the Great Leader Hall, President Hu Jintao is featured in a realistic airplane setting as if he were stepping off the aircraft and onto an air-bridge.
    Visitors get to meet 'Hu' as he walks through the doorway of the plane and waves to the masses alongside to the sounds of a cheering crowd and flashing cameras.
    Edward Fuller, General Manager at Madame Tussaud's Hong Kong said this is the first interactive experience introduced in Asia.
    "It's fantastic, it's brilliant, it gives people the opportunity to do something they would never ever do. And let's face it, you are the only one that actually know it's wax. So, it's brilliant, you are being a world leader, next to a world leader, so it's great fun," Fuller said.
    For Mr. Chan, a visitor, it was a liberating experience. Chan couldn't stopped laughing when he described "I felt shaky when I was standing next to wax figure, ha ha ha... Of course, he is a great leader."
    Times are changing fast in China.
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