Koki Yamada
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Kōki Yamada (山田 康記 Yamada Kōki) is a TakaraTomy designer currently on the Generations mega-brand. He generally takes point on Core Class figures.
Known design projects
Generations
Studio Series
Studio Series '86
Gamer Edition
War for Cybertron: Kingdom
Legacy: Evolution
- War Dawn 2-pack (Dion and Autobot Erial)
- Rise of Tyranny 2-pack (Miner Megatron and Senator Ratbat)
- Strongarm
Legacy: United
Rise of the Beasts
- Battle Changers[4]
- Beast Combiners[4]
- Beast Weaponizers
Convention appearances
Trivia
- Yamada is perhaps the first post-Beast Wars designer, having come up on the Car Robots[6] cartoon as a child.
- When he begged his parents for a toy of Car Robots headliner Fire Convoy, they came home with a reissue of the original Convoy instead. The Yamadas: ahead of their time.
- Yamada was awestruck when longtime veteran and noted Car Robots lead designer Hisashi Yuki took him under his wing as something of a "work dad."
- His dream project is to co-create an update of Super Fire Convoy alongside Yuki.
External links
Interviews
- Interview for Transformers Generations 2022 translated at Soundwave's Oblivion
References
- ↑ Design notes on Bumblebee Shockwave on Sam Smith's Instagram
- ↑ Design notes on Rise of the Beasts Arcee on Sam Smith's Instagram
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Transformers Generations 2022 designer interviews
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Interview in Figure King No. 303 (April 2023 issue)
- ↑ Thanks from Ben MacCrae and Evan Brooks during the Hall of Fame ceremony at Hasbro Pulse Con 2023.
- ↑ Later localized as the 2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon
