Producer [American Entertainment]

In the spring of 1984, FW Publishing and Hasbro toy company in the United States, after nearly a year of negotiations, the two parties finally reached a cooperation intention and signed a contract document for the joint development of the "Transformers" series.

The original concept of "Transformers" was not conceived by the cartoonists under Shueisha, but by a local game company called TAKARA in District 11.Last year, TAKARA game company created the concept of "car robot" in order to catch up with the Gundam fever.They thought that "car robots" would sweep the world like Gundam and take them out of the nightmare of Area 11.Unfortunately, they lost the bet.

Then, FW Publishing Group bought a series of copyrights of "Car Robots" at a low price through Hitobridge Publishing Group, the former head office of Shueisha in District 11, and changed them to more Americanized "transformers" (Transformers).

This acquisition process was all led by Joseph, the current head of FW Publishing Group.Li did it independently.

Joseph is a mixed blood of the three countries in the 11th district of China and the United States. Not only does he have the natural advantages of a mixed race in appearance, but his intelligence and long-term vision are not inferior to his outstanding appearance.In just a few years after he came to the United States, he took advantage of Gundam's success and developed "Shounen Jump" into the largest-selling comic magazine in the United States, and became a giant on par with DC and Marvel, which focus on the hero comic industry. His ability to do things is evident.

In 1983, when Joseph went to District 11 to pick up the two creators of Doraemon comics and their families to immigrate to the United States, he accidentally discovered the unsalable "car robot". He liked its development concept very much and sent a report To Sabatino.

The report brought back memories of the reborn Sabatino.Whether in his previous life or this life, Sabatino was not interested in games, toys, comics, etc., but he had a crush who was very interested in these in his previous life, so he naturally knew a little bit, at least what works He still knows that it will develop into a world-famous name in the future.It's like Super Mario, it's like Gundam and Transformers.

And so, in the spring of 1984, Transformers finally arrived in Sabatino's bowl.

In fact, according to Sabatino and Joseph, they don't mind paying more copyright fees to TAKARA Game Company, after all, the creativity is worth a thousand dollars.

But after Joseph asked Yiqiao Publishing Group to take the lead, in order to curry favor with Sabatino, this publishing group, whose face was full of "begging to buy" and "begging to take away immigrants", simply bought the heavily indebted TAKARA game company, and then sold the concept of the car robot and its low price to Joseph.

It's just right to please, and it won't bring any follow-up trouble to Microsoft.

Sabatino, who was optimistic about several other brands under Yiqiao Publishing Group, did not refuse.Acquisition is certain, it just needs to be done step by step.No matter how capable Sabatino is, it is impossible to solve so many immigration problems at once. Although they are all very cheap labor, it is not worthwhile.

Now FW Publishing Group only has Shueisha and Shogakukan, and the next step is Hakusensha, which is very good for girls' comics.

The first batch of models of Transformers was acquired directly by Yiqiao Publishing Group.The machine models extruded by TAKARA game company before can be turned into treasure with a little modification.

The reason why FW Publishing did not directly swallow the entire "Transformers" industry chain by itself, but chose to cooperate with Hasbro, is because as the toy giant in the United States, Hasbro has a vast sales channel and mass audience that FW Publishing cannot match. Basics, and experience in planning several very successful toy series (such as the board game Monopoly, Star Wars series of toys, Special Forces and My Little Pony).

Of course, it's also because FW Publishing doesn't make toys at all. Instead of taking all the risks by yourself, it's better to bring in a tall person to share them equally.If the cooperation is happy, there will be a variety of comics and animation peripheral cooperation in the future. After learning from Hasbro, they can try to make a new start by themselves and make FW toys or something.

In any case, the "tuition fees" for the first few years still have to be paid.

The entire toy industry, who heard the news in advance, is skeptical about the cooperation between FW Publishing and Hasbro.Because before that, none of them had ever seen an American parent who was willing to spend at least ten dollars for their child to buy a meaningless alloy model.

Gunpla is more aimed at middle school students, like Lego, which exercises the hands-on ability of young people.

