Brian Chapman
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Brian Chapman is a high ranking employee at Hasbro who has a long history with the Transformers brand.
Brian is in very select company as a regular designer who eventually climbed quite a ways up the corporate ladder. Despite this, he is a relative cipher to the fandom due to his non-presence at collector-oriented events.
As a designer, he came on in 1992 working in Hasbro's Kenner division on toylines such as Batman, Star Wars and Jurassic Park, before being moved to Transformers with his promotion to Design Director around the Transmetal 2 phase of Beast Wars, presumably placing him as the design lead on Beast Machines overseeing franchise legend Aaron Archer.
In the year 2001, shortly after the Kenner division was closed down and its product lines were fully merged into Hasbro, he was promoted to Senior Design Director overseeing Transformers and a handful of other brands, where he is known to have played a part in the production of Armada and Cybertron.
In later years, he held titles such as "Vice President of Boys' Toys", "Director of Design for Toys/Games/IP," and, as of 2013 "President of Global Design and Development for Toys/Games/IP."
He has a proud family history of working with heavy machinery and owns at least one recreational bulldozer.
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Known design contributions
- Beast Wars
- Beast Machines
- Robots in Disguise (2001)
- Armada
- Energon
- Cybertron
- Alternators
- "25th Anniversary" (nee Masterpiece)
Known media credits
- Transformers: Armada, creative consultant
- Transformers: Cybertron, creative consultant
Convention appearances
External links
Interviews
- February 16, 1999 Beast Wars Team Interview with Jerry Palmer, Andy Espenshade, Steve Redinger and Tim Bradley at the official Beast Wars website (archived)
- July 1999—Brian Chapman interview segment from Robots over St. Paul: A BotCon 1999 Documentary
- February 2022—Mojo Nation
