I'm sure there's some good arguments for why toys suck now, but the complaints about the Tonka truck are pure nostalgia goggles. I had one of those metal Tonka

I'm sure there's some good arguments for why toys suck now, but the complaints about the Tonka truck are pure nostalgia goggles. I had one of those metal Tonka jobs as a kid, too. I loved and I pushed it around and I split my brother's face open with it by mistake (he healed up fine). I very much doubt I would have had any less fun if it had been plastic and used a slightly less realistic design style, of all the things to get upset about. I'm not saying the metal truck was too dangerous for kids, but I also don't think being able to cut my brother's face open was an upside like this guy seems to. Also, I'm about the same age as him, and I'm not sure how he thinks toys that don't do anything but light up and bleep obnoxiously are new. Those things were huge in the '80s.