He made an appointment today, and he had to go to the toy factory in the afternoon.

However, Disco's face, although not a household name, is also well-known.

Before he could say goodbye, he was accosted by a strong man with a fat tiger's back.

The other party introduced himself as Jia Kang, a returned director who was recently preparing to shoot a TV series.

Ask Disco if he has any plans to sing and act.

Of course, Disco didn't have this plan, he politely refused: "Director Jia, I don't have much talent in acting, so I don't dare to test the water and delay you easily." ”

"I'm going to make an indoor drama, similar to 'Growing Pains', this TV series is on TV, you should have seen it, right?"

Disco has indeed watched this old and beautiful TV series.

Their TV sets are basically controlled by lesbians, and he follows what people watch.

Guo Meifeng recently watched Mike in "Growing Pains" on TV all day long, and Disco naturally followed along.

Jia Kang enthusiastically introduced: "Filming chamber dramas is just like your daily life, you just need to behave as you normally would. ”

"According to you, isn't it true that everyone can be an actor?" Disco introduced Guo Meifeng to him, "Why don't you think about my mother, I don't have much talent in this area, but my mother is a professional opera actress, and she has also made several movies on Hong Kong Island before, so she has a lot of shooting experience!" ”

This Director Jia is quite interesting, after hearing that Guo Meifeng had made a movie, he immediately shifted his target and introduced the content of his TV series to Guo Meifeng.

It gives people the illusion that he doesn't pick at all and can pull one by one.

can be invited to shoot a TV series, Guo Meifeng's heart is already happy.

But she felt that she had to show some of the grace of a drama school teacher and a female martial artist in Hong Kong films, and she couldn't immediately agree to an invitation.

Too eager would make it seem like she hadn't seen the world.

Therefore, she asked the other party to give a detailed introduction to the content of the TV series, the investment, and the situation of the main actors.

Jia Kang's work is still in the preparation stage, and except for the script, nothing else has been settled.

As for the salary and filming time, it is even more scoreless.

Guo Meifeng just wants to be on TV and doesn't care about the salary, but she still pretends to be professional and says: "Regarding my performance, it needs to be arranged by my agent, why don't you go back and contact my agent?" ”

Jia Kang seemed to be accustomed to such an answer, and naturally took the business card given to him by Guo Meifeng.

Disco: "......"

Unexpectedly, Guo Meifeng would go out with her daughter-in-law's business card.

Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.

He left his mother to continue chatting with the director, and he found Uncle Lu to inquire about Director Jia's details.

"He's looking for you to make a movie, right?" Uncle Lu asked with a smile.

"No, he wanted me to make a TV series, which is said to be similar to American chamber dramas."

Uncle Lu was stunned, "Don't make movies anymore?" He wanted to borrow a movie from my resort for him last time! ”

Disco grew up in a film studio, and he knows more about the film industry than they do, so he said clearly: "Director Jia came back from abroad and didn't work in a film studio in the mainland, so the movies he made were underground films without factory standards." Even if the movie is finished, it will not be released in the mainland. ”

"I see." Uncle Lu snorted, "Fortunately, I didn't listen to him fool and invest in his movie." ”

Jia Kang participated in club activities very actively, and he did not fall behind.

If there is no activity during the week, he has to take the initiative to act as an organizer.

But the main purpose of his participation in the event is to attract investment in his movie, and when he meets someone who is a little famous, he wants people to make a cameo in his movie.

Who knew that his movie hadn't made a splash yet, so he changed the track to shoot a TV series.

Uncle Lu felt that the fat man was not very reliable, and seeing that he was entangled with Guo Meifeng again, he was worried that Guo Meifeng would be cheated of money by him, so he wanted to lean over and watch.

Disco is very relieved of his mother, but people know that there is something to find an agent.

He left the other party in the care of the fourth brother, and drove away.

*

At the gate of the second toy factory, Hao Mengyuan was anxiously pacing back and forth.

Seeing Disco's Cherokee driving over, he quickly jumped into the car and said, "Manager, the other two factories are not taking orders, so we can only take a look at the second factory today." ”

They were originally scheduled to go to three toy factories today, and the other two are private toy factories, which have more advantages than state-owned factories in terms of product design, but their orders have been scheduled until the end of the year, and they have recently refused to accept urgent orders.

Therefore, if you want to catch the heat of the Asian Games as soon as possible, you can only talk to this kind of old state-owned factory.

"Then let's take a look at the situation of the second factory," Disco drove the car into the factory compound, "how does this factory look like it is about to go out of business?" ”

"The outside environment is not good, but the factory is not bad."

Hao Mengyuan took him into the factory, and the female workers were producing in a unified manner, which was the popular mascot Panpan.

"Do their products have the authorization of the Asian Games?"

"Nope." Hao Mengyuan whispered, "These kinds of products are shipped to markets below the county level, and no one has checked any authorizations there." ”

The road is full of Panpan, most of them unauthorized.

Those like them who export through formal channels will care more about official authorization.

Disco: "......"

That's hard to put into words.

