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Looking for a toy forklift
QUESTION:Our toddler son is heavily into all sorts of construction vehicles. He's
got lots to play with, but what he's asking for now is a forklift. He
wants one baaaaaaddddd! We took him to Toys R Us last weekend specifically
to find one, hopefully inexpensive (a dangerous mission, actually).
Well, we didn't find any, and had to settle for two Hot Wheels, an
excavator and a ladder fire truck that he calls a "cherry picker." Those
are fun in the dirt (sorry, collectors!), but we really need to find a
fork lift someday. It doesn't have to be a Hot Wheel sort of diecast car,
though that would be easy on the wallet.
I did some hunting around on the net this morning through Hot Wheel and
Matchbox collectors' web pages. From that I know of several fork lifts
from past years, but don't have access to a list of the current year's
crop of toys. Still, it seems like this shouldn't be too hard to find.
These are the older models I found:
1168 CAT Forklift (1980)
1168 Cat Fork Lift (1984)
1168 CAT Forklift (1985)
1168 Fork Lift (1990)
ANSWER: Another little forklift enthusiast! Miles *loves* the things! We visit
the garden center near his day care several times a week so he can see their
forklift in action. He never tires of it. Right now he's using his Spiderman
car he got in a Happy Meal and calls that his forklift (there's a little
spider web thing on the front that flips down--it does kinda look like one if
you use your imagination
I have *no* idea where to find a toy forklift, it never even occured to me
that such a thing was obtainable
You might try a company that actually sells forklifts. When my Father-in-law
bought a Toyota forklift they gave him a diecast model (about 1:24 I think)
that was made in Japan by a company I had never heard of.
Another source that is especially nice for children about 3 and up is LEGO.
My daughter has a forklift that came with a lego set. I don't think that
you can buy one separate, but they are available in several sets. They
are fairly small though which is why I don't recommend them for kids less
than about 3.
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