Is your "mythical beast" obsessed with Ultraman cards?

　　At the beginning of the new semester, the reporter visited the school and found that Ultraman cards were popular among parents.

　　● Many minors are addicted to collecting Ultraman cards, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars at will, and some even steal money from home or borrow money to buy cards, which makes some parents distressed

　　● The reason why Ultraman cards are popular among minors, in addition to the blind selection and the temptation of rare collections, may also be related to the establishment of social relationships among peer groups. Minors accumulate, exchange, and give, etc. Establish a common language and find new friendships within a certain range

　　● At the system level, rules and red lines must be drawn for “blind boxes” and “card packs” with a gambling nature.

Parents should find out in time and give reasonable guidance; the supervision department should impose penalties on shops that produce and sell "blind box" cards; schools should explicitly prohibit playing with "blind box" cards

　　□ Our reporter Chen Lei

　　□ Our newspaper trainee reporter Sun Tianjiao

　　At 5:30 pm on September 10th, at the entrance of a primary school in Chaoyang District, Beijing, a fifth-grade student Li Lin who walked out of the school gate after school quickly pulled up to his mother, Ms. Mu, happily ran to the nearby convenient market, and came to a stationery booth. , Skillfully picked up two packs of Ultraman cards.

Each package is 5 yuan, and Ms. Mu paid 10 yuan.

　　Before leaving the market, Li Lin tore open one of the card holders.

"It's been'smashed' again, there is no good card." He murmured to himself after flipping through it quickly, and threw the card pack into the trash can next to it.

　　"My child is obsessed with Ultraman cards, and they beg me to buy them every day. Now they have collected several copies." Ms. Mu shook her head helplessly and told reporters.

　　There are many elementary school students like Li Lin who are obsessed with Ultraman cards.

　　After the start of the new semester, a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily found that many minors were addicted to collecting Ultraman cards, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars at every turn, and some even stole family money or borrowed money to buy cards. The behavior of classmates comparing the pros and cons of the cards or arguing and even fighting to get the other's rare cards also happens frequently, which makes some parents very distressed.

　　The business is close to the school gate

　　Students spend thousands of dollars to buy a card

　　Li Lin was "card age" for one year. Most of the Ultraman cards he collected were purchased at the stationery stall in the convenient market near the school.

　　Ms. Mu said that during this summer vacation, she took Li Lin back to her hometown, and her son carried an Ultraman card book with him. In addition to running wild with his friends, he would look at the card book while he was free, and talk about the card book while flipping it. Terman's name, "I can't remember memorizing the text, but Ultraman's name can be remembered very clearly."

　　In early August, because the epidemic prevention and control school advised students to return to Beijing in advance, Li Lin began planning to buy Ultraman cards. Only two weeks after school started, he had already bought the cards three times.

　　At the booth where Li Lin bought the cards, the reporter saw that the shelf of the booth, which was only about 10 square meters, was filled with all kinds of Ultraman cards. The price of each package ranges from two to three yuan to thirty to fifty yuan. .

　　Li Lin told reporters that there are 8 cards in the 5 yuan card package he bought. Before buying, he didn’t know what kind of cards were in it. It was like pulling a "blind box". After buying, tearing up the card package might be "smashed". , It is also possible to draw one or two "good cards".

　　The so-called "smashing" means that there are all ordinary cards in the card bag. There are no rare cards. Many students throw these ordinary cards aside or throw them directly into the trash can.

The so-called "good card" refers to the rare Ultraman card, such as XR card (laser full star card), SSR card (full star card), HR card (upgraded 3D card) and so on.

　　Li Lin said that there are 36 people in his class, and at least half of them have bought or collected Ultraman cards. "My card is the most."

Ms. Mu told reporters that in just one year, Li Lin spent thousands of yuan on Ultraman cards.

　　The reporter asked about the sales of the store's cards, and the store bluntly said, "It sells very well, and the kids love it."

　　The reporter visited the convenience markets and stationery shops near many schools in Chaoyang District, Haidian District, Tianjin City, and Jizhou District, Tianjin City, and found that most of them were selling Ultraman cards at prices ranging from a few yuan to a few dozen yuan.

There is a stationery store selling Ultraman cards even right next to the entrance of the elementary school. After school, many young boys pester their parents to buy cards.

　　Multi-regional elementary schools are prevalent in collection cards

　　Parents don’t know where the magic is

　　Li Lin learns to play football at an off-campus football club. His teammate Zhao Meng lives in Beijing’s Haidian District and is a fourth-year student in a primary school attached to a university.

