[Steppes] Off Topic Request - Tonka Trucks

[Wilim Penbras]

http://www.tonka.com/tough_bulldozer.cfm

Is that what you want?  It's the steel bulldozer.  i'm not sure if it's exactly the same as the one I had as a kid but it's very Close.

Wilim

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Crystal" <aslyn2 at mindspring.com>
Reply-To: steppes at ansteorra.org
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 16:56:50 -0500

>It seems my sister (yes, that sister from the depths of Wanker County [tm])
>is desparately searching for - an *all steel* "Tonka Tough Bulldozer".
>She's looking for the all steel kind....not made of plastic.  They've
>searched stores and "on-line" (when it comes to them, I use that term
>loosely...lol).  Why, you ask?  Why, for my nephew's 4th birthday in a
>couple of weeks.  And why all steel?  Why, there would be two schools of
>thought on that one I guess.  One one hand, I can hear the manly men of the
>Barony scratching and sniffing and going "heck yeah all steel....and none of
>that wimpy plastic stuff neither.  And get him a G.I. Joe with the Kung-Fu
>grip while you're at it".  One the other hand.....this is my nephew who
>thought it would be perfectly acceptable to growl and repeatedly kick the
>flamingo cage at Caldwell Zoo last weekend.  Can you say "unresolved
>issues?"  (And no....we're not getting him a miniature sword and board at
>this early stage, either)  LOL.
>
>Anyways.....if you...or anyone you know....would happen to know where one
>might find an all steel Tonka Tough Bulldozer (or a G.I. Joe with the
>Kung-Fu grip for that matter) please let me know.  I'm sure this child's
>eternal happiness (not to mention memories of childhood) rests in this
>purchase....lol
>
>Thanks,
>
>~Aslyn
>
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