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Yes, that's right! I know you have been waiting for this year's awards to kick off, so wait no more!! We are looking at you to provide us with your nominations for consideration!!

The DTAs have now launched the nomination period for the 5th annual awards. Running until July 17th, nominations can be submitted in categories for any releases, artists, or companies that were active from January to December 2014.

So nominate what you love from 2014!!

So please answer our Call For Entries by adding anyone or anything worthy from 2014!

Thanks to the amazing support of Kidrobot and New York Comic Con, the Designer Toy Awards are able to present six artists doing 20" Dunny live painting segments on the Twitch stage — which means these customized designer toy undertakings will be broadcast on NYCC's Twitch live stream!

Friday, October 10th
10:45am to 11:15am : Jon-Paul Kaiser
1:30pm to 2:00pm...

For the 4th Annual Designer Toy Awards ceremony, the DTAs have partnered with New York Comic Con to make the event part of NYCC's Super Week! Taking place on the night of Saturday, October 11th, the DTAs are proud to invite everyone to join a veritable who's who of industry luminaries at this year's ceremony! With doors opening at 10PM, it will be at the Hammerstein Ballroom...

Whittled down from over 700 entrants by our Nomination Committee, comprised of over two dozen industry professionals, the 4th Annual DTA's list of finalists will be announced during a special Toy Break broadcast on Friday, August 15th, 2014 at 1PM Pacific time (that's 4PM Eastern). Scheduled to coincide with the special Toy Break video being launched, the Designer Toy Awards will also begin allowing voting in the six community voted categories: Artist of the Year (Fan Choice), Custom of the Year (Fan Choice), Toy of the Year (Fan Choice), Best Blog, Best...