Halloween Costume Idea For Labubu Collectors
Labubu is a Pop Mart blind-box figure, not a character from a show, so there’s no plot to reference, just a toy people clip to bags and hunt down in different colors. The pointed ears and the nine-tooth grin are what separate this from a generic teddy bear costume, skip either one and you’re just a brown onesie. Sony has a live-action movie in development with Paddington director Paul King attached (Variety), so the recognition here isn’t just a 2024 fad, though anyone who doesn’t follow toy culture may still ask what you are.
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The ears and the teeth are what people notice first, everything else is just a kid in a brown onesie until those two pieces are on. A onesie with the hood pushed back and no fangs in reads as pajamas, not a costume. At a party where the room is dim and someone’s fang has already popped loose from the adhesive, the whole thing slides back into generic bear-suit territory fast.
In Pop Mart’s own product shots, Labubu is posed mid-mischief, ears up, mouth open, one paw raised like it’s about to swipe something off a shelf. That’s the expression to hold when someone points a phone at you, not a closed-mouth smile. The character doesn’t do anything else, it has no lines and no episodes, its whole personality is that one grin.
Match your brown before you buy
Different sellers photograph “brown” onesies in very different shades, some run tan, some run almost gray. If your ears, gloves, and boots come from different listings, check buyer photos, not just the main product photo, or the pieces won’t match on camera.
Skip drinks once the fangs are in
The adhesive that comes with the fang set is unreliable, plenty of reviewers say it doesn’t hold through a full night. Mold and test the fangs a few days before Halloween, not the night of, and sip through a straw once they’re on.
Group Idea
Excellent group idea if you’ve got even one friend willing to match colors. Pop Mart’s whole business model is built on people collecting the same character in different colorways, so a brown Labubu standing next to a pink one reads instantly, no explanation needed, and you can keep adding people in black, mint, or whatever color you can actually find in stock.
The ears and fangs are worth buying new, accuracy depends on the exact shape, and both are cheap enough that DIY doesn’t save much.
There’s no dialogue to perform, so the pose does all the work.
Start with the brown plush onesie, then add the pointed ear hood and the fang set, those three pieces carry the whole look. Layer on the paw gloves and boots last. Skip anything that isn’t brown and furry, Labubu doesn’t wear clothes over its body, so a jacket or accessories on top will just read as a costume of a costume.
Yes. Sony has a live-action movie in development with Paddington director Paul King attached, and Labubu made a surprise appearance at the 2026 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony in June, so this isn’t a trend that peaked in 2024 and quietly died. It’s still mostly recognized by people who follow toy culture or social media though, so don’t expect every relative at a family party to immediately get it.
Nine. The vampire fang set in this list comes with more pairs and sizes than you need, so pick the pair closest to your own tooth size and don’t worry about matching the exact count, from a few feet away nobody is counting.
Kasing Lung, an artist born in Hong Kong and raised in the Netherlands and Belgium. He introduced Labubu in 2015 as part of a picture-book series called The Monsters, inspired by Nordic folklore (Wikipedia), years before Pop Mart turned it into the blind-box figure everyone knows now.
A big part of it traces back to April 2024, when Blackpink’s Lisa was photographed with one clipped to her bag and set off a wave of copycats across Asia and then everywhere else. Pop Mart’s blind-box model, where you don’t know which color you’re getting until you open the box, keeps people buying multiples trying to land a rare one.
Over 300 different colorways exist by now, from the classic brown shown in this guide to pink, black, mint green, and limited collaboration editions. Pink is common enough that it works well as a group costume with the brown version, since people already associate the different colors with each other.
No, but skip them and you’re basically dressed as a brown teddy bear. The mouth is doing as much work as the ears here, so if you’re only willing to commit to one add-on beyond the onesie, make it the fangs, not the paws.
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