I was having a conversation the other day with my husband about the Labooboo toys and how most toys have lore (a show, a movie, a game, a comic, etc) to build a story around, and generally give us characters to bond to and endear us to. But there’s a few toys that have come out (ones that specifically get popular with kids and adults both) that don’t start out this way, and how I don’t personally understand the why of that.
Beanie Babies, Furbies, and now the Labooboo toys fall into the non-lore having category. It’s interesting to look back on these kinds of toys and see the examples and how adults responded to them.
I was deep into the youtube rabbitholes late one night and watched a minidoc about them. Labubus actually came from picture books that the owner made a long time ago when he spent his childhood in the Netherlands. It was called “Monsters” and these labubus are magical creatures that look freaky but are actually good little guys.
This is good information to know. I honestly chalked their popularity up to an advertising/media blitz combined with influencer clout thing.
We didn’t have influencers in the same way back in the 90’s but that’s a lot of why Furbies got popular back then (from what I recall). I also clearly don’t know how to spell Labubu.
Yeah it’s like the collectability is the ir main feature, that and speculating some sucker down the road will value it higher because of collector-completionist syndrome
I was having a conversation the other day with my husband about the Labooboo toys and how most toys have lore (a show, a movie, a game, a comic, etc) to build a story around, and generally give us characters to bond to and endear us to. But there’s a few toys that have come out (ones that specifically get popular with kids and adults both) that don’t start out this way, and how I don’t personally understand the why of that.
Beanie Babies, Furbies, and now the Labooboo toys fall into the non-lore having category. It’s interesting to look back on these kinds of toys and see the examples and how adults responded to them.
I was deep into the youtube rabbitholes late one night and watched a minidoc about them. Labubus actually came from picture books that the owner made a long time ago when he spent his childhood in the Netherlands. It was called “Monsters” and these labubus are magical creatures that look freaky but are actually good little guys.
This is good information to know. I honestly chalked their popularity up to an advertising/media blitz combined with influencer clout thing.
We didn’t have influencers in the same way back in the 90’s but that’s a lot of why Furbies got popular back then (from what I recall). I also clearly don’t know how to spell Labubu.
It’s all toxic consumerism anyways
Yeah it’s like the collectability is the ir main feature, that and speculating some sucker down the road will value it higher because of collector-completionist syndrome