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 oversaw much of the brief-lived "Core" size class in the early 2020s.
Known design projects
[edit]Generations
[edit]Studio Series
[edit]- Bumblebee Shockwave (Core Class)[1]
- Rise of the Beasts Arcee[2]
- The Last Knight Mohawk
- Rise of the Beasts Wheeljack
- Bumblebee Shockwave (Voyager Class)[3]
- Transformers One Megatron
- Transformers One B-127
- Rise of the Beasts Optimus Primal
- Age of Extinction Optimus Prime[4]
- The Last Knight Nemesis Prime
Studio Series '86
[edit]Gamer Edition
[edit]War for Cybertron: Kingdom
[edit]Legacy: Evolution
[edit]- War Dawn 2-pack (Dion and Autobot Erial)
- Rise of Tyranny 2-pack (Miner Megatron and Senator Ratbat)
- Strongarm
Legacy: United
[edit]Age of the Primes
[edit]Collaborative
[edit]Rise of the Beasts
[edit]- Battle Changers[6]
- Beast Combiners[6]
- Beast Weaponizers
Wild King
[edit]Convention appearances
[edit]Trivia
[edit]- Yamada is perhaps the first post-Beast Wars designer, having come up on the Car Robots[8] 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
[edit]Interviews
[edit]- Interview for Transformers Generations 2022 translated at Soundwave's Oblivion
References
[edit]- ↑ Design notes on Bumblebee Shockwave on Sam Smith's Instagram
- ↑ Design notes on Rise of the Beasts Arcee on Sam Smith's Instagram
- ↑ April 25, 2024's Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream | April 2024 on YouTube, with Ben MacCrae, Evan Brooks, and Mark Maher
- ↑ "Oh, my bad for not having mentioned it. It's Koki san! An incredibly talented individual that has done a few Optimus's now."—Evan Brooks, Instagram, 2025/7/2
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Transformers Generations 2022 designer interviews
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Interview in Figure Ō 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
