{"id":23058,"date":"2025-10-30T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23058\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:20:10","slug":"we-dont-have-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23058\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We don\u2019t have any more\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The K-Pop craze has hit Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d fever continues to take a bite out of the Big Apple as popular costume stores are rapidly selling out of kids\u2019 \u2013 and adults\u2019 \u2013 Halloween costumes from the wildly popular animated Netflix film. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d fever continues to take a bite out of the Big Apple as popular costume stores are rapidly selling out of Halloween costumes from the Netflix film. Netflix<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, the most popular costume is KPop Demon Hunters,\u201d said Brian Clark, owner of longtime Manhattan Halloween staple Abracadabra.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Netflix movies costumes are most popular among kids, the store also carries adult sizes, he said, with replica outfits costing parents an average of $60 to $70.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Spitz, a 25-year-old Abracadabra employee, said the store was quickly ransacked of KPop Demon Hunter merch, \u201cwhich we don\u2019t have any more of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah, a six-year employee in the village\u2019s Spirit Halloween outpost, agreed that the \u201cmost popular costumes for kids would be KPOP Demon Hunters\u201d this year, with the company\u2019s officially-licensed kids\u2019 and adults\u2019 costumes from the movie completely sold out online.<\/p>\n<p>Parents are shelling out an average of $60 to $70 on the kids\u2019 costumes, one Spirit Halloween worker said. Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>The workers\u2019 accounts track with Google Trends data, noting the highest-trending costume in the New York City metro area is Rumi, of \u201cKPop Demon Hunters,\u201d followed by Labubu dolls, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/17\/lifestyle\/top-halloween-costumes-for-2025-kpop-demon-hunters-wicked-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Trends.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The third, fourth and fifth spots on the list all rep \u201cKPop Demon Hunters,\u201d with Mira, Zoey and Jinu, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The film has such a stranglehold on New Yorkers that its main stars <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/23\/entertainment\/kpop-demon-hunters-stars-light-up-empire-state-building\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lit up the Empire State Building in August<\/a>, and the movie musical \u2013 which touts a chart-topping soundtrack \u2013 is Netflix\u2019s most-watched animated original film of all time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe maximum I\u2019ve seen someone spend [on a costume] is almost $10,000,\u201d said Joseph Williams, a four-year Abracadabra employee. Estrella McDaniel<\/p>\n<p>The costume-buying craze comes as Halloween spending is expected to shatter records at $13.1 billion this year \u2014 eclipsing the previous record of $12.2 billion set in 2023, according to the National Retail Federation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nrf.com\/research-insights\/holiday-data-and-trends\/halloween\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">annual consumer survey<\/a>. 71% of expenses are expected to go toward costumes.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Alongside outfits from the animated movie musical, Abracadabra is peddling a slew of perpetually-popular pieces, Clark said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cowgirls and witch costumes are selling this year, as well as masks for famous slashers Michael Meyers, Freddy Krueger and Ghostface \u2013 the latter of which is highly sought after by both genders, according to Spirit Halloween employee Jeffrey Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>The highest-trending costume in the New York City area is Rumi (from Netflix\u2019s KPop Demon Hunters), according to Google Trends. WireImage<\/p>\n<p>Joselynne Ramirez, an 18-year-old Abracadabra employee, believes the costume for Art the Clown \u2013 the slasher from the Terrifier movies \u2013 is one of the most popular costumes at the store, as Terrifier masks sold out scarily fast in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>But the real shock, she said, is the sticker price for some more elaborate costumes:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they\u2019re trying to buy a whole complete costume \u2013 wig included \u2013 that could be about $200,\u201d Ramirez said, \u201cbut if it\u2019s a rental costume, maybe [it would cost] about $300 or more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering the accessories and everything, I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll go over my budget,\u201d said shopper Angelica Salbagori at Abracadabra Halloween store. Estrella McDaniel<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe maximum I\u2019ve seen someone spend is almost $10,000,\u201d said Joseph Williams, a four-year store employee, \u201cbecause not only were they paying for costumes and accessories but also the props we have \u2013 so they\u2019ll rent out costumes and props and they spend a lot of money for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One shopper, 29-year-old drag performer Dinae Anderson, admitted to spending nearly $250 on their vampire bride costume already, \u201cand I\u2019m probably gonna spend another $50 here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit of a shock actually because coming from Italy obviously the prices are different,\u201d student Angelica Salbagori, of Italy, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was planning on spending a maximum of $50-$70,\u201d said Salbagori, 21, who is planning both a vampire and \u201cTomb Raider\u201d Lara Croft costume: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut considering the accessories and everything I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll go over my budget.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The K-Pop craze has hit Halloween. \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d fever continues to take a bite out of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11843,57,9,197,11,10,58],"class_list":["post-23058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-halloween-costumes","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-life","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}