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 MPG Trainbots.

Known Transformers design work

MPG

Raiden/Trainbots

• MPG-01 Trainbot Shouki
• MPG-02 Trainbot Getsuei
• MPG-03 Trainbot Yukikaze
• MPG-04 Trainbot Suiken
• MPG-05 Trainbot Seizan
• MPG-06 Trainbot Kaen
• MPG-06S Trainbot Raiden
• MPG-07 Trainbot Ginou
• MPG-08 Trainbot Yamabuki

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 MPG.

External links

Interviews

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