Thursday evening, I constantly switched between a live tiktok flow and a shopping application in anticipation of 9:30 p.m. For 30 minutes, I driven an available list; Many explanations have been pronounced. I have shown an bot behavior and I was essential of the application several times. I have hit so many times that my thumbs have become painful. It’s Labubu Drop Night.
Something that is lost in Mania Labu is that the purchase of one at the source is, in a word, exasperating. There is, of course, countless false options (“Lafufus”) that some collectors came to kiss. But if you want a real guaranteed, you must go to the source. Pop Mart, the Chinese toy company that sells Labu products, has created a series of Sisyphean tasks to submit buyers, a ritual of humiliation with the possibility of obtaining a small figurine at the end. Unlike many other rare articles, fashionable or collecting, the entrance barrier for Labubus is not the cost of the article ($ 27.99) – that’s all you need to learn before buying them.
I spent about a day looking for how To buy a legitimate labu in Pop Mart. It is not a simple shopping experience to just click on “see” more quickly than everyone. Pop Mart has created a digital frenzy that somewhat resembles what shopping in person The Black Friday is like: interactive illustrations display stored windows with up to six boxes of Labubus. A few seconds after reaching the site, all the boxes are grayed, which means that someone has at least temporarily claimed them. If you have not secured Labu, you must scroll through an apparently endless list of windows, looking for the rare box to be won; More often than not, however, you must constantly exploit, looking for a gray box with a timer that is about to expire, how it will be released and available again. You have to play which is essentially a mobile game to even have the chance to buy a labu.
The complexity and derision of the Pop Mart application mean that there is no shortage of content with adviceTips and hacks to secure a labu. Some influencers have accumulated millions of views almost exclusively by making videos on how to mark popular popular pop products. Some of the advice that I studied ended up helping me: when I hit too many times and I was blocked by the application, turn on and deactivate Wi-Fi. But other collectors’ suggestions were impossible to follow. Some fans swear by camping on the live flows of Tiktok of Pop Mart, while waiting for the host lists random Labus for sale on the shopping page of the platform; Auctioneer-style monologues were simply too much to listen to.
After about 30 minutes of tapping with uninterrupted two hands, close encounters and error messages, I finally spammed a gray box at the time when it was published. The Labu mystery was mine. I “shake” the virtual box, which gave me an index on the color of the character inside: it was not orange or green (I had no preference for color, but other buyers could at this stage a box which, according to Pop Mart, does not contain their color of choice). After the cash register, I chose to reveal which labu I had bought – it was blue, named “Hope”.
It is not quite surprising that Labubus took off like this: the more you have to look at them, the more they become cute (perhaps). They are Not the first blind box toy To win a cult, and there is a somewhat dark comparison to make between Labubus and the game – for serious collectors, the thrill is in revelation, the luck that you have struck the rare color which says that Pop Mart is in one of the 72 boxes. It’s addictive, simple and simple.
But the more I spent on the Labu forums or on the Pop Mart site, the more I understood that the toy at the end is almost next to the point: Labubus Legit represents the time and the efforts that have been before unpacking, as well as the pure chance of what is inside. A friend who marked dozens of labus for his network told me that turning the dolls not even worth it unless it was an unprecedented box or a rare color – the margins are too low to earn real money. The omnipresence of Lafufus undoubtedly contributes to lowering prices. The true value of Labubus is in the ridiculous hoops that you need to jump to get a blow on something collected.
According to Google Trends, the search volume for “labu” is as high as. Tiktok Livestreams drone, bots will be deployed every evening and viral unpacking will make views. The threshing media will only die when it is no longer tortured to buy one, when the little guys (who are In fact canonical girls) are just a toy, not a replacement for your efforts. When it happens, it is the assumption of anyone; My labu should be shipped in September.
