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20th May 2015
08:55pm BST
Madame Tussauds in New York has unveiled a new waxwork of Lionel Messi.
Unsurprisingly, building a realistic, life-sized model of a celebrity is a fairly time-consuming task and this one required over 250 measurements and took up to four months to recreate the footballing wizard. The hair alone, took a whopping six weeks, which is actually slightly less time than it takes for Cristiano Ronaldo to sculpt his own hairstyle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0P8_N87QL8 While the finished project certainly looks a lot like the Argentine, or at ;east what his likeness might look like in FIFA 2022, we feel that they could have done without giving him a confused demeanour. Like a modern-day incarnation of Pinnochio, wax Messi seems to be perpetually posing the question "Am I a real football phenom?"
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