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Former Toynami product designer and sculptor Daisuke Fukuda was let go and lets us in on a product by toynami. his post on twitter reveal news on what was the next on the vinyl collection....

robotechfr @ MaidenJapanDF, "Some news about next vinyl serie? Invid ?"

MaidenJapanDF Daisuke Fukuda @ robotechfr "I was designing on Destroids for vinyl figures, but unfortunately company let me go. So I don't know what they'll going to do."

twitter.com/#!/MaidenJapanDF

FROM DAISUKE www.facebook.com/robotechx

Daisuke Fukuda
Thank you for all your support for many years. I had a joy designing many of Robotech products. I'm moving onto my own sculpture designs, mainly for Transformers accessories. Please look for my facebook group MAIDEN JAPAN Fan Club.

MAIDEN JAPAN Fan Club
www.facebook.com/groups/195922183828350/

he said he was designing on Destroids for vinyl figures but Toynami is going to manufacture them? or will they stop the vinyl line?

MEMO1DOMINION wrote:

FROM DAISUKE www.facebook.com/robotechx

Daisuke Fukuda
Thank you for all your support for many years. I had a joy designing many of Robotech products. I'm moving onto my own sculpture designs, mainly for Transformers accessories. Please look for my facebook group MAIDEN JAPAN Fan Club.

MAIDEN JAPAN Fan Club
www.facebook.com/groups/195922183828350/

Daisuke's been let go...? The man who made the ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE and FULLY TRANSFORMABLE Optimus Prime...? As well as the AWESOME Battle Pods and such...?

Is Toynami trying to commit suicide or something...?

Gubaba wrote:

Is Toynami trying to commit suicide or something...?

That is the qestion

And i asked on Rt.com, waiting for an answer...

www.robotech.com/community/forum/read.php?id=2139000&forumid=23

RobotechFR wrote:

Gubaba wrote:

Is Toynami trying to commit suicide or something...?

That is the qestion

And i asked on Rt.com, waiting for an answer...

www.robotech.com/community/forum/read.php?id=2139000&forumid=23

Daisuke is a great guy, and a genius designer.

If they ABSOLUTELY HAD to let someone at Toynami go...why get rid of the most talented member...?

Seriously, they had him sculpting destroids? They haven't even released his last Robotech/Macross sculpt, the Officer's Battlepod, which comes on the heals of a Battlepod variant that took like six months to ship to N Amer.
Not that it really matters as his designs for Toynami apparently end up as low quality, overpriced products that don't sell very well.
How much sculpting is he doing for their other toy/mpc lines? As for the Robotech/Macross lines, it almost seems like they have been trying to get out of releasing them for a while so this may just speed up the process.
He is a talented sculptor, I'm sure he will do well whomever he works for, including himself.

rtsurfer wrote:

Seriously, they had him sculpting destroids? They haven't even released his last Robotech/Macross sculpt, the Officer's Battlepod, which comes on the heals of a Battlepod variant that took like six months to ship to N Amer.
Not that it really matters as his designs for Toynami apparently end up as low quality, overpriced products that don't sell very well.
How much sculpting is he doing for their other toy/mpc lines? As for the Robotech/Macross lines, it almost seems like they have been trying to get out of releasing them for a while so this may just speed up the process.
He is a talented sculptor, I'm sure he will do well whomever he works for, including himself.

He was responsible over the MPC Beta's, The 1/100's, Vynils, MPC Voltron, etc. Im confident in his abilities on smaller scale stuff, as he's posted a lot of rework on TF Classics toys. Toynami probably couldnt afford him anylonger. I do think there was a huge disconnect between his Macross designs and what HG was willing to pay for, given his Daisuke's work on MPC Voltron, and the MPC Beta's. Best of luck to him in future endeavors. Hopefully Yamato or Bandai enlist him to work on 1/100 enemy mechs or Valks. Perhaps his perspective and work can go towards a better Legioss?

Bummer, I am a HUGE destroid fan. I may be one of the few out there. I love the Yamato Macross destroids. Pricey, but very high quality. I would love to see more Destroids get released.

It has been nothing but tumble weeds from Toynami as far as RT toys...

Been hoping for a re-release of the 1/100 VF-1J line.