Hearing that Liu Linlin didn't know what the figure was, as the party being interviewed, Shirai Mikoto felt a little headache.

That's right, the female tourist who led the team that Liu Linlin happened to interview was Ms. Mikoto Shirai, who has now become a famous game console dealer in Tokyo {Actually, she is married, so she should change her surname, but she is too lazy to change it}

Since she started to open an arcade with Han Ting for a while six years ago, she entered the industry, and then she relied on the first-mover advantage to get out of control, and now she has also saved hundreds of millions of yen in the family business.

Since last year, she has also started a fan club cLub in Tokyo based on her interests, not entirely to make money, and has gathered a group of rich game hobbies and scumbags, and often organizes activities. No, taking advantage of the craze of going to China to find their roots that began at the end of last year, we organized a group to travel together.

It took her some thought to organize the wording, and it was not easy to explain Liu Linlin's question clearly:

"You don't know what a figure is? uh...... This word, you can understand it as a kind of more accurate, hard plastic character model. Actually, it doesn't have to be a character.,Gundam mecha.,Can't you also make figurines?。 ”

Who made the pronunciation of each kanji in a language like Japanese have nothing to do with the glyphs? So if you don't know a word, you don't know what you're talking about just by hearing the syllables.

For example, in Japanese, "sheep" is roughly pronounced "eat chicken", while "mutton" is directly pronounced as "matteng", and there is no syllable related to sheep at all from the mutton, which is completely different from Chinese.

{Of course, taking this example is a bit of a bully for himself, because he didn't eat meat in ancient times, so there was no word mutton, and they directly transliterated the English "Ma Teng" when they left Asia and entered Europe.} But the same is true for changing cows, the word beef is ancient in Japanese, the cow is called "Ushi", the beef is called "Uniku", and the syllable of "cow" is also not heard in beef. }

"It turns out that the figure is just a model toy, is it worth the journey to China? Can you show me? Is there anything unique about it?" After Liu Linlin smoothed out the context, she continued to ask in the spirit of the interview.

Shirai Mikoto and his entourage all felt a little unhappy, because in the three views of the scum house, if you open someone else's figure cabinet, you can treat it cold, and if you take it out and break it, you will have to break off the relationship.

Fortunately, Mikoto Shirai herself is not a real scum house. She's just doing the business of a scum house, and she brings a group of hardcore ViP scum houses out to wave, so she won't turn her face if she borrows a figure to take a photo or something.

From her duffel bag, she took out a few handmade boxes that had not yet been unpacked, but could be seen through the transparent plastic shell.

Liu Linlin can recognize it, there are some character models with the theme of the Three Kingdoms, and you can recognize the characters Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Zhuge Liang at a glance. Anyway, one is green, one is black, one is silver, and there is one lupine scarf. As for the other characters, they are not so distinct that they are instantly recognizable.

After all, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series has not been filmed in China in 87, and the image is not so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that women can recognize it.

However, although Liu Linlin has never played the game of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", she also knows how rough the picture quality of the game consoles on the market is. So when I saw such a finely crafted figure, I couldn't help but be surprised: "Are these all designed according to the image of the game? But as far as I know, the characters in the game can't be so beautiful, right? What kind of design do they refer to?"

This question caused a burst of disdain from Shirai: "Aren't you Chinese? As a Chinese, you don't even know this?"

Liu Linlin's momentum suddenly became short.

For the first time in her life, she felt that it was a shame that she couldn't play games. It is something that will damage the national dignity in front of international friends.

People are also women, or is it a person, who has traveled thousands of miles to China to seek roots and pilgrimage, what they all know, they are a native Chinese who actually don't know?

Fortunately, she didn't cramp for long, because Mikoto Shirai just casually contemptuous, and didn't mean to embarrass her, and soon uncovered the mystery on her own:

"The current game screen is really simple. However, the images of these main characters, Tiankun Company has made elaborate peripheral designs, and these protagonists are printed on the packaging of the cassette. Other minor characters,It's also on the game's original companion guide.,It's coated paper color printing.,It's very exquisite.。 ”

The shapes of these figures, if other time-travelers see them, will definitely feel a little similar to those image designs of the glorious company of another plane, but they are not exactly the same.

First of all, their design, Gu Biao invited Japanese artists to do it. However, Gu Biao also personally asked about it, and added the styling style of the 94 version of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series in the future, so as not to collide with glory in the future.

These details don't matter.

"I see...... Can you take the liberty of asking, how much does this thing cost?" Liu Linlin took the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" cassette and the strategy book that came with the game handed over by a member of the tourist group next to him, and looked through it for a while, only to realize that the workmanship was really good.

"More than 100 yuan a piece, these groups are four or five hundred, seven or eight thousand yen. Mikoto Shirai replied naturally.

I said that I was really rich.

Liu Linlin couldn't help but complain in her heart.

