Sure did, but I can't imagine Hasbro needing to use Kickstarter can you? Its not an issue of money Hasbro and WotC have more than enough money to pay for what they want, its an issue of return on investment. If the return isn't going to be greater than the investment, or even if it just break even, then they wont bother. Its the unfortunate reality of business.
Actually, this is exactly one of the things Kickstarter is good for. If they run a Kickstarter, or some other form of crowd-funding pre-order, then they don't have to worry about return on investment, as they aren't investing! There's no risk of financial loss for the company.
Not that it makes the project without risk. It shifts the burden of risk from monetary to public relations. If there's a million-dollar kickstarter, and WotC doesn't deliver, they will have super-egg on their faces, and burn a lot of goodwill. And that's a big risk, and I can understand if they don't want to run it.
That leads us to the idea of finding someone they feel can run such a project, and license it to them to run a kickstarted development project. This is not materially different from the Trapdoor plan, but it does fail they can legitimately say they tried in good faith, and picked a bad partner.
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