Labubu Dolls Are Taking Over!

It's the craze that is currently sweeping the nation! Labubu dolls are selling out all over the country and people line up for hours on end to get theirs.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Heart app. When you think about those trends back when
you were growing up, so for me, Pokemon cards, bay blades,
yugi O cards.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Linking cards, I used to collect them. Link you know,
when you're the surprise of opening and not.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Knowing what you're going to get.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
I don't hope I get Zimber. Yeah, pumba to move,
a holographic scar. Yes, Tazo's all of those sort of things. Well,
there's a new one that is out and about, and
if you've got any kids, they might be all over it,
to be honest, even if you've got any big kids,
twenty somethings, they are.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
All over this.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's La Boo Boo dolls. They're like thirty five bucks.
They're little toys so expensive.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Can you imagine the markup.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
On that little toy that it essentially just looks like
a cute, little cuddly bear. Maybe it reminds me of
those Where the Wild Things Are?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh, I love Where the Wild Are?

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, and you buy them and they like go out
of stop really quick because they're limited release.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
It's like It's just a fad, and it is a
very expensive fad for parents.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, isn't it. It's something that you and I both go.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Don't quite understand this, But we had two We've got
two twenty something producers that fall right into the generation
that wants these toys for some strange reason. Luke, producer
Luke joins us now, producer, Luke, can you please tell
us why you as a full grown male adult bobo doll?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Because I don't know. So. The weird thing is when
I first saw them and I was like.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Oh, why would I want that?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Why would I want that?

Speaker 4 (01:41):
But now, like, especially if this like past week, I
keven seeing them everywhere, and the more and more I
see them, I'm like, I kind of want one.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
I kind of want to want in on it. How
big are they? So?

Speaker 4 (01:51):
I have friends who have got them, and I know
that they have been in situations where they've walk past
the shop that sells them in Adelaid there's only two
by the way, Yeah, shops in Adelaide that sell them
where they.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Are Line and Sakura cosmet Yes, they're a.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Line size size wise, like do you cuddle them in bed?

Speaker 4 (02:08):
They're literally like as Be's your hand and they're like
they're on key ring, so you put them on like
your handbag.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
So why do you want a Laboo Boo.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Dole Because they're cute and they're like trinkety and they're like,
I guess everyone's got.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Thing as well.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, Like so like it started because like Lisa from
like the K pop group like who was in the
White Lotus as well War one and it went viral
from there and then like Rihanna put it.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
On her like handbag and then put it on her
handbag from the city last week.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Suddenly they're cooler. Now you've mentioned some cool people. It's
not just weirdos.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
He mentioned the lines before. Because these things are so
hard to get. They do like limited releases. That makes
them like Nike shoes. Yeah, so they're collectibles. Some people
have been using air Tasker and they've booked strangers to
stand in ques to get La Boo Boo dolls and
they pay them like a hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
You go on line, how much money do you have
to do that?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
What the hell?

Speaker 3 (03:04):
You know?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
You gotta be careful they're lighting up because there' apparently
some fakies going around bad ones with the eyes.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Fall off yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
So, like there's heaps going for retail and like Marketplace,
and there are warnings out that they are like just
knockoffs being sold on Marketplace for like twice the price
of the originals that they're passing off as OG's. Also
in the UK I still online. PopMart, which sells them
over there, has banned the physical sale of them because
people are getting into rolls in their shops over the

(03:31):
limited relief.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
It's so weird.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Let it go.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
To do you choose which character you want?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Now it's Lucky dip. Oh, that's the exciting part. Now
I want one? No, I want one. I want one
to see which one I get? So don't you want
the one that you want?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
I love the exciting thing of opening up. It's like
on a plane. Not only what we're gonna get. Better open
this tinfoil, what's underneath?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Check it on a fish