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
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
Borda gave Moore a Tinkertoy test in which he was instructed to “make something.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2016
Soon another adult entered the room and settled into the opposite corner with a Tinkertoy set, a mallet and a five-foot, inflated Bobo clown doll, the kind that rights itself if knocked over.
From Scientific American • Jun. 18, 2015
It was described as a dragonfly, a hedgehog, and a Tinkertoy.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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