roids???? ouch. Steroids grow the bad ones and shrink the good ones. Standing in that position with roids has got to hurt a little

It is. It is thick and covered with road rash.

Important or not - he does not have a big package - that is another ego fantasy of his! This man is one of he most disgusting people I have ever encountered. And I still think they need to investigate who fathered and gave birth to that child - because I wonder about Arnold venom from his toothpick and "he-she's" can't give birth!

Duphas gave a great example of roid rage. Lighten up a little jeez

Big hands, big feet...big disappointment...lol

Damn!, he's tacky and stupid. I'm sure his children are simply thrilled.

Arnold has seen it all, he has done it all and he has more money than everybody blogging here combined.....and he could not care less what you think about him.....he is King of the Mountain and and from nothing too and no one here is going to bring him down...he is making another movie as we speak......you are all jealous and he knows it and loves that too! ...... can hear him laughing and all the way to the bank!

What a waste of a metal alloy.

Big hands and Big Feet................You know what that means..............!!!!!

Big gloves and big shoes!!!!

Yuck! He needs to go away.

What an arrogant @!$%#!

He doesn't laugh, he terminates you!

OK, let's see; Arnold came to America w/ the clothes on his back to be the worlds no. 1 bodybuilder. He had no money so he began a brick-laying business w/ his friend Franco Columbo and they worked hard and did very well and Arnold found he was a born marketer and a very good business-man.
While making his first million dollars at his business he also worked-out harder than anyone had ever seen before and became Mr. Olympia, keeping his promise to be the best in the world!
He took ALL of his earnings and invested in broken-down, fixer-upper, commercial property on the old side of L.A.; fixed the properties up himself and re-sold them at enormous profit and became a multi-millionaire.
Upon claiming an office in one of his buildings for himself; he then pursued his other child-hood dream although he was still learning English: to be the no. 1 Movie-Star in the world. We all know that part of the story and I like millions of others loved Arnold's movies!!
He then set out to become Governor of the largest state in America; and did so...twice!! While marrying a beautiful, accomplished celebrity in her own right, from the Kennedy family!
This is just a very abridged list of Arnold's massive, unimaginable, accomplishments!!
So now a bunch of losers here login and denigrate this truly amazing and inspiring man (who's made some very public mistakes)
Sure, it's fun to insult and denigrate successful people when were unsuccessful and haven't really done much w/ our lives- but to attempt to detract from the remarkable life and times of Arnold Schwarzenneger is impossible; the man is incredible!
So, totally show how vile and classless YOU are by actually remarking about his penis and any other low-class subject that says much more about YOU than it does about Arnold! And remember that your life is paltry and small and meek in comparison.
Sure, I was disappointed by this final relationship misadventure and all the sordid details, but Arnold is definitely one of my hero's and always will be!!

Thank you Scott. You are absolutely right on! Those other comments are what give pre-teens and teenagers a bad name.

I agree with you 100%. These others must all be faultless, Lazy, and vain in their own right that haven't accomplished anything worthy talking about.

yeah TEAM !!!

Arnie made some kinda life for himself and should be an inspiration to us all

TXHorseman "Big hands and Big Feet................You know what that means..............!!!!! Big gloves and big shoes!!!!"

Thanks for the laugh - Best comment of all.

I don't much care for the man's vanity, but I can sure appreciate his accomplishments. He's the realization of the American dream.

And remember that your life is paltry and small and meek in comparison.

That will NEVER be the case. I have never had the degree of self-loathing and disrespect for my spouse to do anything in my life that Arnold did to his and to his wife and his children, including the one he kept hidden (and now embarrassed). From this day forward, I could die happy and very fulfilled. Arnold will always be a low-life POS for what he did to disgrace and disrespect his own family and a wife who stood by him and supported everything he chose to do...

...all of your penis remarks and "I have Arnold on a pedestal" delusions notwithstanding.

Phyllis-2480124; I have never had the degree of self-loathing and disrespect for my spouse to do anything

Although I cannot disagree w/ the severity of the awful way in which the man did 'his wife wrong', and I do NOT excuse his infidelity or deplorable behavior in the least!

That said, your point changes none of what I said or my feelings. Arnold was never perfect, especially in his European ideals of females and relationships, and I knew of his flawed character already but I cannot subtract the entirety of the unbelievably positive accomplishments, charity and happiness to others that have been the hallmark of the man for decades either!

How repulsive. The glee on his face is testament to the enormous ego that possesses him. Please do us all a favor and stay in Austria.

