In addition to attracting toy manufacturers and sellers from all over the world, the world's toy fair has also attracted the attention of dozens of film companies, hundreds of television stations, various magazines and newspapers, game companies and the fashion industry in the United States.

It is common for toys to be adapted into film and television, or for characters in film and television dramas to be made into toy models. For example, the world-popular "Barbie", the board adventure game toy "Clue" has been made into a live-action movie, and the cartoon adapted from the humanoid toy "Sea-Man" has made TV stations make a lot of money. Of course, when it comes to popularity, it is the Transformers that have not yet been released, toys, film and television, games, etc., everything that can be related to the slightest relation, and they have made money over and over again.

“．．．．．． But soon, Transformers will be coming soon! "Zhang Shaoping regretted not being able to catch up with this New York Toy Fair.

In the toy fair, I turned the booths of one toy company after another, and I saw thousands of products as if I was looking at them, some of the booths were busy and dizzy, and some of the booths were crowded and unattended.

"Picking up leaks" is a jargon in the antique world, that is, it is rare to encounter antiques that others look at, and buy them at a very low price, and then sell them at a sky-high or high price.

With the rise of movies, the film trading market also has the saying of "picking up leaks", such as "Night of the Living Dead" in 68 years only cost 114,000 US dollars and received 30 million at the box office, and for example, "Mad Max" in 80 years cost 200,000 US dollars to produce and collected more than 99 million US dollars. These "leaks" are not favored, especially "Mad Max", with the gimmick of the most shit sci-fi film, from a bad movie to the originator of the wasteland style, which attracted the attention of young people and was a great success.

In fact, not only the rise of movies has "picked up leaks", but even the toy exhibition, game exhibition, comic exhibition, which is closely related to film and television, there are also big "leaks", such as the booth where Zhang Shaoping is standing now.

This booth is very strange, the name is not so-and-so company, but what kind of "baby sanatorium", the owner is a few young people. There were very few people patronizing the booth, and when Zhang Shaoping turned here, there was only one person visiting the booth.

Seeing Zhang Shaoping and his party coming, a young man greeted him and said: "Welcome to the 'baby sanatorium', the dolls are waiting for your adoption!" ”

This greeting is chic...... Not only Zhang Shaoping, but even Hu Mufang, Chen Feihu, and Wang Weiwei were also confused, but Bai Lan was scurrying around at the toy fair these days, and she knew the situation at the exhibition well, she explained with a smile: "This toy company is called 'Baby Sanatorium', and they have designed a small rag doll, hand-sewn, called 'Little Man'." It is not placed on the shelves like other rag dolls, but is placed in tiny cribs and sold as adoption. ”

The more he listened to what Bai Lan said, the more familiar Zhang Shaoping felt, and he couldn't help but look at the "little man" on the booth, and was stunned.

Other toy booths display dozens or hundreds of different types of toys, but this "baby sanatorium" only has a few small cribs, each of which has a small puppet lying upright. The reason why the word "lying" is used is because each puppet is covered with a small cloth - well, it should be a small bed quilt - as if it were asleep, very human.

Of course, this is not the main reason why Zhang Shaoping was stunned, but the people who made these little puppets were obviously very attentive, and the little puppets did not have any faces, and none of the more than 30 little puppets were exactly the same.

"Like! It's too similar......" Zhang Shaoping muttered to himself.

Bai Lan asked him very strangely: "Mr. Zhang, what do you seem to be talking about, what do you mean?" ”

Bai Lan threw out a few "what", and Hu Mufang, who was also curious, was stunned, but it woke up Zhang Shaoping.

"Oh, nothing, I said this little puppet is too much like the one I read in the magazine!" Zhang Shaoping casually found a very frustrated excuse to deal with it.

"I see, you're not talking about the report that Newsweek published the year before, right? Hehe, this is from the same family, of course it's like. ”

Bai Lan is worthy of being a senior researcher walking in the commercial market, and even the news reports that are already old Huang Li are like a treasure.

When Zhang Shaoping heard this, he was surprised, Nima's, he can blow a word at will, when did Lao Tzu become so bullish? In fact, he found a huge business opportunity, and suddenly he was stupid for a while.

The "little man" rag doll in this store is very similar to the cabbage doll that his girlfriend bought for him before he crossed over.

It is said that Zhang Shaoping was already an older young man before he crossed, and he met a girl who was half a round younger than him, and before he was ready to get married, the girl bought a cabbage doll for him. What is a cauliflower doll? Haven't heard of it. He looked up the information on the Internet and found out what it symbolized - very loving. As the owner of the "doll", it is necessary to treat the "doll" as a child, well, change of clothes, diapers, quilt covers, bed sheets, hats, strollers, backpacks, cribs...... Even toys that include "dolls", anyway, there are all kinds of things, and there should be no shortage of things to buy.

