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The Takara Tomy YouTube channel has uploaded an interview with three of their toy designers Hironori Kobayashi, Hisashi Yuki, and Hisao Nishimoto. The trio give insight into the design of Takara's new Striker Optimus Prime, Leader Class Sentinel Prime, and DOTM's new Cyberverse series. It's been subtitled in English to boot! Interview embedded below.

"Created in Japan in 1984." - The pre-TF toy molds, yes. The Transformers franchise itself, no.

"And their anime and movies are also very popular." - Not every TF cartoon ever produced was an anime. I know the word refers to all cartoons in Japan, but this doesn't apply for the rest of the world.

When Hisao Nishimoto is speaking, the subs misspell the word "addition" as "addiiton".

But aside from those bits, this was a VERY good watch. We need more Takara-based production media like this more often. We always get to hear from Hasbro; let us hear more from Takara once in a while.

1:28
Is that an Xbox game on his desk? didn't know they bought those in Japan.
4:20
That's some badass art, I would have gotten him a while ago if he looked like that.

All i have to say ,is Thank you for sharing the link .I always notice on this page ,there are many complaints but not many acts of gratitude .With out a lot of you guys& gals ,i would not know where to look this stuff up .Thank you again .