Nevertheless, focusing on other issues of Kpop life would have
been a distraction and taken away from the demon theme.
Probably better they didn't try to do both in the limited time for the movie.

I don't disagree. I even laughed morbidly when the girls kept cutting short their well earned (and needed) rest "for the fans". My previous reply was simply in response to your assumption that the "Kpop angle was an afterthought". It clearly wasn't, even if Maggie Kang chose to ignore the darker realities of K-Pop stardom/fandom.

And just before that we'll see Huntrix next at the Macy's Thanksgiving parade on NBC

I wouldn't be surprised if they also wind up performing on the DWTS finale two days earlier...

Would have broken the record this week but TSwift is on top
for the fourth week in a row. Some new mixes were released
last week, so that'll last a bit longer...

Golden is #2 again but has moved back to #1 on Spotify.

Fallon performance now at 32M views after one month.
Other Fallon videos with 30M views took at least 6 years to get there...

Taylor Swift ruins everything.

Yeah, bad timing. Time is running out for Golden to catch the
record as the Christmas songs will hit the charts in December...

TONS of KDH costumes in my neighborhood on Halloween. Definitely most popular with under-10 girls. I don't have kids, so I didn't know if adolescents were also into the movie. Maybe they are, but it's just more embarrassing to wear it around. Our neighborhood has a major Korean population as well, so I'm sure that didn't hurt.

Two houses also went with the movie for their theme this year, including one of the "cool houses" that always has the most decorations on its block.

At the singalong I saw a little kid in a Saja Boy costume, complete with demon lines on his face

George Kittle of the 49ers loves this movie and talked about it during a moment in a post game press conference

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQkfU..._web_copy_link

Likes Golden too

You know you wanted to hear a classical string quartet play Golden

Wouldn't be surprised to have an orchestra version of Golden during
the Oscars performance, hopefully without the backing vocals,
so we can hear the other two sing...

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/k...se-1236570536/

2029 is a really long time and some young kids might age out by then. But this isn’t South Park, these kind of movies take time. Plus EJAE and her producers will need time to compose new songs.

Figured it would be a ways off even when they did officially announce something. Considering that it ‘hit’ with all ages and not just kids, though, I doubt much of the audience will be lost to aging out. And even then, if it truly has legs, a whole new cohort will be aging in to it that wasn’t old enough yet to fully appreciate the first one but will at least be aware of it.

I’m curious how they’ll sustain interest between now and then with a handful of songs that will inevitably fade (or maybe even become tiresome to some folks, the way ‘Let It Go’ did), and the patchy merch situation. Hopefully they’ll maintain a suitable level of awareness without it becoming old hat, while also letting the three singers grow their solo careers without constantly having to regroup to perform the songs. Shouldn’t be too hard to do these days, but there can be a fine line.

(On a wishlist note, it might be cool if they could round up a few more Korean-American ‘names’ to lend their voices. And maybe even some Korean-Canadian ones in keeping with the director’s background, cough-SandraOh-cough. )

True enough. I’d imagine EJAE still has a lot of great songwriting years ahead of her, so presumably she’ll be able to equal her work on the first movie, and hopefully the production will have an increased budget (not that the first one was cheap by a long shot) that will allow them to rope in more heavy production hitters from the K-pop machine, along with some ‘name’ acts to add to the soundtrack(s).

No worries, Golden is iconic and you'll be hearing it
at sporting events/ceremonies for years to come.

Heck, you know you hit it big time when King Charles has it played

Grammy nominations for Golden:

Song Of The Year
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Best Song Written For Visual Media

KPDH also for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

That's not the only song by a Korean artist in the mix this year:

APT. is nominated for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year
and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

While having both songs nominated is nice, that likely is going
to split the vote, hurting both songs chances at winning...

Mattel announced their collectors edition dolls, a three set for... 150 bucks. But they do look decent.

https://creations.mattel.com/product...e-3-pack-jrn62

That site is going to crash when this goes live, guaranteed. November 12, 9am Pacific, ships by... October. Yeesh.

I’ve noticed on TikTok a lot of bootleg K-pop Demon Hunter toys being for sale on their shop.

Surely Mattel will have cheaper dolls for sale much earlier than October, available at Target and Walmart and the like. But at this point they're going to miss Xmas.

Cool they are holding their weapons. Well, ready in time for next year's Christmas

They're not REALLY holding their weapons though. The hands are open and some of the pictures look doctored, while in others you can see the ugly "doll clips" they use to simulate dolls holding stuff. I doubt they even stand on their own. It's par for the course for collectors barbie like stuff.

I subscribe to their ‘Mattel Creations’ emails and while they often have crash-worthy items in various categories, I don’t recall it actually crashing. However, this kind of way overpriced stuff nevertheless does have a habit of ‘selling out’ super fast, even though they don’t always show ‘limited stock’ counters or whatever on the listings.

Also agree that the pics look a bit wonky or doctored, or might simply be renderings for now. Perhaps that’s all they’ve got this early on.

While figurines and action figures aren’t my thing anyway, that year-long timeline is apparently fine for the mostly adult collectors who will pony up for these things and eventually stick them on a shelf, but it seems unfortunate they didn’t first think of all the young kids who would absolutely jump at more affordable versions that they can actually, you know, play with! Everything has to be “premium” these days. Sigh. Even our movie collecting hobby isn’t immune to it, really.

Of course, as DJariya noted the black market has already taken care of a lot of things, as it has all along with this movie (Etsy also has a lot of merch now, some of it really dodgy, others quite decent). I’m sure the ‘fast’ design/manufacture quality won’t be up to the standards of even a ‘regular retail’ line that Mattel might offer, ohh, several years from now, but for a lot of kids around the world it’ll get the job done for a fraction of even that price.

This is for sure to lock in the collector's dollars and there will be much cheaper "regular" barbies for these on store shelves, just probably not by Xmas. There's no way this is their only (or even first to come out) offering.

I hope you’re right. Mattel Creations does do a lot of premium stuff for which there aren’t ‘standard’ versions, though. I likewise have no doubt we’ll see cheaper retail offerings of some sort . . . eventually, maybe even by surprise, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if they appeared after these fancy ones, or were held back until closer to the sequel actually being physically in production.

Speaking of Barbies proper, considering the staggering number of deluxe Barbies that Mattel Creations has put out over the last few years and months (<worth scrolling) – in pretty much all ethnicities and with many pop-culture/celeb tie-ins – I’d be surprised if they weren’t working on a limited edition KPDH version of their Asian Barbie. The foundational doll already exists, so it’s just a matter of ‘makeup’, a costume and accessories, and of course a hefty price tag.

They're about what I expected from Mattel. Not terrible but rather underwhelming. But that price? Sheesh!