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Tonka
Tonka is an American brand and former manufacturer of toy trucks. 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. History Tonka began as "Mound Metalcraft", a gardening tools company, in the fall of 1946 in Mound, Minnesota, Mound, Minnesota. Lynn Everett Baker (1898–1964), Avery F. Crounse, and Alvin F. Tesch created the company in an old schoolhouse. Their building's former occupant, the Streater Company, had made and patented several toys, including toy trucks. E. C. Streater was not interested in the toy business so they approached Mound Metalcraft. The three men at Mound Metalcraft thought they might make a good sideline to their other products. After some modifications to the design by Alvin Tesch and the addition of a new logo created by Erling Eklof, the company began selling metal toys, which soon became the primary business. The logo was base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Fairies
''Star Fairies'' was a doll toy series of the 1980s made by the Tonka company. The dolls had different costumes and personalities. Star Fairies was adapted into a televised special, made by Hanna-Barbera in 1985. Family Home Entertainment released the special on VHS in 1986. Television film The film is about a princess Star Fairy named ''Sparkle'' ( B.J. Ward) who lives up in the clouds in Castle WishStar. Sparkle's job is to grant wishes to children who wish upon a star, but lately she has been overwhelmed by the increasing number of wishes being made. So she asks for help from the Wishing Well ( Jonathan Winters), who instructs her to go to Mount Wishmore and wish on a shooting star. She does so and receives five new star fairy helpers named: ''True Love'' (Jean Casem), ''Whisper'' (Noelle North), ''Jazz'' ( Susan Blu), ''Spice'' (Didi Conn Edith "Didi" Conn (née Bernstein; born July 13, 1951) is an American actress. She is best known for her work as Frenchy in '' Greas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Minnetonka
Lake Minnetonka (Dakota language, Dakota: ''Mní iá Tháŋka'') is a lake located about west-southwest of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Lake Minnetonka has about 23 named bays and areas. The lake lies within Hennepin County, Minnesota, Hennepin and Carver County, Minnesota, Carver counties and is surrounded by 13 incorporated municipalities. At , it is Minnesota's ninth largest lake. Lake Minnetonka was formed around 10,000 years ago during the retreat of the Laurentide ice sheet. The lake consists of interconnected kettle (landform), kettle lakes, channels, and marshlands, along with 18 islands, giving it an irregular shape and of shoreline. Human habitation in the area dates back approximately 10,000 years, beginning with ancestral Paleo-Indians, Indigenous peoples. Between 3500 BCE and 1500 Common Era, CE, the Mound Builders era flourished; in the 1880s, 524 burial mounds and earthworks along the lakeshore were mapped and estimated to date from 300 BCE to 100 CE. By the 1700s, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maple Town
''Maple Town'', also known as , is a 1986 Japanese anime series created by Chifude Asakura and directed by Junichi Sato. The series, produced by Toei Animation, Asatsu and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, consists of 52 half-hour episodes, which aired on ABC, TV Asahi and other ANN stations in Japan from January 19, 1986, to January 11, 1987. The show focuses on the adventures of Patty Rabbit, Bobby Bear and their families, in a small city inhabited by anthropomorphic animals named Maple Town. The series was followed by a 50-episode sequel, ''New Maple Town Stories: Palm Town Chapter'', which retained only Patty Rabbit (and her voice actor, Maya Okamoto) from both series, although Maple Town's citizens made cameos from time to time. To date, this has not had an official English release. The show was dubbed into English and syndicated in the United States in 1987. The program spawned collectable figurines with changeable clothing, as well as houses, furniture and vehicles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenner Products
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 toys, die cast models. The company underwent numerous acquisitions and mergers throughout its lifetime, starting with by General Mills in 1967, which eventually spun it off alongside Parker Brothers in 1985 as Kenner Parker Toys, Inc. In 1987, Kenner Parker was acquired by Tonka, which in turn was purchased by Hasbro in 1991. Hasbro closed and merged Kenner's offices and products in 2000. The brand was reintroduced by Hasbro in 2010 with the release of Star Wars: The Vintage Collection, ''Star Wars'': The Vintage Collection. History Kenner was founded in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by brothers Albert, Philip and Joseph L. Steiner. The company was n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasbro
Hasbro, Inc. (; a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational corporation, multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment holding company founded on December 6, 1923 by Henry, Hillel and Herman Hassenfeld and is incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Hasbro owns the trademarks and products of Kenner Products, Kenner, Milton Bradley Company, Milton Bradley, Parker Brothers, and Wizards of the Coast, among others. As of August 2020, over 81.5% of its shares were held by large financial institutions. Among Hasbro's products are ''Transformers'', ''G.I. Joe'', ''Power Rangers'', Rom the Space Knight, Micronauts, ''M.A.S.K. (franchise), M.A.S.K.'', ''Monopoly (game), Monopoly'', Furby, Nerf, Mr. Potato Head, Potato Head, ''Bop It!'', Play-Doh, ''Twister (game), Twister'', and ''My Little Pony'', and with the Entertainment One (now Lionsgate Canada) acquisition on December 30, 2019, franchises like ''Peppa Pig'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maisto
