Missy Elliott found herself recently, thanks to Madame Tussauds Las Vegas. Elliott was not caught off-guard as she had already gone through the process of being captured in wax by Madame Tussauds, and she had creative control over her figure’s fashion and accessory aspects. The result makes it hard to tell the two apart without knowing what Elliott chose for her doppelgänger to wear.
It’s been a quarter-century since Elliott released her Supa Dupa Fly album, cementing her place in hip-hop history after paying dues shaping other artists’ sounds. Elliott’s arrival at Madame Tussauds Las Vegas on the first Friday of November was a silver anniversary victory lap, where she encountered Wax Missy in situ for the first time.
A Supa Dupa fan helped Elliott hand-embellish the figure’s glossy tracksuit inspired by the outfit Elliott wore to the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. Elliott donated a pair of Versace kicks, but it took 20 artists working in a London studio six months to design and construct the figure after taking Elliott’s measurements and detailed photographs.
The results are astonishing, complete with tattoos and 10 feet of hair winding around and above Wax Missy. Prior to the reveal, Real Missy encouraged fans to work it, flip it and reverse it for an Instagram #CoolOffChallenge, for which Elliott personally chose submissions of the best dance moves for an interactive experience only featured in Las Vegas.
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