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Worked at Hasbro in house as a designer for two years, then freelanced for ten. Lots of good friends at the Pawtucket office I still chill with.
Once they became publicly traded a few decades ago and stopped using the Kenner name it was all down hill. The Star Wars prequels mostly exist because of the push for more toys within Hasbros marketing team. The designers kept coming up with crap that wasn’t even canon to the films in the early nineties, so we ended up with things like pic related.
Tldr what was once a hub for innovation is now a souless corporation that values managers / shareholders over artists / design.