Pembroke Pines gets South Florida’s first Pop Mart store
Pop Mart opened its first South Florida store at Pembroke Lakes Mall, after Dolphin Mall’s Labubu lines showed the blind-box craze already had a Broward-area audience.
Pop Mart opened its first South Florida brick-and-mortar store at Pembroke Lakes Mall, putting the blind-box toy chain between Edge and Sunglass Hut in Pembroke Pines. The mall now lists the shop as “Now Open,” with hours from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The opening followed a June 17 Instagram announcement from the mall that helped set off the latest wave of buzz around the store. For Broward shoppers, the appeal is the same mix that has made Pop Mart a social-media fixture elsewhere: mystery-box collectible figures, limited drops and characters that turn a mall visit into a hunt.
That kind of retail has already shown it can pull young customers into South Florida shopping centers. At Dolphin Mall in West Miami-Dade, a Pop Mart vending-machine setup drew long lines and quick sellouts for Labubu figures, and one local TV segment described the mall as the only place in South Florida where buyers could get one in person at the time. The Pembroke Pines store gives that demand a permanent address in Broward County.
Pop Mart’s own U.S. site says the company operates more than 350 offline stores and 2,000 roboshops across more than 23 countries and regions. Its 2025 annual-results materials say the brand’s global consumer-access network reached shoppers in nearly 100 countries and regions. That scale helps explain why a mall in Pembroke Pines became the first South Florida landing spot.
The company describes itself as a market-leading character-based entertainment company and a global champion of designer toy culture, a positioning that fits the way it is expanding in the United States. Its U.S. store locator already shows multiple stores and roboshops in states including California, New Jersey and Washington, signaling a wider retail rollout rather than a one-off mall debut.
For Pembroke Lakes Mall, the opening adds a brand with built-in youth appeal and social-media reach to a shopping center that is competing for attention in a crowded Broward market. For Pembroke Pines, it gives the city another recognizable consumer draw at a time when specialty retail is increasingly used to keep mall traffic moving.
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