2009 Plastic and Plushies: Best Resin

Over the past few years, resin figures have really grown in popularity. Whether it's that artists can hand make small run art pieces at home - and you don't have to outsource production to a factory in Japan or China - or the medium just works better than rotocast...

2009 Plastic and Plushies: Best Customizer

Toy customizing is an art form in and of itself. Some of the top customizers are able to take a rather bland base figure and turn it into a masterpiece. Often, the prices of these customs overshadow those of original paintings. So here are our top five toy customizers...

2009 Plastic and Plushies: Best Blind Box

Whether you love or hate blind boxes, you have to admit that they're a big part of the designer toy world. Rarely, do blind box series feature an entire set of strong designs...but these five come pretty close. Even though you don't know which figure you'll get, you...

2009 Plastic and Plushies: Best Sculpting

Sculpting work (like paint application) can either make or break a toy. And while you need both to perfect a figure, it starts with the sculpt. If you're sculpting a likeness of Harrison Ford, and it looks more like Bea Arthur...that's not going to cut it. So we're...

2009 Plastic and Plushies: Best Packaging

Whether you like to display your toys out of the package or inside their pristine, airtight fortress...you must admit that pretty packaging sometimes make the toy. And it's in the spirit of well-produced, artistic packaging that we bring you the 2009 Plastic and...

2009 Plastic and Plushies: Toy Awards

Yep...it's that time of the year again. Time to look back at the year that was, make some lists of our favorites, and let you debate. So, over the next few weeks, we'll be announcing the recipients of the 2009 Plastic and Plushies. Oh! And we're going to be giving...