What's the point of an alloy model that just changes its shape?The dolls are for little girls, and apparently little girls like Barbie, not some weird looking Autobot.

But it turns out that little boys are more fanatical than little girls.

Because of this partnership, before Sabatino’s brother Luciferd was born, Hasbro sent Lucifer a roomful of toys (really. A roomful, no language Exaggeration), without duplicates, and in duplicate, one was airlifted to Italy, and the other was piled up at Sabatino's Beverly Hills estate.

Wendy, who is supervising the production team of "The Secret" in Beverly, called William and said, "Tell your little cousin for me that there is a strange aunt who is very jealous of him, so jealous that she is going crazy!"

When Wendy saw such a room full of toys for the first time, she almost wished she could jump in and take a swim. Fortunately, ahem, MiG stopped her in time.

"I used to think that your life was enough for a novel, but today I found out that your little cousin is more suitable to be the hero of a novel than you. He is rich and rich, and he is also domineering and ruthless!"

"Give up, you are not suitable." William hit Wendy mercilessly on the phone.

"!!!"

"You think this is Sue? A room full of toys?" Even William can easily reach the level.To be precise, the toys that Edward's father and Mary's mother bought for William were piled up in several rooms and couldn't fit in them.Although William didn't show much interest in these toys, Edward's father still couldn't help but buy them as soon as he saw them.

Ever seen the movie Shopaholic?There is a classic scene in which a woman picks a few things at random, and then says to the manager following behind, "I want everything except the ones I picked out."

This is the truest portrayal of Edward's father when he bought toys for his son.At that time, my grandfather was not dead yet, and Edward's father was still very, very rich in his death.

"Two rooms full of toys, isn't enough for a newborn baby?"

"Remember to watch the first season of "Transformers" on time in mid-March." FW Publishing and Hasbro's strategy for selling toys is to first launch an anime that can become popular, and then lure the children to buy peripherals, that's it Simple and rude.

Anime happens to be the specialty of FW's Shueisha, and at the same time, the manga version is also ready to be serialized on "Shounen Jump".

"Oh, by the way, let's also take a look at the latest issue of "Shounen Jump" and the manga magazine of Shogakukan."

"Is there anything worth noting? Arale is said to be ending. It's so sad. Boss, can't you make it work for your own sake so that it doesn't end?"

"Trust me, Akira Toriyama's new manga will be even better."

Interested people in later generations discovered that the most popular anime and comics in 1984 all wrote the same sentence "To Lucifer, welcome to this world" at the beginning.

These anime and manga include: "Gundam", "Transformers", "Doraemon", the end of "Arale" and the beginning of "Dragon Ball".

After reading it, Wendy decided, no, I also want to contribute to Su Dao Feiqi's team.

"I'm going to be my cousin's godmother?" That seemed a little underwhelming, William thought, but it wasn't impossible.

"...how dare I be your cousin's godmother, are you kidding me?!" Wendy didn't even dare to think about this possibility, she always felt that in the shining background of little cousin William , suddenly there is an extra penniless her, it will seem particularly out of harmony.

"You will definitely be great in the future, believe me." William was full of confidence in his friend.

"Please let me go." Wendy really didn't want to be jealous to death by those girls who were still dreaming of marrying into the Lesembla family and reaching the pinnacle of life from then on.

"＿(:з)∠)＿Okay. Then what is your idea of ​​adding bricks and tiles?"

"I want to put it at the beginning of my movie—dedicated to the cutest baby in the world, Luciferd!" Naturally, Wendy's movie is the comedy "Crazy Adventures" that she is currently producing.

In this way, Wendy opened the door to a new world for William. He urgently contacted the producers and directors of "Modern Mermaid" and "Emerald", and got a word from the other party before the start of his movie. unanimous agreement.This kind of matter that usually does not know how to get involved with Sabatino after trying every means, is now brought up by William on his own initiative, how could he let it go without showing favor!

The old Samuel of MGM even directly stated: "All the movies released by MGM this year will have a slogan-welcome to this world, Luciferd."

