TAGIEs Awards finalists announcedToy World Journal

Public voting on the Toy & Recreation Worldwide Excellence (TAGIE) Awards begins right now, Wednesday twenty fifth September, and ends on twenty fifth October 2024.

The finalists of the distinguished Toy & Recreation Worldwide Excellence (TAGIE) Awards have been introduced by Folks of Play (POP). The TAGIEs, now in its seventeenth yr, honour probably the most modern inventors, designers, suppliers, retailers, entrepreneurs and PR groups within the toy and recreation trade.

Readers can go to the TAGIE Awards web page for the hyperlink to vote and to get their tickets.

Winners within the 9 classes will obtain their engraved crystal TAGIE awards on eighth November 2024, in entrance of a reside viewers of their friends at Joe’s Stay Live performance Venue in Rosemont. The theme for this yr’s TAGIEs is Toys By way of Time, with the night honouring Mary Danby and Dan Romanelli because the Lifetime Achievement recipients and Alan Dorfman because the Business Recreation Changer.

“We’re excited to kick off the vacation season by celebrating the innovators who encourage us and are the driving drive of the toy trade whose creativity and keenness inspire us on daily basis,” stated Karri Bean, TAGIE Awards host and senior Licensing supervisor at Disney Client Merchandise, Experiences and Client Merchandise. “The TAGIEs are our alternative to have fun these excellent achievements.”

The finalists, listed by class, are as follows:

Toy Innovator of the 12 months

• JMP Inventive’s Jim McCafferty and Sky Fortress Toys’ Josh Loerzel and Lev Nelson for Sky Fortress Toys’ Sticki Rolls
• KidToyology’s Peter Wachtel and Jazwares for Batter Batter Fetch
• Liran Ganor and Yigal Liven for Hasbro’s Nerf Higher Than Balloons
• Made Actual Design’s Ciaran Larkin for Hasbro’s Spider-Man Actual Webs Final Net Blaster
• Seven Cities’ Staff for Hasbro’s Hydro Pods
• Streamline Design’s David Yakos for Thames & Kosmos’s Pinball Machine Maker Gumball Rally
• Assume Blue Marble’s Ste Smith for Nationwide Geographic’s Motorized Fashions Line
• Wild Republic for Earthkins
• Yair Shilo and Nextoy for Goliath’s Energy Saber
• Zip String’s Stephen Fazio and Austin Hillam and Product Counsel’s Robert Yusim for ZipString

Recreation Innovator of the 12 months

• April Mitchell for Foxmind’s Slanguage (co-designer Ed Gartin), John Adam’s Am I a Dirtbag (co-designer Carine Rosalia), MoCo Video games’ Hazard Hugs (co-designer Serena Fadlun), Hootenanny Video games’ Thrilling Recreation (co-designer Ed Gartin), Martinex’s FormWorms and Life is Higher Outdoors’s BamzBall
• Bang Zoom Design and Moose Video games Design Staff for Moose Video games’ Pickleball Blast and for Mattel’s Barbie Pop Reveal Rise and Shock Reward Set with Mattel Toy Staff
• BlueMatter Video games’ Rebecca Bleau and Nicholas Cravotta, Identification Video games’ JM Duparc and Buffalo Video games for Identification Video games’ Medical Mysteries
• Brainy Chick Inc.’s Kim Vandenbroucke for Mattel’s Scrabble Collectively
• Disney’s Alex Wilde for Star Wars Digital Dejarik Board Recreation
• Grey Issues Video games’ Joe Barron, Sophia Ricciardi and Alena Lyons with Creators Brady Peterson, Tim Swindle, SIO Video games, Danielle Standring and Grant Lyon for Slip It In and The Donut Problem
• Child Group’s Dan Klistner, Brian Clemens, Gary Levenberg for Child’s Sling It and Spin Grasp’s Snackasauraus Rex
• Marcus Carleson for Jumbo Group’s Hitster: The Music Occasion Recreation
• Peggy Brown Inventive and Moose Video games Design Staff for Moose Video games’ Wild Flowers
• Streamline Design’s David Yakos and West Paw’s Spencer Williams for West Paw’s The Canine’s Finest Pal Recreation

Rising Star Innovator of the 12 months

• Brad Owen with Fats Mind’s Mark Carson for Fats Mind’s Air Toobz
• Disney’s Sung Park for Mattel’s American Lady Disney Princess 18″ Dolls
• Escape Tabletop Video games for Goliath’s Psycho Killer Recreation
• Hasbro’s Ava Garfinkel for Monopoly Go! Board Recreation
• Hasbro’s Maja Elliott for Licensing Lego Duplo Peppa Pig Building Toys
• Hasbro’s Samuel Howes Peppa’s Dance Occasion Stay Tour and Peppa Pig Amazon Model Shops (US, UK and Germany)
• Henry’s Toy Field’s Frank (Rongzhi) Cui for KidsCleanCar
• Spin Grasp’s Keith Chan for 4D Construct
• Tectonic Toy’s Eric Jacoby for a Line of Distinctive Toy Design
• The Culturorama’s Kusuma Reddy for Empowerment of Rural Artisans