Maisto is a brand of scale model vehicles introduced in 1990 and owned by May Cheong Group, a Chinese company founded in 1967 in Hong Kong by brothers P.Y. Ngan and Y.C Ngan. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the brand has its offices in the United States, France and China. MCG also owns other model car brands, such as the former Italian brand Bburago (whose assets and rights to whose brand name were acquired in 2006) The company has also manufactured a number of Tonka products under license from Hasbro. Products under the Maisto brand include die-cast scale model cars. Company history The company was established in Hong Kong in 1967 as "May Cheong Toy Company" by brothers P.Y. Ngan and Y.C Ngan."The History of Maisto Diecast Cars" on Capital Diecast Garage, Aug 9, 2013 Products were initially commercialised under the "MC Toy" (using the initials of the company) brand. Some of the first MC Toys products were direct copies of Matchbox cars, although the firm had original desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palitoy
Palitoy was a British toy company. It manufactured some of the most popular toys in Britain, some original items and others under licence. Its products included Action Man, Action Girl, Action Force, Tiny Tears, Pippa (doll), Pippa, Tressy, Mainline Model Railways, Merlin (game), Merlin, Star Wars figures, Play-Doh and the Care Bears. History The Cascelloid Company was founded by Alfred Edward Pallett in Coalville, Leicestershire in 1919 to produce celluloid and fancy goods. Their first toy was in 1920 and the first doll in 1925. Cascelloid was bought in 1931 by British Xylonite and the word "Palitoy" was created as a trademark in 1935 for their toy division. Injection moulding was developed by British Xylonite in 1941 and was used for the Palitoy toy ranges. In 1978, the Chad Valley (toy brand), Chad Valley toys company was sold to Palitoy. Palitoy was sold to US food company General Mills in 1968, and formed part of the company's toy division, sometimes known as CPG Products C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funrise Toys
Funrise Inc. is an American toy manufacturer and distributor. History Funrise Toy Corporation designs, manufactures, and distributes toys for children. The company offers a line of preschool toys, as well as toys for kids of various age groups. It serves customers through its showrooms. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Van Nuys, California with additional offices and showrooms in Bentonville, Arkansas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Ontario, California; Kowloon, Hong Kong; Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom; and Nuremberg, Germany, as well as Australia. As of June 8, 2007, Funrise Toy Corp. is a subsidiary of Matrix Holdings Ltd. Products Current toys and games * Gazillion Bubbles * Bright Fairy Friends * Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty * Gla'more * Mighty Fleet * Cat (partnered with Caterpillar Inc.) * Fart Ninjas Former distributed toys and games * Tonka (partnered with Hasbro and Basic FUN) * Herodrive (partnered with DC, Warner Bros. and Marvel Comics) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mound, Minnesota
Mound is a city in western Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 9,052 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Mound was the birthplace of the Tonka truck that is named after Lake Minnetonka, which the eastern part of town sits on. Mound is west of Minneapolis, the county seat. History According to Melvin Gimmestad's ''Historical Backgrounds of Mound, Minnesota'', "Mound derived its name from the Indian mounds once found within the present day city limits. They were not built by the Dakota Indians, but were made by prehistoric Indians". The former municipality of Island Park, which contained Phelps Island, merged with Mound in 1960. Mound celebrated its centennial in 2012. In May 2022, Julissa Thayer was stopped by police on the intersection at Bartlett Boulevard, after a call was made to report her vehicle, which had a broken back windshield, and was driving on its rim. They found blood on her hands, and tissue in the backseat of her car. Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to Trade union, labor unions, the latter of which led to the Los Angeles Times bombing, bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
64 Scale
64 or sixty-four may refer to: * 64 (number) Dates * one of the years 64 BC, AD 64, 1964, 2064 Places * Highway 64, see list of highways numbered 64 ** Interstate 64, a national route in the United States * The code for international direct dial calls to New Zealand (+64) Music * "64" (song), a 2011 song by hip hop band Odd Future * '' Sixty Four'' (album), a 2004 album recorded in 1964 by Donovan * "64" is the title of a song by the hip-hop group Mellowhype from their album '' BlackenedWhite'' Science *The atomic number of gadolinium, a lanthanide * 64 Angelina (asteroid 64), a main-belt asteroid Technology * Base64 encoding * Commodore 64 (in 8-bit home computers, a common shorthand is ''64'') * A /64 Classless Inter-Domain Routing block Other * Nintendo 64, a video game console * ''64'', a former Russian chess magazine * Sixty-four (ship), a type of sailing warship * Crayola 64 pack *'' 64 Zoo Lane'', a British animated children's TV series * Porsche 64, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
