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Long lines, pushing, shoving, fights and stores closing. No, these aren’t protests. It’s the mayhem from people rushing to get their hands on a Labubu doll, often fetching triple its original price.

Just when we were beginning to wrap our heads around Gen Z terms like delulu and solulu, along came another three-syllable curveball. Labubu, Hong Kong-based artist Kasing Lung’s mischievous dangling ...

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Labubu dolls are based on a character from the 2015 book series The Monsters. A human-sized mint-green Labubu statue sold for 1.08 million yuan at auction. The auction was the first dedicated entirely ...