Tinkertoy
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It is one of the strongest brands at Basic Fun, which has a portfolio of nostalgic brands aimed at Gen Xers, including Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoy, Lite-Brite, Care Bears and Pound Puppies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
Yaghi and his colleagues say they can achieve these Goldilocks-level binding sites by tweaking the types of organic molecules used as the “sticks” of the Tinkertoy structure.
From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2021
They fiddle with global supply chains, as though the world economy is a Tinkertoy that they can pull apart and reassemble with impunity.
From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2019
Where other vacuums are bulky, this one looks like a hot-pink Tinkertoy, with a rolling brush head on one end and on the other a clear chamber for dirt, which replaces a traditional vacuum bag.
From Slate • Dec. 11, 2018
It was insane, pathetic, almost criminal for a man pushing forty to feel so inept, so ashamed of his body, his heart, his work ethics, his Tinkertoy soul.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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