NOMINATIONS are now OPEN for the 9th annual Designer Toy Awards!!!

The folks behind the Designer Toy Awards aka the DTA's are excited to announce their 9th year of this super exciting awards ceremony! Running from NOW until February 28th, 2019 - the Designer Toy Awards will be accepting open nominations in a variety of categories from both professionals and fans alike, and having learned from the previous eight years of the DTAs, they'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. Head on over HERE now, register, and get those nominations in... then, let the voting begin.

This year, 2019, we here at SpankyStokes are putting the focus on others... in every facet of what we try to do, that's why you have been seeing us sharing, posting, and turning the focus more on artists, companies, and businesses... with that being said, all of you who have supported us over the years, we are asking that you throw your vote to someone who deserves "The Best Media Outlet" nomination and, win (hopefully)... please nominate and vote for Vinyl Pulse! Jack has been the main driving force behind the designer toy world long before we came along (or most all designer toy blogs, for that matter), and through all these years he stays super humble and continues to promote and write about designer toys with class - elevating them to the art form they truly are... and out of all the media outlets, deserves this award the most! Now, with all that being said... here are some guidelines as well as the categories for this year (all details about each category can be found HERE) All artist or company based awards require that the individual or brand was active within the eligibility period (January 1st to December 31st of last year). The list of categories, according to the DTA site, is as follows:

Artist of the Year & Artist of the Year: Fan Choice
Brand of the Year
Custom of the Year & Custom of the Year: Fan Choice
Toy of the Year & Toy of the Year: Fan Choice
Break-through Artist
Best Media Outlet
Best Production Sculpt
Best Licensed
Best Non-Licensed
Best Mini-Series
Best Non-Plastic
Best Resin
Best Soft Vinyl
Best Vinyl & Plastic
Best Toy Store
Best Online Toy Store
Lifetime achievement
Hall of Fame