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Interview with Binaltech Designer

Transformers News: Interview with Binaltech Designer

Wednesday, December 17th, 2003 10:33PM CST

Category: Media Vault
Posted by: Redstreak Views: 50,151

Takara Hobby.com has posted up an interview with Binaltech Designer Hironori Kobayashi. This includes some pictures in the sidebar, with some blueprints of Smokescreen/Silverstreak! In the interview, Mr. Kobayashi speaks about the difficulty of gaining copyright access with the car companies, the intricacies involved in making a Transformer figure, and more! The English version of this fascinating interview can be found here. If you prefer to read it in the original Japanese, you can find that here. Happy reading!

Credit(s): takarahobby.com

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