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, inheriting the role from Joshua Lamb, 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 Mark Maher. He played a significant role in the development of the BotBots franchise alongside senior marketing director Ben Montano.

Known design projects

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

Convention appearances

• Cybertron Con 2010
• Toy Fair 2011
• HasCon 2017

Notes

• Current Generations lead Mark Maher cited Paolino as the impetus for the shake-up to return to Generations' grab-bag roots with the Legacy theme.
• 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