Michelino Paolino

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Michelino Paolino is a Senior Design Director at Hasbro and the current creative lead on the Transformers brand. He has held the position since 2014, presumably inheriting the latter role from Aaron Archer, though he has worked on the brand since at least 2010. Despite a respectable presence at conventions he largely operates under the fandom's radar, leaving collector face time to team members like Generations leads John Warden and Lenny Panzica. He played a significant role in the development of the BotBots franchise alongside senior marketing director Ben Montano.

Toylines Paolino is known to have had a hand in designing

• Multiple toylines associated with the live-action film series
• BotBots

Convention appearances

• Cybertron Con 2010
• Toy Fair 2011
• HasCon 2017

Notes

• G.I. Joe character Agent Faces is named after (and seemingly modeled in the likeness of) Paolino.
• Paolino holds a variety of patents for his work at Hasbro, most of them Beyblade related.

External links

• Michelino Paolino on LinkedIn

Interviews

• 2010 - Calling all fans of 'Transformers', Interview at Shanghai Daily for Cybertron Con 2010
• 2020 - Transformers BotBots Redefine More than Meets the Eye, Interview on BotBots at Newsweek, with Ben Montano