[Commentary] For most of the "post-80s" and "post-90s", the anime company is indispensable in childhood, and the anime complex in childhood is difficult to give up today as an adult. In Chengdu, there is a private mold-playing museum called Mokeng, which covers an area of more than 5,000 square meters and has an annual rent of millions. It displays more than 2,000 cartoon statues collected by founder Yao Xiaoming in the past 6 years. Do it by hand.
On July 10, Yao Xiaoming came to the museum early and began to take care of the statue of the clown that had just arrived. Iron Man, Batman, Naruto, One Piece...Save pocket money from childhood to buy small hands (generally referring to collectible character models, including anime character model and other derivatives), and have a certain economic foundation after adulthood. "Entering the pit" purchased large-scale anime character statues and models. Yao Xiaoming said that feelings were the main driving force supporting him along the way.
[Same period] Yao Xiaoming, founder of the "Mockpit" museum
I started with some IPs. For example, there are some "Naruto", "One Piece", and "Saint Seiya" that are seen from a young age (animation) to (growth). Feelings, and then like it again, so I started. At first it was definitely pure interest, and I hadn’t considered other things. I liked it. I would buy it if I had some money.
【Explanation】With the increasing number of Yao Xiaoming's collection, how to store it reasonably became the first problem he encountered. In an exchange with his "common friends", the idea of opening a model play museum flashed through. After careful consideration, in May 2019, Yao Xiaoming took his collection to Chengdu, and officially opened the museum in December of the same year, which also became Chengdu's first model play museum.
[Same period] Yao Xiaoming, founder of the "Mockpit" museum
Because I like this industry myself, I also want to promote this industry, and then I hope that everyone will have a chance to get close to this large statue. Because it looks intuitively that it is a 3D (stereoscopic) thing, it must be more intuitive than the plane thing, and the visual impact is stronger, so I decided to open this museum. Because those of us who play with models, entering this line are called "entry pits", so they are called "mold pits".
[Commentary] The museum opened its reputation as the "first shot" due to its large number and large area. It not only attracted many "playing circle" players and young people who love animation, but also attracted a lot of domestic work. The laboratory and personal prototyping team settled in.
[Same period] Yao Xiaoming, founder of the "Mockpit" museum
Because I think that domestic prototypers can be guaranteed regardless of their ability, including the actual feeling of designing products. And in fact it is worth recommending. But because he does not have the support of IP, there are some things to do, not many people in China know. I also hope to build a platform to promote and publicize them.
[Explanation] In addition, after many years of collecting experience, Yao Xiaoming found that the current domestic hand-made market is mixed with fish, and the copyright awareness is not strong. There are often cases of piracy and overmolding, which are easy to cause economic losses to "outdoors". To this end, he also established a network platform for propaganda, communication, and transactions for model play fans based on the museum.
[Same period] Yao Xiaoming, founder of the "Mockpit" museum
In fact, the important thing about our platform is to focus on communication, mainly for communication, because the unit price of this thing is indeed relatively high. Then I also hope that when "moe new into the pit", don't be fooled.
[Explanation] In Yao Xiaoming's conception, "mold pit" will not stop in Chengdu. In the future, he will continue to expand, enrich the collection category, open branches to become famous, attract more artists from home and abroad to settle in, and promote excellent originals. works.
Yang Yubin reports from Chengdu, Sichuan
Editor in charge: [Li Ji]