Jun 6, 2011

Piggyback Bandz Piggyback Awardz With 2011 Tillywig And Dr. Toy Honors

Thomasville, GA – If Fungrins, the makers of Piggyback Bandz, could wear awards bracelets, they would run out of wrist-room really fast. That’s because the company’s cool, collectible, personality-based bracelets just received a pair of two very prestigious children’s products awards.

In order to be selected as a Tillywig award winner, a product must be determined to have high entertainment and/or educational value. Tillywig’s awards program provides retail buyers, news media, parents, and consumers with product information and reviews of superior children’s products available in today’s marketplace. After extensive testing, they bestowed three different awards – Top Fun, Brain Child and Sterling Fun — to children’s products currently on specialty toy store shelves.

Fungrins received a Top Fun Award. This honor goes to exceptional products that stand out in terms of outstanding design, construction, and play. Here’s what the judges at Tillywig Toy Awards had to say about Piggyback Bandz:

Spring 2011 Tillywig Award Winners – TOP FUN AWARD Recommended Ages: 5 – 11 Price: $4.99

“The shaped rubber bandz craze just got hotter! PiggyBack Bandz quite literally adds a whole new dimension to the fun by building a mini-version of the shape into each band bracelet. Once the band is slipped on your wrist, the ‘piggybacked’ mini-shape stands straight up. This ‘shape on top of a shape,’ not only takes the guesswork out of what you’re wearing once they’re on, it also lets you create cool three-dimensional designs – simply add several bandz to each wrist and stagger the mini-shapes so that they form a highly visible multi-colored ring around each wrist. Create words, fashionable patterns, show your artistic flair! PiggyBack Bandz currently come in 9 themes – Glam, Football, Sealife, Cool Rides, Baseball, Safari, Groovy, Alphabet, and Extra Letters – all in a wide variety of cool and funky colors. Collectible, tradable, mixable, matchable fun!”

In addition to the evaluation of children’s products, the Tillywig program also awards a small number of retail stores each year for their ongoing contributions to promoting high quality, innovative new products from small and mid-sized toy manufacturers. Piggyback Bandz also received high marks from Dr. Toy. These fun, innovative bracelets received a 2011 Dr. Toy Best Vacation Products award in the “Creative” and “Toy” categories.

ABOUT FUNGRINS LLC

Manufacturers and distributors of Piggyback Bandz, Fungrins markets exciting new products that are creative, fun and playful for kids and kids at heart. Fungrins, LLC is based in Thomasville, Georgia with partner offices in China, Canada and the UK. For more information, visit www.piggybackbandz.com or email info@piggybackbandz.com.