THE 8th ANNUAL DESIGNER TOY AWARDS VOTING IS NOW OPEN!

The finalists for the 8th Annual Designer Toy Awards (DTAs) have been announced and Public Voting has begun! To see the full list of finalist please visit https://www.designertoyawards.com/categories.

We'd like to thank the nomination committees, who have worked tirelessly these last few weeks, to discuss each category and nomination in order to whittle down the 100’s of nominees to these top choices.

Committee Members: Dov Kelmer, Benny Kline, Travis Lykins, Gary Rozanski, John Stokes, Vincent Yu, Keegan Rooney, Kyle Kirwan, Don Kratzer, Andy Heng, Jason Freeny, Denver Tilotti, Jeff Rawson, Yaniv Brick, Steve Braun, Sarah Churchill, Czee, Nick Curtis, Justin Cheah, Lee Funai, Ketha Insomphou, Cat Davis, Rob Lumino, and Katherine Park.

Together, our committees have created our Shortlists of 2019! Congratulations to all the finalists!

Voting in the DTA public categories is easy as cake. Just follow these steps:

1. Go to the Designer Toy Awards website and log in or create a new account. If you have an account but have forgotten the password, you can retrieve it here.
2. Go to the categories page.
3. Vote once in each of the six awards under Public Voting.

Tada! You've voted! Simple as that.

Public voting remains open until
Monday, May 7rd, 2018, 12pm (noon) est.

Please note that voting more than once in each category, even if you've created multiple accounts, is grounds for all your votes being removed and, potentially, the party you're voting for being disqualified.

Be a VIP Guest at the DTAS!

The public can attend this years Designer Toy Award ceremony as a VIP guest by purchasing a VIP Five Point's Festival Pass here.

The VIP package includes:

A VIP Preview/Early Access – Get in an hour early both days to get first dibs on show exclusives - and you know there will be a ton!

Designer Toy Awards VIP Ticket – Party with Designer Toy Royalty at the prestigious 8th annual Designer Toy Awards on Friday, June 1st. The ONLY way for the public to get access!

Exclusive DTA colorway of Kenny Wong x Instinctoy Mini Erosion Molly!

Saturday Night Party – VIP Access to our Saturday Night shindig.

Exclusive Badge – With swank art just for VIPs
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VIP tickets are very limited!
The clock’s tickin’.
Tickets available now at 
FivePointsFest.com

DTA Dunny Show Series Cases by Kidrobot In Stock Now

https://www.tenacioustoys.com/products/kidrobot-dunny-show-3-inch-dunny-series-case-of-24

This series looks SWEET. Featuring 3-inch Dunnys from So Youn Lee, Andrea Kang, Gary Ham, Quiccs and The Bots, this series is gorgeous and colorful. Take full advantage by buying a case of 24! We can't guarantee that you'll pull chases, but you'll def get most of the pieces shown in the group shot. Plus US customers get free shipping.

Vote Tenacious Toys as Best Online Toy Store in the Designer Toy Awards

https://www.designertoyawards.com/categories/20
Click that link, log in (or create an account) and vote for US! Or, whoever you may think is the best Online Toy Store. It's clearly us but you are entitled to your opinion and your vote should reflect that. As long as your opinion is valid. And your vote is for us.

Lots of other categories too! Artist of the Year, Best Brick & Mortar Toys Store, Best Blog, etc etc. Make your voice heard!

Huck Gee x Clutter x CUBO SKLFKR 20-Inch Mecha Skully Robot Figure

Clutter and The Designer Toy Awards are excited to announce a brand-new project with Toy of the Year 2015, and Artist of the Year 2015 DTA winner, Huck Gee! Introducing – SKLFKR!! 20 inches of mecha, skull-laden, robotic awesomeness!

As part of winning those prestigious DTA awards, Huck was provided a sponsorship to work with 3D printing technology to bring to life a brand new creation. Huck wasted no time and went to work. What came back blew us away! 

"The mission of the DTA's is to celebrate and honor the art of designer toy creators all over the world.  When we helped arrange this sponsorship for the winner of Artist of the Year we didn’t know what would be created - Huck Gee jumped on this opportunity and brought it to a new level! Seeing the SKLFKR come to life over the last year has been an amazing journey." - Miranda O'Brien (Clutter & the DTA's)

To make this dream a reality we partnered with 3D sculpting and printing masters, CUBO  – the only team we knew could pull this off. Helping us bring this massive project to reality, Cubo 3D sculpted, rendered and printed this mighty beast.  Not only that, they engineered and constructed a series of 3D printed gaskets in order to joint the SKLFKR and give it 7 points of articulation!!

