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 first-of-its-kind Star Wars Transformers crossover line under industry legend Mark Boudreaux. After much soul searching he transferred to the Pre-K department in the 2010s, where being tasked with creating an "Imaginext killer" eventually led to him becoming the creator and design lead for Playskool Heroes and with it, 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
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| Wave 1 (2005) | Wave 2 (2006)
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Wave 3 | Wave 4 |   | ||||
| Wave 5 (2007) | Wave 6 | Wave 7
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"Galactic Showdown" 2-pack (Walmart exclusive)
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Energon
- Mega-Dinobot (with Don Figueroa)[1]
(design lead)
Rescan Series
- Blades (jet)
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Jurrasic Park
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Universal Monsters
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G.I. Joe
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Tonka
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Stranger Things
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Knight Rider
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Star Wars: The Mandalorian
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Sonic the Hedgehog
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(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![2]
- His original pitch prototype for the Crossovers Star Wars line was an Iguanus frankensteined with a Mission Fleet TIE Advanced Fighter.[2]
External links
Interviews
- December 9, 2024 Interview with Parish on the "Triple Takeover" podcast
References
- ↑ "Marcelo did the packaging art. Don Figueroa did a lot of the kind of design- rough design work, I should say- and then Brian Parrish- uh, I think- ran that through the system with HFE [Hasbro Far East]."—Aaron Archer, The Toy Armada, "22 - The CREATION of Transformers Universe", 2025/07/09
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 December 9, 2024 Interview on the "Triple Takeover" podcast
