Shogo Hasui
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Shogo Hasui (蓮井 章悟 Hasui Shōgo) is a designer at TakaraTomy. Since Armada, he has called "dibs" to design every Starscream toy,[1] and is thus referred to as "Mr. Starscream" within Takara's Transformers design team.
Like several Takara designers that have been interviewed, he bemoans Hasbro's restrictive size class plastic weight limits, which can cause headaches during design.
Toys that Shogo Hasui is known to have had a hand in designing
Beast Machines
- Skydive (his first Transformer design)
Armada
Energon
Cybertron
- Starscream (Voyager class) (based upon The War Within Starscream by Don Figueroa)
- Starscream (Supreme class) (with Eric Siebenaler)
Classics
- Starscream (with Don Figueroa and Eric Siebenaler)
Transformers (2007)
- Arcee (Deluxe)
- Barricade (Deluxe)
- Jazz (Deluxe)
- Ratchet
- Starscream (Voyager) (with Eric Siebenaler)
Animated
- Starscream (Voyager) (with Eric Siebenaler)
Henkei! Henkei!
- Starscream (presumably the deco)
Revenge of the Fallen
- Bumblebee (Human Alliance)/Sam Witwicky
- Sideswipe
- Starscream (Voyager)
- Starscream (Leader)
Convention appearances (United States)
Notes
- During pre-production of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Hasui created storyboard-style concepts for a movie-styled "Devastator" combiner (involving a MH-53 Pave Low helicopter, such as Blackout and Grindor) for Hasbro to pass onto the movie production staff.[2]
- Hasui was the original TakaraTomy designer assigned to Revenge of the Fallen Combiner class Constructicon Devastator (and had completed some preliminary sketches for it), but due to scheduling conflicts, that project was handed over to fellow TakaraTomy designer Takio Ejima.[2]
- Due to the enormous workload the TakaraTomy designers were under, Hasui was by default the one assigned to present a proof-of-concept prototype for Revenge of the Fallen's Human Alliance subset of Alternators-styled larger vehicles partnered with human drivers. He rapidly created the proof-of-concept model using a Voyager class Ratchet toy with a new shoulder (that turned into a seat for the human passenger in either mode), a new left forearm (which turned into a motorcycle) and a new gigantic weapons array. [2]
