Thomas nominated at Licensing awards

Thomas & Friends have been finalised for 4 nominations at this year's Licensing Awards show.

Thomas is up against some stiff competition, from the likes of Wallace & Gromit, The Simpsons, Postman Pat and the Mr. Men, Thomas is also up for the big award, the Best Pre-School Licensed Property, which Thomas has won for 10 years in a row. Let's just hope that the little Tank Engine can pull this through for an 11th year!

The nominations featuring Thomas are as follows:
Best Licensed Written, Listening or Learning Range

- Ben 10 book range from Egmont
- Waybuloo book range from Egmont
- Hello Kitty book range from HarperCollins Children’s Books
- Thomas the Tank Engine manual from Haynes
- Peppa Pig electronic learning range from Inspiration Works
- In The Night Garden range from Vtech

The Innovation Award

- Thomas the Tank Engine musical handwash from Baylis and Harding
- The Gruffalo Trunki from Magmatic
- The Simpsons – Homer Simpson Voice for TomTom Satellite Navigation Systems
- Star Wars Science Darth Vader Robotic Arm from Brainstorm
- Spectacular Spider-Man designer wallpaper mural for kids from Walltastic
- Wallace & Gromit Fetchomatic from Wow Stuff

Best Licensed Marketing Communications Award

- Postman Pat Specsavers 2 for 1 campaign from Classic Media
- Terminator Salvation from Hunger, Pizza Hut Delivery promotion from Sony
- Thomas & Friends National Autistic Society Train Walks initiative from HIT Entertainment
- Wallace & Gromit npower energy efficiency campaign from Aardman Rights
- Wallace & Gromit Turbo-charged Kingsmill campaign from Aardman Rights

Best Pre-School Licensed Property

- The Gruffalo
- In The Night Garden
- Mr Men & Little Miss
- Peppa Pig

- Thomas & Friends
- Waybuloo

The winners will be revealed at this year's Licensing Awards Ball on September 9th 2010.