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Tonka is an American brand and former manufacturer of toy trucks. [1] The company was founded in 1946 and operated as an independent manufacturer of popular steel toy construction type trucks and machinery, until its sale to Hasbro in 1991.
Tonka launched Supernaturals with a large hologram display at the 1987 New York Toy Show. [2] The use of holograms on a line of toys attracted considerable attention at the time. [3] [4] [5] The Warrior figures featured holograms on both the upper body and shield accessories, as well as 'glow-in-the-dark' weaponry. [6]
Steel Monsters were a toy series from the Tonka company in the 1980s Produced in 1986 and 1987 by Tonka , they were well-made and colorful 3-3/4" figures, each having its own mini-comic. Sub-labeled as "The Only Survivors", they were very reminiscent of the Mad Max genre, with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome coming out the year before.
This Tonka Toy line inspired an animated special, two animated series, and a movie. BUY NOW. ... The fervor around the collectible pieces was thanks in part to the hundreds of varieties available ...
Kenner Products, known simply as Kenner, was an American toy brand owned by Hasbro.Kenner Products began as a toy company founded in 1946, going on to produce several highly recognizable toys and merchandise lines including action figures for the original series of Star Wars, Jurassic Park and Batman as well as die cast models.
The GoBot toy line was based on figures produced by Popy of Japan (the now-defunct character division of Bandai), named Machine Robo. [2] In another similarity to Transformers, Tonka decided to make the figures sentient robots, rather than human-piloted mecha as they had been in Japan, and divided them into two factions – the good Guardians and evil Renegades (although early figures were ...