Chapter 157 Planet Cybertron
We won 15 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 9 bronze medals in our first Olympic Games, ranking fourth in the medal table. Our strengths were in shooting, weightlifting, gymnastics and the women's team.
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 Transformers company's Los Angeles office.
The Transformers cartoon has been dubbed in English and is ready to be sold in English-speaking countries. Random House and Hasbro both think it is good. They specially asked their employees' children to evaluate it, and the children screamed with excitement. Obviously, both the story and the pictures in the cartoon are suitable for the current American market.
Random House has contacted many TV stations and wants to conduct a bidding auction. These TV stations are very interested, but they are a little dissatisfied with the bidding auction. Random House does not care about their dissatisfaction. The highest bidder wins is the most reasonable business behavior.
Liu Hongmin didn't care about this. He could get half of the selling price, so naturally the higher the price, the better.
The Random House representative asked, "Liu, I want to know, when will the Transformers comics be finished?"
Liu Hongmin: "It's almost done. It will be completed in about half a month."
"That's great, it's just in time for the cartoon to air." The Random House representative said happily, "If the comics are sold together with the cartoon, at least hundreds of thousands more copies can be sold."
The Hasbro representative was also very happy, but he was more concerned about the toys.
"Liu, how many types of Transformers can the toy factory make? We need a certain scale so that we can sell them together."
Liu Hongmin thought for a moment and said, "Currently, there should be 12 species. However, by the end of this year, we should be able to reach 15 species."
The Hasbro representative shook his head and said, "12 products are enough for bundled sales, so I suggest controlling the timing of new product launches. It would be best to launch a new product every quarter or half a year, so as to maximize profits."
Liu Hongmin: “Sure!”
This is just like King of Glory, the interval between launching new skins is about three months. Three months is enough time for people to get tired of playing with new skins, so it is just the right time to launch another one.
The same is true for Transformers.
Children in the US and Europe only have about 30 to 50 dollars of pocket money each month. If they save a little, they can save 10 to 20 dollars a month, which is enough to buy a Transformer in three months.
Even if you don't save much in the first two months, you can grit your teeth in the third month, or ask your parents for an advance, and buy Transformers.
Hasbro is worthy of being the largest toy manufacturer in the United States. It is calculating to the core and wants to squeeze every penny out of children.
Liu Hongmin was happy to see this happen. He didn't care at all about emptying the wallets of American and European children. After all, some of the money went into his pocket.
Half a month later, the manuscript of the "Transformers" comics arrived in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong office of Transformers Company immediately started to work on printing. They bought a small printing factory in the suburbs of Hong Kong for transitional use. As soon as the printing factory invested by Random House in Pengcheng started operation, all printing tasks were moved there.
China's low labor costs can help Random House save millions or even tens of millions of dollars in wages each year.
Of course, Random House's printing plants in other places will not be moved for the time being. After all, they have 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 parts of the world.
The toy factory happened to be in Pengcheng, so if the two sides jointly shipped the goods, Random House could ship the Transformers comics and toys together. This would save some shipping costs, killing two birds with one stone. Pengcheng also made a lot of efforts to allow the printing factory to settle down in Pengcheng. They provided a lot of policy support, not only granting the vacant land opposite the toy factory to the printing factory, but also helping the printing factory to contact domestic printing factories that were not doing well and recruiting a lot of skilled workers.
The English version of Transformers was sold in 16 countries and earned more than one million US dollars. Random House and Hasbro did not pay much attention to this small amount of money. What they valued was the influence of the Transformers cartoon.
As soon as it was first aired, Transformers attracted the attention of children. The animation showed a high-tech world, the planet Cybertron was full of all kinds of fantastic ideas, and the weapons of the Transformers were powerful, which immediately aroused the interest of children.
Especially those children who have bought Transformers toys, every time they watch the animation, they will hold the Transformers in their hands. Once the characters they own appear, they will immediately scream.
After an episode is aired, they will call their friends to discuss the plot of the animation and argue about who is the most powerful Transformer.
Soon, the Transformers animation became popular in Europe and the United States, and soon set off a viewing boom. With it came a large sales of toys and comics. Representatives of Random House and Hasbro looked at the daily financial reports and smiled from ear to ear.
Make money! Too much money!
After the broadcast of the Transformers animation, more than 9 million Transformers were sold in September alone, with sales reaching $2000 billion. Excluding the share given to agents and toy factories, the Transformers Company made a net profit of $10 million. According to the company's shares, Hasbro could have $4 million and Random House could have $1 million.
Liu Hongmin was also very happy to receive the news.
However, after he hung up the phone, he immediately put the matter of $ million aside.
"Old Ge, how come you have time to come here? Has the project come to an end?"
Ge Chaoguang nodded, "Yes, the photos have been printed in the book, and we have confirmed the content of the book."
Liu Hongmin didn't ask what the contents were. He knew that the book that Wang Qingyang risked his life to get back must have something extraordinary in it.
Ge Chaoguang did not say anything about the contents. He signed a confidentiality agreement. Without decryption, the contents of the book could not be disclosed. He knew that Liu Hongmin had always wanted to know the result, so he came to tell 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 6 million US dollars, he didn't laugh as brightly as he did now.
"Let's go drink!"
Such a blessing, it should be known as the Three Great Whites!!!
So he went directly to the state-owned restaurant and called several tables of people.
"We won't go home until we're drunk tonight!"
Everyone became curious, "Hongmin, what's the good news? Why are you so happy?"
Liu Hongmin laughed, "My overseas companies have made a lot of money."
To be called a big sum by Liu Hongmin, it must be a lot, and everyone celebrated. Ge Chaoguang, who knew the truth, showed a gentle smile.
(End of this chapter)
