A Journey Into the Heart of Labubu
The day after I failed to secure a labubo of pop Mart's original shop, I decide to conclude myself to console, the 10-acre theming park in the Central Beijing-and perhaps the clearest to Disney's lunch. (“Our art casters are like films of Disney,” saying cheek in A company one of a kind. “They use movies to achieve consumers, fans to achieve, and build IP and of communities. We do it through art toys.”)
POP COUNTRANCE LIKED about 1 percentage of Universal Studios in the Beijing and Shanghai, but otherwise pierced the Tiedpoint of the Consulate District from Beijway, stops away from the most populated business areas. It is in a city green space, which mean that pop Mart is not allowed to even move one tree. Instead, the company disappears an abandoned building on the premises and called the Molly's Castle. A leaf area became Labubu Adventure forest, although it looks much brighter and more Kid-friendly as the original image of lung. At the one end of the woods put actors on a “Warriors Training camp” in full large labubu suits.
I stop for lunch at the restaurant of the park, on the third floor of Molly's castle. The moment I sit by a table and inform the waitress that I came alone, she is located in 23-inch-inch-high cheerful pop in the chair opposite me. My Ytse Buddy is Zimomo, the male chief of the labu clan in the original children's book and one of the rare pop couple card sold. Due to my lunch, other pop land visitors come over to ask if I have purchased the Zimomo pop itself and if they can take a picture of it. I feel like I eat food with a celebrity.
At the table next to me is a mother with her young daughter. I ask what they brought here. The mother tells me that her daughter, which turns 4 in less than a month, found and in love with labubu by ambiguous, the Chinese version of tiktok. She thought about buying two Zimomo dolls for her daughter, but they cost $ 200 each on the repayable market so they can still debate. Just the day before, she saw a look of a friend's daughter in lazestate, where the room was filled with dozens of rarette labubus. She shows me videos from the party on her phone. “Their mother paid a lot to get these,” she says.
Since I started my own labcu hunt, I have known that the option consists of going to go to a reseller, often mentioned in China through the hose term huangniu (Literally “yellow ox”). I heard of dung, a pop Mart customer Since 2018, that many huangniu knows that he use bots that check social media to display announcements and new millisecond it drops it. Dong has paid a small amount to join group chains where Huangniu releases early information. He calls himself a fenniu Now between a fan and a huangniu. He has already released most of the labubw products, so he only buys new to sell to sell to other fans for a profit. (So, for me, sounds like he is a huangniu.)
