Toy designer Mark Boudreaux has died after being left on a ventilator by a Cincinnati hospital for more than a year following his diagnosis with COVID.
“We lost Mark this morning,” his wife Judy said in a text sent to The Epoch Times on Mother’s Day (May 14).
Mark Boudreaux designed some of America’s most iconic toys—including Star Wars’ beloved Millenium Falcon space ship and the sail barge known well among fans as the Khettana.
For fun, he gave Storm Troopers, Endor Rebels, even an AT-ST driver from the iconic movie series, his own face.
Mark Boudreaux wrote “I want to live” just days before he is to be taken off life-saving machine on March 17. (Courtesy of Judy Boudreaux)
The Cincinnati native also designed action figures for Marvel including Batman, and playsets based on the movies Transformers, Ghostbusters, and Jurassic Park….