When wholesale trader Karl Baxter ordered a discount batch of Star Wars toys just in time for the new film, he was excited to have a new stock of merchandise to cash in on the sci-fi frenzy.

But when they arrived, he realised that not only were they fakes, they appeared to have been designed by someone who had never seen or even heard of the films.

Nearly all the characters had laughably inaccurate labels, including 'Toby-One' Kenobi, 'R2-3PO' and 'Daft Serious'.

Blunders: These fake Star Wars figures were delivered to a firm in Bournemouth; Obi-Wan Kenobi became Toby-One and a badly painted C-3PO became R2-3PO

Blunders: Anakin Skywalker was dismissed as simply Little Girl while Liam Neeson's character Qui-Gon Jinn became Fly-Gone-Gin

Lazy: Padmé Amidala, played by Natalie Portman, is called just Queen, while villainous Darth Maul is somehow rendered as Dennis

In addition, they had wonky eyes, poor moulding and garish colour choices which made some of them almost unrecognisable.

Mr Baxter's company, Poole-based Wholesale Clearance UK Ltd, now has piles of boxes of the bootleg merchandise, all relating to 1999's The Phantom Menace, which it is unable to sell.

'We acquired this stock in a bulk lot, and as a big Star Wars fan myself I had high hopes for these figures, especially considering how popular they are with children and collectors alike,' he said.

'The first disappointment came when we realised they were exclusively Episode One characters, as this is arguably the weakest of the six films.

'The second disappointment came when we realised that these were very unconvincing fakes.

Typos: Jedi warrior Mace Windu is rendered as Mace Window, and junk dealer Watto is called What

Seeing double: Senator Palpatine is portrayed twice, once as Glorious Star Lord and again in his Darth Sidious guise as Emperor Daft Serious

Say what you see: Jedi character Ki-Adi-Mundi is renamed Conehead, while Boss Nass is referred to as Upright Slug

Line-up: As well as being misnamed, many of the characters are almost unrecognisable

'While they do look somewhat like the characters they're supposed to portray, little details like their wonky eyes and luminous weapons take them into "uncanny valley" levels of uncomfortableness when you look at them.

'We obviously can't sell these, but as they're rather amusing we thought we'd still showcase them. It's just a shame we've got so many boxes of them piled up at the back of the warehouse.'

Other terrible blunders on the label include 'Fly-Gone-Jin' for Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn and 'Mace Window' for Samuel L. Jackson's character Mace Windu.