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There is another meaning for the word "tonka", which is a sort of rocket fuel, used for some time since 1940. According to the John Clark's "Ignition!" book on liquid rocket propellants (printed around 1970), von Zborowsky (the guy who also invented the term "hypergol") from Caltech lab (?) used the word "tonka" (after a coumarin bean with vanilla-like smell) as a codename for a fuel he worked with.

Confused, would-be poets such as myself might want to look at Tanka for info about the Japanese poem form.

I am not sure the General Mills information is correct. Is there a citation? -- No, the General Mills information was incorrect. It has been removed.

There are several problems with this article, and I intend to correct them. I don't know who Berg Holmgren was, but the chronology of events looks to have been passed down by his family, as Mound Metalcraft purchased the Streater templates for two toys after Streater had failed to market them. If Berg Holmgren designed those two toys, he did so for Ed Streater, not for Mound Metalcraft, and it was Mound Metalcraft that purchased them from Streater and marketed them as Tonka Toys. Anyway, I am going to start working on the article now. I will probably take my time and do it bit by bit, as I learn the formatting here. Any help in Wikifying what I put in would be appreciated. Dennis M. Myers 00:42, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

The word Tonka is sioux for Great. Minne is the word for water. Minnesota, Sky Blue Water. Minnetonka, Great Water. While it is true the word Tonka is found in the name for the lake Mound is located on, the idea really was "Great Toys". Unfortunately, I cannot find a reference to this directly. It was related to me by my grandmother, who was Lynn Baker's sister-in-law. Is there any way to reference such material? Dennis M. Myers 01:14, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

1 location, location, location
2 The Tonka ethos
3 Fair use rationale for Image:Tonka logo.png
4 Tonka toy made 'real'
5 Gender Roles

[edit] location, location, location

Can someone in the know insert the location(s) of the company HQ over the years --all we have now is Hasbro's. --A Good Anon 08:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

As the article now says, the company was founded in Mound Minnesota. I am researching this, however, as I believe there was a time when the corporate offices were moved to another nearby city. Dennis M. Myers 00:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Tonka ethos

When I was growing up, I was told that the thing that marked Tonka toys as different from their competitors was their near indestructible build-quality, i.e. that they were specifically designed so that kids would be able to really punish them yet they'd still work. Can anyone confirm whether this is true? If it is then it would be good to have it mentioned in the article. A few photos of some of the toys wouldn't go amiss either! -- Hux 20:03, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Tonka logo.png

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BetacommandBot 11:18, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tonka toy made 'real'

I think that photo of the Tonka truck should be deleted or have it's caption changed because it seems to give the wrong impression that a Tonka toy design was made into a real vehicle when in reality it's just a CGI image that even then might not fall under fair use.--Anguirus111 03:44, 18 July 2007 (UTC)