Wax Works

Go with a cheesy silly attitude and you will have fun. Little kids probably won’t get all the pop culture references.

Not the best wax museum I’ve seen. It’s a tourist trap, sure. We all knew that. But it’s amusing enough if you’re bored on the bayfront.

A quick walk through and your done.
Several wax figures, but most out dates for our time.
They had a Johnny Deep that wasn’t horrible, but some of the stuff was odd and didn’t make sense for a wax museum.

My son loves both the Wax Works and Ripley’s, but of the two Wax Works if his favorite because of the pirate ship. It is fun and if you let yourself see it through your kid’s eyes it is easy to be drawn into. Thank goodness for our season passes because he wants to go in every time we walk by. My daughter still gets a little scared (she doesn’t like the dark which this has plenty of) so her and Dad wait in the attached arcade and everyone has fun. I love the recent updates, even my daughter likes the American Idol stage and Sean thinks that Johnny Depp is really «Captain Jack Sparrow in disguise.» Definitely a fun way to spend some time with the family, especially with little ones.

The wax work museum is amazing, all of the figures from Marilyn Monroe to Johnny depp are very well sculpted. The kids loved it.

I knew going in to this place that it was small and cheesy. The exhibits are not the greatest likenesses either, but I still had a great time with the quaint cheesiness of the place. My girlfriend and I took about an hour to get through, but we were taking our time.
Now if I had small kids, or other adults with short attention spans, they probably would have blown through the place in 10 minutes and complained the whole time about how bad and boring everything was. With other people who enjoy the cheesy, some what awkward, amusement, this place is a good stop.
the pricing is a bit high, but it is in a tourst part of a tourest town. if you watch you can find discount tickets pop up that makes the place less expensive.

I’m no wax expert, but this museum stinks. It’s dark, outdated and confusing.
At certain points it feels like a wax museum, which is good, but at others it feels like a haunted house. And then, suddenly, it’s an arcade. What’s going on here? This place makes no sense.
I wouldn’t care too much except that it cost me twelve hard earned dollars to suffer through it. It is way overpriced.
Fun fact: The gift shop, which you inevitably walk through at the end, is bigger than the entire museum. If you have any doubts, walk through the shop first to reconfirm your doubts.
The museum includes one highlight: A wax figure is D.B. Cooper. It’s totally random but very interesting on a few levels.

I took the kids here remembering how fun the wax works was in Las Vegas when I went. They are not comparable. This will take you about 20 minutes to go through. Most of the exhibits are of people chances are your kids will not know who they are. It is dark dank and scary for kids under 10ish. Not to mention the cost…$ 12 for an adult (13 and up). The only good exhibit was the Depp one.

Having been to several Wax museums before I was severely disappointed in this, especially when you consider how high the price was. Most of the pieces were clearly from the 70’s and 80’s, very dated and not in the cool-​hipster sorta way. Most of the pieces didn’t look like the artist and were very cheesy representations of the original.

My girlfriend really wanted to check this place out. We had never been to any wax facility before, so it was a new adventure for us. We thought the Johnny Depp figure was the most realistic when it comes to humans. It was definitely dark (almost fell a couple of times because we couldn’t see in front of us), but we were still able to take some pictures. It did only take us about 20 minutes to walk through, so not as big as we had hoped. If we go back to Newport I don’t think we’ll be going here again. One time is good enough.

So fun! My younger siblings loved it and I loved it as a kid. It’s fun seeing the kiddies interact on the American Idol stage, and who doesn’t love seeing Taylor Swift and Johnny Depp? Hellllo! Yes, small town attraction, but it’s a must see when you go to Newport– I promise you some laughs :)
Lastly– the grounds were very clean, beautiful hanging plants, the staff (mostly teens) were friendly. Cute small town with friendly people. The sushi was so fresh too!

It was fun not too great for picutes. It’s cool to see but I like taking pictures and the lighting is dark. I’m guessing its dark since due to the WAX.

It’s OK. Definitely the better of the choices between this and Ripley’s, but as others have said its pretty outdated and overpriced.

These wax folks don’t even look like the people they are supposed to represent, and some of them are so old I didn’t know who they were. Not a good use of your limited entertainment dollars folks.

Ok, of the museums in Newport, this one is truly my favorite. Why you say? Because it’s cheesy and they have a stage where you actually get to sing moon river with the stars, ha!
It’s totally dated, but fun.

Overpriced and dated. There are not alot of wax museums in the area so if your looking for that kind of thing then this is about your only option.

There’s Gollum, a still-​normal Michael Jackson, Bigfoot, and Darth Vader, among others. But for the money, not worth it at all. It takes all of 30 minutes (if that) to walk through. If you pause longingly and stare at every wax figure, maybe a little longer, but why would you want to? This gets two stars instead of one because of the crazy spiraling tunnel near the end that makes you feel as though you’re spinning when you’re not.
Like all truly high-​class museums, this one spits you directly into a gift shop. It is exactly like all other coastal-​town gift shops: filled with overpriced crap like name-​personalized shot glasses, fill-​your-​own bag of rocks, and even a stuff-​your-​own-​animal machine. We did succumb to making wax hands, but the hands came out much fatter than ours actually are, and they were overpriced. Of course.