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About Ōno Kōjin
- Kojin Ono (Japanese: ?? ??, Hepburn: Ono Kojin, born May 11, 1959, Tokyo) is a toy designer employed by Takara since 1980.
- Mr.
- Ono's early designs included the Diaclone Walk-In Centre and Microman Acro Saturn.
- He designed most of the Diaclone Car Robot line (with additional design work by Shoji Kawamori) and Car Microman figures, which drew the attention of the U.S.
- toy company Hasbro.
- Hasbro amalgamated the Diaclone and Microman figures and, along with a story treatment developed by Marvel, created the toy cult phenomenon known as the Transformers.
- Ono continued to design Transformers throughout the 1980s until the end of the original franchise. Ono designed most Transformers manufactured by Takara, including Metroplex, Fortress Maximus and Powermaster Optimus Prime.
- Among the hundreds of Transformers that he designed, he considers the Decepticon Triple Changers Blitzwing and Astrotrain to be his finest achievements in toy design. Although Mr.
- Ono no longer designs Transformer toys, as of 2005, he is still employed by Takara where he continues to design figures in other Takara toylines.
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