An artist and seminal toy designer who helped form the massively profitable Nineteen Eighties toy franchise He-Man and the Masters of the Universe died Thursday.
T. Mark Taylor, who additionally labored on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, died at his residence in Southern California of congestive coronary heart failure, according to the Associated Press. He was 80.
Taylor wasn’t the only creator of the muscled He-Man nor the wildly standard and long-running TMNT, however his work as a designer solid the characters into iconic pictures for generations of youngsters.
He-Man was primarily based on Taylor’s imaginative and prescient of Cro-Magnon males, and Vikings, Taylor as soon as stated, in line with the AP.
Greater than 70 million Masters of the Universe motion figures flew off the cabinets within the first 2.5 years of the model, which launched in 1982, in line with experiences.
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