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TOY MACHINE SKATEBOARD BRAND STORY

Toy Machine is a must if you love skateboarding because the historic brand was born from the genius of legendary American skateboarder Ed Templeton. The American brand was founded in the year 1993 at thetime of the big pants small wheels era.

The brand from the very beginning had the nickname “Blood Sucking Company” and over the years the brand developed a really strong team and slowly confirmed itself as one of the best selling skate brands in the world.

Alongside Ed Templeton we find skateboarding names such as Diego Bucchieri, Nick Trapasso and Austin Steven.

The American company since its inception has created legendary skate videos such as “Welcome to Hell,” “Sucking the Life,” “Jump of a Bulding,” “Good and Evil,” and “Suffer the Joy.

From the very beginning Toy Machine revolutionized the skate business since its release with spectacular skate movies and cutting-edge products and the brand was not second becoming an iconic brand of global skateboarding in no time.

ED TEMPLETON AND THE BEGINNING OF THE LEGENDARY BRAND

Before founding the Toy Machine brand Ed templeton had founded another brand that surely skaters over 40 remember well,the brand was founded with legend Mike Vallely and was called “TV”.

The brand didn’t break through and didn’t gain popularity because of some rifts between the two founders,Templeton and Vallely didn’t get along it seems because of financial issues and after a short time they parted ways and each went his own way.

Templeton decided to go it alone and start a new brand called Toy Machine,the names originally chosen for the brand were Toy Skateboards and Machine skateboards,but friend and skateboard pro Ethan Fowler suggested one day to combine the two names and that’s how “Toy Machine skateboards” was born.

It was very successful thanks mainly to its founder Ed Templeton who personally designed all the graphics of the brand. It is due to him the planetary success it has had.

The various puppets Templeton drew have remained in the minds of skateboarders for generations and, even today his designs are still relevant and recognized by the skateboard community around the world.

THE 90S AND “WELCOME TO HELL” TOY MACHINE

In the early days the team was represented by the strongest skaters at the time in California such as Chad Muska, Jamie thomas, Brian Anderson, and Ed templeton and the team made one of the history-making videos called “Welcome to hell.”

At that time Chad Muska had some problems with the whole team and the Toy Machine. For some reason the premiere of the video release was moved. Muska who was a hothead at the time, was kicked off the team and only years later his part was introduced in the video.

The video represented the essence of the brand and its riders. The video introduced a new and super powerful style of skateboarding in those years.

Tricks down handrails to the limit, steps and gaps. The whole video is a succession of big tricks that still bleach .

SKATEBOARDS TOY MACHINE AND TUM YETO DISTRIBUTION

The toy machine skateboard decks and products has been distributed by one of the American giants that is Tum Yeto distribution for over 20 years. Tum Yeto was founded in 1989 and was founded by skaters Tod Swank.

The company distributes Toy Machine, Foundation, Pig wheels and other major brands such as Habitat. Tum Yeto is a cornerstone of the American skateboard industry. Certainly the quality and design of their products is top notch.

The team after the early 2000s has had strong skaters such as Leo Romero, Colin Provost, Josh Harmony and many others who carry the brand forward with tricks and parts of the highest level.

Since 2010, powerful videos have been released such as “Brainwash,” “the subhumans,” and also worth mentioning is “the re education of Jeremy Leabres.

The team today still consists of the classic pros, but to enrich the already very strong team come young champions such as Axel Cruysbergs, CJ Collins, Daniel Luteran, Dashawn Jordan, Leo Romero Billy Marks, josh harmony collin provost and in addition the classics mentioned before.

ED TEMPLETON THE STYLISH SKATERS ARTIST

Ed templeton has always been since he was young an artist.

He has always drawn in his life and during his skateboarding career he has reached inspirations that have led him to be the accomplished artist he is today doing exhibitions and exhibiting his work all over the world.

Recently we saw him in person in Milan exhibiting all his masterpieces and clearly a flood of skaters both young and old school flocked to see and greet the living legend called Ed Templeton.

Ed Templeton continues to contribute to skateboarding in a positive and genuine way as only a real skate brand can. Times change rapidly but the brand remains as warm and genuine as ever.

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