Followers of the South Korean Netflix hit “Squid Sport” are getting an early Christmas current. Earlier than the second season of “Squid Sport” drops on December 26, popular culture style firm Loungefly is bringing “Squid Sport” impressed attire to the plenty within the type of two backpacks.
Simply in case you missed the “Squid Sport” 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 supply: they will compete in a sequence of kids’s video games (together with the titular “squid recreation,” a South Korean recreation generally merely known as “squid”) to win an astounding amount of cash, however gamers quickly understand the sport is a lot extra harmful than they thought. (No, actually — they discover that out the exhausting approach when, throughout a recreation of “crimson mild, inexperienced mild,” anybody who would not cease at a crimson mild is summarily executed.) All through the present’s first season, we observe 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 in regards to the recreation 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 Sport,” beginning with a miniature “Squid Sport” backpack impressed by the enormous piggybank seen within the sequence. The golden swine holds the grand prize of ₩45.6 billion (in South Korean gained) prize, and it is prominently featured on the very prime of the bag, with the infamous pink suit-clad guards circling the underside of the backpack. One thing notably cool in regards to the piggybank characteristic is that it is product of PVC, which provides it a signature sheen, and as for the symbols on the guards’ masks, they really glow at nighttime.
However wait, there’s extra!
Squid Sport’s Dalgona sweet problem takes the highlight
There’s additionally a crossbody bag, clearly the smaller choice of the 2 within the assortment, but it surely’s full of considerate particulars and references the present’s notorious Dalgona sweet recreation, the place contestants have a set period of time to carve one in all 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 seems to be just like the prop. It additionally incorporates a removable coin purse and what Loungefly calls a “die-cut applique of the chopping utensil.”
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“Squid Sport” season 1 is on Netflix now alongside the (form of baffling) actuality present impressed by the sequence, “Squid Sport: The Problem.” The second season of “Squid Sport” premieres on December 26, 2024.