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 Mar 27 2012, 03:22 AM
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The interview with Shogo Hasui gave me this thought and I'm wondering if anyone can enlighten me. Why are Hasbro Transformer designers from before the Unicron Trilogy so hard to find? I mean, it took years before we even knew some of their names.
I've been trying to track down the late G1/G2 team for a while now (it was apparently a ridiculously small team on both sides of the world at the time) - Todd Wise for design, Don Marini for engineering. I believe I've found the latter but have no way to contact him, while I just have a minor lead on the former. The trickier guys to find belong to the Beast Wars team which apparently was larger, but I only know exactly two names from it - Chris Gross, the lead designer, and Tim Bradley, another design team member who carried over to Beast Machines. Again, I've found the latter, but I can't hunt down the former, nor have I discovered any other members of the design team. Before 1989 is a total blank. -------------------- Fall of Cybertron will blow your mind. That is all.
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Mar 27 2012, 06:10 AM
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Probably because in Japan when you work for a company it's usually a much stronger and longer relationship than it is often in the US.
That and TakaraTomy seems to like to promote / publicize their designers (with interviews and spotlights in magazines) while Hasbro is more of the mind of Hasbro as a whole rather than any individual. But yeah since no one was around in the old days of Hasbro's TF Team, it's hard to find any information about them now. Randy --------------------  |
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Mar 27 2012, 06:32 AM
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A search I just did suggests they're both still at Hasbro. [1] [2] Not sure if that really helps though.
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Mar 27 2012, 07:26 AM
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Hasbro didn't do RID designs per se, and a lot of Beast era staff may have been purged when they shuttered their Cincinnati office around 2000. And before that? People retire. -------------------- The TFWiki: when just five Infernos aren't enough. http://www.tfwiki.net
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Mar 27 2012, 11:41 AM
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QUOTE(abates @ Mar 27 2012, 07:32 AM)  A search I just did suggests they're both still at Hasbro. [1] [2] Not sure if that really helps though. What did you search? Seeing Todd Wise being the Senior VP of toy design is pretty big thing. -------------------- Fall of Cybertron will blow your mind. That is all.
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Mar 27 2012, 03:27 PM
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QUOTE(Spark @ Mar 28 2012, 05:41 AM) What did you search? Seeing Todd Wise being the Senior VP of toy design is pretty big thing. I googled "Todd Wise" Hasbro. -------------------- TFWiki.net - The Transformers Wiki: because where else are you going to learn about The Battle for Planet Earth?
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Mar 27 2012, 03:42 PM
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Huh. I'd been searching "Todd Wise +Hasbro", "Todd Wise +designer", "Todd Wise +design", etc and blew it. MORE INFO IS GOOD INFO.
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Mar 28 2012, 04:33 AM
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Most of the Kenner folk were fired, unfortunately.
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Mar 28 2012, 10:36 PM
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 Myastur Mispellur Group: Citizen Posts: 12,142 Joined: 12-January 02 From: TF Count 900+ Member No.: 246 Faction: Free Agent |
I think it would be awsome to have your favorite TF autographed by the desinger
*looks over at his Gunrunner* -------------------- Currently out of touch with reality watching tons of anime
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Mar 28 2012, 10:43 PM
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Wouldn't Hasbro HR still maintain at least some of these records?
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Mar 28 2012, 10:44 PM
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QUOTE(tec @ Mar 28 2012, 11:36 PM) I think it would be awsome to have your favorite TF autographed by the desinger *looks over at his Gunrunner* Yeah, that would be cooler than a voice actor, I think. -------------------- |
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Mar 28 2012, 11:58 PM
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 D-69 Even on Krypton Group: Citizen Posts: 19,845 Joined: 17-January 03 From: Ontario Canada Member No.: 1,958 Faction: Decepticon |
I hope one of our Female members points me in the direction of the designer of the TM2 Megatron and Tm Turantulas ... because that Sparker would get a kiss...
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Mar 29 2012, 06:10 AM
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Aaron Archer designed TM2 Megatron. Or at least had a large role in it.
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Mar 29 2012, 11:56 AM
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Yeah, Aaron Archer is accountable for a lot of the TM2 figures. I don't know who handled TM Tarantulas, although I do have files of his control art.
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Mar 29 2012, 12:05 PM
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D-69 Even on Krypton Group: Citizen Posts: 19,845 Joined: 17-January 03 From: Ontario Canada Member No.: 1,958 Faction: Decepticon |
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-screamer.gif) there just aren't enough fangirls, but thanks guys I didn't know he did the tm2s
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Mar 29 2012, 01:15 PM
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President of the Deflowering Club Group: News and Content Posts: 41,389 Joined: 26-April 02 Member No.: 905 Faction: RIRFIB |
I want my Kiss!
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Mar 29 2012, 05:44 PM
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Group: Citizen Posts: 23,988 Joined: 8-February 03 Member No.: 2,246 |
I know someone's going to post Kiss Players Legion in response to that, but I'll not be the one.
On topic, anyone have ideas who might be the best to search for in terms of finding past Hasbro personnel management? This post has been edited by Spark: Mar 29 2012, 05:44 PM -------------------- Fall of Cybertron will blow your mind. That is all.
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Mar 29 2012, 07:04 PM
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D-69 Even on Krypton Group: Citizen Posts: 19,845 Joined: 17-January 03 From: Ontario Canada Member No.: 1,958 Faction: Decepticon |
oot/ It would never work out between us PC, you're a Rirfib and I'm on the right side... I'd only get your hopes up and just end up hurting you... and think of the children ... by the time they're in their teens they be all up in out faces with "ENEMY IS THE BEST!" and then we'd have to put them down...
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-screamer.gif) It can never be. This post has been edited by Destron D-69: Mar 29 2012, 07:05 PM -------------------- |
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Mar 31 2012, 08:51 PM
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 That's "COMMANDER" to YOU... Group: Citizen Posts: 2,784 Joined: 14-January 02 From: Raleigh, NC Member No.: 340 Faction: Free Agent |
QUOTE(Powered Convoy @ Mar 27 2012, 11:10 AM) Probably because in Japan when you work for a company it's usually a much stronger and longer relationship than it is often in the US. That and TakaraTomy seems to like to promote / publicize their designers (with interviews and spotlights in magazines) while Hasbro is more of the mind of Hasbro as a whole rather than any individual. But yeah since no one was around in the old days of Hasbro's TF Team, it's hard to find any information about them now. Randy In other words, anything thought up by any individual artist gets to become "intellectual property of the company," and the individual person gets jack squat and thrown into the ethereal abyss of obscurity and nothingness. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-wildride.gif) --------------------  Why? Because it's racist. |
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Mar 31 2012, 09:23 PM
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I'd love to know just who is accountable for bringing Injector into the world.
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