Hao Mengyuan looked at him and said: "I didn't want to choose the second factory at first, but their factory has just recently had a female director who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. ”

"The two giant panda dolls I showed you earlier were designed by Director Li himself. The style is good-looking, soft to the touch, although I have never touched a real giant panda, but it is similar to the feel of the giant panda I imagined. ”

Disko nodded.

He also saw two samples before deciding to visit the factory.

Two pandas, one is a simulated panda with an ID card according to their requirements, and the effect is indeed as Hao Mengyuan said, it is particularly real, with the velvet texture of the giant panda.

The other is a mechanical plush toy, a bit like a mechanical yellow dog that is very popular on the market today, after pulling out the tail, the panda can walk.

When Director Li heard that they had arrived, he hurriedly came to the factory and introduced them to the basic situation of the second factory.

"Director Li, what is the ex-factory price of this kind of simulated panda?" Disco picked up a panda again and looked at it.

He thought he could buy two of his cubs.

"The price of this plush fabric is relatively expensive," said Director Li for the first time since taking office to talk to people about business, thinking of the situation in the factory, she ruthlessly quoted a high price, "Ten yuan each." ”

They used to sell plush toys, and they were all weighed by pounds, and no matter what image of the toy was the same price.

Disko asked again, "What about the mechanical panda?" ”

"Twelve." Director Li continued to open his mouth.

Anyway, these two products were designed by her, and the factory has not yet set the price, and she can now ask for the price.

The price of mechanical toys in China is higher than that of ordinary plush toys.

However, the export price is not high.

Disco has seen foreign-made mechanical toys on Hong Kong Island, which are much more high-end than domestic ones.

Therefore, there are not many export orders for mechanical toys.

"Director Li, if our factory can fully produce this kind of simulated panda, how much will the daily output be?"

"About 3,000."

"Such a large factory, with a daily output of only 3,000?"

Director Li pointed out that those Panpan who did not have authorization, "also scored the previous orders for manual production." ”

Disco didn't say anything at the time, walked around the factory at will, and left with Hao Mengyuan.

"Manager, I didn't expect her to set the price so high!" Hao Mengyuan said apologetically, "I knew that I would ask for a quote first." ”

The ex-factory price of ten yuan is really not ordinarily expensive, not to mention that this idea is still from Manager Di.

"The price is really not cheap, but the panda looks at it coldly, and it really looks like an underage panda." Disco smiled and asked, "If I sell you for fifty yuan a piece, will you buy it?" ”

Fifty yuan is definitely a luxury, Hao Mengyuan is reluctant.

However, she thought about it for a moment and said, "If the quality of the finished product can really be the same as the sample, I might buy it......"

"So, we're selling luxury goods this time. Target customers must be carefully screened, in addition to Singapore, Japan and South Korea and other panda-loving countries, as well as the Middle East and Europe, there are ......"

Disco held the steering wheel and pondered for a long time before saying, "You go and contact the Beijing Zoo and consult the feeding and growth conditions of the pandas in as much detail as possible." Since we want people to adopt pandas, in addition to the birth certificate, we also have to give people a breeding guide, right? ”

"......," Hao Mengyuan complained, "It's like playing at home." ”

"Otherwise, why would people spend dozens of dollars on our products? In addition to panda simulation, other aspects should also be as realistic as possible, not only to sell products, but also to sell feelings. ”

After getting a rough feeding condition from a professional breeder, Disco asked Shi Xiaoxin, a talented woman from the Chinese Department of Peking University, to help write a cute and affectionate panda breeding guide.

Then, using his own strengths, he translated this breeding guide into the instructions in English, French, Japanese and Russian Chinese.

In order to take care of potential local tyrant customers in the Middle East, he also ran back to the translation office of the Ministry of Economic and Trade and asked his old colleagues to help him do a personal job and translate an Arabic version of the guide at the cost of giving away a panda.

After the other people in the third department sent the quotation to those old customers, they were a little stunned to answer the phone.

A panda doll dared to quote an export price of forty yuan, and everyone thought Manager Di was crazy.

Plush toys are low value-added products, there is no scientific and technological content, who would buy such an expensive thing?

However, Ellie, who received the email from Disco, took a plane from Hong Kong Island to Beijing as soon as possible.

She wants to see if this simulated panda is really exactly the same as a giant panda!

If it's true, a forty-dollar toy isn't expensive.

In her Ellie Kid's Castle, there are thousands of imported plush toys.

When Disco got someone, he didn't take her to the toy factory that looked like it was going out of business.

Instead, she followed the example of Barbie dolls, put three pandas of different sizes, put them in a cardboard box printed with green bamboo, and took them to the hotel where she stayed.

He took out the largest panda doll and said, "This is our designer, according to the Beijing Zoo's giant panda mausoleum, according to the 1:1 scale of the real restoration." ”

Ellie rubbed the giant panda and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is Lingling's hair really so fluffy?" ”

"Of course, if you're interested, you can go to the zoo and check it out." Disco said with a smile, "We, the designer, stayed every day from the opening to the closing of the park, and observed in the zoo for half a month before designing the image of the mausoleum." ”