"Take us to your leader...WE DO NOT COME IN PEACE!"  - Victor D.L.A (Cubo).

Literally standing at 20" tall, this piece will be cast in resin and hand assembled here in NYC by Clutter Studios. More release information will be announced soon.

Over a year in the making and it's a Giant! 

"Because mechs and laser beams. Because skulls, spikes and giant axes. Because destroy. Because crushing it. Because SKLFKR." - Huck Gee

 

COMPETITION TIME!

As part of its release into the world,  Five Points Festival is giving away the very special first pull of this monumental release! To enter the competition visit the Facebook Page here. Good Luck!!

DTA Custom of the Year Finalist Gamorrean Guard by Forces of Dorkness for Sale at Tenacious Toys NYCC Booth

We are very pleased to announce that we will be selling a one of a kind custom Gamorrean Guard at our NYCC booth # 309. This piece was created by Scott Kinnebrew of Forces of Dorkness and is one of the finalists in the Designer Toy Awards in the Custom of the Year category!

This is your ONE chance to see this item in person. Don't miss this opportunity to purchase one of the most highly-regarded custom toys of the past year. Price is $400. This is the only one in existence, a piece which Scott says tapped into every single one of his artistic skills. Hand sculpting, resin casting, cutting and sewing, painting and fabrication.

Tenacious.Ninja Blog Is a Finalist in the Designer Toy Awards - VOTE NOW

In what seems to be a horrible mistake on the part of the clearly overworked people at Clutter, this blog (yeah, like the one you are reading) has made the finals of this year's Designer Toy Awards. We snuck into the Best Blog Category through underhanded dealings and suspect vote-riggin... I mean, THROUGH HARD FUCKING WORK and dedicated blogging! (I'd like to thank our dedicated team of Ninjas for blogging like champs for years with style and grace. This is a community blog, YOU can blog here too. Just email me. Maybe we will all win!)

HAHA! I always try to maintain a healthy dose of big-picture thinking when it comes to the DTAs. I feel like the whole shebang is good for designer toys or whatever the fuck we are calling them. I don't really care who wins, I just like spending time with my friends and seeing everyone. Cool the see people get all choked up on stage. All the artists work so damn hard for so little, a tiny smidge of recognition feels so good for everyone... even if they won't admit it.

So go click here and cast your vote for all the public-voted categories... voting closes on MONDAY September 26, so really, go now. Don't put it off. Maybe we will win this year so we can rub the big ass trophy in Gary's face...

Final hours to submit a Nomination for DTA 2016

Time is running out to submit a nomination or five for this years Designer Toy Awards. If you have a favorite store, toy, artist, blog, or anything that fits one of the many categories, head on over to Designer Toy Awards and submit a nomination. The great thing about these open nominations is that anyone and anything can technically be nominated initially. Of course, the nominations will get dwindled down behind the scenes by a random group of people but at the very least, this is a chance to get some lesser known artists more attention. So, if for those who will complain later about some artists not getting the recognition he/she deserves, be sure to at least submit that nomination. Submitting a DTA nomination is quite literally the least someone could do to help get an artist some news. Soon, it'll be "Vote early, vote often".

- Mark-Anthony

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6th Annual Designer Toy Awards Nominations Now Open

With SDCC 2016 all wrapped up, attention starts to turn towards Designer Con 2016 and NYCC 2016. This year at NYCC, Designer Toy Awards will have it's 6th annual ceremony, celebrating the Designer Toy world. Nominations for the DTAs are now open and registered users can begin nominating his/ her favorite artists, blogs, toy shops, collections and more. Something new for this years DTAs is the new award for "Best Non-Licensed" toy. This new category is geared towards the resin slingers and bootleg specialists who often create new toys, using an unofficially licensed or bootlegged IP. Whether or not this includes custom multiples inspired by entertainment IP is really up to the DTA Nomination Committee who will filter all of the nominations down to a list deemed appropriate. So, for those who think they know of an artist who deserves consideration to be nominated, head on over to the DTA website, register and submit some nominations. Nominations are only open until August 6th, 2016, so don't delay and start nominating.

