The Designer Toy Awards Voting is Now Open!

The finalists for the 7th Annual Designer Toy Awards (DTAs) have been announced and Public Voting has begun! To see the full list of finalists please visit:

 https://www.designertoyawards.com/categories

This year we have increased the number of public finalists to 12  - to give a larger pool for the public to vote from. 

We'd like to thank the nomination committees, who have worked tirelessly to whittle down the 100’s of nominees to these top choices.

Pro Committee: Huck Gee, Dov Kelmer, Kirby Kerr, Benny Kline, Travis Lykins, Gary Rozanski, John Stokes, Vincent Yu, Keegan Rooney, Kyle Kirwan, David Schlesinger and Jason Freeny.

Public: Justin Cheah, Lee Funai, Ketha Insomphou, Rob Lumino, and Katherine Park

Together, our committees have created our Shortlists of 2017! 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 Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017, 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.

Vote for OMFG Series 3 figures during September

October Toys has been producing these awesome tiny figure reminiscent of the M.U.S.C.L.E. Men we all grew up with... the mini figures by October Toys are called OMFG (Outlandish Mini Figure Guys) and you can see Series 1 (the top row) and the soon-to-be-released Series 2 (bottom row) in the image above which I stole from an excellent toy blog called Man-e-Toys.

Series 1 was hella popular; Series 2 promises to be just as popular. We opted for an exclusive colorway of the Series 2 figures, choosing white so that our customizing customers can pick up a set from us and get customizing! We'll be getting 200 sets of white OMFG Series 2 at the end of the year.

October Toys is not slowing down, however, while Series 2 is in production... the toy collecting community (that means YOU!) is now voting on the 5 figures to be included in Series 3!

 Click here to see all 144 entries put in by artists, and click here to sign into the October Toys Forum and cast your vote! Voting is open until September 29th. I just voted!