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Thank you to everyone for all the wonderful nominations in the 3rd Annual Designer Toy Awards! Now the difficult part begins and the DTAs need your help to do it… The next stage of the awards is to create the Shortlist of 2013's FINALISTS and this is where YOU come in!  Each category has to be narrowed down to the top 9 entries and, to do this, we are looking to you. You can vote in each and every category once per 24 hours, so keep coming back and making your voice heard!

Today, May 15th, 2013 is the final day of nominations for the 3rd Annual Designer Toy Awards. Open to any releases from 2012 or artists/brands active in the same year, please make your nominations before the end of day by creating an account and going here: http://designertoyawards.com/node/add/nominate

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. The New Designer Toy Awards Structure

During the 2nd Annual Designer Toys Awards ceremony, held in New York City on October 13th, 2012, not all of the winners were able to be present so we had some of those we knew would be in abstentia record video acceptance speeches for us. Perhaps the most notable being Michael Lau's thank you video for winning "Best 1/6th Scale," which we didn't receive early enough to air that night:

The New York Comic Con begins in a matter of days - here's a roundup of Clutter's booth, featuring special edition goods from Ron English, Brutherford Industries, The Sucklord, Jeff Lamm and more...!

The 2nd Annual Designer Toy Awards will have this custom 7" Kidrobot Mascot by Ryan the Wheelbarrow, entitled "ty_po bot: oldvetica," available for sale at the Designer Toy Awards Ceremony for $200. But what will the 3" version be for?

In celebration of our upcoming 2nd Annual Designer Toy Awards Ceremony, we've decided to pull out all the stops and ask over 60 of our industry friends to contribute production pieces, rarities and oddities to make some amazing Lucky Bags. Contained within each reusable tote bag could be anything from custom "one-off" figures tounreleased colorway prototypes, from original artwork to completely exclusive editions… and, of course, there will be hordes of released figures in there, as well as other surprises. No two bags are exactly the same!

  The 2nd Annual Designer Toy Awards are proud to debut Blamo Toys newest figure: Love Slap. The 2" resin figures, limited to 10 copies hand-numbered on the header cards, are the next evolution (or de-evolution) of the Hugs platform. Exclusive to the DTA Ceremony, these figures will cost only $25 each.

The 2nd Annual Designer Toy Awards will have some intensely colored "CMYK Gusto" figures by Blurble. Limited to only four copies made, these 4.5" resin figures are cast in transparent green and have been hand-painted. Exclusive to the event, each of these Gusto pieces will be $55 at the DTA Ceremony.

The 2nd Annual Designer Toy Awards are proud to offer an exclusive edition release of the "Pandara" figure in the "Metallic Silver Edition." Hand-created and painted by Paul Shih, this release will be limited to 5 copies, only 3 of which will be for sale during the DTAs at $55 each… the remaining 2 in the edition will be released in late October on Shih's website.