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LaLaport BBCC · 2026

MapleStorySEA × Baito Group

Real-life
NPCs.

MapleStorySEA’s Crown Loot Drop at LaLaport.
NPC crew, supervision and event video.

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ClientMapleStorySEA (PlayPark)
LocationLaLaport Bukit Bintang City Centre, Kuala Lumpur
Event dates20–21 June 2026
Our roleNPC crew, supervision & event video
Two crew members seen from behind in black tees printed with ‘NPC’ and a crowned mushroom, beside a crew member holding up a MapleStorySEA ‘Win Rewards Up to RM100!’ sign, while shoppers queue with their phones in a LaLaport atrium.
Sunday 21 June, 1.28pm: the NPC crew and a line of shoppers in a LaLaport atrium.

The project

How Baito put MapleStorySEA’s NPCs on the floor at LaLaport

Event crewSupervisionEvent video

In a game, an NPC is a non-player character. At LaLaport, the NPCs were Baito’s crew, in black MapleStorySEA tees with ‘NPC’ printed on the back.

Crown Loot Drop was MapleStorySEA’s two-day push at LaLaport Bukit Bintang City Centre on 20 and 21 June 2026. The crew worked the mall from 12pm to 4pm each day with reward signs, Crown Loot Drop posters and a portable capsule machine.

PlayPark, MapleStorySEA’s publisher, booked Baito directly. Baito put 10 extrovert crew on the floor each day, with its own supervision, and filmed the first day for an event highlight and a social reel.

2Event days
10Baito crew per day
4Hours on the floor each day

Event days and hours are from the event schedule (20–21 June 2026, 12pm–4pm). Crew per day is Baito’s extrovert crew on the floor each day, as booked by PlayPark; supervisors are not counted. These are Baito’s own delivery counts, not audience figures.

01The brief

Two days.
One loot drop.

Crown Loot Drop ran over a weekend: Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June 2026, from 12pm to 4pm each day.

PlayPark, the game’s publisher, brought Baito in directly, with no agency in between. Baito’s job was the floor team, 10 extrovert crew a day plus supervision, and four hours of filming on the Saturday for a 16:9 event highlight and a 9:16 social reel.

The posters carried the campaign line: ‘Meet Lynn & the Crown Heroes! Win exclusive loot!’ The crew’s job was to take it to shoppers across the mall, from the food court to the outdoor lawn.

Ten crew in black MapleStorySEA tees pose in a LaLaport atrium with two ‘Win Rewards Up to RM100!’ signs, two ‘FREE GACHA!’ cut-outs and a Crown Loot Drop poster.
Day one, 12.11pm: ten crew in MapleStorySEA tees, with the signs, cut-outs and poster.
Crew in MapleStorySEA tees line up on LaLaport’s outdoor lawn with reward signs, Crown Loot Drop posters, ‘FREE GACHA!’ cut-outs and a MapleStorySEA capsule machine on a stand.
20 June, 12.33pm: the crew and the capsule machine on the outdoor lawn.

02The NPCs

The NPCs,
in person.

The crew wore black tees: ‘MapleStorySEA’ and a gold maple leaf on the front, ‘NPC’ and a crowned mushroom on the back. In the game, NPCs are the characters you don’t play. Here, shoppers could walk up to them.

Ten of them worked the floor each day, with Baito supervising.

They carried the campaign kit with them: ‘Win Rewards Up to RM100!’ signs, ‘FREE GACHA!’ cut-outs, Crown Loot Drop posters and a portable MapleStorySEA capsule machine.

Four crew in MapleStorySEA tees under a ‘Win Rewards Up to RM100!’ sign; one holds a portable MapleStorySEA capsule machine filled with coloured capsules.
The front of the tee, and the portable MapleStorySEA capsule machine.

03On the floor

Food court to
outdoor lawn.

The crew moved through LaLaport in groups, from the food court and the indoor atriums to the main entrance and the outdoor lawn.

Wherever they stopped, the signs went up. Shoppers posed with the crew and read the posters, phones in hand.

  1. 01 / Food court

    The food court

    Signs up at the food court entrance, and group photos with shoppers between the stalls.

  2. 02 / Indoors

    Atriums and concourses

    The walkways inside the mall, where the Sunday line formed in front of the NPC crew.

  3. 03 / Entrance

    The main entrance

    Below the LaLaport and Mitsui Outlet Park tower, where day two ended.

  4. 04 / Outdoors

    The outdoor lawn

    The lawn beside the mall, with the capsule machine on a stand.

Crew members, one in an NPC tee holding a cut-out, stand with shoppers looking at their phones and papers on a mall concourse.
Crew and shoppers on a concourse.
Eleven crew in MapleStorySEA tees with signs, posters, cut-outs and the capsule machine below the LaLaport and Mitsui Outlet Park tower at the mall entrance.
21 June, 3.52pm: the end of day two, at the main entrance.

04Free gacha

Scan, register,
claim a free pull.

The Crown Loot Drop poster spelled out the offer: ‘Scan here to register & claim your free gacha pull!’ The ‘Win Rewards Up to RM100!’ signs, held up high, did the shouting.

Then came the capsule machine. A crew member held it while shoppers gave it a turn, and they opened their capsules there and then.

On the Sunday at 1.28pm, a line of shoppers with their phones out stretched across an atrium in front of the NPC crew.

A crew member holds up the Crown Loot Drop poster for a shopper while another crew member holds a ‘FREE GACHA!’ cut-out.
The poster asked shoppers to scan, register and claim a free gacha pull.
A shopper holds an opened pink capsule and a slip of paper, facing a crew member in an NPC tee and another crew member in a MapleStorySEA tee.
A shopper with an opened capsule.

05The results

Two days.
Ten crew a day.

10

Baito crew per day
LaLaport Bukit Bintang City Centre · 20–21 June 2026

Event days220–21 June
Hours on the floor412pm–4pm daily
Filming4hours, 20 June

Baito held the floor for both shifts: 10 extrovert crew each day plus supervision, from 12pm to 4pm on 20 and 21 June, and four hours of filming on the Saturday for a 16:9 event highlight and a 9:16 social reel.

These are Baito’s own delivery counts, not audience figures.

For game publishers planning a mall drop, the value is one partner for the crew, the supervision and the film: a team that looks the part and goes where the shoppers are.

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