Jin Has a ‘Special Challenge for ARMY’ & Launches ‘The Astronaut’ Merch
With the holidays right around the corner, BTS ' JIN is celebrating the release of his single "The Astronaut" with an extensive merch drop that ARMY will undoubtedly covet. Fitting in with the track's space theme, the singer released a full line of items inspired by a tiny friend called Wootteo, he revealed in a video posted on Thursday (Dec. 1).
"To introduce Wootteo … as I was making the album, I carried him around the airport and he was even at our concert," Jin explained. "But since I will be busy with my schedule, I hoped Wootteo could be with you on my behalf. And that's how this cute guy came to be."
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Wootteo comes in two plush varieties — a smaller version varying in sizes, and a tall body-sized pillow. The Wootteo motif extends to "Astronaut" themed-pajamas, magnets, key rings, an ID card holder and more.
Jin's video also saw him participating in what his video called a "special challenge for ARMY," which features him playing the dalgona cookie game — as seen in the popular Netflix show Squid Game — in which he has to cut a random shape into the cookie in three minutes. The prize? A Wootteo magnet set. Other challenges Jin completed included an an acupuncture triathlon and a task completed by special guest J-Hope, who is tasked with finding Jin's Wootteo, amongs other fun shenanigans.
Fans looking to win the prizes Jin interacted with can participate by uploading a drawn photo of Wootteo to social media or Weverse and using the hashtags #Jin #TheAstronaut and #Wootteo_ARMY_Event.
See the full line of merch from "The Astronaut" and check out Jin's special challenges in the video above.
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