Face it ... Leonardo's waxwork isn't as green as it could be.
Has Leonardo DiCaprio missed his chance to turn the UK's favourite tourist attractions green? A couple of months ago when Madame Tussauds was making a new waxwork of Prince Charles, it pulled out all the green stops. The modellers used beeswax, clay and organic pigment in his model, and even took to cycling into work to get properly into the spirit of things.
Two months on, and it's the turn of Leonardo DiCaprio to have his wax likeness unveiled. But despite the fact DiCaprio is probably the most committed environmentalist in Hollywood (we know, we know, verging on oxymoronic, but there you go...) and is currently promoting his documentary the 11th Hour which highlights the environmental crisis facing us, the Madame Tussauds' bunch have just used "the conventional" techniques to put him together.
On top of this, it has not yet signed up to the Green Tourism Scheme which is being introduced in the autumn: this is particularly significant because Madame Tussauds turn out to be part of the second biggest attractions company in the world, after Disney. (Which, after all, has just held a Green Day in Clapham Common, and has teamed up with the Woodland Trust to produce a green guide (pdf) too. Who would have thought Donald Duck would have a go at saving the world?)
Madame Tussauds, which also controls Thorpe Park, Alton Towers, Sealife, Chessington World of Adventures, and Legoland, seems, frankly, to be lagging behind the curve. Imagine the carbon that could be saved if that lot went green. All those car journeys, bits of packaging, electricity generators, radiators, moving parts, musically-themed slides, water pumps, escalators ... in fact, on second thoughts why on earth can't everyone just go down the park and play pooh-sticks like us greenies? (Or has Disney copyrighted that?)
