i like lists. and Wizard X ToyFare has done it in blazes:
10 YEARS, 100 TOYS:
ToyFare celebrates 10 years of great toys by counting down the 100 best toys of the decade = in varied genres (except designer vinyls ;p) and with individual images to boot =
*sweet*criteria: "From 1997 onward, toys only got better and better as companies continued to raise the stakes and collector tastes continued to mature. From #100 to #1, these are the figures whose articulation, sculpt, playability and overall cool factor had us in a perpetual state of regression. The rules were simple: it had to have come out in 1997 or later, and no re-issues of toys made pre-1997 were eligible." [via]
... now, i'd lurve to do a list for "designer-vinyls", but reckon i'd be barking mad to even attempt it alone LOL -
someone else, perhaps? *heh*