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Madame Tussauds New York unveiled a new wax figure of Lionel Messi Tuesday (19 May) in New York City.
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SOUNDBITE: (English) Eric Fluet, Head of Marketing and Sales at Madame Tussauds New York
"You can note from the figure itself it's a very dynamic pose where his toes are barely touching the ground, he's mid stride and you can tell from this pose that he's clearly about to score a fantastic goal."
SOUNDBITE: (English) Eric Fluet, Head of Marketing and Sales at Madame Tussauds New York
"We constructed this figure through hours and hours and hours of research. We collected from the research, we put together about 250 very accurate measurements of Lionel from still and video assets. The figure itself took about three or four months to complete. There were 20 studio artists working on him. The hair alone took about six weeks."
SOUNDBITE: (English) Eric Fluet, Head of Marketing and Sales at Madame Tussauds New York
"It's definitely both. There is a great popularity of soccer in the US which makes him a great fit for our all new sports zone, but also the international community which is a big piece of our volume in the summer. This particular figure caps off the all new, fully renovated sports zone. And he's in a position where he's in front of an all new soccer simulator which is brand new addition where guests can actually come up and kick the ball into a simulator just like they're in a simulator with a goalie in front of them and everything."
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Lionel Messi wax figure unveiled at Madame Tussauds New York
Wednesday, May 20 2015Category:Soccer