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Nov 5, 2026
26th April 2011, Part 2
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25:53Andy RobinsonHOST
Don't get it confused because you will lose.
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25:57Andy RobinsonHOST
Backed up like a Tonka truck.
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25:59Andy RobinsonHOST
Tonka truck.
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26:01Andy RobinsonHOST
I wasn't expecting
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26:02James CookHOST
that.
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26:02James CookHOST
What do you know of Tonka trucks?
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26:03Andy RobinsonHOST
I don't know of them.
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26:05James CookHOST
Yeah.
Something Big Series 2 Episode 5
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25:16Sandra EvansGUEST
games.
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25:16Sandra EvansGUEST
We've got, you know… Tonka, you've got puzzles, Lego, you name it, we've got it in there.
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25:24Sandra EvansGUEST
Six and a half thousand lines.
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25:25Stephanie DaviesHOST
Oh, that's a lot.
You Have to Try This: Our Most Passionate Recommendations
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22:08Cameron JohnsonHOST
So maybe a toy
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22:08Roman JohnsonHOST
submarine? Well, they might need like a toy Tonka, a little tiny Tonka for the wheels to be able to go on the sand.
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22:14Cameron JohnsonHOST
Oh, yeah, with the scooper.
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22:16Cameron JohnsonHOST
Yeah, that's my answer.
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22:18Cameron JohnsonHOST
That's what I think would unlock a hermit crab's potential.
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22:21Cameron JohnsonHOST
A small Tonka truck? A very small Tonka truck, battery-powered.
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22:26Cameron JohnsonHOST
waterproof and battery powered.
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22:28Cameron JohnsonHOST
I don't want that.
Ouija
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65:05Marisa PinsonHOST
the dance, the brand dance.
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65:06Jon GloverHOST
Tonka brought Kenner Parker, which we've talked about before.
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65:10Marisa PinsonHOST
Tonka.
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65:10Marisa PinsonHOST
I love Tonka.
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65:12Marisa PinsonHOST
Tonka
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65:12Jon GloverHOST
trucks.
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65:12Marisa PinsonHOST
You should do Tonka.
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65:13Marisa PinsonHOST
That's a good app.
Ludology 365 Boardgames and Biographies
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39:30Amabel HollandGUEST
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.
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39:37Amabel HollandGUEST
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.
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39:58Amabel HollandGUEST
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.
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40:12Amabel HollandGUEST
And like, That's not really what Parker Brothers was about previously, what they had built themselves on.
Ludology 365 Boardgames and Biographies
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39:30Amabel HollandGUEST
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.
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39:37Amabel HollandGUEST
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.
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39:58Amabel HollandGUEST
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.
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40:12Amabel HollandGUEST
And like, That's not really what Parker Brothers was about previously, what they had built themselves on.
The Late Debate | 22 October
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48:16Caleb BondHOST
say, he went home, his wife said, how was your day? He said it was an absolute cracker.
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48:20Caleb BondHOST
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.
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48:46speaker_0NARRATOR
Meow.
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48:48speaker_0NARRATOR
Meow.
Doug Loon knows the coolest thing made in Minnesota
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7:03Tom BarnardHOST
Yeah.
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7:04Doug LoonGUEST
Tonka Toys.
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7:04Tom BarnardHOST
Yeah.
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7:04Tom BarnardHOST
Yeah.
Morning Mayhem Wednesday 10/14 Hour 4
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0:32David BazzelHOST
You got great toys back there.
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0:33David BazzelHOST
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.
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0:42David BazzelHOST
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.
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0:53David BazzelHOST
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.
Hot Wheels vs Matchbox: The Billion-Dollar Battle For the Toy Car Industry
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28:23JamieHOST
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.
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28:39JamieHOST
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.
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28:52JamieHOST
Just the die-cast cars themselves were generating hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
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28:59JamieHOST
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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