Chapter 60: Tangled Huang Yilang
Huang Yilang really couldn't sleep during this time.
A year ago, Huang Yilang was still proud of the spring breeze, and Guan Xiaobao, an old opponent who had been fighting for nearly ten years, was finally taken under his command, and it seemed that there was really no opponent in Xiangjiang. In fact, it seems that this is the case, and the two of them competed in Xiangjiang throughout the seventies. Except for the two of them, no one else is insignificant.
Unify Hong Kong, and then consolidate the traditional markets of Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and then attack Japan and South Korea. This is Huang Yilang's exhibition plan for his comic empire. In fact, it has been quite successful, the unification of Xiangjiang seems to be a foregone conclusion, the sales volume of Southeast Asia and Taiwan has also risen steadily, and even Japan, a traditional comic powerhouse, has squeezed into one foot of its own. Hong Kong Man has now entered a period of high expansion, or it is growing rapidly.
But a comic that came out of nowhere last year knocked him down from the sky, and Longhumen, who had just dominated the Xiangjiang comic market, was crushed by this opponent who seemed to appear out of thin air, and lost the throne of the comic sales champion.
Transformers, this comic that became popular all over Xiangjiang in a short period of time gave him a heavy blow. As soon as the old opponent went, a more ruthless and angry Huang Yilang gritted his teeth.
Although this comic didn't have much impact on its own manga sales. After all, it's not the same theme, and there isn't much overlap in the readership group, at most, it gives me a certain amount of pressure in the middle school student group, and in general, I can get along with myself.
And what happened next was much more than he expected. This comic actually rushed into the mainstream comic market in Europe, America and Japan, and in less than half a year, it set off a wave of comic frenzy around the world, and the associated toy sales made me even more red.
However, the appearance and hot sale of this comic seems to have opened a door in my heart, so that the comic can still be played like this?
There will be no chance in the toy market for their own gangster martial arts comics. At most, sell a few dolls, but their comics themselves are not liked by the younger group, and there are many violent scenes involved, parents have taken the initiative to block the opportunity for comics and children to come into contact, relying on those comics to make toys are very likely to hit the street in the market.
But it's not impossible.,I've been recruiting comic talents in recent years.,Now the comic club is already full of talents.,It's not a big problem to hand over Longhumen to the following people to create.。 And he can start a new chapter, and the great success of Transformers in the toy industry has also given him a lot of inspiration, and maybe he can also make some gains in the young market. The sales of the comics themselves may not be larger than the previous comics, but the toy market may be able to earn several times more profits. Like Transformers, toys are selling like crazy, and comics have almost become a promotional tool for selling toys.
Do it when you think of it, this is Huang Yilang's consistent style. Of course, as a grandmaster-level figure in today's Xiangjiang Comics, Chi Guoguo's plagiarism of Huang Yilang is disdainful. This will cause too much damage to his reputation, and he will be prone to lawsuits. But Huang Yilang also has a way, you make a deformation machine, then I'll make a deformation mecha, it's always different, right?
However, the design of the mecha is not an easy task, and I led the team to explore and design a few models, either it is too similar to Transformers, or the shape is too ugly, and it is even more difficult to deform, in short, there is no satisfactory one. After all, this thing has never been done or even thought about before, and it is difficult to move forward.
So Huang Yilang gritted his teeth and spent a lot of money to hire a European sports car design team to help him solve the problem. These foreigners really have two brushes, and the shape they make is not only beautiful and different from Transformers, which is very suitable for their own appetite.
After solving the modeling problem, the specific plot can no longer stump himself, Huang Yilang and a group of comic creation team members worked together to conceive the outline and character settings, and then supplemented the plot and characters according to the outline. This time, because he was determined to go to the toy market, Huang Yilang abandoned the depictions of blood (river) blood, violent (crab) power, black (river) gang, and sex (crab) that might lead to media and social criticism, and set the story as a healthier hot-blooded theme, and the main characters were replaced by a group of teenagers who made the younger age group more immersive. This is how the Mecha Warrior was born.
For the sake of the mecha warriors, Huang Yilang also took great pains. To this end, he also created a new weekly magazine for children and young people, and once again expanded his creative team. In the new weekly, it took the initiative to strengthen self-discipline and eliminate all the negative elements of traditional Hong Kong comics, in order to win the favor of the society and parents. Maybe it will affect sales, but as long as the toys of the Mecha Warrior can be sold unimpeded in the future, this loss is nothing.
The MechWarrior didn't disappoint him either. Upon its launch, it was immediately greeted with a Transformers-like craze, and this refreshing new weekly magazine was indeed praised by the media.
Unlike Transformers, which are not serialized in weekly magazines and only publish single books, Mecha Warrior's weekly serialization is more popular with children. After all, children's patience is limited, and it is too difficult to wait for a single book that can only come out in a month, and the weekly magazine can cater to them better. However, Li Xuechu also has his own difficulties, and the original version of the comics has long been unrememberable, so he can only be carefully crafted, so as not to make the comics rotten, especially now that Hasbro has also been mixed in.
But after the success, the threat of a lawsuit from Oriental DreamWorks cast a shadow over his mecha warriors. At first, Huang Yilang didn't take this seriously, the Xiangjiang comic industry and the film industry plagiarized and followed, and he only 'borrowed' a few elements, which is nothing in today's Xiangjiang. In the past, similar things were just a few quarrels and passed, but after a while, I went to admit my mistake softly, and I just had a little money with him, and everyone used to do this. The Chinese community will not go to court if they don't make too much trouble.
However, Oriental DreamWorks' later reluctance made him a little unhappy, and at first he felt that these guys had to be unforgiving, so didn't he use a few of your ideas? The story is my own original. Huang Yilang, who was very annoyed, scolded people in the newspaper. And because the high selling price of Oriental DreamWorks' products made many people dissatisfied, and there was no response to this, many people were disgusted, and there were many people who supported him.
However, Huang Yilang also felt that something was wrong afterwards, the support of the media was useless, and he still spoke in court with the letter of the law. After all, the previous comics didn't have such a big economic benefit, and if you really want to make trouble in the court, a little money will not solve the problem. The apprehensive Huang Yilang went to check the patent, but it really scared him. More than 100 patents! Do you need so many patents for a comic? It seems that people have been eyeing the toy market for a long time, and they blocked the road from the beginning.
Now that he knew the severity of the matter, Huang Yilang had no choice but to come to the door to intercede. But the embarrassing thing is that he just happened to run into someone's patent negotiation, and the foreigner who rushed over was even more like a thief to guard against him, and put on a posture that he would not go if he didn't go, making himself ashamed and annoyed.
A few days later, Oriental DreamWorks took the initiative to inform the media of the results of the negotiations, which caused a small sensation in Xiangjiang. Huang Yilang was also dumbfounded, who would have thought that a few patents for comics and toys would be so valuable before? This condition seems to most Xiangjiang people to be blackmail, but it is incredible that the Americans actually agreed?
Now Huang Yilang is even more restless, and those who come to the door to cooperate are treated like this, so what will happen to him when he hits the muzzle?
"No, it's not a way to drag it out like this, I still have to look for him again tomorrow, and I have to give a word whether I am dead or alive." Huang Yilang wants to cry without tears, if this comic is yellow, his loss is really not small, just the design of dozens of sets of mecha has cost 300,000 US dollars, which is really not a small amount of money for a comic club.
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