2016 Oddies Winners

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LaughingPlace.com is pleased to reveal the winners of the 2016 Oddies. The winners for nominated categories are listed in bold. We also are pleased to present the recipients of our juried awards. We want to congratulate all the winners and we look forward to the 2017 nominees.

Best New Attraction:

  • Paint the Night
  • Disneyland Forever
  • World of Color: Celebrate
  • Star Wars Launch Bay
  • Baymax meet and greet at EPCOT

Best Live-Action Film

  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Age of Ultron
  • Ant-Man
  • Tomorrowland
  • Cinderella

Best Animated Film

  • Strange Magic
  • Inside Out
  • The Good Dinosaur
  • Frozen Fever
  • Sanjay’s Super Team

Best New Family Series:

  • Bunk’d
  • Best Friends Whenever
  • K.C. Undercover
  • Gamer’s Guide to Pretty Much Everything
  • Guardians of the Galaxy

Best New Adult Series:

  • Muppets
  • Marvel’s Agent Carter
  • Galavant
  • Daredevil
  • Jessica Jones

Best Song:

  • Triple Dent Gum
  • Theme from Galavant
  • Juntos (Together) from McFarland USA
  • Lava
  • Rotten to the Core

Product of the Year:

  • Sphero BB-8
  • Playmation
  • Imagicademy
  • DisneyLife
  • Popcorn buckets

Live Event of the Year:

  • Shareholder Meeting
  • D23 Expo Star Wars Announcement (in the film presentation!!!)
  • D23 Iron Man reveal with Stan Lee

Best Good Guy:

  • Scott Lang (Ant-Man)
  • Finn
  • Rey
  • Jessica Jones
  • Daredevil

Best Bad Guy:

  • Kylo Ren
  • Ultron
  • Wilson Fisk
  • David Nix
  • Kilgrave

Best Sidekick:

  • Bing Bong
  • BB-8
  • Chewie
  • Spot
  • Antony (from Ant-Man)

Most Missed:

  • Tom Bergeron
  • Magic of Disney Animation
  • Innoventions at Disneyland
  • Theme park admission below $100.
  • Luigi’s Flying Tires

Best Marketing Campaign:

  • Star Wars – no spoilers worked

Worst Marketing Campaign:

  • Tomorrowland – so much for so little and completely different tone than what was delivered

Most Overused Franchise of the Year:

  • Frozen – 2 years running

Denny Newell Award For Most Out of Least:

Sorcerer Hat Removal

Moment of the Year:

  • When a six year old got Disney to reveal there was a name change coming to DHS.

Biggest Disappointment:

  • Tomorrowland