YÅ«ya ÅŒnishi

Yūya Ōnishi (大西裕弥 Ōnishi Yūya) is a designer in TakaraTomy's Transformers product team. He joined Takara in 2011.

Fiction

Transformers Legends comic

Yūya Ōnishi was among the Transformer toy designers present at the Transformers Celebration 2014, where they handed out autographs. Legends Bonus Vol.

Toys that Yūya Ōnishi is known to have had a hand in designing

Generations

• Starscream w/ Waspinator
• Tankor
• Brainstorm

Age of Extinction

• Deluxe Class Crosshairs
• Deluxe Class Drift
• 2014 Camaro Deluxe Class Bumblebee

Masterpiece

• Vehicle styling for Hot Rodimus

Notes

• Rather fittingly, Yūya Ōnishi was born in the year 1984, the same year the Transformers brand was first launched by Hasbro.
• When designing Transformers toys, Ōnishi makes a point to check out the real life equivalent of the figure's alternate mode for accurate reference, even visiting a zoo if the figure calls for a beast-based alternate mode.

External links

• Translation of an interview with Yūya Ōnishi on TFW2005.com