best designer vinyl of 2006

without a doubt, the year 2006 was a bonus and exciting year for designer / urban vinyls (IMHO), with characters released across the board in various shapes and sizes, colorways and limited editions, from various countries and continents, from "celebrity-designers" to new wunderkinds, to new crossovers from various other genres like traditional art and even comicbook illustrators ~ the vinylworld looks set to explode in 2007! and as the year draws to a close very soon, im sure there'll be other lists complied across the cyberhighway and various online toy-platforms that i'll be keeping track of them here in this post (including my own personal favs eventually :p) ~ stay tuned ~

:: figures.com has started the ball rolling by picking the 5 Best Designer Vinyl of 2006:

was that a surprising selection for you?

:: Plastic and Plush lists their favs and best of's in their 2006 Toy Awards, counting down their Top 3 picks in the following categories:
- Best Customizer
- Best Sculpting
- Best Packaging

:: FormatMag picks their Top 10 Designer Toys of 2006

:: Lifeinabungalo counts down their Toy Of The Year (currently at #8)

:: while on the other side of the vinyl-spectrum, the Kidrobot Forumboard members let rip what they think are the worst toys of the year here (not for the fainthearted ;p)

and what was you're favourite vinyl of 2006? :)