Bill Rawley
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William "Bill" Rawley is a Product Design Manager on Hasbro's Transformers brand. He graduated from FIT with a BA in Toy Design, and his first job out of school was as a Product Designer for the Advanced Concepts team at Hasbro. There, he learned to design... with purpose!
Bill has been a valued member of the Transformers team since March 2006, although he first became known to the fandom-at-large through his "non-mainline" design work. Since joining the brand, he has served as lead designer on Robot Heroes, Movie Unleashed, Animated Activators, and Universe Legend, Deluxe, Voyager, and Ultra-class figures; he was also the lead designer of the 2010 Transformers line. He also had a hand in the Cyber Slammers, Real Gear Robots, and Robot Replicas segments of the original Movie toyline.
Rawley has accumulated an impressive roster of nicknames during his career at Hasbro, Inc.; Brawley, William Brawllace, Billiam, Billy "the Kid", Billbo Dragons, China Bill, Robo Billbo, Thrill Bill, Fearless Fotog, Titanium Bill Thunderpunch, Bug Man, Dollar Dollar Bill, Big Red Cheddar, the Diamond Smoothie, Gingerchin, and Will Wheaton, to name just a few.
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Portfolio
Transformers (Movie)
Cyber Slammers
- Autobot Ratchet
- Autobot Jazz
- Barricade
- Bumblebee
- Bumblebee (Camaro Concept)
- Decepticon Brawl
- Cliffjumper
- Ironhide
- Optimus Prime
- Patrol Barricade
Robot Heroes
Robot Replicas
- Autobot Jazz
- Barricade
- Bumblebee
- Decepticon Frenzy
- Megatron
- Optimus Prime
Real Gear Robots
- Booster X10 (with Alex Kubalsky)
- Farsight T-20
- Hacker X-3
- Highline 1070
- High Score 100 (with Alex Kubalsky)
- Longview
- Meantime
- Midnighter XR-4
- Night Beat 7
- Photon T-34
- Power Up VT6
- Speed Dial 800
- Spy Shot 6
- Twitcher F451
- Wire Tap V20
- Zoom Out 25X
Unleashed
- Autobot Jazz/Autobot Ratchet
- Barricade/Blackout
- Bumblebee
- Megatron
- Optimus Prime
Other
- Optimus Prime transforming Target gift card
Universe (2008)
Mainline
- Autobot Cosmos
- Autobot Hound (Legends)
- Autobot Hound (Deluxe) with Ravage (with Alex Kubalsky)
- Autobot Jazz
- Autobot Wheelie
- Brawn
- Beachcomber
- Cheetor
- Bumblebee (Animated Legends)
- Bumblebee (Classics Legends)
- Cyclonus with Nightstick (with Don Figueroa)
- Dinobot (with Hisashi Yuki)
- Galvatron (with Hisashi Yuki)
- Hot Shot with Jolt
- Inferno (with Hisashi Yuki)
- Ironhide
- Rodimus
- Megatron (Classics Legends)
- Onslaught (Classics Ultra)
- Optimus Prime (Animated Legends)
- Powerglide
- Prowl (Classics Deluxe) (with Hisashi Yuki)
- Prowl (Animated Legends)
- Sideswipe (with Hisashi Yuki)
- Silverbolt (Classic Ultra)
- Silverstreak
- Starscream (Animated Legends)
- Sunstreaker (with Hisashi Yuki)
- Tankor
- Warpath
Robot Heroes
Animated
Activators
Convention appearances
Notes
- In his childhood, Bill entered a design-a-toy contest run by Mattel for its Masters of the Universe franchise. Although he was not awarded any prizes (apart from a second-place notification letter and a consolation Teela magnet), the subsequently released Mantenna action figure bore a striking resemblance to his submission. If more than coincidence, this would make him one of the youngest-starting toy designers in the industry. And would make Mattel very bad people.
- His first Transformer was Perceptor. Perhaps Bill's mother thought the Autobot microscope was a learning toy that would help educate and shape the mind of the young lad, to help him one day become a scientist! We can see how that turned out.
- Bill's favorite Transformers toys are G1 Soundwave and Universe Hound. Universe Legends Wheelie is up there as well, as the rhymetastic Autobot survivalist has always had a special place in his heart.
- In his spare time, Bill enjoys making Jim Henson-styled puppets with foam and fleece. In 2007, his "Jim Reaper" puppet was in the top ten for the Project Puppet contest. Although Jim did not win, Bill still had loads of fun designing and creating him.
- He is capable of lifting Eric Siebenaler and Vickie Stratford onto his shoulders, although not at the same time (so far as it is known).
- Bill looks to move up within Hasbro. He hopes to one day have a private parking spot in the Hasbro lot and a team of henchmen that will help him shape the toy world, forever!
- The article below, where Bill discusses the initial new molds of the Universe line, was repurposed by the Transformers fan site Tformers.com as an "interview" with Rawley, even though they didn't change any of the text, leading the faux-interview of Rawley to sound like he refers to himself in the third person.

