User:AzimuthAcolyte/Sandbox/Brian Parrish

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Brian Parrish is a Design Manager for action brands at Hasbro and the most influential Transformers designer you've never heard of. Beginning his career on Batman with Kenner in the mid-1990s, he moved to the his childhood dream of working in the Star Wars division around the time of the company's absorption into Hasbro proper. Somewhere in there he cranked out the 2003 Universe toyline toyline more or less as a favor between Star Wars project before becoming the design lead on the Crossovers Star Wars line under industry legend Mark Boudreax[1]. After much soul searching he transferred to the Pre-K department in the 2010s, where being tasked with creating an "{w|Imaginext}} killer" eventually led to him becoming the creator and design lead for the entire Rescue Bots toyline. He made his triumphant return to action brands around 2018, where he is currently in charge of "kids" (read: non-Generations) lines for the Transformers brand. He has also taken point on the Collaborative line as of 2022 or so.

Known design projects

Universe (2003)

(design lead)

Transformers: Crossovers

Star Wars

(design lead)

Wave 1 (2008) Wave 2 (2008) Wave 3 (2009)
Wave 4 (2009) Wave 5 (2009) Wave 6 (2009)
"Meets the eye, more than."
Wave 7 (2009)[2] Wave 8 (2009) Wave 9 (2010)
Wave 10 (2010) Wave 11 (2010)[3] Wave 12 (2010)
Wave 13 (2010) Wave 14 (2011)[4]


Rescue Bots

(design lead)

Rescan Series

Rise of the Beasts

(design lead)

EarthSpark

(design lead)

Generations

Collaborative

(design lead)

Jurassic Park × Transformers


Universal Monsters × Transformers


G.I. Joe × Transformers


Tonka × Transformers
Tonka × Transformers Tonkanator
Main article: Tonka

A collaboration with Hasbro's own in-house brand of giant trucks, featuring redecos of the Generation 1 Constructicons as new Autobot characters in classic Tonka yellow-and-steel-gray.


Volvo Trucks × Transformers
Volvo Trucks × Transformers VNR Optimus Prime


Stranger Things × Transformers
File:TF-Collab-Toy-Code-Red.jpg
Stranger Things × Transformers Code Red


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles × Transformers
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles × Transformers Party Wallop
  • Party Wallop (2024)


Knight Rider × Transformers
    Knight Rider × Transformers Agent Knight
  • Agent Knight (2024)


Star Wars: The Mandalorian × Transformers


Sonic the Hedgehog × Transformers


One

(design lead)

Trivia

  • Parrish has markedly fewer samples of his work to show off because he has a habit of re-homing them with local children. Dawww!
  • His original pitch prototype for the Crossovers Star Wars line was an Iguanus frankensteined with a Mission Fleet TIE Advanced fighter.

Interviews

References

  1. ↑ I have no idea how to spell this, I'm going by ear here.
  2. ↑ From Wave 7 of the Star Wars crossovers through to Wave 10, the packaging saw a change from the white and blue to a white and red style, coinciding with the packaging change for the concurrently ran Star Wars: The Clone Wars toyline, also by Hasbro.
  3. ↑ From Wave 11 of the Star Wars crossovers through to the end of the line, the packaging once again saw a change, this time to a blue and black style—once again, done to coincide with the packaging change of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars toyline.
  4. ↑ Wave 14 of the Star Wars-branded Crossovers toys were sold at the same time the Star Wars Transformers toyline was resurrected, meaning two "Star Wars Transformers" lines briefly ran alongside one another.


!Category:Crossovers designers !Category:Generations designers !Category:Hasbro designers !Category:Lead designers !Category:Rescue Bots designers !Category:!Universe (2003) designers

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