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This is an index of ongoing projects-slash-active sandboxes for my own sanity:

==Design Credits==
===Existing Credits===
Filtering all toy design credits presently on file through template
====First Pass====
Capital D designers, concept artists, deco artists, packaging designers here and there
=====TakaraTomy=====
Done again

=====Hasbro=====
*Re-up [[Marcelo Matere]]

====Second Pass====
{{main|:Category:Illustrators}}
*Many artists likely not in packaging/card/etc illustrator categories yet
**Comb "Illustrator" category for more
**Currently on N's
=====Packaging art=====
{{main|:Category:Packaging artists}}
*We have a zillion packaging illustration credits on file

=====[[Bio]] credits=====
{{main|:Category:Brand writers}}
*Distinct from pack-in fiction
*[[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] is pretty much the only explicit list of credits we have that I have been able to find
*Copywriter category should function as a shortlist
*[[Bob Budiansky]] should have a zillion of these

=====Card game credits=====
{{main|:Category:Trading card illustrators}}
*Still filling this category but we have a whole mess of these

====Third Pass====
{{main|:Category:Repurposed toys}}
{{main|:Category:Subgroups}}
{{main|:Category:Combined forms}}
*Triple check credits made their way to secondary and tertiary toy write-ups

===New Credits===
*Make a systematic survey of the HasTak rep redlinks in the [[BotCon]], [[Toy Fair]] and [[HasCon]]
*Individual toy bylines for marketers? We can pin most of them to a bunch of specific toys
=====TakaraTomy=====
{{main|:Category:TakaraTomy designers}}
*Fast-track an article for [[Masakatsu Saito]] who I'm pretty sure did the concept art for the entirety of Beast Wars through RID01 if ''[[Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Generations|Beast Generations]]'' is anything to go by
**All the information I can find on this man is in ''[[Transformers Generations 2011 Volume 2]]''.
:{{main|User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Masakatsu Saito}}
*Harvest G1 credits from the [https://www.transformerland.com/blog/g1-transformers-patent-table/ G1 patent database] Transformerland has already curated
*Feed known designers through [https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/ Japan Patent Office database] for, uh, patents
*Harvest remaining info from ''[[Transformers Generations (series)]]''
*Harvest pre-TF info from ''Diaclone World Guide'', ''World Guide Next'', ''Combat Chronicle'', ''SF Land'' and ''SF Land Evolution'', [[Figure King]] 213, 225, 264
**Design: [[Keiichiro Sakuma]] (佐久間恵一郎) - mock-up maker guy, [[Kojin Ono]] - everything else Diaclone guy
**Concept art: [[Shoji Kawamori]], [[Kazutaka Miyatake]], [[Studio Nue]] in general
**Figure out who did all that packaging art that got ported directly into G1


;Studio Nue explainer from [[User:Alpha Trihard|Alpha Trihard]] / [https://twitter.com/_necronomitron_ Necronomitron] on the wiki discord I'm gonna forget if I don't write it down<nowiki>:</nowiki>

{{bigquote|Hang on, here’s the basic chronology of Nue with Diaclone.
In the early 70’s, before they were Nue, Miyatake (as part of Crystal Art) was working on a job for Sunrise. His boss, Kiyomi Numamoto, quit Sunrise to go work for Takara. Then Numamoto tells Miyatake, “Hey, I’ve got work for you at Takara”. So Miyatake got his start at Takara by working for Bandai.
Miyatake’s first project for Takara was Henshin Cyborg’s “Cyborg Station CX-1”. He also did some early work on Microman.
When Diaclone came along, he invited Kawamori to give it a shot. It seems like Kawamori was good at making the kind of robots toy companies like, with faces and stuff. From what I can tell, Miyatake’s preferences in robots weren’t usually so humanoid. Like, he designed the Macross, and that thing has a fin for a head, and battleships instead of hands. Miyatake’s real jam was spaceship interiors, like he designed the interiors of The Yamato, and Cyborg Station CX-1 is all interiors.
Kawamori says he designed some kind of water gun shaped like a spaceship, as a test to see if he could hack it at designing toys. I don’t know if they actually made that thing into a toy or not.
Diaclone was one of Kawamori’s first projects, and he was crazy stupid young. Miyatake was his supervisor on it.
The majority of design work on Diaclone could be attributed to them, together, but the work isn’t split by character or anything. Kawamori might sketch the Robot Base, but then Miyatake might go in and design the interiors, and the pilots. After that, Takara’s engineers take what they drew, and change it completely to make a toy.
Great example, look at Kawamori’s design for Inferno, which you posted from Diaclone World Guide. How much does it look like the toy? So who designed Inferno?
But tracking Nue’s involvement, it wouldn’t just be design. Like Nue artists (including Miyatake) also did the paintings for the interiors of the Diaclone catalogs.|Source - Interview in Dual Magazine, issue 1, 1982}}

