John Warden

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John William Warden is a Design Manager on the Transformers franchise at Hasbro. In addition to working on Thrilling 30 and Age of Extinction product, he is the design lead on Combiner Wars.

Toys John had a hand in designing

Generations: Thrilling 30

Legends

• Skrapnel & Reflector

Voyager

• Brainstorm (with Yuya Onishi)
• Roadbuster (with Takashi Kunihiro)
• Sky-Byte (with Miyake Tomoya)
• Whirl

Leader

• Jetfire (with Takashi Kunihiro)

Age of Extinction

Robots in Disguise

One-Step Changers

• Autobot Drift
• Autobot Drift (helicopter)
• Autobot Hound
• Bumblebee
• Crosshairs
• Decepticon Stinger
• Dinobot Slash
• Dinobot Slug
• Dinobot Strafe
• Galvatron
• Grimlock
• High Octane Bumblebee
• Lockdown
• Megatron
• Optimus Prime
• Prowl
• Rollbar
• Steeljaw

Electronic Chomp & Stomp

• Grimlock

Generations/Series M4

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Deluxe Class

• Autobot Drift
• Bumblebee
• Crosshairs
• High Octane Bumblebee
• Hot Shot
• Lockdown

Voyager Class

• Autobot Drift (helicopter)
• Autobot Hound
• Evasion Mode Optimus Prime
• Galvatron

Leader Class

• Grimlock

Generations: Combiner Wars

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Legends Class

• Autobot Powerglide
• Bombshell
• Decepticon Blackjack
• Huffer
• Protectobot Groove
• Rodimus
• Skywarp
• Thundercracker
• Viper
• Warpath
• Windcharger

Deluxe Class

• Air Raid
• Alpha Bravo
• Breakdown
• Dead End
• Decepticon Dragstrip
• Decepticon Offroad
• Firefly
• Protectobot Blades
• Protectobot Rook (with Shogo Hasui, deco by Joe Kyde)
• Protectobot First Aid
• Protectobot Streetwise
• Skydive

Voyager Class

• Cyclonus
• Motormaster
• Optimus Prime
• Protectobot Hot Spot (with Takashi Kunihiro)
• Silverbolt

Leader Class

• Armada Megatron
• Megatron
• Thundercracker
• Ultra Magnus (with Takashi Kunihiro)

Titan Class

• Devastator (with Shogo Hasui)
  • Constructicon Bonecrusher
  • Constructicon Hook
  • Constructicon Long Haul
  • Constructicon Mixmaster
  • Constructicon Scavenger
  • Constructicon Scrapper

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2014
• Toy Fair 2015

Notes

Workin' on Transformers before he was actually on Transformers!

• As a kid living in Ohio, John got to tour the American Greetings AmToys design studio for an elementary school career-path project. After seeing how Madballs were made, he decided he wanted to be a toy designer. (Quick, somebody press him for a Retrax update!)
• John graduated with a degree in Industrial Design from Ohio State University, and worked in the automotive industry designing car interiors before joining Hasbro in 1999.
• Prior to Transformers, John worked on Star Wars (including Episode 1, Episode 2, and 300th Boba Fett), Shrek 2, Rave Master, and all Pokémon toys from 2000 to 2005 (and was a co-signee on a patent for toy/game convergence used on Pokémon THINKChip Plus figures).
• He is probably best known to Hasbro fans as the lead designer on all G.I. Joe figures and vehicles from 2006 to 2013: Sigma 6, 25th Anniversary, Rise of Cobra movie toys, Pursuit of Cobra (including original designs Shadow Tracker, Jungle-Viper, Zombie-Viper, and Data-Viper), 30th Anniversary, and Retaliation movie figures. Some of the 50th Anniversary figures were also based on his "concept vault" work.
• At JoeCon 2011, Warden and Rik Alvarez participated in a "Treasures from the Hasbro Archives" panel, which revealed that a robot panther modeled on Ravage was intended for release with an unproduced Rise of Cobra "Arctic Baroness" figure. While Warden consistently denied that it was going to actually be Ravage, the use of Ravage design cues was intentional. Neither the Baroness or the robot panther were tooled, with the panther in the photo being the only one in existence.
• His favorite Transformers are Roadbuster, Whirl, Sky Lynx, and Jetfire.