Entirely Real Photos: Please Don't Cry On The One Direction Wax Figures

By Linda Holmes

Published June 6, 2013 at 7:50 AM CDT

Madame Tussauds in London takes delivery of a bulk order of tissues after One Direction fans began to break down.

Hmm, tell me if this sounds like a publicity stunt to you.

Madame Tussauds is now offering bulk tissues and a "tissue attendant" because of the One Direction fans who flock to the cold, corpse-like copies of the boys they love dearly. Presumably, when they realize that wax figures are not anything like real humans but are more like seeing that your idol has been subjected to acts of taxidermy, they burst into inconsolable tears.

This is a stunning development in our continuing Creepy Wax Museum Pictures series.

Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.

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Entirely Real Photos: Please Don't Cry On The One Direction Wax Figures

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