🧸 What's A Labubu Doll?

What's the Labubu craze? Digital Jenna explains.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
You had me at Lebooboo. I like just saying the
word le booboo.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, I didn't know what a lebooboo was, but I'm
hearing it more and more, and not just from Jenna
who works with us. The Labuoboo is a character created
in twenty fifteen by a Hong Kong born artist and illustrator,
and these have just taken the world by storm to
the point where they're so popular in the UK. They're
plush toys that the sale of these plush toys have

(00:45):
created a lot of tension, a lot of aggression and
violence in shops, to the point, as I said, where
one particular chain is saying we are not going to
stock them anymore really because we do not when our
customers put at risk. How is that? Well, let's work out,
first of all, what a lebooboo is, Jenna High, You've got.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Three three in, but I've got fourteen at home.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
What do they look like?

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Okay, so I've got them here and they come So
these are three different sets, so one from three different sets,
so it look identical. Yeah, first the first sets. The
first set is the Macaron set, So I've got toffee here.
Toffee is like a toffee colored one and standing up.
Then I've got Zoo Zoo from the Have a Seat range,

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and then thirdly I've got the super rare one from
the Big Into Energy range, which is the latest range
of La Boo Boos.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
And what's that's name?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
It doesn't have a name.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's a secret one, and well how'd you get that?

Speaker 3 (01:39):
So it's one in seventy one boxes is a secret
one and I was lucky enough to get one of
the secret ones.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
And so when you buy them, you don't know what
kind you're getting. It's like a lucky dip.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
They're called blind boxes, so they're available from Popmark and
everything at Popmark is essentially a blind box, so you
don't know what you're going to get until you open it.
So that's why unboxing videos are so popular.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
So you could get three of the same one.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, so I've from the macaron range. I've got
two of the same.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
And why do you like them?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
They're just so cute, you know, and it's just the
fun of lining up with everyone too.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
How long you've worked in it for now?

Speaker 3 (02:15):
I don't work in it. I've worked his seven years.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
What are you trying to say, Brendan. I'm intrigued by
this though, as to what There'll be lots of cute
little thing mellows.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
No, I've only got two of them and they're outdated.
Now these on your bed? No, the squish mellows? Yes,
but these aren't. These are on my windows.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Don't make her sound a little bit deranged? Are you still? Yeah,
Jenny can ask you. Lots of these kind of toys
come and go. Why have these ones taken the world
by storm? Why are these ones getting parents to cueue up?
One of these stories here is that they're queuing up
till one am, waiting for nine hours to get some.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
So that's especially this latest range, which is the big
into energy range, which a lot of people are lining
up for. They're just popular. It all originated essentially from
Black Pink and the singer from Black Pink, Lisa. She
was also on the White Lotus. Oh yeah, so she
has over one hundred million followers and she really was

(03:15):
the one who started this popularity.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Around because she bought ones that I like it.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yes, And she's a big fan of Labuoboo, so she
puts them on her bags and everything. And since then
it kind of blew up because it originated in twenty fifteen,
but it wasn't until the collaboration between pop Mart and
La Booboo in twenty nineteen that it blew up.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
My eyes are started to try out now. I find
it fascinating, and they're saying that people are attaching them
to their backpacks and things in cages so they don't
get stolen.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
There's cues, there's cues over overseas.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
There's a little kids trying to find.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah, there's little kids getting lost in cues for grown
people like yourself.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
And I saw someone getting a religious leader to bless one.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yes, but you also have to be careful because you
have to make sure that you get a legit one
because the fake ones are called lafufos, and you don't
want a lafufu. So you see this QR code on
the back of the my ones, so you you use
that coach.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Made in China.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah it's Chinese, it's legit.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
If it doesn't say it's a La Buobu, it could
be a laf fu food.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, and you don't want a laffu foo.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
There's much.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
There's so many questions and a single by the way.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, Jennay, thank you, there's no shame. Come on, Brendan,
Well you like stuff. It's this is her. This is
Jenna's version of you going on eBay and you know,
looking for dumb stuff there.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
You know, I would imagine I remember years ago my
daughter when she was younger, one of a Disney princess
or Barbie Dizzy princess carriage, you know, like a horse
and carriage thing for her Barbie, and you couldn't get
him for love or money. And my wife had to
bring my father in law, her father in more woman

(05:02):
but who then had to drive to Brisbane to pick
it up.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
I've got baku gun that I got a friend in
Gosford to buy and then I arranged to get that
brought to Sydney. This is the stuff you do in
your parents when you buy them for children, Jenna, for children,
Jenna