=====Hasbro=====
{{main|Hasbro Pulse#Fan First Friday}}
{{main|:Category:Hasbro designers}}
*Finish hooking up [[Ryan Glantz]]
**Left off at Sugar Shocks
*Watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NjelB-sEu0 this panel] with [[Andy Couzens]]
*Watch [https://youtu.be/Sfimkf3el8Q this interview] with [[Ben MacCrae]]
*Make another sweep of livestreams for packaging design and product photography credits
**Particularly for [[Mario Carreiro]], [[Christina Murphy]], [[Amy Bence]], and [[Dave White]]
*Chase down "Nick" and "Tony" in CAD rendering

===Prettying up existing designer pages===
Add toy images to:
{{collist|3|
*[[Kojin Ono]]
*[[Mark Maher]]
*[[Lenny Panzica]]
*[[Yuya Onishi]]
*[[Sam Smith]]
*[[Evan Brooks]]
}}

==Cloud==
{{main|Transformers Cloud}}
*Oh god so much to do

===Extra translation QC passes ahead of summaries===
{{main|Source:Transformers Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 3#3-6}}
{{main|Source:Transformers Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 4}}
{{main|Source:Transformers Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 0}}

*Summaries presently up to [[Lightwave]]

===Existing articles to fill===
;Concepts
{{collist|3|
*[[Cloud World]]
*[[G1 World#Cloud]]
*[[Aurex 103.10 Alpha#Cloud]]
*[[Primax 498.1 Alpha#Cloud]]
*[[Primax 1097.01 Alpha#Cloud]]
*[[Primax 488.12 Alpha#Cloud]]
*[[SARA]]
*[[Autobot#Cloud]]<ref>Less obtuse to split out into "Spacetime Police" maybe?</ref>
*[[Decepticon#Cloud]]
*[[Super Mode#Cloud]]
*[[Burning spirit#Cloud]]
}}
;A-list
{{collist|3|
*[[Optimus Prime (Cloud)]]
*[[Brawn (Cloud)]]
*[[Starscream (Cloud)]]
*[[Hot Rodimus]]
*[[Shockwave (Cloud)]]
*[[Roadbuster (Cloud)]]
*[[Hellwarp]]
}}
;B-list
{{collist|3|
*[[Deadlock (Cloud)]]
*[[Grimlock (Cloud)]]
*[[Thundercracker (Cloud)]]
*[[Soundwave (Cloud)]]
}}
;Everybody else
{{collist|3|
*[[Blaster (Cloud)]]
*[[Ultra Magnus (Cloud)]]
*[[Combaticon (Cloud)]]
*[[Ratchet (Cloud)]]
*[[Bumblebee (Cloud)]]
*[[Ironhide (Cloud)]]
*[[Jazz (Cloud)]]
*[[Perceptor (Cloud)]]
*[[Blast Off (Cloud)]]
*[[Brawl (Cloud)]]
*[[Onslaught (Cloud)]]
*[[Swindle (Cloud)]]
*[[Vortex (Cloud)]]
*[[Frenzy (Cloud)]]
*[[Laserbeak (Cloud)]]
*[[Ravage (Cloud)]]
}}

;Notes
{{reflist}}

===Articles to make===
I'm sure there will be more of these but off the top of my head:

{{collist|3|
*[[Underground (Cloud)]]
*[[Metropolis]]
*[[Spacetime Energy]]
*[[Dimension Gate]]
*[[Colosseum (Cloud)]]
*[[Data Disc Unit]]
*[[Dimension Mode]]
}}

==Go! Go!==
{{main|Transformers Go! Go!}}

===Issues that need translating===

;Print issues:
{{collist|3|
*[[Running Wild with Hologram Ninjutsu!]]
*[[The Big Micro-Adventure]]
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Extra Volume]]
*[[The Transformers Go! Go! Search Quiz is Here!|Search Quiz]]
*[[Go! Go! Fan Book 2024 special]]
}}
;Web issues:
{{collist|3|
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 1)]]
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 2)]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 38]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 39]]
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Mini Encyclopedia]] bios
*[[Go! Go! issue 40]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 41]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 42]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 43]]
}}