I pick things up and put them down.

puke, puke, i wouldn't dare go near there !!!.....

Isn't he a piece of work?!

wow what a swartzanegger , er i meen dork

hes not to much of a beauti queen anymore though

lol i suppose put it in wax no wait bronze cause his wax body is melting

First he plays grab @ss with his housekeeper, now he plays grab @ss with his statue!

This is the third Republican who has made me throw up in my mouth today: Cain, Cantor, and now Schwarzenegger!

I vote that we all petition the Oxford Dictionary to change the pronunciation of "narcissist " to "Schwarzenegger"

He certainly has the Overinflated Ego of a Republican.

I'm sure his Museum describes how much GOOD he did for the State of California (laugh*gag*laugh)...

the big deal is that Arnold must learn to humble himself--really a statue? ; -)

Noelle: Absolutely will never happen. Narcissists have never experienced humility; and it would never occur to him that his obnoxious behavior is out of line.

Anyone who idolizes arnold simply does not know who this guy really is, hell even arnold is not sure who he is. Back in the 80s arnold sponsored a contest called the "arnold classic" and i think he still sponsors it today, but at that time and place he actually entered his own bodybuilding contest, and won it of course !!! The rub was that the guy everyone thought should have won the contest was "Mike mentzer" and mentzer questioned the rules about a contestant who paid for the judges entering their own show which almost touched off a fist fight!! Arnold is and always will be the benchmark for arrogance and egotism, why do you think he was attracted to bodybuilding? In that world you spend most of you're time working out and looking at you're self in the mirror

I couldn't agree with you more. The media is really going to drag this whole spread out.

In the photo, he is the only one who seems to be enjoying himself at the event.

Absolutely will never happen. Narcissists have never experienced humility

Arnold has -- for what he did to his wife, family and his love child. But, since he has no conscience, like so many self-absorbed sociopaths, he simply doesn't give a goddam. That is the difference here.

@Phyllis: Agree. His humility is very short-lived. Sadly, he is unredeemable. They cannot change without a lifetime of effort, and even then, the odds are very slim. Those left in his wake suffer tremendously.

At least Carter wasn't boinking the hired help (in his wife's bed, for heaven's sake).

Grady, life must suck for you being a troll and all. Carter is the greatest humanitarian in the US today. What have you done?

Clinton set us on a path to pay off the national debt by 2011 or 2012 according to the CBO. Bush was the one who screwed it all up. Regan has a library for christ sake that dumb ass tripled the national debt with tax cuts for the rich that were supposed to pay for them selves. LOL. yeah how'd that work out.

Yes Kat - and who cares that the hired help is a "he-she"?!

mysterious stranger. Your right, but you got to realize all 3 of the last Presidents played us for fools. Right before Clinton left office he turned over the Glass Steagall act. which has lead to the heart of the countrys problems today on debt and jobs and inflation. I belive Bush was just stupid and his puppet as Cheney has said, but Clinton I belive knew better. The whole globilization idea pushed forward with Clintons deregulation and future AFTA's bills was a complete sell out of our country. The worst part is, when men play with globilization and it fails over time as it always has. History has shown that previous attempts have ended in trade wars which in turn led to the World Wars. With todays weapons I respect the fear or a world war more than ever.

Clinton did not repeal Glass-Steagall. The bill to repeal that most important act ("Gramm-Leach-Bliley") passed both houses of Congress by VETO-PROOF majorities. There was nothing that he could do to stop it.

Thank you for that info, cant wait to dig in and study that. I love it when we can all talk and learn. Bless you.

Thanks for the feedback 99octane. The images were delivered to us with that wording in the captions. In the interest of publishing in a timely manner, I pushed out the post as soon as possible and went back to do the research to figure out that they are in fact life-size wax figures. Masterfully crafted, I may add.

Also - please refrain from making personal attacks on individuals within this forum. We reserve the right to delete comments that don't follow our recommended guidlines.

Ouch.

99 Octane...No posts.. ONE YEAR!...love the posting Nazi

Jonathan, since I don't read articles with anger already coursing through my veins, I was able to deduce those photos were posted as received. Some unfortunately do nothing but use this vine to bash what they don't like, instead of enjoying the article for what it was intended to portray. Great article.

Arnold did accomplish a lot in his life, and I don't mind seeing a tribute to him.

Mr Jonathan Woods,

Thank you for responding to me personally. If indeed you are not the source of the obvious bias that I referred to in the article, that should have been indicated, as my only available assumption is that you as the stated author were responsible for the comments. I take you at your word that you were not. As such, I publicly apologize to you and re-direct my comments to the unnamed individual who labeled such sculptures / statues as "dolls".

