Followers of the South Korean Netflix hit “Squid Recreation” are getting an early Christmas current. Earlier than the second season of “Squid Recreation” drops on December 26, popular culture vogue firm Loungefly is bringing “Squid Recreation” impressed attire to the plenty within the type of two backpacks.
Simply in case you missed the “Squid Recreation” phenomenon when it premiered again in 2021, enable me to refresh your reminiscence. The sequence, created by Hwang Dong-hyuk for the streamer, imagines a world the place 456 gamers hailing from South Korea are all given an ominous provide: they will compete in a sequence of kids’s video games (together with the titular “squid sport,” a South Korean sport typically merely known as “squid”) to win an astounding amount of cash, however gamers quickly notice the sport is a lot extra harmful than they thought. (No, actually — they discover that out the onerous manner when, throughout a sport of “pink gentle, inexperienced gentle,” anybody who would not cease at a pink gentle is summarily executed.) All through the present’s first season, we comply with Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), the 456th participant, who finally ends up triumphing over his fellow contestants … and who finally ends up discovering a very disturbing secret concerning the sport within the course of.
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Not lengthy after their “Nightmare Earlier than Christmas” assortment arrived in time for Halloween and Christmas, Loungefly is introducing a mini backpack and crossbody themed after “Squid Recreation,” beginning with a miniature “Squid Recreation” backpack impressed by the enormous piggybank seen within the sequence. The golden swine holds the grand prize of ₩45.6 billion (in South Korean received) prize, and it is prominently featured on the very high of the bag, with the infamous pink suit-clad guards circling the underside of the backpack. One thing notably cool concerning the piggybank characteristic is that it is fabricated from PVC, which supplies it a signature sheen, and as for the symbols on the guards’ masks, they really glow at nighttime.
However wait, there’s extra!
Squid Recreation’s Dalgona sweet problem takes the highlight
There’s additionally a crossbody bag, clearly the smaller possibility of the 2 within the assortment, however it’s full of considerate particulars and references the present’s notorious Dalgona sweet sport, the place contestants have a set period of time to carve one in every of 5 shapes out of delicate sugar sweet with out breaking the form — or they face extreme penalties.
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The crossbody bag comes full with a two-sided piece of “Dalgona sweet” with the umbrella image (probably the most troublesome one by far) on one aspect and the triangle on the opposite. Since it is also within the form of the tin that homes the sweet disks within the sequence, it actually appears to be like just like the prop. It additionally encompasses a removable coin purse and what Loungefly calls a “die-cut applique of the chopping utensil.”
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“Squid Recreation” season 1 is on Netflix now alongside the (kind of baffling) actuality present impressed by the sequence, “Squid Recreation: The Problem.” The second season of “Squid Recreation” premieres on December 26, 2024.