===Summaries that need doing===
*Do a sweep for missing taglines

;Print issues:
{{collist|3|
*[[The Transformers' Explosive New Years' Battle!]]
*[[Autobot Police Dispatched!]]
*[[Go! Go! Fan Book 2023 special]]
*[[Protect Freedom! Optimus!]]
*[[Running Wild with Hologram Ninjutsu!]]
*[[The Big Micro-Adventure]]
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Extra Volume]]
*[[The Transformers Go! Go! Search Quiz is Here!|Search Quiz]]
*[[Go! Go! Fan Book 2024 special]]
}}
;Web issues:
{{collist|3|
*[[Go! Go! issue 26]]
*Autobot Police Dispatched again
*[[Go! Go! issue 28|ROTB special part 1]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 29|ROTB special part 2]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 30]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 31]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 32]]
*Protect Freedom again
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!!]]
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 1)]]
*[[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 2)]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 38]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 39]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 40]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 41]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 42]]
*[[Go! Go! issue 43]]
}}
;TPB backups
{{collist|3|
*[[Zzzzzz]]
*[[Chonky]]
*[[Gleaming]]
*[[Sprout Up]]
}}

===Characters that need filling in===
{{main|:Category:Go! Go! characters}}

;Autobots
{{collist|3|
*[[Bumblebee (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Wheeljack (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Hot Rod (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Perceptor (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Ratchet (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Ironhide (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Eject (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Prowl (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Arcee (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Jazz (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Grimlock (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Mirage (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Inferno (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Trainbot#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Shouki#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Yukikaze (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Getsuei#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Suiken#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Seizan#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Raiden#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Elita One (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Blaster (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Windblade (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Sunstreaker (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Sideswipe (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Beachcomber (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Hound (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Bluestreak (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Seaspray (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Cosmos (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Jetfire (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
}}

;Decepticons
{{collist|3|
*[[Soundwave (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Laserbeak (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Ravage (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Starscream (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Long Haul (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Shockwave (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Megatron (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
}}

;Maximals
{{collist|3|
*[[Rattrap (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Cheetor (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Rhinox (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Dinobot (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Tigatron#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Airazor (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Optimus Primal (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Lio Convoy#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Big Convoy#Transformers Go! Go!]]
}}

;Predacons
{{collist|3|
*[[Megatron (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Scorponok (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
}}

;Others
{{collist|3|
*[[Santa Claus#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Morphobot#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Bunny alien]]s
*[[Lightning Bug#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Alpha Trion (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
}}

===Locations that need filling in===
{{main|:Category:Go! Go! locations}}

{{collist|3|
*[[Ark (G1)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Axalon (BW)#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Mount Fuji#Transformers Go! Go!]]
*[[Arctic#Transformers Go! Go!]]
}}

===Articles that might be cute===
*Wheeljack's mecha snowman
*Wheeljack's roomba from [[Go! Go! issue 30|Mirage's debut]]
*[[Fort Robot]] (giant castle thing Raiden fought in [[Transformers Go! Go! Shushupopo!! (part 2)|#37]])
*Wheeljack's noodle grille robot from the [[The Transformers Go! Go! Search Quiz is Here!|Search Quiz]]
*[[Autobot ghost]]

==Robotmasters==
===Main comic===
{{main|Robotmasters (comic)}}

*Finish translating web prose
;Current stopping point:
{{main|Source:Robotmasters (comic)#Prose 5}}

===Robotmasters Story===
{{main|Robotmasters Story}}
*Prose series in Dengeki Hobby recently discovered by TFRaw
**First two chapters [https://www.tfraw.com/p/transformers-robot-masters-serial.html here]
*Make general page
*Make skeletons for the two known chapters
*Make source page

==Masterpiece==
{{main|Source:The Transformers: Masterpiece}}
*A bunch of stuff needs machine translating
*Should probably start adding accessory blurbs
*translate existing accessory blurbs
*Should probably re-organize source pages to reflect [[MPG]] getting blown out into a "new #1" situation

==Trainbots==
===JUNCTION NOW TAKES PRECEDENCE===
{{main|Source:The Train Wars: The Junction}}
*Scans complete!
*Work on new mainpics for prototype Trainbots
*Machine translate transcription
*Fill in summary
*Set to filling in Junction stubs

===Everything else===
{{main|User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Trainbot Overhaul}}
{{main|Source:The Transformers: Masterpiece#MPG}}
*[[The Train Wars: The Origin|Origin]] updates
*Chase down box set paperwork, check for unique content (Raiden bio?)
*Remember to pull out-of-universe development info from [https://www.soundwavesoblivion.com/techspecs/interviewkojinono4.html that pamphlet thing]
====Articles that need making====
{{collist|3|
*[[Train Bazooka]] (main cannon that splits into three sub-guns with complicated names)
*[[Raiden Cannon]] (hip guns)
}}

==Transformers Character Card==
{{main|Source:Transformers Character Card}}

*Transcribe waves 6 and 7
*A bunch of the already transcribed material still needs translating
*Properly speaking write-ups should be duplicated on the pages of the accessories, sidekicks, components, etc that pop up on the tech specs

==Diaclone==
{{main|User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Diaclone}}

