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This is an index of ongoing projects-slash-active sandboxes for my own sanity:

Design Credits

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Existing Credits

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Filtering all toy design credits presently on file through template

First Pass

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Capital D designers, concept artists, deco artists, packaging designers here and there

TakaraTomy
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Done again

Hasbro
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  • Fast track late G1 credits for Lori Dahlberg from recently surfaced deco sheets

Second Pass

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Main article: :Category:Illustrators
  • Filter illustrators into packaging/card/etc categories
    • DONE
Packaging art
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Main article: :Category:Packaging artists
  • We have a zillion packaging illustration credits on file
Bio credits
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Main article: :Category:Brand writers
  • Distinct from pack-in fiction
  • Hirofumi Ichikawa is pretty much the only explicit list of credits we have that I have been able to find
  • Copywriter category should function as a shortlist
  • Bob Budiansky should have a zillion of these
Card game credits
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Main article: :Category:Trading card illustrators
  • Still filling this category but we have a whole mess of these

Third Pass

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Main article: :Category:Repurposed toys
Main article: :Category:Subgroups
Main article: :Category:Combined forms
  • Triple check credits made their way to secondary and tertiary toy write-ups

New Credits

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  • Make a systematic survey of the HasTak rep redlinks in the BotCon, Toy Fair and HasCon
  • Individual toy bylines for marketers? We can pin most of them to a bunch of specific toys
TakaraTomy
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Main article: :Category:TakaraTomy designers


Studio Nue explainer from Alpha Trihard / Necronomitron on the wiki discord I'm gonna forget if I don't write it down:
“ Hang on, here’s the basic chronology of Nue with Diaclone.

In the early 70’s, before they were Nue, Miyatake (as part of Crystal Art) was working on a job for Sunrise. His boss, Kiyomi Numamoto, quit Sunrise to go work for Takara. Then Numamoto tells Miyatake, “Hey, I’ve got work for you at Takara”. So Miyatake got his start at Takara by working for Bandai. Miyatake’s first project for Takara was Henshin Cyborg’s “Cyborg Station CX-1”. He also did some early work on Microman. When Diaclone came along, he invited Kawamori to give it a shot. It seems like Kawamori was good at making the kind of robots toy companies like, with faces and stuff. From what I can tell, Miyatake’s preferences in robots weren’t usually so humanoid. Like, he designed the Macross, and that thing has a fin for a head, and battleships instead of hands. Miyatake’s real jam was spaceship interiors, like he designed the interiors of The Yamato, and Cyborg Station CX-1 is all interiors. Kawamori says he designed some kind of water gun shaped like a spaceship, as a test to see if he could hack it at designing toys. I don’t know if they actually made that thing into a toy or not. Diaclone was one of Kawamori’s first projects, and he was crazy stupid young. Miyatake was his supervisor on it. The majority of design work on Diaclone could be attributed to them, together, but the work isn’t split by character or anything. Kawamori might sketch the Robot Base, but then Miyatake might go in and design the interiors, and the pilots. After that, Takara’s engineers take what they drew, and change it completely to make a toy. Great example, look at Kawamori’s design for Inferno, which you posted from Diaclone World Guide. How much does it look like the toy? So who designed Inferno? But tracking Nue’s involvement, it wouldn’t just be design. Like Nue artists (including Miyatake) also did the paintings for the interiors of the Diaclone catalogs.

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—Source - Interview in Dual Magazine, issue 1, 1982

Hasbro
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Main article: Hasbro Pulse#Fan First Friday
Main article: :Category:Hasbro designers

Prettying up existing designer pages

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Add toy images to:

Cloud

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Main article: Transformers Cloud
  • Oh god so much to do

Extra translation QC passes ahead of summaries

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Main article: Source:Transformers Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 3#3-6
Main article: Source:Transformers Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 4
Main article: Source:Transformers Cloud: Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Chapter 0
  • Summaries DONE

Existing articles to fill

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Concepts
A-list
B-list
Everybody else
Notes
  1. ↑ Less obtuse to split out into "Spacetime Police" maybe?

Articles to make

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I'm sure there will be more of these but off the top of my head:

Go! Go!

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Main article: Transformers Go! Go!

Issues that need articles full stop

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  • I'm so tired.
Print issues
Web issues
TPB backups
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Issues that need moving to TPB names

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Vol 2

Issues that need translating

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Print issues
Web issues
TPB backups

Summaries that need doing

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  • Do a sweep for missing taglines
Print issues
Web issues
TPB backups

Characters that need filling in

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Main article: :Category:Go! Go! characters
Autobots
Decepticons
Maximals
Predacons
Others

Locations that need filling in

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Main article: :Category:Go! Go! locations

Articles that might be cute

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Robotmasters

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Main comic

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Main article: Robotmasters (comic)
  • Finish translating web prose
Current stopping point
Main article: Source:Robotmasters (comic)#Prose 5

Robotmasters Story

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Main article: Robotmasters Story
  • Prose series in Dengeki Hobby recently discovered by TFRaw
    • First two chapters here
  • Make general page
  • Make skeletons for the two known chapters
  • Make source page

