Chapter 157 Planet Cybertron
We participated in the Olympic Games for the first time and won 15 gold medals, 8 silver medals, and 9 bronze medals, ranking 4th in the medal list. The dominant sports are shooting, weightlifting, gymnastics and women's teams.
After the Olympics, Liu Hongmin did not return to China immediately. Instead, he held a meeting with representatives from Random House and Hasbro at the Los Angeles office of Transformers.
The Transformers cartoon has been dubbed in English and is ready to be sold in English-speaking countries. Random House and Hasbro both thought it was good. They specially asked the children of employees to take the test, and the children all yelled with excitement. Obviously, both the stories in the cartoons and the animation scenes are in line with the current market in the United States.
Random House has contacted many television stations and wants to conduct bidding auctions. These TV stations are very interested, but are a little dissatisfied with the bidding auction. Random House doesn't care about their dissatisfaction. The highest price is the most reasonable business practice.
Liu Hongmin doesn't care about this. He can get half of the selling price. Naturally, the higher the price, the better.
The Random House representative asked: "Liu, I want to know when the Transformers comic will be completed?"
Liu Hongmin: "It's coming soon, in about half a month. Completed. "
"Great, just in time for the cartoon to air," the Random House representative said happily: "If the comic is sold together with the cartoon, it will sell at least hundreds of thousands more. Ben.”
The representative of Hasbro is also very happy, but he is more concerned about toys.
"Liu, how many types of Transformers can the toy factory make? We need a certain scale so that we can bundle them for sale."
Liu Hongmin thought for a while, "It should be 12 types at the moment. However, by the end of this year, there will be 12 types of Transformers. It should be possible to reach 15 types.”
Haibao company representative shook his head, “12 types are enough for bundled sales, so I suggest controlling the time of new products, preferably one new product every quarter or half a year, so as to benefit. Maximize.”
Liu Hongmin: “Okay!”
This is the same as King Pesticide, the interval between launching new skins is almost three months. In three months, I have almost become tired of playing with new skins, and it’s just time to launch another one.
The same goes for Transformers.
For children in the United States and Europe, their monthly pocket money is only thirty or fifty US dollars. If you save more than ten or twenty dollars every month, you can save enough money for a Transformer in three months.
Even if you didn’t save much in the first two months, but grit your teeth in the third month, or get some advance from your parents, there is no problem in buying Transformers.
Habro is indeed the largest toy manufacturer in the United States. It can be said that it is calculated to the core and wants to rob children of every penny they have.
Liu Hongmin was happy to see the results and emptied the wallets of American and European children. He didn't care at all. After all, part of the money went into his pocket.
Half a month later, the manuscript of the "Transformers" comic was delivered to Xiangjiang. The Transformers Company's Xiangjiang office immediately started working on printing. They acquired a small printing factory in the suburbs of Xiangjiang for transitional use. After the printing plant invested by Random House in Pengcheng starts construction, all printing tasks will be moved there.
China's low labor costs can help Random House save millions or even tens of millions of dollars in wages every year.
Of course, Random House’s other printing plants will not be moved for the time being. After all, it has just been built, and it will take some time to train skilled workers. Therefore, Random House only plans to print the comics of "Detective Conan" and "Transformers" in Pengcheng and then ship them to all over the world.
It just so happens that the toy factory is also in Pengcheng. If the two parties jointly ship, Random House can definitely ship the "Transformers" comics and toys together. In this way, you can save part of the freight, which is simply killing two birds with one stone. Pengcheng has also made a lot of efforts to allow the printing factory to settle in Pengcheng. They provided a lot of policy support. Not only did they grant the vacant land opposite the toy factory to the printing factory, they also helped the printing factory contact domestic printing factories that were not very well-run and recruited many skilled workers.
The English version of "Transformers" was sold in 16 countries and earned more than one million US dollars. Neither Random House nor Hasbro were too interested in this small amount of money. What they were interested in was the influence of the "Transformers" cartoon.
As soon as it started airing, "Transformers" attracted the attention of children. The animation shows a high-tech world. The planet Cybertron is full of all kinds of whimsical ideas, and the weapons of the Transformers are powerful, which immediately arouses children's interest.
Especially those children who have purchased Transformers toys will hold Transformers in their hands every time they watch animation. As soon as a character they own shows up, there's instant buzz.
After an episode is played, they will call their friends to discuss the plot of the animation and argue about who is the strongest Transformer.
Soon, the "Transformers" animation became popular in Europe and the United States, and soon set off a ratings boom. What followed was massive sales of toys and comics. Representatives from Random House and Hasbro looked at the daily financial reports and smiled from ear to ear.
make money! It’s so profitable!
After the "Transformers" animation was broadcast, more than 20 million Transformers were sold in September alone, with sales reaching US$1 billion. Excluding the share given to agents and toy manufacturers, Transformers' net profit reached US$400 million. According to the company's shares, Hasbro can own US$100 million and Random House has US$60 million.
Liu Hongmin was also very happy when he got the news.
However, after he put down the phone, he immediately put the $240 million matter aside.
"Old Ge, why are you here free? Is the project over there?"
Ge Chaoguang nodded, "Yes, the photos have been printed in the book, and we have confirmed that the "
Liu Hongmin didn't ask what the content was. The content of the book that Wang Qingyang risked to get back must be extraordinary.
Ge Chaoguang did not say anything about the content. He signed a confidentiality agreement. The contents of the book cannot be disclosed without decryption. He knew that Liu Hongmin had always wanted to know the result, so he came over to talk to Liu Hongmin.
Sure enough, Liu Hongmin felt relieved when he heard this. He laughed happily. Even though he just knew that his net worth had increased by 600 million US dollars, he was not smiling as brightly as he is now.
“Let’s go and drink!”
Such a blessing, it’s time to realize what you are doing! ! !
So, he went directly to the state-owned hotel and called several tables of people.
“We won’t go home until we get drunk tonight!”
Everyone became curious, “Hongmin, what happy event do you have? Are you so happy?”
Liu Hongmin laughed loudly, “Our country Foreign companies have made a lot of money.”
If Liu Hongmin can call it big money, it must be a lot, and everyone celebrated. Ge Chaoguang, who knew the truth, showed a gentle smile.
(End of this chapter)