He was 80 years old. The first success came in 1982 for Mattel: it sold 70 million puppets worldwide in two years
Farewell to Terrell Mark Taylor, the American designer of popular toys such as He-Man, protagonist of the heroic fantasy genre franchise “Masters of the Universe”, created in 1981 by Mattel for the line known in Italy as “The rulers of the universe” , and the Ninja Turtle puppets. The artist died on Thursday, December 23 at the age of 80 at his home in Southern California of heart failure.
Taylor in 1976 was hired as a graphic designer at Mattel, the famous US toy company based in El Segundo, California. Initially he took care of the packaging, creating new packages. At the beginning of the 80s with the designer Roger Sweet he began to design new toys. Taylor’s first creation was He-Man, which hit the shelves in 1982, selling over 70 million puppets worldwide in just two years, then also giving birth to comic and cartoon series. Taylor said he was inspired by Cro-Magnon’s Homo Sapiens and Vikings for the original He-Man design. Alongside He-Man, he then designed other puppets from the series “Dominators of the Universe”.
In 1987 Taylor designed the puppets inspired by the comic series of Ninja Turtles (originally Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), created in 1984 by designers Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird and which then generated a long series of cartoons and action films. Taylor graphically gave the likeness to the friendly warrior turtles called Michelangelo, Donatello, Raffaello and Leonardo.
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