What Culture Creates— An Afrocentric Toy Line takes on Toy Fair NY
The Afro Goddess Warrior Plush Collection has been selected for
Creative Factor Inventor Day at Toy Association’s New York Toy Fair 2023
Atlanta, GA, August 21, 2023– After a successful industry debut at the Las Vegas Licensing Expo this past June, the Afrocentric toy company, AGC Toys Inc. has been selected by the Toy Association to present their story-based line, The Afro Goddess Warrior (Plush) Collection, during a curated exhibition event called Creative Factor Inventor Day; to be held this October during New York Toy Fair 2023.
Some cuddles are more magical than others; and Atlanta, Ga. toy industry startup AGC Toys Inc. will journey to New York City this October to share the magical, plush cuddles of Nova: Goddess of the Universe and all her friends with an elite room of top buyers, manufacturers, and toy industry professionals at Creative Factor Inventor Day during the Toy Association’s annual New York Toy Fair being held September 30th through October 3rd, 2023 at the Javits Center in NYC.
“It’s an absolute honor to have been chosen for Creative Factor Inventor Day,” says Andrea Furtick, Founder & CEO of AGC Toys Inc. “We’re humbled by the love the world is growing for Nova: Goddess of the Universe, but what we most can’t wait to share is her superpower…her differentiating factor— her amazing, action packed story of resilience. In today’s entertainment world, there’s a lot of remaking of past movies and stories happening, and that’s great— BUT the world IS ready for a new story… a new magic… a new shero. The world is ready for Nova, and New York Toy Fair here we come!”
Alongside the expected plush collection, the AGC Toys Design and Development teams are also eager to share the very unique backstory of the characters, as well as a few other select products and adjoining novelties of the collection with both Creative Factor Inventor Day industry guests and Toy Fair attendees. With a master toy license appearing to be in the future for this brand, the world now awaits the news of AGC Toys Inc.’s confirmed partnership.
Stay tuned.
About The Toy Association™ Founded in 1916, The Toy Association™, Inc. is the trade association representing all businesses involved in creating and delivering toys and youth entertainment products for kids of all ages. The Toy Association leads the health and growth of the U.S. toy industry, which has an annual U.S. economic impact of $102.4 billion, and is the nation’s most effective resource and influential advocate for hundreds of companies including manufacturers, retailers, licensors, and others who are involved in the youth entertainment industry.
AGC Toys, Inc. is a mecca of positive, Afrocentric toys, games, and tech play experiences based upon the African diaspora and culture, as represented in the artwork of career artist and founder, Andrea Furtick— best known to date for her monumental project The Afro Goddess Tarot Arcanas (indie produced since 2018 and now to be available through U.S. Games Systems Inc. in 2024). With hundreds of positive, melanated characters birthed into existence through this project and several others, AGC Toys Inc. was formed in 2022 to create a magical world of black toys where morals reigned and the melanated were celebrated in strength, honor, and legacy.
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