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"Robot animation" has always been one of the most important and audience-based types in the animation industry. In the era of rapid development of animation industry in Japan and the United States, the two representative works "Mobile Warrior Gunda" and "Transformers" have directly changed the pattern and atmosphere of robot animation.

However, the domestic animation industry basically missed the golden period of overseas "turnip films". Until the recovery of the domestic animation industry and the emergence of excellent works at the beginning of the 21st century, the robot animation belonging to China did not come late.

"the Adventures of Luo Luo" (hereinafter referred to as "the Adventures of Lolo") is China's first large-scale animation featuring a shape-shifting robot. In retrospect, it has indeed left an unforgettable legend in the history of animation in our country.

A few days ago, the childhood memories of countless people also coruscated the second spring with the help of the Internet Hot Terrier, which is rare as an old animation that has ended for more than a decade.

But when you sat in front of the TV and watched the animation with Guazi, you probably wouldn't have thought that both inside and outside the play, the stories of the past life and this life are all twists and turns.

It is undoubtedly difficult to make a 3D animation in China more than ten years ago, and the Adventures of Lolo has been controversial since its birth.

Compared with Japan and the United States, where the animation industry is mature, China's 3D animation started much later, and the roughness of the first domestic 3D animation "Space Special Police" in the real sense, so that today's audience can not believe that this is an animation of the same era as the Super Warrior.

Then the tortuous road of Chinese 3D animation, some people are willing to use time and money to develop. The 2005 "Elf Century", with a sky-high production cost of more than 150 million yuan and a sufficient production cycle of 3 years, directly raised the upper limit of Chinese 3D animation at that time by one stage, and its level is not too outdated today.

By contrast, the Adventures of Lolo, which opened in 2008, obviously does not have such great ambitions.

The Adventures of Lolo was invested and produced by Xingjie Toys, a toy manufacturer at that time. Before this, Xingjie had already operated the mature business model of "introducing foreign cartoons and selling related toys" for several years. Xingjie, who early grasped the importance of IP and commercialization, came up with the idea of making his own animation.

But I have to admit, the word-of-mouth of Lolo is not very good at first-it bears a subtle resemblance to some of the settings of Transformers G1.

The word "subtlety" has its own meaning. After all, it is only a slight similarity in setting. For those who know more about robot toys, the prototype of Lolo Adventures is not Transformers G1, but the GoBots series acquired by Hasbro.

It's a bit beside the point to talk about the story between "GoBots" and "Transformers G1". To put it simply, there are some subtle similarities between the two works, but GoBots was born only a little earlier than Transformers G1, so some of the similarities between the two are generally not regarded as plagiarism.

When it comes to China, this part of the coincidence coincides with the "Adventures of Lolo", which is highly similar to "GoBots". Netizens take out the better-known "Transformers G1" and think that "the Adventures of Lolo" is suspected of plagiarism, and this has become an ingenious misunderstanding.

"GoBots" was later acquired by Hasbro and became a series of young toys, although there are rumors on the Internet that "Star Jie bought the copyright of GoBots", but no one can handle it. In addition, friends who know Hasbro know that the company's copyright control is strict for all to see, and letting go of copyright is not like Hasbro.

As for whether Xingjie bought the copyright, there are only different opinions, and the truth was buried in more than a decade ago, and now there is no final conclusion. But "the Adventures of Lolo" can now become the memory of a generation, not by simple setting, but by solid hard power.

2 on Douban, the score of "the Adventures of Lolo" is rising year by year, and countless young viewers are willing to give favorable comments after examining the work from the perspective of today's adults. The average score of 20,000 people is 9.4, putting the work in 15th place on the domestic animation list.

Douban domestic animation TOP15 re-examined this work this year, and the biggest regret is that it is limited by the technical power of the times.

As an animation that promotes the plot with battle, the blood-blooded play of "the Adventures of Lolo" is frequently absent. At that time, it was not the advanced modeling quality and animation effect, which made the shopping of the two factions more like a fight among primary school students.

