Hideaki Yoke
From Transformers Wiki
Hideaki Yoke (餘家英昭 Yoke Hideaki) is Takara's former lead designer on Transformers. He was a prominent designer on Microman and in particular pitched and oversaw the Micro Change subline that would prove pivotal to the original Decepticon roster.[1] Yoke acted as Takara's liaison to Hasbro in the early years of Transformers' development. He worked on Transformers ever since and, according to Aaron Archer, has had more of a hand in the engineering of the toyline than any single other person in its history. Yoke retired from TakaraTomy in March 2017.
Contents |
Known design projects
Generation 1
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
Scramble City/2010
The Transformers
The Battlechargers were not released domestically by Takara:
Armada
Animated
Convention appearances
Notes
- Yoke's favorite Generation 1 Transformer that he designed is Perceptor.[1] His second favorite is Reflector.[3]
- According to Aaron Archer at OTFCC 2004, he chose to name the Armada Mini-Con combiner robot "Perceptor" to honor the Takara employee who engineered the Street Action Team because that employee was also responsible for engineering the original Generation 1 Perceptor toy, ie Yoke, though Archer did not call him out by name.
- The Transformers Animated character Yoketron was named after him.
- Upon his retirement in 2017, Hasbro and TakaraTomy presented Yoke with a sealed original 1985 toy and small statue of Perceptor; looking in the microscope lens on the statue reveals the words "Thank you". Awwww.
- He never stops smiling.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Commemmorative video for Hideaki Yoke's induction to the Transformers Hall of Fame.
- ↑ Coverage of the TakaraTomy panel at BotCon 2010 by TFW2005 (dead link)
- ↑ Translation of a March 2012 interview with Yoke at TFW2005
External links
- Hall of Fame video on Hasbro's official Transformers YouTube channel
- Translation of a March 2012 interview with Yoke at TFW2005
- Steve-o Stonebraker's BotCon 2005 report
- Hideaki Yoke's Instagram account
