Pop Mart has a real official store on AliExpress, and once you count shipping it's often cheaper than buying from popmart.com. That's why so many UK and EU collectors end up there.
It's also where people get caught out — by stores copying each other's names, by listings that are invisible from your country, and by prices that jump for no obvious reason.
Here's what to check before you buy. We watch these listings around the clock, so this is what we see happening rather than what we've been told.
The three rules
1. Start with the official store. Pop Mart's own AliExpress storefront (store ID 5249243) is real, sells sealed stock at retail price, and it's the one we watch most closely. If a series is in stock there, buy it there.
2. Check the store ID, not the store name. Anyone can call their shop anything. The number in the store URL is the only thing that actually identifies a seller. Two shops called "MOLLY Store" can be completely different businesses — more on that below.
3. Pay through AliExpress, always. Orders paid for on AliExpress are covered by buyer protection — if something doesn't turn up, or turns up wrong, you can raise a dispute and get your money back. If a seller asks you to pay some other way, walk away.
What to expect from the official store
We've been watching the official store since May. Three things come up over and over.
- Restocks happen a lot, and they don't hang about. In one month we watched 44 restocks, and 34 of them sold out again — most within half a day, one in under a minute. So missing a drop usually isn't the end of it. But a restock isn't something you can leave until the weekend.
- New series land at different times depending on where you are. The same series gets its own listing per region, and they don't go live together. Roughly: EU-Excluded in the small hours UK time, EU late morning, UK early afternoon. If a drop looks like it's missing, it might just not be your turn yet. Timings are on our release calendar.
- UK, EU and EU-Excluded listings hold separate stock. One selling out tells you nothing about the others, so check every version your address can order from.
How AliExpress Pop Mart listings actually work
Three things confuse nearly everyone at first.
One listing can hold several versions, and the price you see is the cheapest one. Most Pop Mart listings sell single blind boxes and whole sets together. While singles are in stock, you see the single price. When singles run out, the price on screen jumps to the set price. Nothing's gone wrong — it's a different thing, and it costs more. Open the listing and check what you're actually putting in your basket.
Your delivery country changes what you can even see. AliExpress shows different stores and listings depending on the country set at the top of the page. A shop your friend in the US swears by might not show up for you at all. Set your real delivery country before you decide something isn't available.
It's slower than buying at home. Most of it ships from China, so two to three weeks to the UK is normal. That's the trade for the price.
Store directory
One of these is Pop Mart. The rest are independent shops.
The official store is Pop Mart selling its own stock. The others are separate businesses that buy Pop Mart product and list it themselves. That's a normal part of how AliExpress works, and the shops here are established sellers we've been seeing consistently since May or June.
What the tables are for is the middle column. Check the ID against the number in the store's URL before you buy, because the name on its own can belong to anyone.
Serving the UK / Europe
| Store | Store ID | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Pop Mart Official Store | 5249243 | Official |
| MOLLY Store | 912689421 | Reseller |
| Haluwa Store | 1104923809 | Reseller |
| DIMOO Store | 912456704 | Reseller |
| Pop Mart Toy Store | 911689132 | Reseller |
| Nice Store | 1103608040 | Reseller |
| Best Sink Store | 1925624 | Reseller |
| TICIFY Store | 1102440770 | Reseller |
Serving the US
| Store | Store ID | Type |
|---|---|---|
| MOLLY Store (US catalogue) | 1101957369 | Reseller |
| DIMOO Store (US catalogue) | 1101892052 | Reseller |
| HULUWA POP Store | 1104921860 | Reseller |
| PopMart Toy Store | 1101672686 | Reseller |
| POP MART TOYS Store | 1101878150 | Reseller |
| NICE Store | 1103614028 | Reseller |
| Best Sink Store (US catalogue) | 1101138726 | Reseller |
| GOKU Figure Toys Store | 1103515237 | Reseller |
What "reseller" means here. These shops aren't Pop Mart, so your order is with them rather than with Pop Mart. The usual sensible checks apply: buy sealed, look at the order count and reviews on the listing itself, and if a price is miles below retail, work out why before you buy.
The copycat-name trap
The shops serving the UK and the US are almost entirely different sets — and several US ones use names near-identical to the established UK stores. Same name, different ID, different business. There's a "MOLLY Store" on both sides and they have nothing to do with each other. Same for several others in the tables above.
So a name you recognise from a friend or a TikTok comment might not be the shop you're looking at. Before you buy:
- Open the store page and check the ID in the URL against the tables above.
- Look at when the shop opened and how many followers it has.
- Be most careful with a familiar name attached to a new shop with barely anything in it.
None of this means a copycat name is dishonest — "MOLLY" and "DIMOO" are obvious names for any toy seller to pick. It means the name on its own tells you nothing. The ID does.
Tell us how a store treated you
We can measure what the stores list. We can't measure how they treat you — how long orders really took, what happened when something went wrong, whether the box turned up sealed. We'd rather have nothing there than make it up.
So if you've ordered Pop Mart from AliExpress, tell us how it went on the Shelfd Discord — the shop, the store ID if you have it, what you ordered, how long it took and what turned up. We'll add real reports here and credit you.
We've been tracking these stores continuously since 12 May 2026. This page was last reviewed on 29 August 2026. The store links on this page are plain links — we earn nothing if you use them. Some buy links elsewhere on Shelfd are affiliate links, which help pay for the radar at no extra cost to you. Either way, it never changes which stores appear here or what we say about them.