@DIME

With my very limited Japanese and the help of google I gathered some interesting comments by Hasui in this article:

-designing the cassette minions was a big challenge, as minimum plastic thickness where practical and smallest joint available had to be used due to size restriction. There were always 2-3 designs being developed at the same time. With Laserbeak there were 10 and none of them made it to the final product.

-Ideally he thought the Lamborghinis could be at the 10000 yen price point (so there would be more budget at his disposal). But it was decided to be priced at 5800 yen maximum as it would be easier for collectors to collect less known characters.

-This year we will hopefully see 2 large-sized and 2 smaller-sized Masterpiece products. Though there are already candidates, he personally wants to do Jazz and Combaticons(Combaticons mentioned again). And he really wants to do Ultra Magnus, badly.


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Looks like a very insightful piece. Hopefully someone would do a full/proper translation.