Dark Lord Dungeon 2016 Toy of the Year

Welcome to the Dark Lord Dungeon 2016 Toy of Year award! 2016 was a rough year for us, filled with soul-searching and new directions - all for the good. There were dark times. You'll note that there is no entry in August because we wanted to shut down this blog in August. The Higher Powers said no, so here we are. Thank you for being a part of this journey. Thank you for continuing to be a part of our journey. Here's to a great 2017!

This year's finalists

Dark Lord Dungeon 2015 Toy of the Year

Presenting the Dark Lord Dungeon Toy of the Year Awards for 2015!

It's that time of year when we go through the Dungeon's statistics and determine what you - the readers and visitors to this site - really love (Which includes things we hate sadly, but yeah, thanks for visiting). We have a winner for each month, and a runner-up.

The Toy of the Year Award is given to the monthly winning figure that we feel influenced our lives the most.

Feel free to comment, argue or react in the comments section below. Happy New Year to all and thank you very much for visiting our little blog.

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Dark Lord Dungeon Toy of the Year 2014

Presenting the Toy of the Year 2014 of the Dark Lord Dungeon. 

This is the FOURTH year that we've done this award. We started in 2011 and the survey responds to the following criteria:

• It must have been purchased in 2014
• It must have ranked extremely high in page views in the month that it was purchased

These two criteria answer which toys rule each month of the year. 

The final winner of Toy of the Year though goes to which among the 12 gave us the most joy. 

Period. 

Previous winners include: The Cobra Iron Grenadier (2011); The Star Wars Republic Attack Dropship (2012), and; Springer (2013).

Our finalists for 2014 are:

Dark Lord Dungeon Toy of the Year 2012

The Award

As we usher in the new year, we at the Dark Lord Dungeon would like to take one last look back into the year that was and award the Dark Lord Dungeon Toy of the Year 2012.

The award - that you see on your right (I wonder if anyone can identify exactly what - or who - this is?) is given to the toy that not only has "Given me the most joy" but has given the visitors the most joy as well by garnering a high-amount of page views as well.

This review will go through the past twelve months and recap the best and brightest toys that we've reviewed over the past year. At the end of the review, we will award this year's Toy of the Year.

Now the Toy of the Year Award cannot be given to the Cosplayers who have graced our pages as they ARE NOT TOYS!!! Mind your manners.

Toy of the Year 2011

THE AWARD

 What is the Toy of the Year for 2011 in the Dungeon's? As we come to the close of 2011, and all the Christmas presents have been opened and played with, I have to ask that question. "Which toy gave me the most joy?"

There are so many toys and so little time, so for the sake of this blog entry let's limit the criteria to "Must have been purchased in 2011" - which automatically sets aside most of my personal favorites;  "Did well in terms of page-views" and take into consideration articulation, design, fun-factor and overall "awesome coolness".

Then I realized that merely naming the Toy of the year is sooo limiting and only comes in handy as a title and entry for search engines. Soooo. I'm going to expand it to the Top Twelve Toys - one toy per month - for this entry.