- Mark-Anthony

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AWARD WINNING Toy Customizer Ian Ziobrowski Releasing New Customs Today at 4:20

"Swamp Greenhouse" plus a few others going up on site today at 4:20pm eastern... Each one is based off a @madtoydesign MADL standing 6 inches featuring 15 plants and $325 each.. #nugglife #nugglifeny #madl #growroom #stayfarmin

INFO: 5th Annual Designer Toy Awards Ceremony During NYCC

The Designer Toy Awards proudly invite everyone to join a veritable who's who of industry luminaries at this year's 5th annual DTA ceremony, taking place on the night of Saturday, October 10th. With doors opening at 8PM, it will be at the Hudson Terrace (621 West 46th St., New York, NY 10036), which is located a mere mile from the Javett's Convention Center in which NYCC is held!

This year's DTA ceremony will again be hosted by Jesse Snider, a TV & radio host as well as comic book writer, voice-over actor, and rock musician. Snider has previously hosted MTV2 Rock and The MTV2 Rock Countdown, as well as shows on Fuse TV and HBO.

Attendance to the ceremony is completely free, allowing fans to rub elbows with DTA Finalists and other art toy community professionals! While it is free, you MUST register to attend in advance, which one can do easily here:
http://designertoyawards.com/rsvp

Do you want to skip waiting in line? Unless you're a finalist, the only way to do that is… the Fan VIP Pass! Available free with the purchase of either a Goodie Bag (filled with at least $70 worth of goods), these are available in extremely limited quantities now for $50 apiece.

Designer Toy Awards Finalists [VIDEO]

Check out the video below to learn more about the Designer Toy Awards and see the finalists! Go to www.designertoyawards.com now to vote for your favorites!

One Day Left to Nominate Tenacious Toys and Tenacious.Ninja Blog in the Designer Toy Awards

Hey everyone! The time is here (well, the time is almost over, actually) to nominate your favorites for this year's Designer Toy Awards! We hope you will consider nominating Tenacious Toys for Best Online Toy Store and this Tenacious.Ninja Blog for Best Blog once again!

Here's how you do it:

Click here and sign in (you'll have to either create an account or log in using the credentials you established last year).

Click "Create Nomination" in nav bar.

Then you can add in whatever toy, brand, shop etc that you want to see in the DTAs. (This isn't voting, this is basically adding in brands, products, artists or shops to be considered for the voting process).

We hope that as you are adding in your favorites, you can add Tenacious Toys and Tenacious.Ninja!

I have included a couple screen shots below so you can see how to fill out the form to nominate us:

For Tenacious Toys as Best Online Toy Store:

 they ask you for an image so you can just save this one below for TenaciousToys.com:

And for this blog, Tenacious.Ninja:

Here's an image for Tenacious.Ninja:

CLICK HERE TO BEGIN NOMINATING!

Nominations END tomorrow July 17th so definitely get yours in today.

Designer Toy Awards Trading Cards

This year's Designer Toy Awards spotlighted some truly amazing artists and the people and companies that support them.  One of the best of among was the Tenacious Toys toy store (but I'm a little bias).  Now Designer Toy Awards has partnered with Sidekick Lab to bring fans of designer toys a set of collector cards featuring the finalists from this years awards.  The set includes 177 base cards, 27 variants, special signature cards, and Golden Ticket Redemption cards.  Those Golden Tickets can win you everything from original art to one-off Designer Toys, print, hand painted customs, and even a complete trading card subset pack!

Each pack will cost $5 apiece and contain 8 random cards, though the true collector will definitely want one of the only 100 made Factory Sets, which include all the following in a special foil-stamped box for only $85:

All 177 base cards in the series;
all 27 variant cards in the series;
one random signature card;
one Golden Ticket Redemption Card; and
we'll even hand you one of the promo only Hello Kitty x KISS cards!

Packs and boxes are available throughout the 2013 New York Comic Con at Clutter Magazine's Booth #504 and SideKick Lab's Booth #203.

These will also be available at the 3rd Annual Designer Toy Awards ceremony itself, taking place on the night of Saturday, October 12th at Hudson Terrace NYC (621 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036), with doors opening at 8PM. Tickets to attend the ceremony are currently on sale here.

-The Highest Fever

@thehighestfever

Shadoe Delgado's Auspicious Shadowling

 

Shadoe has chosen an auspicious time to share his newest 4" Shadowling, having recently been announced as a finalist in the Designer Toy Awards for Breakthrough Artist (You may admire the lineup here). This little fella, Auspicious Shadow #1, has a home already. But other 4" pieces start at 100$ here and Shadoe is open for commissions if you were to drop a line to shadoedelgado@gmail.com Keep it up Shadoe!

 

 



 

-Tasha Zimich

Mega Munny Shadowling By Shadoe Delgado

 

Shadoe Delgado has been busy cooking up some big big sculpture! One of which, his first Mega Munny, is this Mega Shadowling.

