United States of Qee Series drops in October

The United States of  Qee Series will be released in October by Toy2R.  The 2.5" Qee series features the 14 winning designs from  the United States of Qee Design Contest  in which contestants were asked to base their design on one of the 50 United States. Toy2R will donate a portion of the proceeds from this Qee series to the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.  Unlike many other Qee series, this one will not have mystery or chase figures.  This series is really nice though I suppose I’m biased because of
the subject matter 😉  There’s a fair amount of variety in design
(even though 2 designers contributed over half of the pieces) from
abstract to very character oriented.   It’s too bad we couldn’t have 50
Qees, one for each state!  If you ask me, state Qees are way cooler than state quarters.

The winning designs  are Alaska by Tim Smith, California  by Harry Oh, Connecticut by Jason Hobart, Georgia by Sanithna Phansavanh, Hawaii by Bupla (Clementine Derodit & Mathieu Quiblier), Maine by Sandy Gin, Nevada by Sandy Gin, New Jersey by Tim Smith, New Mexico by Sandy Gin, New York by Tim Smith, Oklahoma by Chad Mount, South Dakota by Hector Torrent, Utah by Tim Smith,  Wisconsin by Sandy Gin. Tim Smith’s Alaska inspired Inuit Qee (center of top row) was chosen as the judge’s favorite and will also be made into an 8-inch piece. Congrats Tmboo!