Twilight Saga New Moon Wins Licensing Award

Given how many products from Burger King, Volvo, NECA and others came out for New Moon, we doubt this surprises anyone.  According to the press release by LIMA (Licensing Industry Merchants Association):

“The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second installment of Summit Entertainment’s blockbuster film series based on the popular vampire romance novels, was named License of the Year at last night’s Opening Night Awards Ceremony at Licensing International Expo 2010 in Las Vegas. In addition, licensing programs supporting the Twilight property were honored in the entertainment and retail awards categories:

FILM, TELEVISION, CELEBRITY OR ENTERTAINMENT(Lexicon note: New Moon swept this category)
• Best Film, Television, Celebrity or Entertainment Program: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
• Best Film, Television, Celebrity or Entertainment Licensee – Hard Goods: Cardinal Industries, Inc. (for The Twilight Saga: New Moon The Movie Board Game)
• Best Film, Television, Celebrity or Entertainment Licensee – Soft Goods: National Entertainment Collectibles Association (for The Twilight Saga: New Moon apparel and accessories)

RETAILER
• Best Retailer: Nordstrom (for The Twilight Saga: New Moon)

OVERALL BEST LICENSED PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
• The Twilight Saga: New Moon (Summit Entertainment, LLC

See more from LIMA. Via Hollywood News

Twilight Saga Eclipse has already started their campaign with NECA, Nordstroms, Tonner Dolls , Barbie (Alice Doll pictured left) continuing to be strong players.

Taylor Lautner Now a Jacob Tonner Doll

Tonner Dolls, the company that has Edward, Bella, Victoria, James, and Laurent dolls now has added a Jacob doll to the line. MTV’s Hollywood Crush got the exclusive look.

Which Tonner doll do you like best?  We’re kind of partial to the Victoria one.

Tonner Dolls Features The Nomadic Vampires

If this isn’t ironic in light of recent news, we don’t know what is. Dread Central got a peak:

“Tonner Doll Company was the first collectibles outfit to recognize the potential of the Twilight franchise and (along with some prodding from Dread toy junkies) quickly jumped at the chance to bring this world of supernatural beings into their family of licenses. To date only Edward and Bella have been realized in doll form, but as the Dread crew closed up shop at San Diego Comic-Con, our excellent Tonner friends flagged us down for a sneak preview of what’s to come.”

See the rest of their story here.

Jacob Black Doll

EDITED: Stop the Presses! The below just in:

The picture of the three dolls are indeed Tonner dolls, but are all three repaints and the one of Jacob is actually a Basic Matt O’Neill painted to resemble Jacob by a friend of mine. Here is the ebay link(auction now expired) so you can see what I am talking about:

Twilight Poison has scored a look at Tonner Dolls’ latest creation, Jacob Black.

If you want more info on their upcoming line, you can attend the Tonner Convention.