Arnold Schwarzenegger
His Viennese wax figure rides a bike
Arnold Schwarzenegger now has a new Viennese wax figure.
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He has taken off his combat gear. A new wax figure recently shows Arnold Schwarzenegger in an environmentally friendly cyclist pose.
Wearing shorts and a camouflage bomber jacket, he gives his usual broad smile and gives his thumbs up: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (76) second wax figure was unveiled at Madame Tussauds in Vienna’s Prater. This time, however, not in Terminator combat gear or with a big cigar in the corner of his mouth. Schwarzenegger travels in an environmentally friendly way on his bike against the backdrop of Vienna’s famous Ringstrasse. According to the operators, this is intended to deliberately emphasize Schwarzenegger’s long-standing commitment to the environment: “We need many Climate Action Heroes so that we can overcome the climate crisis together and create a good future for all of us,” said Leonore Gewessler, the Austrian Minister for Climate Protection, in her eulogy for Schwarzenegger.
Decades of commitment to environmental protection
With the unveiling of his second wax figure, Schwarzenegger is the first personality to have a newly revised figure dedicated to him by Tussauds in Vienna. Schwarzenegger’s first Viennese wax figure was unveiled in 2011. During his term as California governor between 2003 and 2011, the former bodybuilding star and action film hero vehemently committed himself to a new environmental policy that did not always follow the line of his Republican party colleagues. Reducing greenhouse gases and promoting renewable forms of energy were already on his agenda back then.
By portraying Schwarzenegger as a “climate action hero” on a bicycle, Vienna is also honoring Schwarzenegger’s personal cycling ambition. Since 2017 he has been riding his bike at the annual environmental conference “Austrian World Summit” in Vienna. “Today his great commitment is to environmental protection. That’s why it’s important to us to show him as we know him today, as an ambassador for the environment, in an authentic setting,” says Lukas Rauscher, Marketing Manager at Tussauds in Vienna.