After receiving this gift, Zhang Shaoping not only had a headache, but also a pain in his eggs, Nima's, is this buying a rag doll? It's burning money! At the beginning, Zhang Shaoping still "took care" of the rag doll in strict accordance with the "baby-rearing" regulations, there was no way, if you want to have a surname, you have to pay first. But half a month later, Zhang Shaoping couldn't stand it, he was a writer, he relied on code words to eat, how could he often come to play this when he had time, so he neglected to "take care", and then he was sad and was dumped by the woman.

In the woman's words, your love is so shallow that you can't even give me a little puppet, so how can you get a copy for me?

Thanks to her, Zhang Shaoping was deeply impressed by the cabbage doll, knowing that although the cabbage doll is not as famous as Barbie, it is by no means an ordinary person. It has created a miracle in the history of the world's toys, selling two or three million pieces in just a few days, and has also shocked the attention of countless people, with sales exceeding $1 billion in one year. Even in later generations, it is still a best-selling toy product.

Now, the "little man" puppet is lying in this small "baby sanatorium", which has not yet been discovered, packaged as a cabbage doll, and he can "pick up the leaks" and earn a lot of money. All kinds of thoughts flashed through his mind, Zhang Shaoping smiled slightly, and asked the young man next to him, "Hey, man, what do you call it?" ”

"Roberts, Xavier. Roberts. ”

Zhang Shaoping stretched out his hand to shake hands with him, introduced himself and said: "I am Zhang Shaoping, from Hong Kong, I am very interested in these puppet dolls of yours, can you talk about it?" ”

"Oh, of course." Roberts' eyes lit up and he gladly responded.

It is estimated that it is the reason why the conversation is not compatible, and the person who visited it just now has also left. At this time, only Zhang Shaoping and his party were left.

Zhang Shaoping didn't go around in circles, and said straight to the point: "I want to buy out the design and production rights of your puppet, can you make a price?" ”

Hearing this, the eyes of several young people looked at Roberts in unison, and it was obvious that it was this wise young man of 27 and 8 who could call the shots. Roberts shook his head and flatly refused: "Oh, no, Mr. Zhang, the design patent of our puppet will not be transferred!" ”

Zhang Shaoping frowned slightly, then stretched out again, and said with a smile: "Then I'm curious, you are not going to transfer the design patent, are you a toy manufacturer, is it possible that you are a toy manufacturer, and you are here to promote these toys?" ”

"Mr. Zhang, you're right, we're looking for a powerful toy manufacturer to work with our baby sanatorium to produce 'little people'!" Roberts said with a serious look.

Zhang Shaoping was stunned and speechless, when Bai Lan interjected: "Mr. Roberts, as far as I know, you only have two or three manual production lines in the baby nursing home in Cleveland, Georgia, with an annual output of less than 300,000, am I right?" As for the sales volume, I won't talk about it, it's very low anyway! Do you think you can make a lot of money with such results? With all due respect, I don't see any appeal to your little puppets to the big toy makers, otherwise you wouldn't be in a corner all the time. ”

Bai Lan walked around the toy fair for several days, not only did she personally investigate, but even her subordinates also sent several groups to take turns here to collect data and information, and she already had a clear grasp of the details of the baby nursing home.

Roberts and his companions looked at each other, unable to find the words to refute for a moment.

Zhang Shaoping was overjoyed, with this know-it-all person by his side, it was really cool to do business negotiations, and immediately laughed: "Mr. Roberts, there are not many people who are interested in the puppets you designed, if you miss my house, it will be difficult for you to find another buyer!" If you think about it, if you can't sell the puppets you designed, what's the use of clinging to the patents? ”

One of Roberts' partners couldn't help but retort: "Who said that, the day before yesterday, a company said that it liked our puppet design!" ”

"Yes, what about the man? Why don't you see that company to sign the contract? If an agreement had been reached, I'm afraid you would have already gone home, would you be able to stay here for a long time? ”

"That company bid too low......"

"That's it!"

"But we don't know what you're paying for!"

"Ugh." Zhang Shaoping patted his head and found that he was so urgent that he even forgot about this, such a gaffe is not good for negotiations. He hurriedly put away his misguided behavior and said with a smile: "It was my mistake to not make my words clear." So, I'll pay $10 million to buy out the design and production rights of the puppets. ”

"10 million?! Mr. Zhang, are you sure you want to spend $10 million to buy the patent rights of this 'villain'? Bai Lan exclaimed, sighing that Zhang Shaoping was really rich, and at the same time shaking her head, thinking that the money was not worth spent.

