Plush fever is here, and these vintage Labubu-dupes are just the medicine you need. Octavio Parra via Shutterstock. Sekiguchi Inc.’s fuzzy Monchhichi dolls walked so Labubus could run.

After Xiaohongshu and Labubu, Chinese Dupes and DHGate Take on the World. Tianwei Zhang and Denni Hu. Thu, April 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM UTC. 6 min read.

Whether you’re deliberately buying a Labubu dupe to offset the toy’s cost or looking for warning signs to avoid getting scammed, these are some tell-tale signs of how to spot a fake Labubu.

Labubu, according to Pop Mart’s description, is “kind-hearted and always wants to help, ... And the craze is giving rise to dupes, or replicas, of the popular collectible toys.

"Blackpink's Lisa and Rihanna bought Labubu," said 16-year-old Lakshmi M, a Sharjah-based Indian expat, who is also an avid K-pop fan. "Lisa even talked about it in an interview," Lakshmi added.

JLo’s child Emme Muñiz just brought back this vintage-inspired trend: No Labubu? no problem. Daniel Neira . Senior Writer. JUNE 23, 2025 2:39 PM EDT JUN 23, 2025, 2:39 PM EDT.

LONDON — China’s highly sophisticated counterfeit industry has been utilized as a weapon to demystify luxury manufacturing with a recent trend on Western social media platforms dubbed “trade war ...