Most Revolutionary PR and Advertising and marketing Staff of the 12 months

• All is Honest in Monopoly Marketing campaign with Hasbro’s Sarah Madey, Jennifer Boswinkel, Keeley Tobin, Heather Burns, Tori Helm, Kim Ferry, Ally Simpson, Shara Dube, Amanda Roy, Stacey Forgang, Caleigh Crocker, Marissa Toselli, Lauren Stanley, Jen Burch, Kristen Toole, Jess Murphy, Julia Eisler, Amanda DiSanto and Anne Marie Horne
• FMK Board Recreation Marketing campaign with Hasbro’s Paul Strickland, Rosalie Rubenstein, Julia Eisler, Jess Murphy, Patrick O’Rourke, Krystal Sekula, Stacey Forgang, Caleigh Crocker, Jen Burch, Kristen Toole, Lauren Haxell, Ashley Mule and Ally Pizzi
• Hasbro’s Furby PR and Advertising and marketing crew led by Holly Myhre for the Furby Launch Marketing campaign
• Hey Buddy Hey Pal & Freeman Public Relations for Peeps EggMazing Egg Decorator
• Lego and Disney Spark Pleasure Marketing campaign by Lego World PMD Staff, Disney World Franchise Staff, Disney World Advertising and marketing and Lego Inventive Company Lego
• Moose Video games’ Pickleball Blast PR and Advertising and marketing crew led by Laura Daroca and Dana Moncrief
• Playmobil & Freeman Public Relations for Playmobil Massive Pirate Ship
• Rubik’s fiftieth Anniversary by The Spin Grasp Rubik’s Advertising and marketing crew: Sam Susz, Thompson Clarke, Kurtis Wong and Megan Thomas
• Schleich’s Share Your Tales Marketing campaign with Schleich’s Kelli Masilun, Scott Hepburn, Elisha Jernigan and Karen Broome with Litzky PR
• Sky Fortress Toys’ Lev Nelson and Josh Loerzel with Freeman Public Relations for Sticki Rolls

Most Revolutionary Artwork and Design Visuals of the 12 months

• Abacus Model’s Steve Rad for DK Digital Actuality World Artwork
• Angela Achtner, Nicole Vena and Canal Toys World Staff for Airbrush Plush Neon Unicorn
• Brady Lang and Brittney Hassinger for Moose Video games’ Wild Flowers
• EXG Professional Digiplates Staff for Collectible Metallic Digiplates
• Hasbro’s Scot Getchonis for Life in Reterra
• Unbelievable Dream Studios’ Katarzyna Bekus, Sandra Chlewińska, Weronika Kozyra and Kate ‘Ves’ Vesner Redesiuk for Kinfire Delve: Vainglory’s Grotto
• Lars Besten for Zookini
• Deadly Hen Video games’ Alex Mackey and Mike Szalajko for Little Pig Little Pig
• Streamline Design’s David Yakos and West Paw’s Spencer Williams for The Canine’s Finest Pal Recreation
• ST8MNT Model Company’s Kelsie Swift for Hootenanny Video games’ Sixem, Floats McGoats, Snarkas and Sixem Bitter Patch Children

Most Revolutionary Provider of the 12 months

• Barry and Jason Video games and Leisure
• Design Edge
• Eternally Stoked Inventive
• Product Counsel
• Candy Spot Studio
• The Inventive Fold
• The Recreation Crafter
• White Fortress Video games Company

Most Revolutionary Retailer of the 12 months

• Amy Saldanha for kiddywampus
• Daybreak Dawson for Studying Categorical Glen Ellyn
• Elizabeth Whitelam for Whitelam Books
• Frances Hull for Hometown Comics & Video games
• Hilary Key for The Toy Chest
• Jody Everett for Beanbag Books
• Julie Burczyk for Instruments 4 Instructing
• Michael Kristula for Treasures Naperville
• Rick Derr for Studying Categorical Toys
• Theresa Duncan for Villa Villekulla Toys

Most Revolutionary Licence of the 12 months

• BBC Studios and Moose Toys for Bluey
• Disney and Spin Grasp Bitzee Model Staff
• Disney Lorcana and Ravensburger’s Terrell Gentry, Brian Godlewski, Emily Colon, Alex Maher, Adam Reed, Shaun Shishido and Jean Nichols
• Simply Born High quality Confections and Hey Buddy Hey Pal
• Mattel’s Alena Niu for Polly Pocket’s thirty fifth Anniversary
• MrBeast and Moose Toys
• NFL and Mattel’s Uno Staff: Ray Adler, Brian Yu, Nick Hayes and Aaron Weil
• Panini, NBA and Hasbro’s Dave Moccia, Richard Sands, Alex Forti, Sam Weiser, Kim Ferry, Ally Simpson, Missy Miceli, Mel Soares, Sara Walsh, Rosalie Rubenstein, Heather Burns, Tori Helm and Adam Winzens
• Smurfs and Maestro Media’s Antoine Bauza, Corentin Lebrat, Ludovic Maublanc and Théo Rivière
• Bitter Patch Children and Hootenanny Video games

Younger Innovator of the 12 months (beneath 18 years outdated)

• Liam Clift for Dangerous Plumbing: The Stability Recreation
• Evelyn H. for EcoFrenzy

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