Fortnite Guide: How to Get Vini Jr. and the Exclusive BAILA! Emote
Grabbing a football superstar for your locker is easy enough if you have the cash, but securing his exclusive dance is a massive geographical headache.
Fortnite is going all out for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Epic is handing out a free car via Rocket League, but the real draw is the latest addition to the Icon Series. After an early tease in a recent Nike ad, Real Madrid superstar Vinícius Jr. officially dropped into the Item Shop on June 10. If you managed to compete in the recent Vini Jr. Icon Cup, you might have scored his outfit for free. For everyone else, you have to open your wallet and navigate a very weird regional promotion.
The Vini Jr. Item Shop Breakdown
The superstar brings two distinct outfits and a whole locker full of accessories to the storefront. You have until June 20 at 8 PM ET to grab what you want before the shop timer expires and he rotates out of the store completely.
The main skin costs a standard 1,500 V-Bucks on its own, but the bundle offers a decent discount if you want the full matching collection. If you find yourself running low on currency after browsing the new soccer tab, you might want to look into cashing out your old locker mistakes. Check out my Fortnite ticketless item refund guide to see how to claw back your V-Bucks from bugged or controversial purchases without using your limited Return Tickets.
The Secret BAILA! Emote Regional Lock
You might notice a distinct lack of the BAILA! Emote in that standard Item Shop listing. Epic locked this specific dance behind a massive corporate promotion that is going to make your life difficult if you live outside of South America.
The emote is technically free but it is exclusively available to active subscribers of Vivo Brazil. Since Vivo is the largest telecommunications company in Brazil, this World Cup partnership leaves the rest of the global community completely stranded. If you somehow have an active foreign account or a very generous relative overseas, you can take your code straight to the official Fortnite redemption page to claim it.
The Mobile XP Grind
Redeeming the corporate code does not instantly drop the dance into your locker. Epic forces you to complete a specific Mobile Quest first, tasking you with earning exactly 100,000 experience points strictly while playing the mobile version of the game.
Touchscreen controls are an absolute nightmare for building and shotgun duels, so you want to maximize your time without getting wiped out by mobile tryhards. Before you spend ten hours struggling to hit your buttons, check out my Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 3 leveling guide to find the fastest automated Creative map codes and AFK loops to finish the quest instantly.
Sourcing Codes Outside Brazil
If you aren’t a subscriber, your only current path to unlocking the emote is convincing a Vivo Brazil customer to part with their voucher. Naturally, online resellers are already exploiting the regional restriction. Codes are actively hitting secondary markets for upwards of $19.99 (which is an absurd amount of money to spend on ten seconds of digital motion capture).
I highly recommend keeping your credit card in your pocket for now. Epic has a very predictable habit of bringing rare promotional cosmetics to the global Item Shop a few months after their initial event window expires. The community threw a massive fit over rare starter packs like The Ace Pack, which independent sellers flipped for ridiculous prices before Epic quietly put it back into the shop rotation for a fraction of the cost. When BAILA! eventually lands in the standard global shop, it will likely cost a standard 500 V-Bucks. Your smartest move is to exercise some basic patience and let the artificial hype die down.
