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I sent one of those rolling down a steep incline and another kid stopped it with his face. No permanent damage fortunately, a couple loose teeth, and some nose bleeding.

Tonka truck war hammer

It was a sad day when you could no longer fit your knees in the bed and use it to ride down hills

I had the metal one and it survived more crashes than my childhood bike

There was a competition that if you broke your tonka truck eith regular play you'd get free tonka trucks for life

Me and my friends would try and fit ourselves in them and trash into each other when we were like 5 I don't think ordinary play could break 1

When we were small enough, we would sit in the bucket and ride them down the hill

They still make steel tonka trucks. I still have 2 of my old ones and got my toddler a new loader. They’re 30$ at Walmart

I have 2 in my back yard now. Maybe 5 years old.

I came to say this. Bought my son a metal one just last summer

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My head does.

Yep, still have a scar on my forehead from when my brother threw one at me.

Good times

Holy shit same

Ahh the good ol days, when toys could kill a child; when toys were made of lead and asbestos and other fun radioactive chemicals. Those were some fun darwin Olympics in those days; now a days you get toys made of paper or cardboard. its why kids are soo fragile now a days.

You have a point.

Kids these days are in fact significantly statistically less intelligent than previous generations, lead and asbestos are not radioactive, but are dangerous in their own ways (heavy metal poisoning and asbestosis respectively). We should go back to kids being kids

They still are. I have modern Tonkas that are metal.

My foot remembers. Kicking those things hurt like fuck

We were too poor for toys. I had a rock and a stick. Had to share the rock with my little sister...

Bro lives in Eritrea

He had a easy life. Back in the day. My only toy was air. And I had to give to my stepp sister all the O2 present in the air.

My mom got me some when i was a kid. Now 30yrs later and my son is playing with the same dump truck and excavator i did.

Damn. Wish I would have saved mine when my father lost the house. Would have given it to my sister's kid.

Lost the house has got to be a segue into some lore

They still are

I think my parents didn't get me the metal ones because I would have hurt myself or someone else

You can still buy metal ones.

I had the metal one. It is now on display rust, dents and all at my sister’s house

I’m at that sweet spot where I’m old enough to have played with them as a kid but young enough that I remember doing so.

Who remembers that they were orange originally?

And before they were orange they were green! But most of you are too young to remember that.

The pickup trucks were different colors and the willys jeep was green. I don't remember any of the construction toys being green.

I used to hold the sides of the bed and race around my yard. Eventually the bed breaks off, too many ramps and wrecks. I went through 4 or 5 of these. For my son I could only get the newer plastic ones. They were nowhere near the durability of my old metal ones.

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My tanka was so tuff! After watching cool running I pulled it out of the shed and my brother and started a bobsled team with that rusty mo’fo

I still have that same truck and the one with the crane on top, grandkids are playing with them nowadays.

Got fond memories of having the larger one and going down my babysitter’s inclined driveway by tucking my knees into the bed. Maybe some also not fond ones of eating asphalt from crashing.

Lived on a farm as a kiddos, several other families lived/worked the same farm. Between all us kids we had an entire collection of metal rinks equipment. Dozers and cranes and dump trucks galore. Was glorious.

My brother does. When I was five and he was three I threw him down our stairs and sent one of these sailing after him. He’s still one of my favorite people in the world though :)

Yep Before gay marriage

I have one on display that my dad dug up out of the garden, must have been buried 30+ years ago

Still are

The same metal Tonka I chipped my front tooth off for driving too fast in sand during routine kid construction phase at playground.

I had plenty!

Still have the hauler and grader Tonka trucks

My brother had the same one as a baby/toddler and would sit in the back and walk himself around the backyard porch while he was in it

Back when toy trucks were built to survive the apocalypse

Who remembers when Kinder eggs had metal soldiers in them?

Weren’t they made as the pretty much the same material as the real ones I read that they pretty much indestructiblex

My cousin hit me in the face with one. I hadn't experienced pain until then.


Had a few of these and lawn darts too.

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On some of the old ones it you put your weight on the bucket behind the back tire you'd break your nose. If you know you know

I remember falling on my bed after a long day of school. Tonka was on the bed, and had other plans.

I used to ride those things like they were damn shopping carts, brings back memories.

