Bill Rawley

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<div style="border: thin solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 0pt 1em 0pt 2em; padding: 0.5em; background: rgb(247, 248, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">The name or term Bill refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bill_%28disambiguation%29" title="Bill (disambiguation)">Bill (disambiguation)</a>.</div> [[Image:|right|300px|thumb|Bill at BotCon 2007. Also, part of some other guy.]] William "Bill" Rawley is one of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hasbro" title="Hasbro">Hasbro</a>'s Senior Product Designers on the Transformers brand. He graduated from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Institute_of_Technology" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Florida_Institute_of_Technology">FIT</a> with a BA in Toy Design, and his first job out of school was as a Product Designer for the Advanced Concepts team at Hasbro. There, he learned to design... with purpose!

Bill has been a valued member of the Transformers team since March of 2006, although he first became known to the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Fandom" title="Fandom">fandom</a>-at-large through his "non-mainline" design work. Since joining the brand, he has served as lead designer on <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Robot_Heroes" class="mw-redirect" title="Robot Heroes">Robot Heroes</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Movie_%28franchise%29" title="Movie (franchise)">Movie</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Unleashed&action=edit" class="new" title="Unleashed">Unleashed</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Animated_%28franchise%29" title="Transformers Animated (franchise)">Animated</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Activator" title="Activator">Activators</a>, and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Universe_%282008_franchise%29" title="Universe (2008 franchise)">Universe</a> Legend, Deluxe, Voyager, and Ultra-class figures. He also had a hand in the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyber_Slammers" title="Cyber Slammers">Cyber Slammers</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Real_Gear_Robots" class="mw-redirect" title="Real Gear Robots">Real Gear Robots</a>, and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Robot_Replicas" title="Robot Replicas">Robot Replicas</a> segments of the original Movie toyline. Currently, Bill is finishing up Universe, and concentrating on product for <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Fallen_%28film%29" title="Revenge of the Fallen (film)">the second live-action movie</a>.

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  • Autobot Jazz/Autobot Ratchet
  • Barricade/Blackout
  • Bumblebee
  • Megatron
  • Optimus Prime

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action figure bore a striking resemblance to his submission. If more than coincidence, this would make him one of the youngest-starting toy designers in the industry. And would make Mattel very bad people.

microscope was a learning toy that would help educate and shape the mind of the young lad, to help him one day become a scientist! We can see how that turned out.

  • Bill looks to move up within Hasbro. He hopes to one day have

a private parking spot in the Hasbro lot and a team of henchmen that will help him shape the toy world, forever!

  • The article below, where Bill discusses the initial new molds of the Universe line, was repurposed by the Transformers

fan site Tformers.com as an "interview" with Rawley, even though they didn't change any of the text, leading the faux-interview of Rawley to sound like he refers to himself in the third person.

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