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

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…

Bombardino crocodilo, ballerina cappucina and trallalero trallala have become the latest brain-rot characters flying off toy shelves, replacing the once-popular Labubu dolls. While toymakers are cashing in on the trend, parents are amused as well as exasperat…