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'''Aaron C. Archer''' (born 1972 in [[Canton, Ohio]]) is an illustrator and creative professional who spent over 18 years at Hasbro, Inc. designing for toy brands like TRANSFORMERS, GI Joe, STAR WARS Episode One, and various Batman lines. Aaron worked on the TRANSFORMERS brand for over 13 years, collaborating with Takara/Tomy on hundreds of toys. Aaron acted as the Creative Lead for all TRANSFORMERS partnerships including four feature films, four video games, five animated series, theme park rides, and countless publishing projects. In 2013 Aaron retired from Hasbro in order to pursue independent projects.

Archer has worked on toy lines including [[Batman]] knight force ninja's, Legend of the Dark knight, Total Justice, [[Star Wars]], and [[Alien Resurrection]], amongst others. Archer's earliest Transformers work were designs for the later [[Beast Wars]] toys, including Transmetal 2 Megatron, Dinobot, and Cheetor. Archer was the Design VP on the [[Transformers (toy line)|Transformers]] brand, a role that essentially made him the highest-ranking creative ''Transformers'' staffer on the Hasbro side of the business (Transformers are produced in partnership with [[Takara]]).

Archer managed a design team that is responsible for concept design, both for larger storyline concepts (Archer claims the idea for the show [[Transformers: Cybertron]] was initially created on a [[Taco Bell]] napkin over lunch) and for the look of individual characters. While Takara's engineers are responsible for converting Hasbro designs into three-dimensional action figure form. Takara/Tomy also has say in design choices.

Archer is also well known in the Transformers fandom for his brief stint posting on the [http://www.tfw2005.com TFW2005] boards under the assumed name "Orson" (a reference to [[Orson Welles]], voice of [[Unicron]]). Archer responded to fan questions in an unusually cryptic style, answering either-or type questions with a straightforward "NO" and only answering specific parts of multi-part questions (most likely due to [[non-disclosure]] issues). The "Orson's World" message board was eventually shut down by Hasbro and issued a statement that they wanted to treat all fansites fairly.<ref>[http://tformers.com/The-Statement-From-Hasbro/1974/news.html Hasbro statement]</ref>

Prior to working for Hasbro, Archer self-published a comic book, ''Gumbo'', with Jeff McCormack. Both attended the [[University of Akron]], in [[Akron, Ohio]].

Some homages to Aaron include the Transformers movie toy Longarm having "Orsen's Towing" on the door, the early name for Universe Skalor being listed as "Archerbot", and the Transformers: Animated character "Angry Archer".

==Media coverage==
The [[Star To Star Toys News]] for December 12th, 2014 interviewed Rik Alvarez about Play With This Too. Rik talked about getting Aaron Archer to join the company, how the crowd funding would start with 4 figures and have stretch goals to 33 figures the Play With Yourself box set and the naming of Talix from Head Shots Vol. 3. Rik played with a prototype of the sword for Desolataur/Sir Pythanore during the show.<REF>{{Cite podcast | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k2i_G8-u-c | title = Star To Star Toys News | website =https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6PGk5W0pSKfwbXpIahKObw | publisher =Star To Star Toy News | host = Chris and Ash| date = December 12th, 2014 }}</REF>

==Conventions==
Aaron was one of the guests at [[TFcon]] Toronto 2014.

===Designs===
{{seealso|Category:Aaron Archer designs}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/aaron-archer/4/447/2b9 Aaron Archer at Linkedin]
* [http://www.fieldsedge.com/Transformers.html An interview with Aaron Archer] at Field's Edge.
* An article on [http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=362808&Category=20&fromSearch=yes&subCategoryID=0 Aaron Archer] from the [[Canton Repository]].

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