Finalists for "Best Resin" in the 2013 Designer Toy Awards Are…
Bad Apple by GOIN x Mighty Jaxx
Groper by Triplikid
Lucius and His First Mustache Finger by Tara McPherson x Vinyl on Vinyl
Mini MAD*L by MAD
Sapling by J*RYU
Spacesuit Panda by Cacooca
Swanicorn by Daniel Fleres
Tuttz by Argonaut Resin
Yume by Plastikmat
Without a doubt, the breakthrough material for the past few years has been "resin", the advent of which has pushed the toy scene beyond it's previous cycle of "urban vinyls", to the current crop of, well, just about anything and any form!
The scene has shifted from mass produced limited editions, to actual quantifiable limited editions, where in the past it might have not have been revealed. And the self-cast self-painted home-grown indie production as[ect pf some pieces, now takes up another notch, when folks start to mass produce resin, leveling the playing field with vinyl toys.
It's funny as well, to read when folks mentioned resin made toys as 'designer vinyls' too. Does it mean people no longer care about it being vinyl or resin? or do people not care anymore about what their collectibles are made of?
And while this particular category is to be voted on by a panel opf judges (closed voting to the public), my votes goes out to Singapore homeboys' Mighty Jaxx's Bad Apple by GOIN, and a wholly underrated Tuttz by Argonaut Resin.
(DTA 2013 Finalists announced HERE / All listings via Designer Toy Awards Facebook)
