27. Molly - How do you become a Pokemon Toy Designer?

Molly - How do you become a Pokemon Toy Designer?

This episode is all about POKEMON - I had the chance to talk to a real life Pokemon Toy Designer- Molly that is in charge of designing Pokemon toys for North America, working with Wicked Cool Toys.

We talk about everything from going to school for toy design and watching Disney Movies as homework to Designing The Exclusive Mew Toy for San Diego Comic Con.

Check out the whole Podcast and here’s is an outline of what we discussed!

Molly design the Pokemon Toys for North America

1:36 - How do you become a Toy Designer

2:35 - Deep in the heart of Texas

3:48 - Oil and Texas

5:40 - Friday Night Lights - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Lights_(TV_series)

6:00 - Moving to Arizona and then California

7:20 - Toy Floor - and getting interested into Toy Design

9:30 - Studying in Australia and Designing Pick me pop - https://bit.ly/2MXMivX

10:00 - Designing Inside out and Zootopia Toys

10:46 - What courses do you take for designing toys

13:00 - Why Batman is a great toy and Superman sucks as a Toy

13:30 - Designing toy for girls - Indiana Jones Granddaughter

15:00 - Toy designers as a commodity in the marker

15:45 - Melbourne Australia- as an internship and living in France

18:00 - Japan and Toy Design in Japan

19:16 - A Silent Voice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Silent_Voice_(film)

19:50 - Durarara!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durarara!!

21:00 - Pokemon Center - Umbreon

22:10 - Dream Job - at Pokemon

22:51 - The Inner Working - Pokemon Brand Control

23:23 - Pokemon - Worked on. ++++

24:40 - Working on Toys for the Detective Pikachu Movie

26:00 - Wicked Cool Toys ++++ - Cabbage Pack Kids -

26:30 - Licensor - are the Pokemon Company

27:00 - 3 Pokemon Designers and now 10 - Fast Growth - Halo and MicroMachine

28:00 - Digital Sculpting - and Sculpting Houses

29:00 - Pokemon Favourite - Character to Design

30:00 - Designing San Diego Pokemon Exclusive

34:00 - How long does it take to design a Pokemon

34:50 - Designing Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle

36:00 - Wining - Singing Jiggly Puff

41:00 - Collectors Item only

43:00 - Power Action Pikachu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9HFQpMtHRc

More toys from Wicked Cool Toys

https://www.wickedcooltoys.com/brands/pokemon/

Check out Molly’s Instagram here:

https://www.instagram.com/mollywak/