Toy Trucks
Over the years tonka have developed numerous different styles and sizes of toy trucks, all with the same build quality you would expect from a top manufacturer.
This is an important consideration to parents when buying your child a truck, the last thing you want is for the toy to break after a few minutes of rough play. The one thing you do get with the heavy built steel type is a lifetime guarantee, this shows they are totally confident in the strength and build quality of there products.
When they first started out making toys they produced only two vehicles, that was the working steam shovel and the popular crane. The company soon expanded and started to produce numerous different styles of toys, but it is still the ever popular bright yellow steel ones that out sell most others
One of the first most popular toys was the mighty dump truck, this was first on the market in 1964 and still remains to be one of the more popular toys bought today.
This is down to the fact that they give a lifetime guarantee of the mighty dump truck, which suggests they are extremely confident in the manufacture and durability of this type of truck.
Tonka toys was taken over in 1991 by Hasbro, this gave rise to many more designs and developements in the toys, such as the talking type of truck which are very popular with younger children.
Hasbro still keeps up with the traditional build quality and durability that tonka introduced, and with many more designs of the toys to choose from today makes it the ideal choice for a long lasting toy.
One of the main reasons children are attracted to these types of toys is the actual size, plus the replica design of the workings of each truck they make look as near to the real thing as possible.
Bruder toys is another toy manufacturer you should be aware of when looking for toy trucks, they have been producing top quality toys since the 1920s and have been a family owned company based in Germany for over 80 years.

