Fox McCloud's designer isn't getting an early screening of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, though a former Nintendo developer who worked on the likes of Star Fox and Super Mario 64 says that sort of thing has been the norm for a while, as even working on a game doesn't guarantee you a copy of it.
Earlier this week, the character designer for Star Fox, Takaya Imamura, said that – despite creating Fox McCloud – he won't be getting the chance to see his character in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie earlier than the rest of Japan (where the movie is set to release later this month on April 24). In a Tweet (translated by Genki_JPN), Imamura speculated that it was due to a common practice among Japanese companies of drawing a line with people who quit.
