>>10341621Toy Biz = Marvel, hence changing their name to Marvel Toys after they licensed their characters away. And even after Marvel Toys was dissolved, the head guys continued working with Marvel, since Marvel Toy's job was also to oversee Hasbro's work.
Everything Hasbro makes and has plans to make has to be approved Marvel. So those positions never disappeared.
Since you're not aware, most sculptors are indie contractors and only about 10% of toys are sculpted in-house. This is why Boss Fight Studio sculptors still sculpt toys for Hasbro despite being fired from their in house positions at Hasbro. In house artists tend to work multiple jobs too, so companies like Toy Biz and Hasbro get more uses from paying them full time and giving them health insurance.
I'm sure you heard of Gentle Giant, since Hasbro made a big deal about them when they announced they were going to be sculpting the Star Wars Black series toys. They're done a lot of work for hire shit for decades. A lot of those Gentle Giant employees had already been making toys for Hasbro before that deal happened too, but who knows about Joe Menna vs the more prestige Gentle Giant studio?
pic of Dave Cortez's Mass Effect toy he did for DC Direct, who also made a ton of Marvel Legends for both TB and Hasbro, and 1:18 MU figures, and also Mezco. He was also a full time DC Collectibles and McFarlane Toys artist too.
