The 4th Annual Designer Toy Awards: Venue announced with Lucky Bags up for grabs!!!

For the 4th Annual Designer Toy Awards ceremony, the DTAs have partnered with New York Comic Con to make the event part of NYCC's Super Week! Taking place on the night of Saturday, October 11th, the DTAs are proud to invite everyone to join a veritable who's who of industry luminaries at this year's ceremony! With doors opening at 10PM, it will be at the Hammerstein Ballroom (West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001), which is located a mere half mile from the Javett's Convention Center in which NYCC is held! This year's DTA ceremony will 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

ALSO... in celebration the DTA folks have once again asked all their industry friends to contribute production pieces, rarities, and oddities to make some amazing Lucky Bags to offer you, the fans. Contained within each reusable tote bag is over $1000 worth of items in the $500 bag and over $500 worth of items in the $250 bag! What will yours contain? It could have everything from custom "one-off" figures to unreleased colorway prototypes, original artwork to completely exclusive runs of pieces... and, of course, there will be hordes of released figures in there as well as other surprises. And while no two bags are exactly the same! You can see all the bountiful goodies getting prepped for the bags below! So who contributed to these Lucky Bags? Each one might contain pieces from: 64 Colors, Anna Chambers, ArtmyMind, Bitbots, Brutherford, Camilla d'Errico, Carson Catlin, Doktor A, ESC Toy, Ferg, FrankenFactory (Shea Brittain), Freak Store, Fuller Designs, Healeymade, Hollow Threat (Paul Shih), Haus of Boz, Jay222, JC Rivera, Junko Mizuno, K.olin tribu, Kidrobot, Konatsu, Lunartik (Matt JOnes), Max Toy Co., Mikie Graham, Mimoco, Monster Worship, MonsterPants, Motorbot, Mujuworld, Munky King, October Toys, Okedoki, Peter Kato, Proyecto Ensamble, Rampage Toys, Red Mutuca Studio (Sergio Mancini, Luihz Unreal & Igor Ventura), Squibbles INK + Rotofugi, Super7, Shawnimals, Squink!, T9G, Tenacious Toys, The Loyal Subjects, Tokidoki, Tomenosuke, VTSS, Yoskay Yamamoto and many more! These are available HERE right now in the Clutter Magazine online shop! Please note: Limit one bag per customer. Please note that quantities are extremely limited and allocations may occur. Lucky Bags will not ship until after October 15th. Those unable to be there in-person will have the chance to watch the entire ceremony courtesy of a multi-camera Twitch.tv livestream!