Dai Ono

Dai Ono (小野大 Ono Dai) is a designer at TOMIX, the train division of Tomytec, a TakaraTomy subsidiary specializing in scale models. He is the TOMIX-side design lead on the Masterpiece G Series Trainbots.

Known Transformers design work

Masterpiece G Series

• MPG-01 Trainbot Shouki

Notes

• Ono's younger brother owned a Raiden set in his youth, which he had a habit of swiping to play with as trains.
• This anecdote led to him being known as "the guy who knows Transformers" around the office and his subsequent drafting into the development of G Series.

External links

Interviews

• Interview with the Masterpiece G Series design team in Figure King Issue 285 with Kōjin Ōno and Hideki Shimanuki, translated at Soundwaves Oblivion