The good news: There’s a very expensive Idris Elba doll. The bad news: It doesn’t look like Elba at all.
According to the Daily Mail, the doll is a handmade collector’s item created by U.K.-based specialty maker Emperis and retails for more than $1,100 (at the time of writing, the Elba figurine was not listed for sale on the Emperis website).
The doll sports jeans with a suit jacket, a balding head, and arched eyebrows. It comes only kind of close—but for many, not nearly close enough—to resembling the man named People’s sexiest man alive in 2018. A tweet that went viral on Monday showed a side-by-side of a Elba with a lovely glint in his eyes and the doll, noticeably glint-less.
“This doll is supposed to be Idris?” Twitter user @courtdanee2 wrote. “Somebody getting fired.”
https://twitter.com/courtdanee2/status/1062201566260850689
People couldn’t believe the figure was supposed to look like the 46-year-old British actor.
im staring at that doll like pic.twitter.com/zL2fLRvzYJ
— T. (@torrielilina) November 13, 2018
— I AM (@AshiaTanay) November 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/BunnySuicida/status/1062458125431828480
More tweets rolled in comparing the Elba doll to other people who are not Elba at all, like actor Romany Malco and RuPaul Charles.
https://twitter.com/bmwgirl85/status/1062461229116080128
https://twitter.com/Kehudd/status/1062480780742615047
Reminds me of that MLK Jr statue in Buffalo. Who dis? pic.twitter.com/LUUps1zrSU
— Blackonbothsides (@Biographer1986) November 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/erinruok/status/1062220363340357633
https://twitter.com/_Bigdom15104/status/1062368124052389889
https://twitter.com/jjoongles/status/1062476474043846657
At least Elba can take comfort in knowing he’s not the only celebrity with a botched figurine of himself. Cristiano Ronaldo, for example, last year inspired a bust that looked like a very wonky version of his face.
https://twitter.com/GreginATX/status/1062206109388337153
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