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Philip Reed October 3, 2016

Tonka's Steel Monsters toyline (last mentioned here), a post-apocalyptic action figure and vehicle collection that I really should own, may...

Philip Reed October 2, 2016

I picked up Out of the Garden: Toys and Children's Culture in the Age of TV Marketing* when I was...

Philip Reed September 28, 2016

I shared a 1986 Steel Monsters ad a few days ago, and now I want to point you in the...

Philip Reed September 27, 2016

Yesterday's Steel Monsters newspaper ad wasn't anywhere enough of Tonka's post-apocalyptic toyline for my tastes. I need to not be...

Philip Reed September 26, 2016

Part of my time at the office has been spent on the new Car Wars game (find at Amazon.com*), and...

Philip Reed August 29, 2016

October 14, 1984. Seri Herwitz shares all of the fantastic news of Hasbro and Tonka's success in the transforming robot...

Philip Reed June 5, 2016

Is it a playset, a vehicle, or a carrying case? It's all three! And it is that third use for...

Philip Reed May 22, 2016

Here's a 1986 Toy Warehouse Outlet newspaper ad in which we learn that the store lost its lease and everything...

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