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There is one thing that all media workers like to do, and that is to get to the bottom of things!

After their visits and investigations, coupled with reasonable speculation, the truth of this bizarre case finally came to light.

It’s really what a naughty kid did!

Just as Kamen Rider 555 is on the air, the Faiz driver set owned by Inkyo and Mari Sonoda has become the most desired toy for children.

Unfortunately, it’s too expensive!

The drive is not an ordinary toy. The price of the drive at PD Home and PD Mall is as high as several hundred yuan, which obviously dissuades many parents.

When the parents refused to buy one, the children not only felt sad and lost, but also found another substitute - the mobile phones of grandparents/grandparents!

Why is it a mobile phone for the elderly?

The answer is simple!

Now is the era of smartphones. Except for the elderly who don’t understand touch screen operations and don’t know full-screen gestures, who still uses a mobile phone with “buttons”?

Children have no choice!

Most of the mobile phones still used by grandparents are self-proclaimed Xx standby kings. They not only have physical buttons, but some even have flip covers.

This is a lot like Faiz phone!

Most of the older generation dotes on their grandchildren. When they learn that their grandchildren want to play with their mobile phones, they will naturally let them play with them, and then the buttons will not work...

Old people don’t watch Kamen Rider, and they don’t know “555” which has become so popular recently.

This also led to the fact that when they discovered that the keys on their phone were malfunctioning, they did not blame their grandson and thought it was a problem with the phone itself.

After reading news reports, they finally knew why.

However, they were not angry.

It's just a mobile phone. If it breaks, it's broken. Functional phones are not worth much now, not as expensive as grandson's Transformers, so he won't be furious.

They are just curious.

Who is Kamen Rider Faiz? Why did Sun Tzu keep pressing the number 555?

Did I buy those 555 toys for my grandson so that he would stop messing with my phone?

Don’t say it yet!

With this idea in mind, the PD Home has received many elderly people in the past two days, and they asked for 555 toys from the moment they entered the store.

They think very simply.

Doesn’t the little ancestor at home want to play? Then buy him one! Don't bother yourself all day long. Not only do people suffer, but mobile phones also suffer.

As for the dissuasion from sons and daughters-in-law/daughters-in-law, in the eyes of the elderly, it is completely reluctant to spend money.

Mom and Dad...

Okay, no need to say more! I have a pension, you don't have to spend money.

Thank you, grandparents!

Silly boy, why are you so polite to your grandparents! Tell me, what color do you want? We'll buy it tomorrow!

Similar conversations frequently occur in residential communities and streets in various provinces and cities.

Thanks to this, the Kamen Rider Faiz driver set finally opened up sales in China, and its popularity and sales surged. Mengzi was so happy that he didn't go home for two days...

certainly!

This is a joke!

Meng Lang did not go home for two days. The reason was not because of this incident, but because he was sick and hospitalized.

The long-term hard work, especially the hard work of shooting on location, has accumulated a lot of occupational diseases for him. The most obvious parts are the cervical spine and intestines and stomach.

Meng Lang had something wrong with his stomach.

It was originally a trivial matter, just take some medicine and recover for a few days. However, he suffered from gastroenteritis at the company and suffered unbearable abdominal pain. When Ma Teng carried him to the hospital, he was photographed by passers-by.

For a while...

[Meng Lang is terminally ill and may not die soon! 】

[The Holy Emperor is critically ill, the Prince is young, and a huge Pengda empire is in danger. Who can turn the tide and help the building from collapse? 】

[If the rescue of the black pig fails, how much inheritance will Mimi receive? A well-known lawyer said that Mimi may become the first richest woman in China! 】

Good guy!

He had gastroenteritis, so netizens couldn't wait to divide his inheritance? How many people are hoping that he will die soon so that Tao Mi can become a widow so that he can easily take over?

Meng Lang was almost furious.

This group of unscrupulous netizens finally caught an opportunity and were even more excited than during the Chinese New Year. They even gave him a critical illness notice.

The whole family was frightened!

After seeing the rumors on the Internet, they really thought something serious had happened to Meng Lang. They hurried to the hospital, only to realize that it was a false alarm.

But they were still worried.

Although the doctor said that there was nothing wrong with the pig except for thinning, Meng Lang stayed in the hospital for observation for two days at Tao Mi's insistence.

