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Wheaty Wheat had a truckload of new designs and prototypes on hand for Toy Fair 2006. This is the second straight year I have come away from their booth overwhelmed. Chris Lee’s Urbanites were on display for those who did…
DKE Toys is Dov Kelemer’s distribution company. Anyone in the business knows that Dov is a great guy, and it was nice to see him and his wife showing off their great new setup. DKE had a bunch of new…
The folks at mimoco, creators of mimobots, introduced a brand-spanking new design at Toy Fair 2006. They are teaming up with TADO and the folks at Flying Cat for their latest artist series lines. Hero, by TADO, might be the…
I’ve been aware of Kuma Central for some time now. They create cute little – theme based – plush and vinyl bears. (Kuma is Japanese for bear) As you can see below: Love, Ninja, Kuma and Urban. Kuma also has…
The first day of Toy Fair 2006 brought a TON of snow to the New York City area. Most of the companies were there and had great displays on hand. The snow didn’t slow them down! However, the most…umm…interesting…part of…
Plastic and Plush has some exclusive news: The Uglydoll Booth (#1353) will be displaying a brand new Uglydoll. That means we get to add a new character to the existing group of Uglys. The name and appearance of this new…
Well, our Toy Fair 2006 coverage is starting to come together. I actually had a dream about being attacked by My Little Ponies at Toy Fair – so I know it’s getting close. The Toy Tokyo booth will be displaying…
The most anticipated award of the 2005 is the Toy of the Year. This is only open to vinyl (as we’ve already given our Best Plush toy to Thomas Han’s Cosmic Quigly). This was a very difficult category to narrow…
Time for a little site update to let you know what we have going on: – Check out the all new discussion board! We want to build that thing up into a nice designer toy community. We already have a…
2005 gave us a number of new plush lines and it introduced us to some new characters from several well established lines. We chose our 3 favorite plushies (well…one might not actually be a plush) of the past year. Thomas…
Now start the big awards! For the next week, we’ll be presenting our 4 big categories – Best Toy Line, Best Plush Toy, Best Vinyl Toy and 2005 Toy of the Year. The Best Toy Line Award comes down to…
We asked our readers to submit their choices for 5 categories. These included the Best Vinyl Figure, Best Plush Figure, Best Toy Line, Best Company and Toy of the Year. The resutls are in and there were some very close…
The New Year has brought added new features to Plastic and Plush! We now have a mailing list. You can subscribe by entering your email address into the field on the right hand side of our homepage. You will then…
As we all know, it’s not just us men who are designer toy collectors. So it was decided to add this category for the female collectors. (We’re not all Andy from the 40 Year Old Virgin) So what actually constitutes…
Choosing the one artist who has had the biggest impact on the past year is always somewhat of a challenge. It’s especially a challenge when there are so many amazing artists working their magic in this realm. Narrowing it down…