As for the rest of the article, I will say that you do seem to support the unnamed person's bias in the regard of Arnold's lack of humility - which is not news, and easy to jump on the bandwagon for.

So I must downgrade my personal attack, and state that for the record, it seems to me that in one hundred years, Arnold will be remembered - for better of for worse - and neither you nor I will be.

We Americans are fascinated with the antics, public and private, of those we "celebrate" ("Celebrities"). Sometimes it gets out of hand, but Arnold seems to thrive off it unlike many famous people. So he dedicates a museum to himself. And yes, that's good fodder for an article and that's your job. You get paid for it, while my comments are my own and posted for free. You have the right and ability to delete them, but let's celebrate something besides celebrities, like our freedom of self-expression. Both yours and mine. In that spirit, I ask that you leave both my original comment, and this follow-up, to remain on this board.

Thank you, sincerely, Greg G. AKA "99octane".

If, in a 100 years from now, anyone is walking around remember Arnold, then this country is worse off than I thought it was!

He's an "insignificant bearer" - Jaberwocky, Alice in Wonderland (2010)

You don't know of any movie stars from long before you were born? Or did you just want to make an outlandish statement? Sorry if I inadvertently disrupted a rant, please continue.

100 years from now? At the rate we're going, there's a good possibility that none of us will be around. Maybe the cockroaches..........

There is something oddly surreal about an Arnold Schwarzenegger museum. I've been to Salzburg to see the Mozart house --which incidentally sounds more interesting than it is. I wouldn't make a deliberate trip to Austria to see the Schwarzenegger museum though.

I'm not a Schwarzenegger fan, but he did go from body building to acting to governor of California. He made a successful living just being Arnold.

99octane / Greg G. - Thanks for the discourse. I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to respond. I have no intentions of deleting your comments.

In defense of the Getty Images contributor who sent the photos, there could be a German-English language barrier, for which calling the life-size wax mannequins “dolls” was the best option. I’m not offering excuses for lack of due diligence. (Google translate wasn’t much help, anyone on this thread fluent in German?) Just saying that the expression of such frustration may not be entirely necessary.

I agree wholeheartedly that the doings and proclivities of celebrities, politicians and other public figures dominate the news media. But (devil’s advocate here) they were once a nobody, too. So next time a spotlight shines on you, revel in it. Who knows, maybe in 50 years you and I will be inaugurating our hall of fame for snarky commenters. :)

As to your accusation of my bias or and slant toward believing Arnold Schwarzenegger (if only publically) is not a humble man, I’m absolutely and irrefutably guilty. He paid to have several massive versions of himself cast in bronze for crying out loud!

Last – couldn’t agree with you more that we should focus less on celebrities and more on stories that need to be reported. I’m a voracious consumer of news and information, and I love telling stories. That in mind, when I spotted the first of these images, I knew we had to dig deeper and publish something.

I'm hardly fluent, but the German "Wachspuppe" literally translates into English as "wax doll," but implies a wax figure like the ones depicted. However, "Wachsfigur" is also an appropriate description of the same thing, so it would depend on the original native caption and who made the translation. I suspect a minor error of semantics.

Oh, but I do remember the "great stars" from before I was born that were loaded with acting talent. Arnold, is neither a star, nor does he have talent. What he did, was lucked up on some great scripts, none of which took a great amount of talent to pull off. I remember James Cagney -- one of the most talented "stars" to ever grace the screen. He started out as a dancer. After accepting a life-time achievement Oscar for all of the great movies he made that will never be forgotten, you know what this great Hollywood talent said?

"I'm just a hoofer who got lucky."

Now, that's a man for you -- a great talent, and a great man. Never brought shame to himself, or his family.

And Arnold succeeded as Mr. Universe, and was asked to do film. He went on to appear on many films that I'm sure you can name. I don't care if it was the same act, the fact is his name is known all over the world. Like it or not, he is a known star. No one says you have to go see his museum. But that doesn't mean others won't.

Not sure why you think your opinion of him is final for everyone else. He is a star, you can swallow that or not, I'm sure he doesn't care.

Not sure why you think your opinion of him is final for everyone else.

Funny. I just read all the posts again -- I didn't see one person say ANYTHING like:

This is my final opinion of Arnold, and it is final for everyone else, too!

So -- i hope you're not a LIAR in everything you post here...

