Pop Mart opens first Berlin store to "endless" queues


By Chu Yi
  • World
  • Saturday, 26 Jul 2025

BERLIN, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Not even the rainy weather could dampen the enthusiasm of hundreds of devoted fans who queued for kilometers outside a major Berlin shopping center early Friday morning, eagerly awaiting the opening of China's toy-maker Pop Mart's first store in Germany.

By the time the doors opened at 10 a.m. local time, the queue of people with umbrellas and camping chairs, fizzing with excitement, had already wrapped around the building. Some fans had traveled distances of up to 500 kilometers, just to get their hands on Labubu, the wildly popular plush collectible.

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