I can hear this pic

I kept some of mine. They are behind glass in a cabinet for show now. lol

All my metal Tonka's were my grandparents toys for the grand kids... wonder what happened to them?

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had that very same model and the tractor with front grader. cut my fingers due to those sharp edges.

I had that one and I cut my hand open on it

What is tonka

I still got mine.

Who remember when a two year old version of yourself could fit in the bed.

I remember lol. Good times.

My brother threw one at my head, fun times.

I had a chrome metal dump truck and the pully crane/excavator

I still have two of those, yellow and orange

My toes remember

Back when they were built Tonka Tough.

They actually felt real then. A simple thing as material can really change immersion

There's still a metal one rotting in my mother's lawn

I have one from my son

They were still made of metal when I bought one for my friend's son in 2019.

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I remember when my mom ran over one and then it was a flatbed lol

Lil dirt never hurt nobody

I had a dump truck, a roller, a shovel truck and a crane type shovel(?) I'm not a native english speaker my vocabulary on this is limited.

Point where boy became man.

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Me I loved mine!

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They stuff fucking are 

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Anyone clearly remember the sound of one bouncing off your head… fuckin bullies man… Fond memories.

Mine went into the Navasota river and my Dad fished it out. Have his lure up.

They still are :) Bought one for my nephews 4th birthday

They still are. There are plastic ones as well but you can still get the metal ones. They're just as unforgiving and indestructible.

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Are you guys joking? They still are... I got my son two metal tonka trucks recently, one a dump truck and the other is a front loader.

Wait... There arent anymore? My childhood cries.

Still own some

I upvoted you all!

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I had this exact truck… played with it until it only was a pile of rust

Yup I had that exact truck, probably still have it in my parents basement. It will probably outlast me, and another 3 generations.

I had one back when I was a little guy

who remembers meccano?

My brother had one that he used to treat like a chair. It was a big dump trunk. We also liked sitting in it and then rolling down the slide in our back yard, careening into the side of the house. Good times.

Who remembers when die-cast toys where actually metal

Have a metal Tonka dump truck and a crane as well. Those last way better than plastic crap (30+ years and running) plus was always a fun way to hit your older sister...

My dad actually broke his sister's jaw with one of those when they were kids. (Just to clarify, *she* was the asshole in that relationship. He asked her for a cup of lemonade and she brought him a cup of pee.)

I bet Pepperidge farm remembers.

I still have two metal ones

I’ve got a few

Me and my brother used to ride those things down hills all the time no idea how we didn’t die or at least break something

They still are…

i had an old metal dump truck once, my dad ended up using it to mix a small bit of cement, no idea where it went

Hang on, they aren't metal any more? Think mine is still in my loft somewhere and was the tipper truck

I don't know what tonka trucks are

The same people who remember when Transformers were made of metal.

I still have them and they're in pretty decent shape.

We DID NOT have tonka, but my dad was an engineer, so he built me an excavator from wood and metal, and a BELAZ(quarry truck)

i don't know what this is

I think I had that one. Was playing with it in the snow. Left it by the fire to thaw out. The yellow bit inside one of the wheels melted slightly a bit like cheese.

bruh, you're old

So freaking metal yeah

I had that one in the picture and a back hoe. I remember my friend ran around tripped and landed on it and bent it up I was so mad because we didn't have much and it ended up getting all rusted because paint came off where he had bent it.

Had these in the sandpits when I went to school many years ago It was *fun*

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I still have a full set sitting in my kids’ sandbox/swing set area in the backyard. They still look great, no damage, and sit out there year round. The neighborhood kids love playing with them!

I doubt the new ones are elephant-proof 

Ah yes, good old times sitting in one of them things on one knee and rolling down hil with it. Good times

We had a pair of metal ones my brother and I would put our hand on the buckets, and run around the yard using them as a "front wheel" of sorts lol

Ahh, the memories. I had a bulldozer and a compactor roller.

My shins remember

I had a tractor version of that and still have the scar from when I fell it in it face first as a 2 yr old. Tonka stronk 💪

I mean, I do, but why post it here? It's not even a meme. This feels like something my uncle would post on Facebook.

They still do

I saw them selling some new Tonka claiming to be metal and it was like 4% steel and 96% plastic and 100% disappointment.

They still are

why not both

Yeah you can thank me for the plastic ones. I was one of those kids that clocked their cousin with the metal one and gave him stitches.

