Toy & Game International Excellence Awards - the TAGIEs
2015 Toy & Game Innovation Awards
The TAGIEs are an elegant and playful evening gala that brings together industry leaders from inventors to manufacturers to retailers as well as the public for a celebratory evening of innovators and inventors from around the world.
The Toy & Game Innovation Awards are voted on by industry experts, retailers and consumers to recognize recipients for excellence in various categories. The TAGIEs also recognize the teams the inventors worked with at the companies that brought their ideas to life. This collaboration and inventiveness has resulted in the most fun and entertaining play products on the market today. We also honor to those inventor greats who stand out in the toy industry for their exceptionally innovative spirit of fun, philanthropy, and humanitarianism.
2015 TAGIEs Stage
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Jim Wyatt
Past TAGIEs Nominee
Real FX, UK
2015 Highlights!
Dan Klitsner, 2015 Keynote Speaker
2015 TAGIEs Winners
Elan Lee, Matthew Inman & Shane Small
Game Innovator 2015
Invented Exploding Kittens
Invented Malia’s Beach House
Invented the Millenium Falcon
Adam Wilson, Ian Bernstein
Co-Founders of Sphero
Digital Toy or Game 2015
2015 Keynote and TAGIEs Honorees
Invented Two Bros Bows
Big Brother Big Sister Metropolitan Chicago
Hassenfeld Humanitarian
Richard Knerr & Spud Meline of WHAM-O
In Memoriam
Lifetime Achievement Award
Music provided by Skip Towne and the Grehounds, Chicago's #1 Blues Band! The band's music is hard-driving, heartfelt, classic blues, jazz, swing, ballads, and downright good time Rockin’ Blues.
8th Annual TAGIE Awards (2015)
Host:
Tim Walsh
Introduction to Keynote:
Phil Sage, Hasbro
Keynote
2015 Recipient for Excellence in Toy Design
Winner: Mark Boudreaux, Hasbro
Presenter: Elan Lee, Exploding Kittens
Finalists:
Lucie Follett, Stargazer Lottie
Hasbro Design Team in collaboration with Furby inventors Richard Levy, Caleb Chung, and Richard Hampton, Furbacca
David Small and Paul Rago, Legendary Yoda
Jacqui Tobias, Shopkins
2015 Recipient, Excellence in Game Design
Winner: Elan Lee, Matthew Inman & Shane Small, Exploding Kittens
Presenter: Leslie Scott, Oxford Games
Finalists:
Don Reid, Bellz Magnetic Game
Inka and Markus Brand, Buggaloop
Roberto Fraga, Spinderella
Jim Keifer, All In, Rotten Apples and more
2015 Recipient for Digital Toy or Game Innovation
Adam Wilson and Ian Bernstein, Sphero, BB-8
Presenter: Tamara Stewart, Moose Toys
Finalists:
Andres Garza, Meccano MeccaNoid
Isaac Squires and Carly Gloge, Smart Toy
Jim Wyatt, Real FX
Afsoun R. Yazdian, Disney Playmation
2015 Recipient for Rising Star Designer
Winner: Laurie Peterson, Build & Imagine, Malia’s Beach House,
Pet Portrait Studio and more
Presenter: Larry Roznai, Mayfair Games
Finalists:
Scott Baumann, Squiqz
Jeff and Mindy Glickman, Woo!, Outnumbered and more
Alex Seidband, Rush Hour Shift, Connect 4 Twist & Turn
Tristan Williams, Ben Drummond and Dean Tempest, Dinkee Linkee
2015 Recipient for Young Inventor
Winner: Duncan and Hayden, Two Bros Bows
Presenter:
Julie Blake, ChiTAG Young Inventor Challenge and Ben Dermer of Spin Master
Finalists:
Shubham Banerjee, Braigo Braille Printer
Katlyn Chiles, State the Picture
Tre and Dominic LoBraco, Noochie Golf
Presenter: Bob Moog, University Games
Accepting: Chuck Knerr
2015 Honoree for Hassenfeld Humanitarian Award
Sponsored by Hassenfeld Family Initiatives
Big Brothers Big Sisters Metropolitan Chicago
Presenting: Bruce Lund, Lund and Company Invention
Accepting: Art Mollenhauer, Big Brothers Big Sisters
2015 Honoree for Lifetime Achievement
Presenter: Leif Askeland, Hasbro
Accepting: Richard Maddocks