"Considering logistics and transportation costs, the size of this item cannot be too large. It would be ideal if it could be included in the album, transported along with it."
"Since it is meant to take over the market from photocards, it must also be convenient for fans to transport and easy to pack."
The product department staff member stood at the front, presenting their results to everyone in the meeting room. A piece of acrylic was extracted from the inner page of the album. It was about the same size as a photocard but had additional functions and attributes.
"Six acrylic pieces can be combined to form a mini world figurine. Only acrylic pieces from the same scene can be put together, which will increase fans' interest in collecting acrylics."
"You can see the figurine in my hand. The visual effect is very realistic. The scene inside is 3D and looks different from different angles."
"I believe this merchandise will be very popular among fans!"
"That concludes our product presentation. Thank you."
Jiang Juyou, sitting in the main seat, examined the figurine in her hand. After granting the product department access to the system factory, they had designed many products with unique Random Entertainment-exclusive features – mysterious, magical, and visually stunning.
This was what they had been preparing for so long.
The reason Jiang Juyou approved this proposal was simple: it met all the requirements for circulation in the secondary market.
She looked at the figurine in her hand. The acrylic block was like a tiny fish tank filled with water. Blue seawater filled it, with dazzling marine life as decorations. In the middle was Pei Zhiping swimming downward, as if searching for something on the seabed.
The perspective was truly magical, as if becoming a god, slicing out that space and pausing time, allowing her to admire this beautiful scene.
Jiang Juyou smirked and said, "They're really going to go crazy for this..."
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"Ahhhhhhhh―"
Xie Yun manually turned off the volume button, her mouth wide open enough to fit a tennis ball. She was shouting but making no sound.
Several other roommates also gathered to take a look.
"What is this?"
"Wow, this thing..."
"I'm actually feeling a bit sick. Seeing those tiny pieces of paper makes me want to curse."
Everyone knew Random Entertainment was good at making money, but it was the only company that made fans willingly hand over their money.
This time, the album only had one version, with only one cover. Priced at seventy yuan, the album came with a seventy-yuan photocard and an acrylic piece of unknown value. No matter how you calculated it, fans were still making a profit.
How could fans not be willing to buy it?
The roommate who was a fan had already searched for prices on the Galexy World App.
She covered her mouth in surprise, "Someone is offering three hundred for one piece, and it's three hundred per piece!! If it's the top acrylic piece of Haidi Zhi... she's adding another two hundred!"
"Oh? How did you know I completed one block with six albums?"
"Jealousy makes people red-eyed, jealousy makes people ugly, jealousy makes people drool!"
In just one day, Random Entertainment's new merchandise had gone viral on the internet, especially among fans, who couldn't stop refreshing social media.
There were also fans urging their idols to hurry up and make albums because they wanted them too.
The unique merchandise included with albums in the Domestic Entertainment Industry made those who followed foreign idols feel left out.
While the domestic industry had already reached this level of competition, they were still distributing selfie photocards on album sales platforms to boost sales, releasing hundreds of photocards with each comeback, making it impossible to collect them all. Especially since only a few were good-looking, the expensive ones were unaffordable, and the cheap ones they already had.
It was becoming more and more unnecessary to have photocards.
"I feel like I'm becoming a joke..." Xie Yun's fan roommate flipped through Xie Yun's card binder and glanced at the albums on her bookshelf. There were also merchandise from albums on the wardrobe next to it. The AIcho debut album came with a luxury brand co-branded armpit bag, and this album came with a luxury brand co-branded makeup bag.
Looking at all the things she had bought over the years, she turned back to the bookshelf, where a card binder was pressed down, filled with photocards she couldn't sell, because... the male idol had fallen from grace.
Thinking of this, she felt a bit dizzy.
Xie Yun was flipping through her card album, thinking about selling some of her cards to buy new albums. This was like her financial management strategy—she didn’t have the habit of collecting cards, and these cards were either given to her when she bought albums or swapped with duplicates.
“...I don’t want to sell any of them.”
Pei Zhiping was a renowned selfie genius at Random Entertainment. She never repeated the same pose, and many of her cards were even taken from other people’s perspectives.
There was one of her with her family hiking, capturing the moment they encountered a golden sunrise over the mountains. Pei Zhiping stood on the peak, hands clasped in prayer, with the golden-lit mountains behind her. This was a Live card, where the clouds and her clothes fluttered in motion. It was incredibly expensive, and she was so excited the night she pulled it that she couldn’t sleep.
Then there was this one, a shot of Pei Zhiping holding a cake with “Happy Birthday” written on it. Basically, every Pei Zhiping fan would take a photo with it on their birthday. This was also a Live card, and the magical thing was that if you blew on it, the candles on the cake would go out.
“No way, I can’t part with them,” Xie Yun said, closing her card album and putting it back on the shelf.
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As she turned around, she saw her roommate with a drained expression, as if all her energy had been sucked out.
“What’s wrong with you?”
Her roommate looked up. “Jealousy.”
“Well, come join the Domestic Entertainment Industry then. If Random Entertainment doesn’t have what you like, there are other groups. So many new groups debuted this year. On the Galexy World App, there’s a new debut stage every week.”
Her roommate shook her head. “I’ve realized... I’m just a masochist. I like chasing idols with language barriers.”
Xie Yun paused for a moment, then remembered. “...There’s a new boy group with an Australian-Chinese member who’s not very good at Chinese.”
Her roommate, who had been looking lifeless just moments ago, suddenly perked up, pulling her chair over. “What’s his name?”
“I forgot, but you can look it up. He’s probably your type—a high school guy who used to play ice hockey.”
“...You really understand me too well.”
Roommate who’s into idol-chasing: [drooling]