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If your favorite Thanksgiving Day bird isn’t turkey…but penguin…you’re in luck! We’re going to be giving away two sets of October Toys’ Gwin – Series 3. How can we do that?!?!, you may ask. Well, the fine folks at October…
Erick Scarecrow and I have chosen the first through third place winners in the Shiitakes Sightings Contest that we were running in conjunction with ESC Toy. Thanks to all of the sponsors for providing great prizes. If your photo was…
We’re teaming up with Strangekiss to give away one of the limited edition Birthday Treeson Box Sets. There were 999 of these sets released on Treesons’ second birthday 8/8/07. Here’s what you’ll have to do to enter the contest: Add…
I should have announced this earlier today, but I had a big kickball game (no kidding)! Yup…a bunch of us folks from work joined a kickball league for people in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. We actually won…but the real…
It’s less than two weeks until the conclusion of our Shiitakes Sightings contest. You still have a little time to get your Shroom and snap some photos… Esc-Toy Ltd & Plastic and Plush are very proud to announce the Shiitakes…
We really ended up getting a lot of great looking – and very creative – photos for our Uglydolls in the Wild Contest (sponsored by the nice folks at Uglydolls). The following photos are the winners…our 3 favorites as well…
A few of our contests recently ended and we wanted to let you know who won what. So, if you see your name…keep an eye out on your mailbox (or front porch). The winner of the Toys Are Us DVD:…
As we continue our Week of Contests, the fine folks from Uglydoll are sponsoring a giveaway for the 14″ tall Deer Ugly and Gato Deluxe Uglys. So we asked David Horvath for a contest idea, and he supplied us with…
Thanks to mimoco, we have 3 pupStar mimobots – from the Core Series 2 – to give away to you. I’m sure you’re wondering…what do I need to do? We’d like you to email us (at bcslivka@mac.com) the answer to…
The 5th character in Erick Scarecrow’s Shiitakes Series 1 is named Copycat. “Copycat loves to copy everything he can see. This Shiitake is very restless and can get easily bored.” Remember to enter our Shiitakes Sightings Contest! Tons of great…
We chose a random winner in the IWG Special Bear Service Minis Set…and the winner is…Alexandra Melnick. She thought that a sloth would make a good new IWG member, and I must say that I agree. Thanks to FreeBento for…
In closing out our Week of Contests, we are teaming up with designer toy store Strangekiss to give away one of their exclusive Kozik White Smoking Anarchy Cat Qees. There are only 100 of these figures out there, so you…
X-Ray Films’ documentary on the designer toy scene is entitled Toys Are Us: A Revolution in Plastic. The short film has been chosen as an official selection in NYC’s E.Vil. City Film Festival, which takes place October 3rd through the…
As we continue The Week of Contests, Plastic and Plush is teaming up with Crazy Label to give away two Marty Mole rotocast vinyl figures. The figure was designed by Metin Seven and is 3.25″ in height. Here’s what you’ll…
The Week of Contests begins with our friends at FreeBento.com helping us give away a set of IWG Special Bear Service Minis. So what will you need to do? Go ahead and let us know what animal would you like…