Zhao Meng's "card age" is 3 years, and he has collected several card books. Some of his cards are purchased from physical stores near the school, and some are purchased online.

　　Among these Ultraman cards, Zhao Meng's favorite is a set of Ultraman anniversary cards.

This is the reward given to him by his father after his team won the first place in a football match last winter.

　　Speaking of this set of cards, Zhao Meng talked freely-there are a total of 64 cards, divided into two types of packages, one is a fixed package, containing 2 XR cards and 30 fixed cards; the other is a supplementary package, each package There are 2 random XR/GP/LGR cards, 1 each for UR, HR, and SR cards, and 3 R cards.

In addition, the merchant comes with a card brick and a collection book.

　　Zhao Meng's father, Zhao Peng, told reporters that he bought this set of cards online for more than 350 yuan.

He said that the children especially liked the Ultraman cards, so he used the cards as an incentive for the children to play well, and the children cheered when they opened them.

　　The reporter logged onto the online shopping platform that Zhao Peng said, and saw various brands of Ultraman cards. Among them, the flagship store of a certain brand of Ultraman cards attracted more than 169,000 attentions and sold more than 20 types of cards.

Some Ultraman sets of cards sell for several hundred yuan, and some popular cards sell 200,000+.

　　Seeing that Zhao Meng is now more and more addicted to Ultraman cards, Zhao Peng is a little worried.

　　During the interview, many parents said they could not understand why children like Ultraman cards so much.

　　Ms. Mu said: "I don't think these cards have any value. I don't understand the magic of these cards, but the kids will play around when they have time and talk about the cards."

　　What makes Ms. Mu do not understand is that everyone on the football team where the child belongs to collect Ultraman cards.

For a while, the players talked about cards between training sessions, and the coach had to make a request, and then brought the cards to the training ground and confiscated them.

　　Not only in Beijing, according to public information, Ultraman cards have become popular among elementary school students in many places.

In February this year, the son of Ms. Liu from Qingdao City, Shandong Province spent more than 4,000 yuan to buy Ultraman cards in a short period of time; in August this year, a 7-year-old child in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province stole 2,500 yuan to buy Ultraman cards at home .

　　Mr. Shan, who lives in Jizhou District, Tianjin, said in an interview that his son Shan Xiao is in fifth grade this year, and more than 30 of the 52 students in his class have bought cards.

Shan Xiao has been buying cards for more than 3 years and spends more than ten yuan on Ultraman cards almost every week.

　　Fight for the card

　　Parents complain about "playing crazy"

　　Seeing her son so addicted to Ultraman cards, Ms. Mu began to limit his pocket money, but what happened next made her even more distressed.

　　During the summer vacation, when he returned to his hometown, his grandfather gave Li Lin's one-year-old sister a 500 yuan meeting. In a blink of an eye, Li Lin took 200 yuan from her sister.

In order to save money to buy a card, Li Lin began to collect express cartons and plastic bottles at home, and then sold them as waste.

　　And Zhao Meng's approach is to sell some duplicate cards to classmates and card friends.

　　Zhao Peng told reporters that recently his son Zhao Meng sold four cards to his classmates at a price of 30 yuan each. After he knew it, he severely criticized him and asked him to return the money to his classmates. , Can't come to us yet? How could this be so at a young age".

　　This is not the first time Zhao Meng has sold cards.

At the beginning of this year, Zhao Meng bought a card from a classmate for 2.5 yuan, and then resold it to another classmate for 5 yuan.

Not long ago, he also transferred a card to a teammate of the team and received 15 yuan from the other party.

　　At that time, Zhao Peng felt that there was not much money, so he did not intervene in discipline. He did not expect Zhao Meng to treat this as a business.

Zhao Meng believes that the transfer of cards between classmates and teammates is your wish, and it is understandable.

　　Mr. Shan told reporters quite worriedly that in his son’s school, some elementary students borrowed money from classmates to buy Ultraman cards, and even some elementary students saw their classmates buy rare cards and immediately grabbed them.

　　The fight took place at the school gate. It was noon. In the canteen at the school gate, a male student drew a rare UR card. Another male student wanted it and grabbed it. As a result, the two sides surrounded the card. Fought.

　　"It's crazy to play." Mr. Shan described the state of some elementary school students playing Ultraman cards.

　　Ms. Mu agreed with this. Now Li Lin takes out the card booklet and reads it one by one whenever he has time. When doing homework, he also has to take it out to look at it for a while, even if he goes to school.

　　"What to do?" This is the voice of many parents.

　　(In the text, Li Lin, Zhao Meng, and Shan Xiao are all pseudonyms)