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Today: Toy Fair Returns @ Jacob Javits Center

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It’s been more than three years since the banner emblazoned with the words “Toy Fair” have hung in the Javits Center and welcomed toy industry representatives along with select press and influencers and I am happy to report that it has returned and begins today. For four days this will be the place to learn what is coming out from some of the most amazing toy companies that are in business and since this is a trade show, the general public will not be able to participate. The PiercingMetal website has been attending Toy Fair since 2011 and then expanded the level of coverage over to “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” for good measure. These days I like to use the voice of the Ken Pierce Media site when it comes to happenings that are going to be covered by each of the sides of our creative coin. To be honest I am not sure what changes will be in place for the events return but I am excited to be doing my 11th one. The pandemic prevented this from happening in 2021 and 2022 and while this used to take place in February, its been moved to September and well…here we are.

As you read this I am already on my way to the Javits Center. It’s a loaded few days with appointments and catching up with our long-standing toy reps and like I said…I’m excited to return. I’m going to be looking for all of the superhero action figure stuff, the Godzilla and other assorted Kaiju coolness and anything relating to the almighty KISS who you might remember will be ending their career in early December. All I can promise is lots of photos, editorial and some videos for all of the social media feeds and the websites. I’ll put a link down below for you to be led to all of our coverage posts as they populate but I ask that you be patient since it will most likely be a metric ton. You’re going to want to follow a bunch of the accounts listed on both PiercingMetal‘s and Piercing Ken‘s social media platforms to keep up. The hyperlinked text will launch the respective Linktree. Now, without any futher adieu. It’s go time.

For PiercingMetal and Piercing Ken Toy Fair 2023 Posts Click HERE

Official: http://www.toyfairny.com
Official: http://www.toyassociation.org

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The Toy Foundation Reveals “Toy Of The Year” Winners For 2023

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The Press Release:
The Toy of the Year® (TOTY®) Awards celebration welcomed nearly 800 members of the toy community for a night of industry awards, philanthropy, and entertainment on the eve of Toy Fair® in New York City. Barbie, LEGO®, Squishmallows, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were among the top winners of the evening, along with standout wins for Blue Marble, Thames & Kosmos, WowWee, and others that were honored with a prestigious award before Grammy Award-winner Wyclef Jean took the stage.

Hosted by and in support of The Toy Foundation™ (TTF), the TOTY Awards are an opportunity for the toy industry to unite behind their Foundation’s work delivering the extraordinary benefits of play to children in need. Collectively, approximately $800,000 was raised to support TTF’s programs benefitting the mission partners that participated in the celebration — Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Metro World Child, and University of Maryland — as well as hundreds of additional national and international nonprofits. The TOTY Awards’ Presenting Sponsors — Amazon, Mattel, Inc., and Spin Master — all joined TTF on stage to highlight the importance and impact of the mission partners’ work.
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Ken Pierce Media Celebrates First Year On TikTok

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Greetings my friends, I am here to take a moment out of your day to share some social media news as it applies to the Ken Pierce Media outlet. So as you probably already know from related posts, we are greatly enjoying the fun of the TikTok Universe and making the posts apply to activity on PiercingMetal, Piercing Ken and of course here on the KPM Dotcom. It was about a year ago that I first dove into use of the profile that I had actually signed up for back in October of 2020. Based on the pandemic and all the numerous cancellations that had happened I wasn’t really doing many things that would have been perfect for such a medium and as result it just sat there. Fast forward to September 2022 and my receiving the press badge for the New York Comic Con, I said to myself that it was now time to get down to business with this very popular network. The very first go at this is embedded below for reminder sake.

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Showcasing the just received Press Badge for the 2022 New York Comic Con. We are excited to see all of our favorite artists, exhibitors and cosplayers again under one roof.

♬ original sound – Ken Pierce Media


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Today: TTPM’s “Holiday Showcase” @ Metropolitan Pavilion

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Hello once again my friends and welcome to another announcement about what is going on in the creative command center as I continue to use this platform to share some of the latest news about what the Ken Pierce Media family of brands is getting involved in. Yesterday I attended the Toy Insider’s awesome “Holiday Of Play” event over at Current at Chelsea Piers and today we would be shining some media light on the TTPM Holiday Showcase. For those who aren’t up to speed, “TTPM” stands for “Toys, Tots, Pets and More” and much like the Toy Insider events, a number of major and up and coming toy companies present their wares to select media and those who might be considered influencers. This year the event will be happening over at the Metropolitan Pavilion which is a welcome space for me. Last time around the Affordable Art Fair was being hosted there but this year that event will begin next week so it was open. I like this space and come to a number of different events here across the year. At the time of this writing, I only know about a small handful of exhibitors who mentioned they would be there after talking to them yesterday.
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Today: The Toy Insider’s “Holiday Of Play” 2023 @ Chelsea Piers Current

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Greetings my Friends and welcome back to another announcement about our most current adventuring. So I guess I’ve been using the Ken Pierce Media site as a bit of a launch point about what the pair of creative sites are getting up to and I have to say that this has been working out fine for me on each and every occasion. Historically speaking, when PiercingMetal would be heading to New York Comic Con I would share the news there and maybe over on “The Chronicles” if I remembered but now with this as our editorial “Executive Branch” I’m trying to do them here from the onset. With that said its time to share the news that I am returning to the Chelsea Piers event space known as “Current” to participate in the annual Toy Insider “Holiday Of Play” event. I’ve been attending the special events held by this team of experts for years and with each go round it just gets better and better. I’ve pointed out that this one is even more exclusive than their “Sweet Suite” which happens in the summertime and while it isn’t exactly Fall just yet, the time to decide on ones holiday purchases is now and this is the place to learn about all that is awesome from the folks who know about play. Their hashtag is #weknowplay after all.

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