This is the hottest battle in the series, and the poor perception caused by the limitation of technical power is inevitable, and the Adventures of Lolo clearly understands the hard truth that "good steel is used on the blade". Like other robot animations, since they are essentially advertisements for selling toys, how to show the handsome of these robots has become a top priority.

Concise transformation animation "Lolo Adventures" in more than a dozen main characters, all have their own unique must-kill stunts and exquisite must-kill animation. If you spend the money on this middle school move that allows primary school boys to imitate in the school corridor, you can see that this work is quite accurate in terms of the needs of its target users.

Another place that has conquered countless small audiences is the background setting of the work-the theme of online games.

To sum up the plot of this work is very simple, genius game master Luo Luo accidentally crossed into his best game, "Robot King," and the only way to get back to the real world is to unify the two major tribes of the robot and the orcs in the game. collect six tokens to clear the game.

Although today's online games across the street have long been bad, but as a rare game adaptation animation more than a decade ago, the setting of "the Adventures of Lolo" is not unapproachable.

At the beginning of the animation, the audience can see a large number of familiar game elements-killing the enemy to gain experience, injury requires the energy amethyst to restore health, and a special skill system to learn specific integrated skills to restrain the corresponding enemies. let the whole world form a set of self-consistent logic, the level is high, that is, one against a hundred, attribute restraint is the ability to leapfrog. It avoids the sudden feeling of mechanical sedation in a large number of works.

In the early stage, the protagonist "Thunderfire" was only level 2, and the process of level training was also very game-like. Of course, if the war works take real knives and real guns and let the two factions fight each other, it is inevitable that there will be some bloody violence, even if everyone knows that it is a virtual work. But it still inevitably attracts the censure of parents. Fortunately, the background of the game combined with the setting of the robot makes the effect of "the Adventures of Lolo" not too radical, so that parents can rest assured and children are happy. Until the end of the animation, there was no news reported by parents.

The Legend of the Seven Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit was reported by parents that the Adventures of Lolo was successfully broadcast on TV, which was lucky for the viewers at that time. Like other classic animations, although the target group of the work is indeed young people, every audience who watches it patiently from beginning to end can realize that the spiritual core of this work has nothing to do with the word "naive".

3 just like the feeling of "spy film in animal skin" in the Legend of the Seven Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit, the Adventures of Lolo exquisitely interprets the wonderful group images of many characters under the shell of the robot.

Different from the main character in the traditional animation "Weiguangzheng", in the Adventures of Lolo, the positive character is not necessarily the embodiment of perfect justice.

For example, he was arrogant in his early years, made irreparable mistakes, was the "vanguard" of PTSD by the villain "Tiger King", and was a decadent and autistic youth from the beginning.

Or Supersonic, who had a misunderstanding with his brother Lightning and set up his own door. Arrogant and paranoid, he watched his master die at the hands of the enemy and did not clear up the long-standing misunderstanding until his death. But even though he already knew the causes and consequences, he still did not break the ice with his brothers for a long time, and as a member of the protagonist group, he was not open and aboveboard.

Of course, the character flaws of decent people only add to the depth of the script, and what really makes countless audiences unforgettable is the eye-catching performance of the villains.

In the play, a villain named "Golden Iron Beast" had a back-and-forth fight with our protagonist "Thunderbolt" in the early stage. When it is killed to save its own marshal, in the face of past grievances, regardless of the danger of life and death to rescue the old man "Thunderbolt Fire", the choice of "Golden Iron Beast" is to perish together with the enemy. At this time, the writer asked the villain to say the following lines:

If it is said that blurring the boundary between pros and cons and giving flesh and blood to both positive and evil villains is one of the highlights of the work, then the growth of the characters of the most popular villain, the Tiger King, must be the most outstanding play. From the initial insidious and cunning scumbag, to a series of tragedies in which Pingyang was bullied by dogs after a series of betrayals, he was finally willing to let go of his savior. The figure of the chic departure symbolizes that the great hero who is happy and grudging has completed the sublimation of the character image.