In the past two days, Gaia has completed the optimization of the movements and special effects of the combined attack technique.

The final film was sent to Big Bird TV and scheduled to be broadcast on the latest evening slot, with the first broadcast date being April 11.

It happened to be the day Meng Lang was discharged from the hospital!

After filming Balala Little Demon Fairy: The Mystery of the Music Note, Tao Mi lost her official job. In addition to taking care of the children every day, I also study new scripts.

Meng Lang, who had returned home to recuperate his health, lay comfortably on the sofa, waiting for the broadcast of Ultraman Gaia to start while examining the results of Taomi's work.

She has a soft spot for girl special shots!

Therefore, the script she tinkered with was still an old-fashioned and traditional magic + girl theme, and there was nothing new in the setting.

What a piece of shit!

Meng Lang threw away the script, picked up the apple, took a bite and said, If this kind of drama is filmed, it will definitely be criticized miserably by the audience!

I think it's pretty good...

Tao Mi frowned and said, I showed it to Ma Teng, and even he said that I have a good idea for this script, and it will definitely be a hit when it is filmed!

nonsense!

Who is Ma Teng?

People give him the nickname sycophant!

Even if Tao Mi showed him a primary school student's composition, he would still be able to boast about a flower. This kind of rainbow fart has no reference value.

It’s not that girls’ special photos are impossible to do!

But we must come up with new ideas to attract those little girls with picky tastes and little boys with unique tastes.

The old horse and monkey soju theme!

Following the pixel-level imitation story and settings of Balala Little Fairy...

Five or six years ago, this kind of drama would have been very popular! But looking at it now, Meng Lang's piece of shit comment is definitely on point!

you mean……

Can't shoot!

Although she is the wife, Meng Lang still said businesslikely: Our family is indeed rich, but no matter how rich we are, we can't invest 40 to 50 million in this kind of script, right?

I see!

The carefully prepared script was rejected, and Tao Mi seemed a little disappointed.

It can be seen that she is not very willing to be a housewife. This script has been polished for a long time, and it is indeed her hard work.

But, in business!

If Tao Mi was just taking pictures and playing with tens of millions to pass the time, Meng Lang wouldn't even blink.

But since she's just here to make money, she can't film this script because it's worthless!

Tao Mi was hit hard and was not in a good mood.

However, when the commercial ended and the first episode of Ultraman Gaia aired, she still watched it attentively.

Hey, this title...

Seeing the familiar rotating font, Taomi was quite surprised and said: Why are you using this title?

The opening title of Ultraman Gaia uses the same picture as the first generation, that is, a weird oil painting that keeps spinning, and finally the three words Ultraman spin out.

the difference is……

The title sequence of the first Ultraman had a blue-yellow background and orange fonts. This time, Gaia changed to a yellow background and red fonts.

This opening title attracted much attention.

Because the early Ultraman itself had a horror movie quality.

This dense and colorful title, combined with the weird music, creates an atmosphere of depression and horror. So later, after Ultraman moved towards a younger age, this title was cancelled.

I didn’t expect Gaia to use it again!

This can be considered a kind of tribute. After all, this year is the tenth anniversary of Ultraman! Meng Lang said with a smile.

This is a reasonable explanation!

Taomi nodded, believing Meng Lang's explanation. But she still has one question: How was this title shot?

When filming the original Ultraman, she left the crew as soon as the scene was finished and she never saw the post-production.

When she later dated Meng Lang, the Ultraman series had abandoned this classic rotating oil painting title sequence, so it was even less likely that she would have known about it.

This is not a special effect!

Meng Lang explained: After we painted the words with real paint, we stirred them into two circles from the left and right sides, and then put them upside down...

No one would believe it!

In the whole process, there is no trace of special effects processing, it is completely real shooting.

The effect that the audience sees is just the process of an oil painting with the word Ultraman written on it being disrupted and then being turned upside down.

This is Eiji Tsuburaya’s masterpiece!

In that distant era, computers were still in the integrated circuit digital machine stage, and digital special effects were out of the question.

Eiji Tsuburaya used rudimentary equipment, genius thoughts and ideas to complete an impossible task - photographing aliens in the 1960s!

The God of Tokusatsu, well deserved!