After United Artists on the East Coast knew about it, they didn't know how many times they cursed old Samuel of MGM behind their backs.It's so fucking good at drilling!Isn't it possible to contact William directly?Isn't it just a little faster than we need to contact through Wendy?How can you not even leave us a chance to perform!

Yes, the top executives of United Artists are also thinking the same idea as old Samuel.

Although United Artists and MGM are far apart, there is still some competition.Within a group, two subsidiaries with relatively similar positioning must be compared.It's just that they have changed from a vicious circle of you and me to a positive and healthy competition.

But in any case, pleasing the boss is the purpose of both parties that will not change.

In the end, even Spielberg, Lucas and Albert called and said they wanted to join in the fun.

Spielberg and Lucas have the same meaning: ""Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" will be released this summer, and it will not be troublesome to add a few more frames to the front of the movie."

Albert said with some regret: "This year's 007 script is still under discussion, does your little cousin mind a little later next year's birthday greetings?"

Even Arsenal's trip to the Champions League this year has the slogan "For Luciferd".

"..." William was no longer worried about his little cousin being bullied in the future, but worried that he would be spoiled by the whole world.

Bear kid or something, it makes me sad to think about it.

In less than a month, the little cousin who was eating and sleeping in the swaddling baby, who couldn't even distinguish the figure and color, vomited happily, without worrying about getting his cousin at all.A face of innocence, toothless smile.

At the end of March, after Aunt Elizabeth's confinement and little friend Lucy Weld's full moon, the family of four got on the plane to New York.

Because the biennial old Bernstein's "funeral" is coming up again.

Aunt Elizabeth agreed with William on this point. She hated her father's tradition and refused to attend.

However, this year is a little different—the old Bernstein is almost crazy about his little grandson.

Old Bernstein is too old to take long-distance flights abroad. Even for domestic travel, his personal doctor is not in favor of letting him take frequent flights.So these days when his daughter was in Italy, the old Bernstein could only express his lovesickness through the videophone.

Of course, what old Bernstein wanted most was his baby William, but Luciferd also quickly rose to become the second baby in old Bernstein's heart after William at a rocket-like speed.

When people get old, it is inevitable that they can't help but soften their attitude towards children. This is the law of honey.

Maybe the old Bernstein did something unexpected because he couldn't see the child. Aunt Elizabeth finally decided to be considerate of the old father and take the child to the United States as soon as possible.

Therefore, the first appearance of Lu Siweide in front of the media...was to attend his grandfather's "funeral".

The FBI team responsible for tracking Dang Tail has a black line at one end, but such a black line is still not comparable to when Lucifer was born.At that time, everyone in the FBI team who was on duty abroad received a gift package of desserts and hot drinks from the servants of the Lesenbra family, under the banner that it was a gift from the newborn young master Luciferd.

Lu Siweide was lying in a black British-style stroller, and he never showed his face in front of the media. Many people said that it seems that William's tradition will continue to his little cousin.

The only one that can reveal big news is naturally the gossipgirl website.

The theme of their 818 this time is—how much property does little Lucie Verde, who was just born one month ago, have.

"Property? Yes! Although this young master Lesenbra was born with a diamond spoon in his mouth (it is said that he really has a diamond spoon) for only one month, he already has something that others may not be able to earn in a lifetime." Property, all from the gifts he received when he was baptized in the church of his own castle.Including a mansion on Kensington Garden Road in London, England, a sports car that he will not be able to drive himself for at least 16 years, and Tailor-made clothes from major luxury goods around the world, if you change three times a day, there will probably be a lot of new clothes that are too small to wear.”

At least one-third of these gifts were bought by William.

The old man always said, precepts and deeds.In terms of pampering children, William fully embodies the character he learned from Edward's father.As long as he has it, it doesn't matter if the other party wants it or not.

Well, the main reason why William would do this is because only Luciferd in the whole family can make William experience the feeling that he needs him.For the rest, they don't need William to buy them anything, on the contrary, they are more enthusiastic about buying things for William.

Of course it feels good to be pampered, but occasionally, William also wants to try to pamper others and share this kindness.

The birth of Lucifer just made up for William's regret.