The costumes and characters are incredibly well-designed but have not been represented well in toy form – with no action figures, Lego blocks or blind box toys yet. Ying Lai-yan, 16, PLK Mrs Ma ...

Right: A Paris Fashion week guest adorns her designer bag with Labubu charms ... and accessories, their toys most commonly come in a “blind box” format. Pop Mart’s blind boxes are themed ...

While at the booth, toy collectors gamely traded the toys they got from the blind boxes. They shared a trick to know what toy ...

And while blind boxes look a lot like toys, the collectible art’s main demographic is mostly Gen Z and millennials, who will often line up for hours, scour online resellers and spend hundreds of ...