You got to love China's ingenuity and elastic relationship with intellectual property.

From imitation luxury goods, electronic products, fast food chains, and even entire imitation Apple stores, it seems the sky's the limit for them.

The next frontier seems to be wax figures. And boy are they entertaining to behold.

This first set is from a wax museum in Sichuan. Celebrities whose likeness were used here were outraged. Not sure if the outrage was due to the unauthorised use or the sheer ugliness of the figures (Source: Trending in China).

Jet Li

Zhang Ziyi

Gong Li

Jackie Chan

Roger Federer

The next set comes from an exhibition in Henan (Source: Net Ease):

Barack Obama

Maybe the sculptor did a Google image search for Obama and got this:

Andy Lau

Here's another angle of Andy Lau:

One Chinese netizen had the best comment ever for this pose:

Translation: Andy Lau's back view looks so painful. It looks like he hasn't gotten used to life with one kidney.

Bruce Lee

Fan Bingbing

The final set comes from a wax museum in Shenyang (Source: Net Ease):

Jack Ma

This doesn't look that bad actually, but something still feels off.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Another commendable attempt! Can't say the same for the gun though.

Michael Jackson

Shu Qi

Here's an epic comment from a Chinese netizen:

Translation: Are you sure this isn't some blow-up doll put in place of Shu Qi?

Jackie Chan

That tan.

Top image from Net Ease

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