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Police in Australia arrested a man for committing more than 40 thefts lubub The doll is worth over £4,000.
The bizarre theft came to light during a police search of a property in Melbourne’s west on Tuesday.
He said at least 43 Labubu dolls were found during a search operation conducted by police inside the Webb Road property in Airport West. Victoria Police In a press release titled “These Labubu are not for you”.
Sold primarily by Chinese toy company Pop Mart, the designer toy-fashion-collectibles are sold from Pop Mart brick-and-mortar stores, the platform’s online store, and its TikTok live stream.
fuzzy toy It was designed by Hong Kong-born illustrator Kasing Lung in 2015 as part of his collection of characters, The Monsters, which was inspired by Dutch and Nordic folklore.
Earlier this summer, LaBubus was reportedly Reselling for more than £1,000 eachA child-sized Labubu is selling for more than $150,000.
The dolls seized by police in Melbourne are estimated to be worth around AUS $9000 (£4390). Police officers also found limited edition toy dolls worth approximately AUS$500 (£243) among the dolls seized.
“Officers from the Melbourne East Neighborhood Policing Team executed a warrant at a Webb Road property at approximately 6am on Tuesday 21 October,” police said.
According to police officers, these high-demand toys were stolen during a string of burglaries at Melbourne CBD shopping centers since July.
“It is alleged that the dolls were stolen during four separate burglaries at a shopping center on the corner of La Trobe and Swanston streets in Melbourne since July,” he said in a statement. Police have charged a 40-year-old Australian man with theft and robbery for stealing the Labubu doll.
He will appear in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on May 5 next year for bail.
Crimes involving toys such as the iconic cute elf have also been reported in Britain.
In September this year, Border Force chiefs said that fake Labubu dolls are made 90 percent of potentially “dangerous” counterfeit toys Coming to Britain.
New data from the Home Office shows agents have seized more than 259,000 counterfeit toys at the border so far this year, worth almost £3.5 million. He said about 236,000 of these collectibles were knock-off versions of Pop Mart monster dolls, which went viral causing long lines and chaos inside stores.
Original Labubu dolls, which can have a retail price of hundreds of pounds, are identified by their cute monster-like appearance. Fake dolls often have twisted limbs, deformed heads, or the wrong number of teeth – real Labus has nine.