"What, Miss Bai doesn't think it's worth it?"

Bai Lan said very seriously: "I can say professionally that it is only worth $5 million at most. ”

"Mr. Roberts, my investment advisor, Miss Bai, thinks that your patent is only worth $5 million, but I paid $10 million, are you still not satisfied?" Zhang Shaoping casually gave Bai Lan a title and said to Roberts with a smile.

Roberts shook his head and said very firmly, "No, no matter how much money you pay, my little puppet will not sell it to you!" ”

For this guy who doesn't eat hard and soft, with Zhang Shaoping's not very bright English level, it is really difficult to negotiate, but fortunately, there are Hu Mufang, Bai Lan, and Wang Weiwei by his side or translators, or take turns to negotiate, which relieves most of the pressure. After a period of verbal bargaining, everyone finally took a step back, the design patent was still retained by Roberts, and the production patent was sold to Zhang Shaoping, but the two sides still did not negotiate the price. Roberts asked for 10 million, but Zhang Shaoping was only willing to give 5 million, in his words, that is, you only give me half of the patent rights, of course I only give you half of the price.

Zhang Shaoping couldn't bear it, handed over the business negotiation to Hu Mufang to preside, and withdrew by himself. As soon as he walked outside the booth to take a breath, he saw Chen Feihu coming over and said, "Zhang Sheng, I found that there was a guy probing his brain, as if he was peeking at us. ”

Zhang Shaoping suddenly remembered what Roberts's partner had just said, and immediately knew that something was wrong, it must have been the company that had been eyeing the baby sanatorium early in the morning, but it was playing a trick to catch the old man, he couldn't help but hurriedly said to Chen Feihu: "You go and find a way to drag that guy for 20 minutes, remember, try to entangle him, don't let him find someone!" ”

"I see."

Chen Feihu was an elite scout when he was in the army, he was extremely intelligent and clever, and he hurriedly chased after the man in the direction he was taking. The man had been gone for less than two minutes, and Chen Feihu quickly spotted his traces, and he was holding a mobile phone while walking.

Chen Feihu immediately rushed over and knocked him down as if he was inadvertent.

The man was knocked into a daze, got up in the middle of the night, grabbed the "big brother" button, and couldn't help scolding: "Oh, shit! You bastard! ”

It turned out that Chen Feihu's wrist "coincidentally" smashed the man's mobile phone.

Although Chen Feihu also learned a little English when he was in the army, and he was not less influenced by Zhang Shaoping's side, his English is not as good as Zhang Shaoping's. The man wanted to leave, but Chen Feihu grabbed him, and even compared with him, he had to pay him money. The Yankees knew that Chen Feihu and Zhang Shaoping were in the same group, and they couldn't get out if they wanted to, so they were in a hurry, shit, shit, shit.

"Oh God, why don't you chop this damn yellow-skinned monkey to death?" The Yankees couldn't wait to kick Chen Feihu to death with an innocent expression.

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With a potential competitor, so as not to have too many dreams at night, Zhang Shaoping didn't want to worry about a few profits with Roberts, he stepped into his position and said directly: "Mr. Roberts, I can give you $5 million a year in production royalties......

"Medium. Guozhang, I heard you right, is it every year? ”

"Oh, sir, praise you, you are so generous!"

"Roberts, I think this is a great offer!"

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Before Roberts could speak, his buddies were talking first, and they were all happy.

Zhang Shaoping clapped his palms and continued: "Hey, friends, I haven't finished yet. 5 million a year can be given, but your whole team will join my toy company to continue designing the puppet dolls for me, and of course, as a hir, I will pay you extra. ”

"Oh, sir, I am more than willing to work for you!"

"Promise him, Roberts, where can I find such a good thing? The design right is still in our hands, and joining Zhang's company is at most just selling new products to him, but who is not selling the new products we designed? ”

Seeing that Roberts was still thinking about it, Zhang Shaoping's eyes rolled and he smiled: "It seems that you still don't know my strength, right?" Not only do I have a film company, but I also have a couple of magazine companies, well, a fashion design company. When you join my toy company, our designers will design the puppets, and of course, our professional publicity team will also advertise them all over the world. Think about it, if we do it right, in a very short time, we can make a name for ourselves, what a wonderful thing! ”

Looking at the eyes of his partners, Roberts said helplessly: "Okay, you're right. ”

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