Well, since you are speaking for someone else, what did she mean by this:

Arnold, is neither a star, nor does he have talent

Talent, fine that is a matter of opinion..

lol what pants?

A pumpernickel roll. :o)

I pick things up and put them down.

Picture of ALL his kids in that gallery?

All the ones of "pure" ancestry anyways.

This is the ARNOLD museum. So, the only ancestry (clearly!) that matters, is HIS.

So, the original question stands: Picture of ALL his kids in that gallery?

you got that right. All about himself.

Arnold is an admirable man and worthy of the masses' veneration.

How one manages to even stand upright under the burden of such an ego is amazing.

Seems to be a republican thing...

Well, truth be told he was a better actor and bodybuilder than governor.

He was a HORRIBLE actor. But the stories were cult-like, flashy, explosive, and sometimes funny (like True Lies). He was succesful because of the writing and special/visual effects.

But ACTING? LMFAO!!

Mr. Schwarzenegger, what was the greatest thing about being governor of California?

Arnold: "To crush the Liberal Democrats, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."

I hope more people like you post that he's narcissistic. I wish Californians would have realized that before they voted for him-TWICE!

Well, the whole US did the same thing (TWICE) with another Egomaniacal Republican: Dumbya Bush -- it's no surprise that this can and will happen at the state level.

AND!!! The Religious Reich is getting ready to do it all over again at the Natioal Level with another mindless cultist Texas Governor right now!!

Phyllis, why are you so full of HATE? People like you spew the same repeated venomous propaganda with absolutely NO understanding of the truth or of how politics or our government works. Yes, America is in deep trouble. Let me ask you if America is better off now than four years ago? Is Obama so incompetent that he can not overcome the alleged mistakes of George W.? Or, is Obama incompetent with his and the democrats policy's which caused most of Americas problems since he became president? How can you people keep blaming W for what the current administration has done to America? I am neither Republican or Democrat but I have been a registered member of both parties over the last 40+ years. Please read the bills before they are voted on and who voted for what and how it will affect America first, not what is in it for you personally. That is part of the problem. People want the government to support them. Someone has to pay for that.

"I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared." --Thomas Jefferson

"But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, 1789

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"During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, in as much as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety." --Thomas Jefferson, Second Inaugural Address, 1805

"A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired." --Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775

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Wow. What a load of vitriol, "mr citizen"...you appear to be horribly uneducated, relegated to repeating the words of others (like so many other Fox consumers...) How is your Aunt Maxine doing?

Well.phyllis,I could and would say the same of you.

and still, nobody would give a crap! nobody listens to you now!

That would be a two bagger. one for him & one for her. I really liked him when he started out in the movies. Then I read where he was charging folks $75 to have their picture taken with him. Screw him & the boat he came here on.

Self esteem and EGO are two different things. One tells you that you are valuable the other tells you that you are the only person in the world and everyone is here for your convenience.

It isn't self-esteem. It's EGO.

It's EGO that resulted in his divorce. And this museum!

jealous.

No Tony - you appear to be the only one jumping up and down at this obsurd over the top self promotion by a man who can't lead, speaks poorly and sleeps with he-she's.

I can't imagine one thing that make someone jealous about this man.

Hey Seg, are you saying you slept with him?

A PURELY SIMPLE IDIOT

Jealous. he would crush you with his bicep without even knowing you are there. you make puny girlyman comments on newsvine. he gets muscle statue.

Segdrib

The first thing I thought was "What an egotistical piece of crap!" I guess it is a way to hold on to the past - because everything he has now is SAGGING! I saw him without a shirt one day and thought I was going to throw-up! He is WAY to far into himself. I wonder

I wonder, did he finally try a new position besides doggy style? Were you actually able to look at him?

when you bend to kiss his ass, his buttox will crush your face like a prune, you girly man.

Not my face! I'm Hans and I have a brother Frans! We are not "little girly mons"!

Come on people, he has been an iconic star from my childhood and many people still say lines from his movies. As a bodybuilder he was undefeated for 11 years in every competition he ever competed in 66'-70' - Mr Universe, 70'-75' Mr. Olympia. He has stared in 37 movies as well, just for that he should be very proud. People confuse arrogance for confidence every day of the week. It truly gets old.

I agree, Arnold has accomplished more in his life than most as a Austrian born immigrant who realized the American Dream and worked hard to achieve that goal.

His museum is a testament to that and a proudly well deserved tribute to his accomplishments.

No one is perfect and neither is he but he is part of our great American legacy of famous people who achieved that dream.