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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nicole Wootton-Cane

Fake Labubus make up 90 per cent of toys seized at UK border

Fake Labubu dolls make up 90 per cent of potentially “dangerous” fake toys coming into the UK, according to border force chiefs.

Agents have seized more than 259,000 counterfeit toys at the border so far this year, worth around £3.5 m, new Home Office data shows. They said around 236,000 of these were knock-off versions of the collectible Pop Mart monster dolls, which have prompted long queues and bedlam inside shops after going viral.

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