The Toy & Game International Excellence (TAGIEs) Awards are back this year.
On Nov. 19, the toy community will come together to celebrate the best toy and game innovation this year at the Epiphany Center for the Arts in Chicago. Three recipients will get the Lifetime Achievement Award this year: chairman and CEO of TOMY Kantaro Tomiyama, former Hasbro chairman Alan Hassenfield, and Jenga inventor Leslie Scott.
“We are so excited to be able to honor these three titans of the toy industry with Lifetime Achievement Awards, as well as all of the TAGIE nominees and winners,” says Mary Couzin, president of People of Play. “The toy and game industry is truly a family, so to be able to reconnect and celebrate each other in person again makes this year’s TAGIE Awards very special.”
Nine awards will be presented throughout the night: Toy Innovator of the Year, Game Innovator of the Year, Rising Star Innovator of the Year, Most Innovative PR and Marketing Team of the Year, Most Innovative Art and Design Visuals of the Year, Most Innovative Supplier of the Year, Most Innovative Retailer of the Year, Most Innovative License of the Year, and Young Innovator of the Year.
People of Play will also give the Game Changer of the Year award to James Howard, the creator of the short film Black Inventors Got Game, which follows four Black creators and their contributions to the toy and game industry.
