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News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 1:19 am

Via the Instagram account of Aaron Archer, we have learned of the retirement of one of the foundations of the Transformers lines, along with the Micro-Robots in Micronauts, and the designs for G1 Optimus Prime, Ravage, Scourge, Perceptor - plus the contact between Hasbro and Takara Tomy in their early days: Hideaki Yoke.

Find out more below!

This is Yoke san. Tonight I was privileged to celebrate his retirement from Takara/Tomy. Yoke san is TRANSFORMERS! Yoke san helped design G1 Optimus Prime, Perceptor, Scourge and others, He shepherded the Transformers partnership between Takara/Tomy and Hasbro since 1983. He was there for every toy product and every piece of media since the beginning.

News Credits: 3 · by **Decepticon Stryker** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 2:22 am

Enjoy your retirement Yoke san. You deserve it.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 4:16 am

Another engineering GOD rests! :BOWDOWN:

More on Yoke san

http://www.camphortree.net/tf/tidbits/botcon2005.txt

Metroplex, the datsun guys and what would become Optimus was his work (and Shoji Kawamori) because the original guy assigned to him couldn't meet the deadline or something.