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* There's also Hirofumi Ichikawa, who started off writing [[Fanfic|doujinshi]] and was particularly influential in introducing Japanese fans to the original portrayals of the ''[[Beast Wars]]'', as opposed to the [[Cut and Paste Translation|somewhat less than faithful Japanese dub]]. He has since been hired by Takara to write a fair number of toy bios, comics, and guidebooks, and even got to design toys for the ''[[Transformers Energon|Super Link]]'' and ''[[Transformers Cybertron|Galaxy Force]]'' lines.
* David Willis, author of the ''[[Walkyverse]]'' [[Web Comic|web comics]], is another long-time ''Transformers'' fan, who has been hired by Hasbro to produce convention art. He also got to create [[Transformers: Shattered Glass|Shattered Glass]] Ravage, who has become a canon character.
* Matt Tieger, the director of the ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron]]'' series, is a big Transformers fan, in particular of the Dinobot Grimlock. So strong is his admiration for the character that [https://web.archive.org/web/20121022165329/http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/4/24/2962458/grimlock-high-moon-dinobots-transformers-cybertron-activision he convinced Hasbro to not scrap the Grimlock so he could include him in the upcoming ''Fall of Cybertron''].
* Josh Nizzi produced a [[Transformers (film)|movie-inspired]] design for the Constructicon Dump Truck Long Haul. He was not only brought on to Hasbro, but Long Haul was the first new design for the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' toyline and he went on to design several more for the movie.
* [http://www.bwtf.com/ Benson Yee], a [[Big Name Fan]] in the community, was approached on usenet by the ''[[Beast Wars]]'' writers for his expertise in ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]''. He received a consultant credit for key mythology-heavy episodes, and was shot by ''Beast Wars'' Megatron at a convention.
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