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Hoteliers, how’s your Halloween prep going? Between themed buffets, lobby cobwebs, and pumpkin lattes, we know your teams are in full swing. But this year, there’s something new arriving to open doors, literally.

I bought into the Labubu craze a few months ago. No, I’m not personally into the little monster doll with buck teeth; neither are my wife and our two kids, though we are all, at least notionally, adults. I say that because Labubu seems to appeal more to infan…

How Labubu dolls became China’s first contemporary cultural export.