Let's get weird: Steph Curry face swaps with his own wax statue at Madame Tussauds

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Sam Laird
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Steph Curry is such a basketball god these days that Madam Tussauds in San Francisco unveiled his very own wax likeness on Thursday. 

But that's just the opening act. The really good -- or bad, depending on your taste -- part is seeing human Curry face swap with wax Curry. 


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Here we have Curry and his wax doppelganger, as seen Thursday on the Warriors' Snapchat channel. Good luck sleeping tonight!

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Now, a behind-the-scenes look. Here's the same shot via Warriors social media master Julie Phayer.

Now here's the wax figure itself.

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Unconfirmed reports say that even Curry's wax doppelganger has range out to 25 feet. No word on whether it stands up as well to water attacks by elementary schoolers, however. 

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Sam Laird

Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.

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