Under the interpretation of the dubbing actor Gao Quansheng, the philosophical "Tiger King" has become the life mentor of many children. The implication in the script also makes more people realize that this is not a simple children's animation for children.

An excellent story with a sound picture has won countless praises and countless flowers and applause for "the Adventures of Lolo". As everyone can guess in the next script, it should be common sense to launch a sequel while the iron is hot. But who would have thought that a few years after the end of this work, it would still be caught in inexplicable disputes and incessant entanglements of interests.

Just four years after the end of the Adventures of Lolo, it ushered in a complete remaking of the plate, which made up the last deficiency of the work. In 2013, Wushu Road, produced by Blue Arc Animation, completely renovated the entire animation without changing the overall script. With such a short period of reproduction, even if it is put on a worldwide scale, there must not be many works with this opportunity.

"Wu Zhan Dao" as a remaking plate, its quality also lives up to expectations, in the picture accuracy, modeling quality and expressive force are far better than other works of the same period, even today, it can be called amazing.

The original "half Moon chopping of Thunder" only turned around three times with a knife. The adaptation of "Wushu Road" was full of momentum, but the next thing everyone did not expect, such an ambitious, time-consuming and painstaking work. Two years later, he got a lawsuit from Xingjie and was ruled by the court as an infringement.

If you want to sort this out, you have to bring everyone behind the animation to the front of the stage.

Although the Adventures of Lolo was funded by Xingjie Toys, Blue Arc Animation was responsible for the script and production. Later, I don't know what kind of conflict happened between the two sides, so the plan for the sequel was temporarily shelved, and they didn't want to give up this piece of fat blue arc to find a new investor, picked up their own screenplay and produced "Wushu."

Although the original music and the names of the characters have been modified to a certain extent, they have not escaped the sanction of the court. In 2018, the Guangzhou intellectual property Act ruled that Wu Zhandao infringed upon the copyright of the Adventures of Luo Luo, concluding the whole matter with a compensation of 1.2 million yuan.

At this point, the follow-up development of the Adventures of Lolo is divided into two ways. Xing Jie chose a new IP "vigor" to try to recreate the glory of "the Adventures of Lolo", but with little success, failed to recreate the courage of that year.

The development of Blue Arc is obviously much better. After all, the success of "the Adventures of Lolo" is largely due to the script, and Wang Wei of Blue Arc serves as a screenwriter. Later, Blue Arc successively produced "Super Beast Armed" series and "Star God of the Universe", which were all excellent works. The Blue Arc of that era was worthy of the title of "Light of domestic Animation".

Wang Wei's attitude towards "Wu Zhan Dao" is by no means a simple reproduction of the two works directed by Wang Wei. Although the script remains unchanged, at the end, the writer keeps the protagonist Lolo in the game world and modifies the original ending, obviously to prepare in advance for the follow-up IP operation, and it is true. In 2015, Blue Arc gathered its six popular animations to launch its own mobile game called "King of Mobile Warfare", which is the game in the background stories of "the Adventures of Lolo" and "Wushu Road".

The later story was more embarrassing. Blue arc successively fell into the suspected plagiarism of "Wu Zhandao" tort litigation and "good-bye Altman of the Iron and Steel Dragon". By the time the blue arc of separation comes out of the storm, "martial arts" has long been unable to raise any waves.

The conclusion "the Adventures of Luo Luo" is undoubtedly an important stroke in the history of domestic animation. Today, there are still a large number of viewers reliving the classics and singing the beautiful song "promise".

Although the trivia and farce around this simple animation are somewhat dishonorable, it is also a great blessing for the small audience sitting in front of the TV to be able to stay away from the disputes outside the work and enjoy such a rare and wonderful work. It is also a great blessing to be able to watch such a group drama that tells a good story attentively.

It is important to meet the right work at the right time, but surpassing the times like the Adventures of Lolo is worth trying for every audience who still has a love for animation. If you have noticed the revival of this work recently, you might as well take this opportunity to revisit the classics, which may be much more wonderful than you think.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: Okny

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