11Toys.com is your store for the best deals on BRIO toys, Thomas the Tank Engine, Thomas and Friends, and Radio Flyer products. Whether its the genuine wooden railways, Bob the Builder, Curious George, Pirate sets, or Richard Scary, we have the BRIO toys that you are looking for. Thomas puzzles, books, toddler toys, games, and trains sets. We have one of the best selections on the web. Sold at wholesale prices and shipped direct to your door. You will find no better selection or competitive pricing on or off the web. We ship nationwide daily and have the experience and knowledge to answer all of your questions.

Because it is our great customers that keep us going, we make every effort to keep customers coming back with good service and quality products. We are constantly looking for new items to bring to our customers, keeping our lines as updated as possible. We will continue to offer a fast and easy way to fulfill your needs. As always, we ensure satisfaction with every order.

BRIO Products

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 life of a toy. And the toys must stand up to it. Moreover, the safety standards of BRIO toys are usually far higher than those set by the authorities.

A toy can contribute to stimulating a child's development. Different phases while the child is growing up need different forms of stimuli. The smallest infant needs to explore and get to know its senses, such as sight, hearing and feeling. After which follows a period when motor activity and the two-handed grip develops. This is followed by intense periods of speed and motor activity. Fine motor ability, role-playing, imagination - all of which combine into the foundation of a harmonious child. Play and toys can support this development. And BRIO quality ensures that toys contain the right kind of functions.

BRIO make still greater demands of quality, What would a toy be if it failed to awaken a desire to play and a sense of enjoyment? Nothing at all. This premises therefore, always provides the base for BRIO product development.

Thomas and Friends

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.

Radio Flyer

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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