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George Dunsay interviewed.
“The involvement of Marvel is an outgrowth of our G.I. Joe work. This part was purely the idea of Griffin-Bacal.”
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Griffin and Bacal interviewed.
“The idea was, how do you take the fantasy and bring it alive? … If we can dimensionalize the fantasy, whether it’s a humorous fantasy, or good versus evil, it really helps kids role-play with the whole idea.”
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The origin of Marvel’s Transformers comic.
“Following the success of G.I. JOE, these toy developments had become a regular thing.” (Part 2. Jim Shooter’s Transformers treatment.)
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Ron Friedman interviewed.
“My job was to take that limited information and create characters somebody cared about. Characters with a particular way of speaking, a particular sense of humor if they had one, and a body language that went along with their dialogue so they became like living beings.” (See also.)
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Toys that transformed the world’s way of play.
“For us … these guys become human, we project ourselves onto them — our frailties and strengths; they act as our representatives in a fantasy world.”
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