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Nov 5, 2026

Andy RobinsonHOST
25:53
Don't get it confused because you will lose.
Andy RobinsonHOST
25:57
Backed up like a Tonka truck.
Andy RobinsonHOST
25:59
Tonka truck.
Andy RobinsonHOST
26:01
I wasn't expecting
James CookHOST
26:02
that.
James CookHOST
26:02
What do you know of Tonka trucks?
Andy RobinsonHOST
26:03
I don't know of them.
James CookHOST
26:05
Yeah.
Sandra EvansGUEST
25:16
games.
Sandra EvansGUEST
25:16
We've got, you know… Tonka, you've got puzzles, Lego, you name it, we've got it in there.
Sandra EvansGUEST
25:24
Six and a half thousand lines.
Stephanie DaviesHOST
25:25
Oh, that's a lot.
Cameron JohnsonHOST
22:08
So maybe a toy
Roman JohnsonHOST
22:08
submarine? Well, they might need like a toy Tonka, a little tiny Tonka for the wheels to be able to go on the sand.
Cameron JohnsonHOST
22:14
Oh, yeah, with the scooper.
Cameron JohnsonHOST
22:16
Yeah, that's my answer.
Cameron JohnsonHOST
22:18
That's what I think would unlock a hermit crab's potential.
Cameron JohnsonHOST
22:21
A small Tonka truck? A very small Tonka truck, battery-powered.
Cameron JohnsonHOST
22:26
waterproof and battery powered.
Cameron JohnsonHOST
22:28
I don't want that.
Marisa PinsonHOST
65:05
the dance, the brand dance.
Jon GloverHOST
65:06
Tonka brought Kenner Parker, which we've talked about before.
Marisa PinsonHOST
65:10
Tonka.
Marisa PinsonHOST
65:10
I love Tonka.
Marisa PinsonHOST
65:12
Tonka
Jon GloverHOST
65:12
trucks.
Marisa PinsonHOST
65:12
You should do Tonka.
Marisa PinsonHOST
65:13
That's a good app.
Amabel HollandGUEST
39:30
Like a big part, like if you look to the history of Parker Brothers, which I covered a bit in the documentary on Renee Soriano.
Amabel HollandGUEST
39:37
One of the big reasons why Parker Brothers and Kenner got sold off to Tonka and then to Hasbro is they lost a lot of money in the 80s by getting into video games right before it crashed, by going into making records.
Amabel HollandGUEST
39:58
They had a music publishing house and they had... books because they were looking at, we have all this IP was let's get all this IP out there and let's, let's cross promote this IP.
Amabel HollandGUEST
40:12
And like, That's not really what Parker Brothers was about previously, what they had built themselves on.
Amabel HollandGUEST
39:30
Like a big part, like if you look to the history of Parker Brothers, which I covered a bit in the documentary on Renee Soriano.
Amabel HollandGUEST
39:37
One of the big reasons why Parker Brothers and Kenner got sold off to Tonka and then to Hasbro is they lost a lot of money in the 80s by getting into video games right before it crashed, by going into making records.
Amabel HollandGUEST
39:58
They had a music publishing house and they had... books because they were looking at, we have all this IP was let's get all this IP out there and let's, let's cross promote this IP.
Amabel HollandGUEST
40:12
And like, That's not really what Parker Brothers was about previously, what they had built themselves on.
Caleb BondHOST
48:16
say, he went home, his wife said, how was your day? He said it was an absolute cracker.
Caleb BondHOST
48:20
As it was for these people in Utah who've been sent to rescue a kitten and they've done it with what looks to be like some kind of Tonka truck.
speaker_0NARRATOR
48:46
Meow.
speaker_0NARRATOR
48:48
Meow.
Tom BarnardHOST
7:03
Yeah.
Doug LoonGUEST
7:04
Tonka Toys.
Tom BarnardHOST
7:04
Yeah.
Tom BarnardHOST
7:04
Yeah.
David BazzelHOST
0:32
You got great toys back there.
David BazzelHOST
0:33
I know my wife has bought several of those big Tonka toys, uh, at the Goodwill there, now that I think about it, uh, when I saw that one b- because the kids love those big Tonka trucks and stuff like that.
David BazzelHOST
0:42
So to see that go through, you're not giving a kid's toy away with that kid there unless you t- unless that kids is like David and goes, "I want that other child to have my toy." Well, the good thing you guys are there.
David BazzelHOST
0:53
You guys give a place for people to take their stuff and that it can be used instead of- Absolutely ... just being thrown away, right? Absolutely.
JamieHOST
28:23
And then if all those weren't enough, you could also find some generic no-name toy cars, which you could often find in bargain bins and often came in a five-pack.
JamieHOST
28:39
According to the Tonka Corporation, by the mid-'80s, in just the US, the market for vehicle toys was in the 800 to $850 million range.
JamieHOST
28:52
Just the die-cast cars themselves were generating hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
JamieHOST
28:59
And when you expand that out to Canada, Europe, and Japan, over the course of the decade, it was a true billion-dollar industry.

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