Koki Yamada
Kōki Yamada (山田 康記 Yamada Kōki) is a TakaraTomy designer currently on the Generations mega-brand. He oversaw much of the brief-lived "Core" size class in the early 2020s.
Known design projects
[edit]Generations
[edit]Studio Series
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- Transformers One Megatron
- Transformers One B-127
- Rise of the Beasts Optimus Primal
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- The Last Knight Nemesis Prime
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Studio Series '86
[edit]- Exo-Suit Spike Witwicky<ref name = "Gens22">Transformers Generations 2022 designer interviews</ref>
- Soundwave / Buzzsaw / Laserbeak / Ravage
Gamer Edition
[edit]War for Cybertron: Kingdom
[edit]- Autobot Hot Rod<ref name = "Gens22"/>
Legacy: Evolution
[edit]- War Dawn 2-pack (Dion and Autobot Erial)
- Rise of Tyranny 2-pack (Miner Megatron and Senator Ratbat)
- Strongarm
Legacy: United
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Age of the Primes
[edit]Collaborative
[edit]Rise of the Beasts
[edit]- Battle Changers<ref name = "King303">Interview in Figure Ō No. 303 (April 2023 issue)</ref>
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- Beast Combiners<ref name = King303/>
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- Beast Weaponizers
- Predacon Scorponok & Sandspear<ref name = King303/>
Wild King
[edit]Convention appearances
[edit]- San Diego Comic-Con 2023<ref>Thanks from Ben MacCrae and Evan Brooks during the Hall of Fame ceremony at Hasbro Pulse Con 2023.</ref>
- Cybertron Con 2024
Trivia
[edit]- Yamada is perhaps the first post-Beast Wars designer, having come up on the Car Robots<ref>Later localized as the 2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon</ref> cartoon as a child.
- When he begged his parents for a toy of Car Robots headliner Fire Convoy, they came home with a reissue of the original Convoy instead. The Yamadas: ahead of their time.
- Yamada was awestruck when longtime veteran and noted Car Robots lead designer Hisashi Yuki took him under his wing as something of a "work dad."
- His dream project is to co-create an update of Super Fire Convoy alongside Yuki.
External links
[edit]Interviews
[edit]- Interview for Transformers Generations 2022 translated at Soundwave's Oblivion
References
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