 

Created for Oakland Museum's Exhibition "We Customize", Shadoe has applied a whole lot of custom sculpting in those teeth and texturing. Along with a big, and very real, set of antlers. Most of the sculpting took place over the weeks leading up to Shadoe's on-site demo in residency, where he showed off his paint application techniques.

 

The Exhibit stays up until June 2, when this big fella will go up in Shadoe's shop, with a return to commission work in June. Though, we've heard there is a bit of a list, which is not suprising from a DesignerToyAwards Break Through Artist Nominee. Inquire a piece at shadoedelgado@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

-Tasha Zimich

Designer Toy Awards Nominations Open

 

We're happy to announce that from May 1st until May 15th that the Designer Toy Awards, aka the DTAs, will be accepting open nominations in a variety of categories from both professionals and fans alike!

Having learned from the previous two years of the DTAs, we've continued to refine and restructure the nomination, voting, and finalist procedure to help ensure quality winners while still garnering input from the entire community.

First off, we're making the eligibility period for nominees completely year based: if it came out in 2012, then it can be nominated for these 3rd Annual DTAs.

We've also launched the awards with a select list of nominees already entered, but we still need your input. Please nominate anything we missed in any of the categories! And Fan Favorite and Best Collection start with no nominees in them, so it is completely up to you to fill them up!

Speaking of categories, we've continued to refine those as well. Best Toy from a Comic and Best Licensed Product have been merged into one category called Best Media Tie-in, which encompasses any production piece derived from any mass media release — movie, tv show, comic book, novel, whatever. The scope of the Best Self-produced category has been refined and expanded by converting it into Best Resin, which is a nice counterpart to the new Best Vinyl category.

And then there is Toy of the Year, which will no longer have nominees entered directly into it. All the finalists in Toy of the Year will be the highest publicly voted upon nominees within the following categories: Best 1/6th Scale, Best Collaboration, Best Media Tie-In, Best Mini Series, Best Plush, Best Resin, Best Sofubi, Best Vinyl, and Outstanding Production. Basically, if it is a toy and it gets tons of love from the public, then it will be a finalist for Toy of the Year!

So Get Nominating…

Head on over to the Designer Toy Awards website, review the current list of nominees, and please answer our Call For Entries by adding anyone worthy that isn't already included!

"Greasebat (Glow Remix Edition)" by Jeff Lamm x Monster Worship

The 2nd Annual Designer Toy Awards are proudly offering the "Greasebat (Glow Remix Edition)" from Monster Worship. Designed by Jeff Lamm and sculpted by Chauskoskis, this figure is 7-inches tall and has three points of articulation. Cast in sofubi, the body is expresso brown while the arms & head are glow-in-the-dark. Limited to an edition of only 7 copies, these will be available exclusively during the Designer Toy Awards Ceremony for $82.50 each.

The 2nd Annual Designer Toy Awards' Ceremony — announcing this year's winners in each category — will be held in New York City on Saturday, October 13th, 2012 (during the weekend of New York Comic-Con). Hosted by The Sucklord, the event will be located at Providence NYC (311 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019) and the doors will officially open at 8PM with entrance open to the general public free of charge.

Designer Toy Awards Exclusive: "Hellhounds" editions by Artmymind

The 2nd Annual Designer Toy Awards are thrilled to offer two exclusive colorways of Artmymind's new 2-inch tall "Hellhounds" resin figure. Made in exceedingly limited quantities, there is the $65 "Bloody Night" edition and the $49 "Clear Coral" version. Not only will these be available during the Designer Toy Awards Ceremony, but a third exclusive colorway has been made… though you won't be able to simply buy it…

The 2nd Annual Designer Toy Awards' Ceremony — announcing this year's winners in each category — will be held in New York City on Saturday, October 13th, 2012 (during the weekend of New York Comic-Con). Hosted by The Sucklord, the event will be located at Providence NYC (311 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019) and the doors will officially open at 8PM with entrance open to the general public free of charge.

"Night Dreamer Benny" by Okedoki

The 2nd Annual Designer Toy Award's Ceremony is coming up this October 13th in New York city (during the New York Comic-Con). To lead up to the event, they will be releasing details about some special and exclusive releases. The first announcement comes today with the debut Norht American release of the "Night Dreamer Benny" figure. It will be limited to 28 signed and numbered copies. Each one hand-customized by Okedoki and packed in a laser-etched bamboo box. Only three copies of this release will be available during the ceremony for $350 each.

~Mr.N.Visible