Roger Sweet, the American toy designer who created He-Man, died on April 28, 2026, at age 91 from complications of dementia.
Sweet was known as the lead designer in Mattel’s Preliminary Design Department, where he helped create the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe toy line in 1982. Born in 1935, he grew up in Akron, Ohio, and graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the Institute of Design in Chicago.
He served as a lead designer at Mattel throughout much of the 1970s and 1980s and also held design positions with Walter Dorwin Teague Associates and other firms.
Roger Sweet, 91, American toy designer, creator of He-Man, complications from dementia.