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​Preproduction: ​1988 AGP 
Guy Cassaday (Vehicle Designer) discusses the inspiration for the 1988 AGP, and although the name is not mentioned, he appears to be describing  Boba Fett's Slave I from Star Wars Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.
The two ideation sketches and the two presentation art samples below all show different missile positions. Interestingly, the presentation art appears to show the rear of each missile attached to the front of the wing and nose of the A.G.P. We never saw this kind of missile mount
​ throughout the ARAH line. ​Roll over the images below to find out more, or click the images to enlarge them.​​
The photos below show the hand built 6" tall, 3" wide, 9" long styrene A.G.P. prototype. This prototype ​was built by Bill Cooke, Sr. Industrial Designer at Hasbro from 1983-1994. Bill was an R&D engineer and was tasked with making working models. The prototype below features a working clear canopy, rotating guns, pivoting thrusters, swiveling rear rudder, and one detachable Sparrow missile. Building these models usually began with forming the necessary shapes out of wood, then using a vacuform machine to pull styrene down over the wooden shapes.
From here they would cut the styrene pieces and assemble the model.This prototype shows one missile attached to the tip of the horizontal wing.
By the time the A.G.P. reached production they mounted another on the top of each vertical stabilizer. ​When building prototypes,
they would typically only fabricate one of each piece that would be duplicated: in this instance they only created one Sparrow missile.
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