Masterpiece/MPG

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Main article: Source:The Transformers: Masterpiece
Main article: Source:The Transformers: MPG
  • A bunch of stuff needs machine translating
  • Should probably start adding accessory blurbs
  • translate existing accessory blurbs

Trainbots

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JUNCTION NOW TAKES PRECEDENCE

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Main article: Source:The Train Wars: The Junction
  • Scans complete!
  • Work on new mainpics for prototype Trainbots
  • Machine translate transcription
  • Fill in summary
  • Set to filling in Junction stubs

Everything else

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Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Trainbot Overhaul
Main article: Source:The Transformers: MPG
  • Origin updates
  • Chase down box set paperwork, check for unique content (Raiden bio?)
  • Remember to pull out-of-universe development info from that pamphlet thing

Articles that need making

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Transformers Character Card

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Main article: Source:Transformers Character Card
  • Transcribe waves 6 and 7
  • A bunch of the already transcribed material still needs translating
  • Properly speaking write-ups should be duplicated on the pages of the accessories, sidekicks, components, etc that pop up on the tech specs

Diaclone

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Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Diaclone
  • ENTIRE FICTION SECTION
  • Discuss Ono's contributions, grab name of Battle Convoy guy, Go through/Kawamori/Miyatake/Studio Nue in general
  • Be replacing catalog scans with proper World Guide photography of finished toys
  • Horloge Robot still needs an article

Beast Wars: Uprising

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Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/List of Beast Wars: Uprising toys
  • Comprehensive catalogue of virtual redecoes/repurposes etc

Generations Selects Special Comic

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Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Beast People
Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Neo Scramble City
  • Still the odd loose end to mop up

Articles that need filling in

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Raptoricons

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Main article: Life Finds a Way

Articles that need filling in

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Articles that need making

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Canon as in camera crossover

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Main article: Source:Canon/Transformers
  • Add rest of website stuff
  • Add bios from instructions
  • Translate
  • Franchise page

G-Shock crossover

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Main article: Source:G-Shock x Transformers
  • Source prose story(s?) in instructions
  • Record commercial somehow
  • Translate
  • Franchise page

Takara Legacy bios

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Main article: Source:Transformers Legacy bios
  • Translate relevant bios after first wave for more Legacy World fiction

Binaltech

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Main article: Source:Story of Binaltech
Main article: Source:Transformers Binaltech bios
  • Bios need transcription
  • I'd prefer to leave fiction this important to our A-team but machine translations are better than no translations

Binaltech Asterisk

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Main article: Source:Asterisk Story
Main article: Source:Transformers Binaltech Asterisk bios
  • Bios/pack-in prose needs transcription
  • We translated none of this after we archived it
  • Throw up scaffolding for newly discovered Dengeki Hobby story pages

Load-bearing Legends issues

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Cybertron Satellite

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Main article: Cybertron Satellite

Transformers GT

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Main article: Transformers GT: Mission GT-R (franchise)
  • Source page for the story section of the Transformers GT website
  • Source page for prose stuff
  • Source page for Safety Prime pack-in bio stuff

Car Robots Encyclopedia

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  • Make article

Encyclopedias in general

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  • Should maybe add a "list of reference texts" page to the suites for the JG1 and JBW franchises given every single season seems to get a contemporaneous "Super Encyclopedia"
  • Maybe some kind of "List of Japanese encyclopedias" overall?

Generations reference books

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Brave

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  • Flesh out "TF toys/character models in Brave" section
  • Finish scanning Figure King feature for toy images

Micromaster

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  • Convert scans I've been doing into source page

Izers

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Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Izer

Transformers Telephone

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Thirteen

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Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Template:Thirteen AOTP update
Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Alpha Trion/Conceptual History
Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Prime Master
Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Maccadam
  • Comb POTP panel footage for Prime Master details
  • Earth Wars stuff for Prime Masters Cores, Thirteen generally

Wild King

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Main article: Source:Transformers: Wild King
  • TRANSLATE WEBSITE
  • There is nothing stopping us from filling out synopses for subbed episodes!
    • Filter down to character articles from there
  • Make source page for back of box bios

Earth Wars

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Main article: Source:Transformers: Earth Wars

Events

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  • Go back and add recordings to older events where possible

Sagas

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Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Earth Wars Saga glossary

Characters

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  • Start in on mammoth process of harvesting cast lists for Events/Campaigns/Stories from source pages and recordings
    • Hook up character articles to event pages accordingly

End of G1 Universe

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Chapter 2

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Translation

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Main article: Source:Chapter Two: Age of Primes

Lio Convoy update

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Main article: User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Lio Convoy Multiverse Saga

Chapter 3

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Translation

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Main article: Source:Chapter Three: Mystery of the Speedia 500

Chapter 4-1

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Translation

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Main article: Source:Chapter 4: Star of the Dark God, Part One

Wild King W

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  • Oh god there's a sequel
  • Make source pages for website and toy bios
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