*ENTIRE FICTION SECTION
*Discuss Ono's contributions, grab name of Battle Convoy guy, Go through/Kawamori/Miyatake/Studio Nue in general
*Be replacing catalog scans with proper World Guide photography of finished toys
*[[Horloge Robot]] still needs an article

==Beast Wars: Uprising==
{{main|User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/List of Beast Wars: Uprising toys}}

*Comprehensive catalogue of virtual redecoes/repurposes etc

==Generations Selects Special Comic==
{{main|User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Beast People}}
{{main|User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Neo Scramble City}}

*Still the odd loose end to mop up

===Articles that need filling in===
{{collist|3|
*[[Beast People]]
*[[Neo Scramble City]]
*[[Super Mode#Generations Selects Special Comic]]
*[[Burning spirit#Generations Selects Special Comic]]
}}

==Raptoricons==
{{main|Life Finds a Way}}

===Articles that need filling in===
{{collist|3|
*[[Chicxulania]]
*[[Velocity (ship)]]
*[[Vespoid]]
*[[Raptoricon]]
*[[Gnash]]
*[[Slice (G1)]]
}}

===Articles that need making===
{{collist|3|
*[[Paul Hanley]]
*[[Greenergon]]
*[[Kolkular Powerbase]]
}}

==Canon as in camera crossover==
{{main|Source:Canon Transformers}}
*Add rest of website stuff
*Add bios from instructions
*Translate
*Franchise page

==G-Shock crossover==
{{main|Source:G-Shock x Transformers}}
*Source prose story(s?) in instructions
*Record commercial somehow
*Translate
*Franchise page

==Takara Legacy bios==
{{main|Source:Transformers Legacy bios}}
*Translate relevant bios after first wave for more [[Legacy World]] fiction

==Binaltech==
{{main|Source:Story of Binaltech}}
{{main|Source:Transformers Binaltech bios}}
*Bios need transcription
*I'd prefer to leave fiction this important to our A-team but machine translations are better than no translations

==Binaltech Asterisk==
{{main|Source:Asterisk Story}}
{{main|Source:Transformers Binaltech Asterisk bios}}
*Bios/pack-in prose needs transcription
*We translated none of this after we archived it
*Throw up scaffolding for newly discovered [[Dengeki Hobby]] story pages

==Load-bearing Legends issues==
*do up source page for [[Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Metroplex)]] with Sabrblade's translation

==Cybertron Satellite==
{{main|Cybertron Satellite}}
*Source page for the contents of ''[[The Town Commander Collection Book]]''
*Raw text [https://www.tfraw.com/p/town-commander-collection-book.html here]

==Transformers GT==
{{main|Transformers GT: Mission GT-R (franchise)}}
*Source page for the [https://web.archive.org/web/20170317165721/http://takaratomymall.jp/special/tfgt/story.html story section] of the Transformers GT website
*Source page for prose stuff
*Source page for Safety Prime pack-in bio stuff

==Car Robots Encyclopedia==
*Make article

==Encyclopedias in general==
*Should maybe add a "list of reference texts" page to the suites for the JG1 and JBW franchises given every single season seems to get a contemporaneous "Super Encyclopedia"
*Maybe some kind of "List of Japanese encyclopedias" overall?

==''[[Transformers Generations (series)|Generations]]'' reference books==
*A zillion articles for the newly discovered [[Figure King]] series
*List contents of [[Transformers Generations 2024]]
*Write up designer info from Gens 2024 interviews

==[[Brave]]==
*Flesh out "TF toys/character models in Brave" section
*Finish scanning Figure King feature for toy images

==[[The Transformers: Micromaster|Micromaster]]==
*Convert scans I've been doing into source page

==Izers==
{{main|User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Izer}}
*Umbrella hub page for the shared "5mm accessory guy" thing of 
** Siege - Weaponizers ([[C.O.M.B.A.T. System]])
** Earthrise - Modulators ([[A.I.R. Lock System]])
** Kingdom - Fossilizers ([[F.O.S.S.I.L. Technology]])
** Evolution - Junkions ([[Evo-Fusion]])
** United - [[Armorizer]]s
*"Izer" used as term for this by Hasbro team as of [https://www.instagram.com/p/C5MmyqsuCCH/ here]
*Article should mention [[Six-Gun]] as probably the earliest precursor of these in TF, [[Microman]] Acroyears as the primordial originators of the gimmick
*[http://bmogtoys.com/ BMOG] in the notes or something maybe?

==[[Transformers Telephone]]==
*Audio serial thing that spans the breadth of JG1, JBW and Car Robots (also Brave)
*Currently only covered for 1992 at [[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Operation Combination (telephone audio adventure)]]
*At minimum need umbrella articles with forests of redlinks for F!SRLT and BWSLT so editors know it exists