Anyone here into Labubu or Lafufus?

[mellowyellowgirl]

As with most things Lil Sis is a menace and is crazy about Labubu. She’s only managed to get one authentic one. They are so hard to get here and on principle we refuse to buy scalped goods so we’ve been venturing into Lafufu territory.

The lafufus are hilarious. You buy one off one of the Chinese platforms and you just kinda pray that it looks decent. Sometimes it does not look decent at all. The stores keep closing and switching around because China is cracking down on Lafufus. We have a lot of fun unboxing them though and we’ve been pretty lucky so far. Her Lafufus aren’t awful looking. Half the fun is dressing them up in different outfits so it doesn’t matter so much that we have Lafufus as long as they’re cute.

 

[Snowdrop13]

I don’t have any but I’ve just bought one for my niece’s birthday- from a reseller so hoping against hope it’s a real one! Hopefully she’ll see the joke if not. I haven’t seen one in real life to know the difference.

 

[AGBF]

@mellowyellowgirl, your thread was my introduction to Labubus and Lafufus. I had thought they might be some sort of rock when I started to read. Apparently there are authentic and inauthentic ones?

 

[autumngems]

I don't get it,but ok. I even saw now that you can print on 3D printed ones

 

[mellowyellowgirl]

@mellowyellowgirl, your thread was my introduction to Labubus and Lafufus. I had thought they might be some sort of rock when I started to read. Apparently there are authentic and inauthentic ones?

Labubu is authentic (right one) and Lafufu is the knock off (brown one).

They are fairly inexpensive just very hard to buy so we buy the knock off.

 

[Lookinagain]

@mellowyellowgirl, your thread was my introduction to Labubus and Lafufus. I had thought they might be some sort of rock when I started to read. Apparently there are authentic and inauthentic ones?

Same here. I'd never heard of them until this thread. I googled them and it seems Wal-mart has some authentic ones for a limited time. The article was posted Aug 13 so perhaps they already sold out. Seems like they are today's "Beanie Babies" where people go nuts for collecting them.

 

[elizat]

I have purchased for my brother. He loves them. I don't really understand the fascination.

 

[lyra]

My millenial daughters have them. Quite the obsession among them. One even took 5 of hers to a tattoo artist to tattoo their faces. Yes, you read that correctly. They aren't/can't have having kids, so they have disposable income.