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the Tank Engine, Thomas
and Friends, and Radio
Flyer products. Whether its the genuine
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ensure satisfaction with every order.
BRIO
is the world's largest manufacture of wooden
toys. BRIO
toys take rough treatment. Eager fingers, the attempts of the curious
to pull and tear while investigating how things are put together,
being dropped, being thrown about; all of this is part of the everyday
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A toy
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Thomas
the Tank Engine is now over fifty years old. The stories were
first created by an Anglican clergyman, the Reverend Wilbert Awdry,
as a way of entertaining his young son Christopher as he recovered,
in isolation, from scarlet fever. Christopher demanded that he be
told the stories again and again and, in the way of small children,
corrected his father whenever inconsistencies crept into the retold
stories. In self defense, the Rev. Awdry wrote the first stories
down on available scraps of paper. To add to the story telling,
the Rev. Awdry drew simple pictures of steam locomotives on the
paper along with the stories. A head on view being the easiest to
draw, he drew a row of locomotives
standing in an engine shed with a human face and expression on each
locomotive's smokebox door.
After twenty six books, the Rev. Awdry laid down his pen, only
to have it taken up by his son Christopher, who is now continuing
to write stories for his son. Ten more books of the Railway Series
have now appeared so far under Christopher's name. Perhaps, in his
turn, the Rev. Awdry's grandson will continue the tradition! During
the 1960's the Rev. Awdry built a model of Thomas's branch line
and exhibited it at various model railway shows throughout England.
It wasn't until 1984 that a whole new generation of children was
introduced to Thomas
the Tank Engine and Friends when the first of the T.V. series
of that name was made. Gauge 1 models based on Marklin mechanisms
were used in the making of the T.V. shows in a studio not far from
Clapham Junction, Britain's busiest railway station. In response
to the rekindled interest in Thomas, a British Model Railway Manufacturer,
Hornby Railways, introduced a number of OO gauge models of the locomotives
in the Railway Series.
Thomas
the Tank Engine and all of his friends continue to entertain,
and fulfill our children's imaginations as they ride the rails with
Thomas. 11Toys.com
has all of the Thomas
and Friends toys to help inspire your children's imagination and
and create their dreams.
Like
the Original
Red Wagon that lent the company its name, Radio
Flyer Inc. has become an American Classic. From its humble beginnings,
this simple, enduring enterprise has been reinterpreted and rediscovered
with each new generation - creating a legacy of toys that continue
to inspire the imagination.
For over 85 years and counting, millions of children have used Radio
Flyer wagons
to launch countless voyages into the imagination. Their beauty,
simplicity, and standards of safety become magical qualities that
nurture the wonder of childhood and bring imaginations to life.
Radio
Flyer wagons are truly icons of Americana.
The magic of a Radio
Flyer is the imagination it inspires. It is a dream on wheels,
a spaceship,
an Indy
car, a train,
or a jet
airplane. Perhaps even a fire
truck or police
car. For it is with every simple "little
red wagon" that one little boy or girl practices to be
an astronaut, a race
car driver, a parent, a conductor, a firefighter
or even a hero.
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