Roger Sweet created and named He-Man after years as a Mattel toy designer in the 1970s and 1980s.
LAKE STEVENS, Wash. — Roger Sweet, the Lake Stevens man credited with creating Mattel’s He-Man action figure, died Tuesday after a battle with dementia, Variety reported. He was 91.
Sweet lived in Lake Stevens with his wife, Marlene, who survives him.
Sweet was the lead designer for Mattel’s Preliminary Design Department in the 1970s and 1980s. His best-known creation began as an effort to give Mattel a new action figure after the company passed on a deal to make toys for “Star Wars,” which became a
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