Toy Masters

This is a Q&A from a screening of our documentary at The Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles. *The audio is BAD*. If this is your first episode, please know this is not par for the...

Roger Sweet moves on from Mattel but faces personal and professional challenges, as He-Man is revitalized—temporarily—at Cartoon Network. The series concludes with current Masters ...

The Masters line goes from the biggest thing in the universe to getting dusty on toy store shelves. In an effort to try to save it, Mattel makes a live action movie. But once again...

The animated show begins, making the toy line even more successful and earning Mattel more money. But it also brings them problems in the form of protest groups complaining the sho...

We get Mark Taylor’s version of the origins of He-Man, and it differs starkly from Roger Sweet’s. So we go back to Roger Sweet to get his reaction. We also talk about the genesis o...

We trace the controversial origins of the He-Man toy line with interviews of the people who were there.... Roger Sweet, preliminary designer; Mark Taylor, artist and product design...