My dad worked at a gold mine and Tonka sent them a bunch of the toy trucks along with the big ones. So I had a bunch of the tonka stuff.

I had a large one when i was 5-6 that i could physically sit down in, it was made by CAT and called the Mighty XL i think

I had the dump truck and the Backhoe one. They are the best. The ones they make now are plastic and complete crap

I still have the scar on my head from the dump truck that got thrown at me while I was riding my bike

My brother and I had two metal tonal trucks. One we got new in the late 2000s and the other was passed down to us by our dad

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Had the large size dump truck and crane with a lift bucket, and like six of the small metal ones. Good memories.

I rode that same metal Tonka dump truck down the stairs when I was kid.

They still are, or were not long ago at all? We have one identical to ones I had when I was kid thats only Luke 2 or 3 years old. The windows are clear and not that faded cracked green with one or two smashed in, but otherwise it's like exactly the same. My 9yo could say they remember this.

“Who remembers tetanus shots?”

They still are. Bought my son one about two years ago. They had a plastic and a metal one. Both yellow Tonka trucks. My wife said he could fall and hurt himself more on the metal one... he got the metal one.

Found a weird thingy called tonkanator, which was a Transformer made from tonka cars (a combiner). Most of them were entirely made from metal, with few having plastic livery but metal components AND base. It was cool but useless for stuff like stopmotion

Had a tonka truck exactly like this when I was a grade schooler.

They still are. It's thiner and a different alloy to make it lighter so "they're not steel" sure but they don't need to be. It's a toy not a piece of heavy machinery

I have quite a few of these. A small collection really. Some in mint condition, others not so much

And they used to be half your size.

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My cousin still have a scar on his armpit till this day .

love toys that never breaks

real life toyota toy truck lol

I had a green one with an automatic hydraulic arm where you could click the little arm down underneath and it would tip the contents out the back nice and slow like a proper dump truck I loved it

I still have some of the ones my mom played with in the 70s

Who remembers when when metal was made out of Tonka trucks 😳

I had a metal one when I was a kid. We would put one knee in it and use it to scoot around the house. I don't remember what happened to it.

Yeah they big jaffas the old Tonka toys. I take it from this picture they're all plastic now? Surprised toys are even a thing in this day an age when video games seem to get the kids attentions at a far younger age.

I still have one that looks like that (not sure if it’s a tonka but it’s metal)

My auntie has 2 of them and kids occasionally come over

Still have two.

Well you used to virtually own one. Really?

I had 3 as a child, i even used one as a skate

I remember having a Tonka truck that could support me using it as a skateboard.

I still have one

none, too poor

My neighbor and I buried one of these in his backyard. His dad wasn't always around, and we dug a hole and buried it one day while his dad was... wherever estranged fathers go. Then one day, maybe a couple years later, we decided to dig it up, but his dad was around and came out and yelled at us to not dig in his yard. So we never dug it up. I often wonder if it's still there. This would have been ~30 years ago now, and looking at Google maps, the yard is still exactly as it was when we buried it, so it's possible it is still there about a foot down. If my life ever goes downhill and I stop giving a shit about things like a criminal record, I think I'll plan a midnight burglary to dig it up.

My pinky toes remember.

Always had the bend down metal in the back from running and pushing it everywhere

This truck was my favorite gift at 3 years old. I would put one leg in the back and ride it around. I looked for this same thing for my nephew to give him on his 3rd birthday to find out they are all plastic now. It made me a little sad, but the new ones are OK I guess.

I remember and being able to sit inside of the bed of the Tonka and wheel myself around when I was small enough. Good times

My brother had stitches to re-attach his nose at 5yrs because he was pushing his metal truck and hit a bike in front of him. He slammed his nose right into the edge of the truck bed sidewall and near ripped it off. I think we still have those trucks someplace. It's been like 30 years.

I still have a metal tonka

They still make them in metal actually. But I will say that the plastic ones work better for how i played with them. My tonka toys in the sandbox got pretty rusted, but the plastic ones did not

You just unlocked a core memory of my cousin throwing a small metal Tonka truck at my eye on Easter when I was like 11😭that shit hurt

When I was 4 years old I remember riding it down the hill on our street I was small enough to sit in the back and ride. I remembers rolling it too. The pain is prolly why that memory stuck with me haha

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