It was a very simple reason. Even a film and television professional director was shocked by Jia Yapeng's 3D animation, let alone ordinary people. Hua Xia people had no resistance to this kind of super 3D special effects at the beginning.
The simplest example was when "Titanic" was released. In 1997, in Hua Xia, it actually took away a total of 340 million yuan at the box office.
Even in 2020, this box office result would be quite good, let alone in 1997.
This result was not much easier than "Shaolin Temple", which sold for 10 cents per ticket and broke the 100 million yuan box office.
When "Shaolin Temple" was released, there was a lack of entertainment methods in China, and TV was not popular. At that time, watching movies was one of the few entertainment methods, so the number of viewers was very high.
In fact, looking at the box office of that era, as long as the quality of the movie was passable, it basically had a box office of more than a million yuan. There were also a lot of box office of more than 10 million yuan, because there were not many entertainment methods at that time.
But in 1997, the situation was different. At that time, TV had become a necessary household appliance for almost all households. 80% of the households in Hua Xia had a TV.
Compared with TV, the cinema at that time had no advantages except for the bigger screen. It was not as comfortable as lying on the bed at home and watching TV, and it did not cost money.
Not to mention that there were VCD players later on. One VCD player could watch the movie countless times, which was much more cost-effective than the cinema.
Therefore, the cinemas of that era were basically unable to survive. Back in the 80s, almost every residential community of a large state-owned enterprise would have a cinema operated by a factory. For example, the printing factory in Yuzhang City also had a small cinema in their community that was operated by the factory itself.
But in 1997, these small cinemas were basically closed down. In fact, it was difficult to find a few cinemas in the whole city that were operating normally.
It was said that when "Titanic" was released in 1997, there were only five cinemas in Yuzhang City that could play movies normally. There were only a few thousand cinemas in the country that were still operating.
With only a few thousand cinemas and a box office of about 5 yuan, it had created a total of 340 million yuan. From this, one could imagine how terrifying the popularity of "Titanic" was at that time.
The reason why "Titanic" was able to create such a huge miracle in the winter of movies had nothing to do with love. Hua Xia was never a romantic film that could occupy the mainstream market.
To put it bluntly, the real reason Hua Xia was moved was because of the special effects of "Titanic".
In the other world, Jia Yapeng's parents had also watched this movie. They said that they were stunned after watching it. They had not expected to see such a realistic scene of a sinking ship in this theater. When the Titanic was silent, many of the audience members were shocked and thought that their theater had sunk.
They were even seriously wondering if the crew had rebuilt the Titanic and sunk it so that they could use it for a movie.
Therefore, in this era, Hua Xia people had no resistance to special effects, because they rarely saw real movie-level special effects. At most, they saw special effects from "Journey to the West".
Back to the topic at hand. Due to the astounding viewership ratings of "Key Questions" nationwide, the special effects blew up in the country almost overnight. Countless viewers who watched this episode of "Key Questions" went around asking if this magical special effect was real, where it came from, and if an F1 car could really be transformed into a mini 4WD just like that.
Many men's greetings became "Have you watched the F1 car show?" This scene was amazing!!
It was like the first time Jia Yapeng saw the full CG movie "Final Fantasy" and was completely shocked.
In any case, the topic of mini 4WD completely exploded. Countless children were surprised to find that their parents actually took the initiative to ask them when "The Four-wheel Drive Brothers" would be broadcast, and then accompanied them to watch the episode of "The Four-wheel Drive Brothers"!
The hot discussion about the mini mini 4WD was rampant. Everyone in the country was curious about what this magical mini mini 4WD was. When they heard that this mini mini 4WD could actually be bought, and only cost five yuan, they couldn't help but feel a little tempted.
As a result, many children were surprised to find that when they stuttered and asked their parents for money to buy a mini 4WD, the parents' resistance was actually not that great. In fact, many parents even took the initiative to accompany their children to buy a mini 4WD. Although this ratio was not high, it was still a remarkable number when compared to the country's 1.3 billion population.
The simplest example would be when 3 million boxes of mini 4WD vehicles were released into the market one after another. The mini 4WD vehicles that were no longer on the market and could still be left in the small convenience store for two or three days so that children could buy them in time were suddenly sold out again.
The country once again entered a state of shortage. The distributors all over the country were frantically asking for more from the company. The Daqian company hurriedly sent 500,000 boxes to all parts of the country, and the result was the same as when it was first released. It was sold out as soon as it hit the shelves, making the other toy manufacturers so envious that they wanted to commit suicide.
Of course, the popularity of a 3D short film came and went quickly. After a while, the matter would gradually die down. However, there was one very important point, and that was that in the eyes and impressions of Hua Xia, mini 4WD was no longer a child's toy, but a kind of educational stationery that could be associated with high-end F1 racing cars and important topics.
This was a very, very crucial point, because once something was compatible with intelligence, it could develop intelligence. Furthermore, this was a high-end, classy, and classy item. Parents would no longer stop their children from continuing to play with the mini 4WD. They would think that it was a good piece of educational stationery. By assembling the mini 4WD, children could study the mechanical principles of the mini 4WD and develop their intelligence.
As a result, mini 4WD cars magically became a toy that parents would not forbid, and some parents would even encourage. The benefits of promoting mini 4WD cars among children were unimaginable.
When the biggest resistance of parents became a helping hand, the impact on mini 4WD could be said to be at the level of a turning point of fate.
This point was quickly shown in reality.
On March 5th, the Daqian Group officially announced an important news to all the viewers of "Four-wheel Drive Brothers" through the tangram program, which was that the first national mini 4WD championship tournament would officially start on April 20th.
All the children who sent a postcard along with their mini 4WD to the head office of the Daqian Group before April 1st were automatically eligible to participate in the tournament. The Daqian Group would send them a competition invitation letter in return, and with this invitation letter, they could directly participate in the tournament.
The first stop of this national championship tournament was Yuzhang City, where the Daqian Group was located. It was also the city where the brothers Ma Xinghao and Ma Xinglie lived in in the animation. At that time, the Daqian Group would join forces with the CCTV tangram program, the local television station of Xijiang Province, and the Xijiang Province Sports Bureau to jointly hold this exciting tournament at the Xijiang Province Stadium.
Xijiang Province was only the first stop. In the next six months, the championship tournament would be held in 33 provinces and autonomous regions across the country. Children could learn about the world where the tournament was held in their own city and province through the animation that was broadcast every day, and then participate in the tournament.
As the winner of the tournament, they would be able to receive an epic-level super mini 4WD that had never been made public before, as well as epic-level mini 4WD accessories. More importantly, they would also be eligible to be recommended to key primary schools, junior high schools, and even senior high schools across the country.
As a result, before April 1st, the Daqian Group had received more than one million registration postcards by March 15th. The workers in charge of counting and registration were stunned. The Daqian Group urgently recruited hundreds of housewives from the printing plant in Yuzhang City who had nothing to do at home to answer and grade these postcards.
The entire office was piled up with postcards. It was too cruel.
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