{"id":46678,"date":"2026-04-29T19:37:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=46678"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:37:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:37:48","slug":"rip-roger-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/rip-roger-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Roger Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/motusweet.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"395\" alt=\"Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to set up a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Mattel has never met an idea they couldn't do wrong.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk\/post\/3mkmwdioma62z\" target=bsky>via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - June '12\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/flippin-through-previews-june-12\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - June '12<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Masters of the (Lego) Universe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/masters-of-the-lego-universe\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Masters of the (Lego) Universe<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The weakest crossover designs yet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/the-weakest-crossover-designs-yet\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The weakest crossover designs yet<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some cool MOTU artwork\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/some-cool-motu-artwork\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some cool MOTU artwork<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Lou Scheimer: Creating The Filmation Generation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/lou-scheimer-creating-the-filmation-generation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Lou Scheimer: Creating The Filmation Generation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattel has never met an idea they couldn't do wrong. (via) &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Skeletor Gundam Roboto's shoulders are on backwards Who is Preternia Disguise He-Man? Eternia Minis: Skelegod review Flippin' through Previews - December '12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-46678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattel","tag-motu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46679,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46678\/revisions\/46679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}