Shogo Hasui

Shogo Hasui (蓮井 章悟 Hasui Shōgo) is a designer at TakaraTomy. Since Armada, he has called "dibs" to design every Starscream toy, and is thus referred to as "Mr. Starscream" within Takara's Transformers design team.

Like several Takara designers that have been interviewed, he bemoans Hasbro's restrictive size class plastic weight limits, which can cause headaches during design.

Toys that Shogo Hasui is known to have had a hand in designing

Beast Machines

• Skydive (his first Transformer design)

Armada

• Starscream

Energon

• Starscream
• Wing Saber (with Hirofumi Ichikawa)

Cybertron

• Starscream (Voyager class) (based upon The War Within Starscream by Don Figueroa)
• Starscream (Supreme class) (with Eric Siebenaler)

Classics

• Starscream (with Don Figueroa and Eric Siebenaler)

Transformers (2007)

• Arcee (Deluxe)
• Barricade (Deluxe)
• Jazz (Deluxe)
• Ratchet
• Starscream (Voyager) (with Eric Siebenaler)

Animated

• Starscream (Voyager) (with Eric Siebenaler)

Henkei! Henkei!

• Starscream (with Eric Siebenaler)

Revenge of the Fallen

• Sideswipe
• Starscream (Voyager)
• Starscream (Leader)

Convention appearances (United States)

• BotCon 2007

External links

• Translated interview from Transformers Generations 2009 Volume 1 on TFW2005.com
• Translated interview from the TakaraTomy website on TFW2005.com
• [http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/281700-takaratomy-staff-interview-rotf-human-alliance-gravity-bots-more.html Translated interview on Revenge of the Fallen work from Transformers Generations 2009 Volume 3 on TFW2005.com