But in fact, the price is justified. Because in 87, the price of the book was already very high. Game cartridges are sold over there, and the old games, which are basically three or four years behind, can sell for three or four thousand yen, while RPg/strategy games that use the latest technology and can save the function cost seven or eight thousand for the genuine cassette.

So to buy a set of combo figures, the cost is the same as buying a genuine latest game cartridge, I think it's very reasonable.

It's just that at the moment, Tiankun is doing this licensing business, that is, staring at making money for tourists, and there will definitely be no Chinese who will spend hundreds of yuan to buy a set of model toys.

"Just these things can attract me to check in at the place of origin, take pictures, and insist on paying a high price to buy the original original product. China has always had no reasonable positioning for the game console industry, is it lagging behind me?" Liu Linlin couldn't help but fall into reflection.

She was in a heavy mood, and she inevitably became more focused, trying to find some evidence that the design of such figures was "worth the price".

This is also very normal, because local tyrants will not look very carefully when buying things, if they are not too expensive. Only those who are willing to buy it if they want to tighten their belts, or even can't afford it, will desperately look carefully, trying to find a "reason for me to buy it ruthlessly".

Who knows, it really paid off, and Liu Linlin noticed it: there is a very small string of English in the corner of the box.

“made in japan…… She seemed to find an excuse in her heart and breathed a sigh of relief, "It turns out that this is made by this process, no wonder it is so exquisite, and it is so expensive to sell......"

However, when listening to Liu Linlin's emotion, Shirai Mikoto and other tourists in the game house tour group were shocked and not happy at all.

"What? This is made in the book? In other words, we flew all the way to China, and in the end we actually bought a figure made in the book? Isn't this deceiving consumers! No!

A group of people suddenly made an uproar, alarming the entire KFC diners.

Liu Linlin was stunned for a while, realizing that she seemed to be in trouble, but she couldn't understand what trouble there was.

It is said that this manufacturing ...... Shouldn't it be more compelled than made in China?

Why is it that looking at the reaction of those otaku people, there is no pilgrimage to the first party of the Tiankun to make the figurines himself, but the collection value of these things has been greatly reduced?

Is the value of the brand of Tian Kun already so sacred among the otaku?

In this situation, if there are later generations of travelers present, they will definitely think that this is not the anger that I should have when I came to China to buy this product.

It should be like those people in China who want to go abroad to buy and pretend to be a strong rich crowd, when they buy honey in Beibang, they angrily denounce "I have always known that Chinese businessmen are the most treacherous and cheap, but I still didn't expect that they can actually sell domestic honey to Beibang, and then sell it back to Chinese tourists disguised as a pollution-free original ecology."

Or like this same group of people, when they traveled to Southeast Asia, they bought a latex mattress for consignment and delivery, and finally checked the logistics after receiving it, but found that it was from Wu Yueyi's factory;

Or maybe like this same group of people, when they travel to Paris, they find that some luxury stores are Chinese profiteers who specialize in following Chinese tour groups and selling the so-called "French luxury goods" back to the Chinese in Paris.

After this group of people go abroad a lot and have experience, they will even change the arrogant mentality of "China is strong now, and there are foreigners everywhere who have to grovel to learn Chinese in order to make money".

And when you see a foreigner who can speak Chinese in a foreign country, you are naturally as vigilant as a fried animal: "Why do you speak Chinese? You even think about learning Chinese, you must be a deeply hidden liar, right?"

It's just that all of this is now reversed here in Gu Ao.

It was said that I felt deceived because they bought Japanese goods in China, and felt that the pilgrimage to check in and plant grass did not receive perfect results, and even took photos to share with friends, and there was a suspicion of Ps.

Fortunately, the headquarters of Tiankun Company is next door, so after the commotion here, there will be staff to deal with it soon.

"These guests, please be calm. We at Tiankun have always attached the most importance to consumer experience. These Made in Japan figurines are also absolutely quality-qualified, and there is no difference from those from other origins.

These are the third quarter of last year when just launched this series of products, because it is too hasty, other countries in the world do not have such a high-precision and quality toy production line, so Tiankun genuine officially authorized the OEM of this large factory, people are also for banDai OEM, the quality is absolutely reliable.

Later, we began to set up factories in the United States, there are Made in the USA, this year, we will also set up factories in China, and there will be Made in China in the future. Therefore, if you insist on exchanging the goods, we promise to exchange them for domestic or American products, and we guarantee that this will not affect the use of ......"

"Of course we have to change it! What's the use of not affecting the use? What we want to ensure is the value of the collection! Tian Kun is the company that invented arcade machines and storage game consoles! It is the first in the world industry! Of course, we need the figures of the country of origin of Tian Kun to have the value of cultural relics that are out of print! Do you understand it? What we buy is not a figure, what we buy is a historical witness!"

A group of otaku shouted, and the Xinhua Branch reporter who was interviewing next to him was stunned.

"Record it! Don't record it yet!"20