Hideaki Yoke
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Hideaki Yoke (餘家英昭 Yoke Hideaki) is Takara's former lead designer on Transformers. He was one of the designers on Diaclone and Microman, and acted as Takara's liaison to Hasbro in the early years of Transformers' development. He worked on Transformers ever since and, according to Aaron Archer, has had more of a hand in the engineering of the toyline than any single other person in its history. Yoke retired from TakaraTomy in March 2017.
Known design projects
Generation 1
Armada
Animated
Convention appearances
Notes
- According to Aaron Archer at OTFCC 2004, he chose to name the Armada Mini-Con combiner robot "Perceptor" to honor the Takara employee who engineered the Street Action Team because that employee was also responsible for engineering the original Generation 1 Perceptor toy. It's likely this was Hideaki Yoke given his favorite Transformer is G1 Perceptor and he's named as Perceptor's inventor on the English-language patent, but Archer did not specify at the time.
- The Transformers Animated character Yoketron was named after him.
- Upon his retirement in 2017, Hasbro and TakaraTomy presented Yoke with a sealed original 1985 toy and small statue of Perceptor; looking in the microscope lens on the statue reveals the words "Thank you". Awwww.
- He never stops smiling.
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