Arnold Schwarzenegger commissions three 8-foot, bronze statues of himself

I’ll see your Alex Rodriguez as a centaur and raise you three bronze Arnold Schwarzenegger statues. Yep. The Terminator has commissioned three — and possibly as many as seven — bronze statues of himself, according to the New York Daily News, and plans to distribute them in various locations throughout the globe. The statues — costing about $100,000 each, will be in the larger-than-life “heroic” scale of Arnold in a bodybuilding pose, from his Mr. Olympia days. Schwarzenegger won seven Mr. Olympia titles from 1970-80.

According to the Wallowa County Chieftain newspaper in Oregon, the new castings have been super-sized to “heroic” scale — roughly one-and-a-quarter times life size.

Tim Parks [who owns the shop that poured the metal] says the first of the statues was shipped earlier this month to Thal, Austria, where Schwarzenegger’s childhood home is now a museum dedicated to his life.

The second, which Parks’ firm is still finishing, could be headed to Columbus, Ohio, where the Schwarzenegger-inspired Arnold Fitness Weekend is held annually.

Forget Disney World this year, kids. We’re going to the Schwarzenegger Museum. I hear the Housekeeper Flume Ride is a lot of fun.

Parks says the Governator gave the mega-sculptures his stamp of approval earlier this month when he visited Enterprise.

“This is fantastic. This is fantastic,” Parks says Schwarzenegger told him after gazing upon his pumped-up metallic likeness. He did ask for one tweak, however: that Parks darken the statue’s patina.

Patina is a dark tarnish that exists after a bronze statue is created. Yes, the metaphor is clear.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to have at least three buff bronze statues of himself made: source [New York Daily News]