The more he got to know Eiji Tsuburaya, the more Meng Lang admired this man's imagination. Sometimes even he himself believed that Eiji Tsuburaya was an alien.

How else to explain?

Ahem, that’s too far off topic!

Regardless of whether Eiji Tsuburaya is an alien or not, the title of Gaia is indeed a homage to a classic.

After Tiga Dana's continuous success, Tsuburaya's self-confidence during the Gaia Era was simply overwhelming. Each of them believes that Tsuburaya Company can return to its peak in the 1960s/70s!

That’s why Gaia is so sophisticated!

But having said that, due to the changes of the times, Gaia still has many problems.

Like the first episode!

The original Gaia, my dream and my companions are members of Alchemy Star after all. With the special status of Alchemy Star, their laboratory is so crude?

That’s right, it’s just crude!

In Meng Lang's view, Yuangu and his gang had never been exposed to a serious laboratory. Just find a classroom and get a few props to disguise it as a quantum physics laboratory.

This is too much...

You said Tsuburaya didn't have money. They still had money during the Gaia period. It should be possible to rent a laboratory to shoot a few scenes.

This is exactly what happened!

Children can’t understand it, and think it’s very cheating to see the sign “Quantum Physics Laboratory” hanging on the door!

But adults can really see the dark side and are speechless at Tsuburaya's poor setup.

still have a question.

Except for the protagonist, the friends who cooperate with the research do not have the demeanor of a scientific researcher at all.

Temperament is indescribable!

Anyway, the first time you see this person, you can tell that he is acting, and there is no sense of involvement. This is a very failed casting choice.

certainly!

This kind of nitpicking feels a bit like picking a bone within an egg.

For a children's special photo drama like Gaia, there is no need to be realistic in some details, and it would be very boring to be rigorous at all times.

Anyway, don’t talk about anything else!

In order to film the campus scene of Ultraman Gaia, Meng Lang contacted Jiangchuan University and borrowed a laboratory from the Institute of Physics.

Some scientific research dogs also got the opportunity to play small roles.

In order to create the genius temperament of the two protagonists, he also asked the actors to study seriously for several weeks with a top academic figure from Jiangsu University.

Just talking about the sense of substitution and realism, the PD version of Gaia is slightly better than the original version.

Of course, these are small things.

The biggest attraction of Ultraman is not the sense of immersion and realism. What the audience likes most is always Ultraman beating the little monsters.

After encountering Ultraman in the experiment, the sky suddenly changed, and a monster was sent through the wormhole to wreak havoc.

Unable to bear the destruction of the earth, Gao Shanmeng met the Giant of Light again. He passed the test and became Five-way Drag Man GAY!

This...this is?!

In the past, when Ultraman appeared on the stage, they all landed smoothly on the ground. Only Gaia, the one who landed, splashed dust all over the sky.

The scene was shocking!

Why is there dust flying up?

Because he is the light of the earth!

Smiling, Meng Lang explained: Okay, no kidding. The reason why it is done like this is just to be more real and reasonable.

How could Ultraman, who weighs tens of thousands of tons, not throw up some dust when he falls from a high place?

This is just an attempt.

As mentioned before, Dyna has been criticized for its lack of innovation. So Tsuburaya tried many new things in Gaia that had never been done before.

Landing is one of them!

This landing method has won the love of the audience and has been widely used. Many of the later new Ori games used this landing method.

Gaia's title of Ultra Landing Judge was born from this!

Interesting to say...

This shocking scene of flying dust on the ground looks like it was smashed, but it was actually exploded!

During the filming, the staff buried small explosive bags in advance, waiting for the actors in leather jackets to move into position, and instantly detonated the dust.

very dangerous!

Even a stunt bomber who has followed Mr. Meng for many years and can fill an entire building with stacked monster skins cannot guarantee safety 100%.

It is an explosion after all!

If something goes wrong, a thin layer of leather can't protect the actor, and he will get injured if he should.

Fortunately nothing went wrong!

Through the switching of long shot + close shot and the comprehensive display of multiple camera positions, Gaia's landing this time amazed countless audiences.

Full marks! Must have perfect score!

This powerful Ultraman gives people an inexplicable sense of solidity when he first appears.

It feels so strong!

It can knock out so much dust when it hits the ground. If it hits with one punch, the monster will be killed on the spot, right?