Best of 2007 Awards

Here at ToyPit we put together our very own Best of 2007 Awards polls, asked you to vote and you did. There were a decent number of categories and frankly there may have been too many, however we finally have the results since there were also a lot of votes that were written in on the boards or sent by email and in an effort to be fair to fans who felt their interests were underrepresented, we took those posts and emails into consideration.

2007 was a year filled with great toys and a lot of bad toys as well. It was the year that Megatron returned as a shiny pistol a shiny Cybertronian Jet, a transforming Shoe and a slew of other objects as well. It was the year we said goodbye to Nightmare Before Christmas but hello to How the Grinch Stole Christmas. It was a year with a lot less emphasis on Horror as that genre gave way to a wave of TV and Video Game collectibles which looks to continue in 2008.

Well, that's enough reminiscing... here are the winners, according to your votes:

Figures, Accessories, Licenses or Lines

Best Accessory:
Blade of Olympus from NECA's Kratos in Ares Armor from their Player Select line

Best In-House License:
7th Kingdom from Four Horsemen Studios

Best License:
God of War from NECA

Best Specialty Line:
Player Select from NECA

Best Mass Market Line:
Transformers Movie figures from Hasbro

Best New Line:
World of Warcraft from DC Unlimited

Figure of the Year, 3 3/4th Scale:
McQuarrie Concept Boba Fett from Hasbro's Star Wars TAC line.
Boba Fett narrowly defeated Storm Shadow from Hasbro's GI-Joe 25th Anniversary line at 31% to 29%

Figure of the Year, 6" Scale:
Clayface from Mattel's DC Superheroes line.

Figure of the Year 7"-11":
Judge Magister Gabranth from Play Arts

Figure of the Year, 12" or Larger: TIE (27% each)
Power Loader from Hot Toys Aliens line
Masterpiece Megatron from Takara's Masterpiece Transformers line



Companies

Best Paint:
McFarlane Toys

Best Sculpting:
McFarlane Toys

Best Articulation:
Kaiyodo

Most Consistent Quality of Product:
McFarlane Toys
McFarlane Toys narrowly beat DC Unlimited at 36% to 35%

Best Value:
Hasbro

Best Packaging:
Hot Toys

Best Licenses: TIE (43% each)
NECA
Hot Toys

Company of the Year:
Sideshow Collectibles


I would like to congratulate all of the winners and thank everyone who participated in the voting. Here's to a great 2007, now let us look forward to what's to come in 2008.