Hollywood Wax Museum: Everything you need to know

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Hollywood Wax Museum Review

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We went to the Hollywood Wax Museum in Myrtle Beach. There are also locations in Branson, Missouri; Hollywood, California; and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee (in the Smoky Mountains region). This review is based on the South Carolina location only.

You enter the building into the lobby, which has a gigantic King Kong photo op. Well, photo op for the museum. You do three poses and get to see the photos in the gift shop as you’re leaving. Our photos came out so cute, so big kudos to the photographer (but they are not included with your ticket, so keep that in mind).

But don’t worry. You’ll have plenty of chances to take your own great pictures with your favorite stars.

You go around a bend and enter the wax museum. It’s actually two floors worth of wax figures, which is really nice. Some of the figures are in a full scene with props, like Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods in front of the Delta Nu house, holding Bruiser Woods in her purse. You can pose with her and your own Bruiser. And then there’s Audrey Hepburn in a scene from Breakfast At Tiffany’s. You can sit with her at a table, donning a tiara and pearls from the prop stand.

Some of the figures are just … there. Like Justin Bieber. He was off in a corner by himself. “Baby” played through the speakers, but he wasn’t as interactive as some of the others celebrities.

And, speaking of celebrities, according to the museum’s Twitter bio, it’s “the only wax museum in the country devoted entirely to celebrity figures.”

​It’s also partially a museum. There is a fact card next to each of the celebrities with their name and information about them.

If you’re not easily scared, you can go through the Horror Chamber, which has wax figures of characters like Jason from Friday the 13th, the Crypt Keeper from Tales From The Crypt, and more. If you are easily scared, you can skip this part (going straight past Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg in the kitchen together) and continue on.

If this is your first time going to a wax museum, I’m going to suggest taking your time and really getting into it. Use the fun props. Make a scene. Play around. Have lots of fun. The more you play around and get into it, the better time you’ll have. If you don’t get into it, you might not have a great time. Which is a shame because wax museums are so much fun.

After you’re done with the two floors of wax celebrities, you head to the basement. That’s where the other two attractions are. You don’t have to add them on to your day. In fact, you can just do one of the activities downstairs and not even do the wax museum. But, if you’re going, we suggest doing the mirror maze downstairs at the very least. We loved it and had such a good time doing it.

The best way to describe the other attraction is a zombie themed haunted house. That’s a fun time if you like being scared, and, well, not one of the best things to do if you don’t like being scared. We are adults and we jumped quite a few times.

Hollywood Wax Museum: Frequently Asked Questions

Other Attractions At The Hollywood Wax Museum Entertainment Center:

The wax museum isn’t the only thing to do at the entertainment center. If you buy the All Access Pass, you have access to three different attractions: the wax museum, Hannah’s Maze Of Mirrors, and Outbreak: Dread The Undead.

Hannah’s Maze Of Mirrors

Hannah’s Maze Of Mirrors is a really fun mirror maze. If you’ve never done a mirror maze before, get ready. They’re very disorienting. You have to get through a maze, but there’s no map and every wall is a mirror so you’re met with infinite reflections. So you don’t exactly know where you’re going and you very often walk into yourself.

Pete and I did the maze together, but in one section where there are five curtain covered doors, I actually did lose Pete.

It’s a quick maze, maybe 15 minutes from start to finish (including a quick cartoon at the entrance about Princess Hannah and how the maze came to be). It’s definitely a lot of fun and worth a trip through.

​Outbreak: Dread The Undead

If you like haunted houses, you’ll love Outbreak: Dread The Undead. The concept is there was a gene-altering substance that turned test subjects into zombies who have taken over a laboratory.

You walk through the lab, which is mostly very dark, while zombies jump out at you and puffs of smoke blow at you. We jumped … a lot, so I recommend it for your older kids but not your younger kids.

The very last scene had a live actress jump out, which we didn’t expect since the rest of the adventure was just animatronic. However, I’ve read third-party reviews that mention live actors, so maybe there just weren’t any for us because we went in the off season. So, be prepared for anything.