The Story Of Toy Machine Skateboards: FBI Investigation, Logo Controversy, How It Started & More!

[@ShredzShop]

Who is your favorite Toy Machine rider of all time?! What's your favorite Toy video? AND What brand should we do 14 Things You Didn't Know on next?!

[@jorgerochagarcia]

Diego "Labucha"

[@seanwatson9310]

Toughie, major heavy hitters throughout the company's history. Has got to be either Ed, Jamie, Chad, or Elissa.

[@Oldmanskateboarder]

Elissa, Jamie and Bam

[@gordonhuskin7337]

Myles Willard

[@chadragan8871]

Shred shop makes really good videos especially the 14 things series. Why do already existing 14 things episode to get re-posts as if new. You can tell it’s dated because it says a current team rider is Collin provost who is currently on creature.

[@Patrick-kx3lc]

I’m surprised it wasn’t mention that Templeton’s character Turtle Boy is based on Andrew Reynolds as that was Elisa Steamer’s nickname for him.

[@ShredzShop]

That's a good addition! 🙏

[@meganmisaki4429]

Toy machine has always been my favorite skate brand, ever since I was a little girl and saw Elissa Steamer in the jump off a building video! Made this amazing thing seem accessible to me, as a girl!

[@ca9968]

I remember seeing Ed Templeton doing ollie impossible`s in Transworld and I ended up obsessed with the trick, eventually ended up breaking my ankle trying it down a rather large set of 8 stairs...

[@ShredzShop]

He’s definitely the man that put the impossible on the map!! Always loved his impossible tail grabs too 🔥

[@brandonsergeon5915]

Ed, Brian Anderson, and Elissa are my favorite.

[@hover_roller_balance_boards]

Yah those high water thrift store dress pants added to the steez

[@talalcockar1389]

I dislocated my knee doing it. I still love to pop them but just too scared to land it

[@doejon9424]

I still have a Roy Machine "Good&Evil" skate DVD. It's kinda sad how lazy society has gotten & skateboarding isn't really a thing nowdays. You are lucky to find ONE skate shop in a city now. They used to be everywhere.

[@davidm.1934]

I re-built a brand new Toy Machine last year with some independent trucks. I had been off the board for nearly seven years due to injuries & such. Forgot how much pop toy machines have! Such a good setup

[@ShredzShop]

🔥 🔥 🔥

[@burna803]

Ps stix are the shit.. looking to jump back into skating with the same board brand and trucks. Riding the medium or mellow concave with Indy standards?

[@JordanPataky]

A brand I'd personally like to know more about is Hubba wheels, like they fell off the face of the planet. Used to always know it was them in the skate ads by the half naked ladies. Would love a 14 Things video on them

[@youngdeathtv]

Hubba wheels and hook ups boards back in the day had the sickest ads and graphics

[@joelglanton6531]

@@youngdeathtv Do you guys remember Rosa from the Shorty's ads? She was the finest IMO

[@Tryingtogetradical]

Crazy how influential second wave Toy Machine was. Like a Who’s Who.

[@joelglanton6531]

One of the best teams ever IMO.

[@PoweredByAudio]

Word. I’d forgotten Anderson and Bam rode for Toy Machine

[@simonrainville3126]

Hey! Skate nerd here 😅 Provost is off the team and you forgot to mention Dashawn Jordan! Just sayin. Great video by the way!! Never miss one

[@jeremylamovsky3669]

Toy Machine has seen so many different eras and different looking teams. It's amazing how much it's changed over the years and has always been sick. Ed is the strangest dude in an awesome way, and from what I've seen he's a really sweet person. Good and Evil was the first Toy Machine video to come out once I began skating, I don't remember if I'd seen live, heavy metal, welcome to hell or jump off a building yet. I bought a used zero complete and got another for Christmas, but the first board I ever picked out for myself was a Toy Machine after seeing someone at the local skatepark with one. Loved it

[@ShredzShop]

That's awesome! I have to agree, Toy Machine is one of the few brands that's been through many team changes and somehow always maintained a really cool brand identity.

[@invertedcrown]

regarding the anthrax scare.... the ad u showed for that says to write "mail bomb enclosed" on the envelope, not anthrax.... so was there another one that says to write "anthrax", or did u mix up the suggested threats? genuinely curious.....

[@isaiahanderson720]

Jamie Thomas knows how to put together a team 🧠

[@Stunnas89]

True

[@DFunct905]

He skated hard and knew not to party too much so he probably looks for the same thing in his athletes.

[@touhkouh]

haha lol booba in the magazine

[@tonicandsails]

didn't really ever know anything about toy machine i just always loved the art, i remember seeing that red monster everywhere when i was a kid and still see it around.

[@matthewayres1104]

The Welcome to Hell VHS raised me as a kid.

[@ShredzShop]

Legendary

[@jeroenretsok]

Me too!

[@sonofAnonymous]

Thanks for being awesome and making this video! 👍👍👍👍

[@ShredzShop]

🙏🙏🙏

[@DudeEggs]

I could see Ed always thinking TV meant television while Mike thought it was an abbreviation for their names. It is obvious if you know their personality types.

[@zacharydevan4107]

I was at a toy machine skate demo in 2002 in boise. When it was over they threw merch and i caught a brand new deck. Ed signed and drew art on it.

[@ShredzShop]

Thats so epic!

[@blur_710]

Isn't provost on creature now

[@rebd00mer93]

My fav era of toy machine is the jump off a building era. Right when i was REALLY getting into skateboarding. Ive got a toy machine banner hanging in my laundry room. Takes up the whole wall :-)

[@myholylf]

great video, keep up the great work!

[@ShredzShop]

Glad you enjoyed! 🙏🙏

[@stah7447]

Best Toy Machine era, Good VS Evil.

[@richardbrewis436]

The 95-00 era and 'Welcome to Hell' ! Heads up Shredz Shop.

[@mikeybraz915]

Favorite part, Donnie Barley Welcome to Hell

[@ShredzShop]

Quality choice 👊

[@matthewmbober4426]

I saw the home alone switch years ago. Also Ed wasn't the first to 50/50 a handrail, he was the first to have it as a picture in a magazine.

[@Frank7489]

Nice book report man

[@ollievx8173]

Love the content I always learn so much.

[@drose84]

Welcome to hell will definitely be on my top 5 vids of all time forever...the vibe...the soundtrack...they dont make`em like that anymore for too many years god damnit! (maybe except for zero vids who keep it real...and when i say real i mean 90s! haha) I bought Jump Of A Building back in `99 while on a trip to Canada with my fam, I think i can say that Kerry Getz is my favorite rider...he just blew me away with his style But Mike has a special place in my heart with his part in WTH along with the Misfits song...i just get butterflies (instead of getting psyched? lol) every time i see it =] cheers

[@mikeuptegrove]

I met Ed at Santa Rosa skatepark in the mid 90’s. He was there with the team, filming for Welcome to Hell. We took him and the guys over to Piner High to film on the 8 stair rail there. We’re actually in the film in the background (the local SR groms of that time). Muska 50-50’d it first try. Olsen was there. Anderson was there. I think Ed hit it too. Ed’s balls were purple from a handrail nutt’r. He showed all the kids. He wore tighty whities. We made fun of him. Nice guy, little weird I suppose. Showed us 12 year olds his busted nuts, claimed he had a tiny Dick, 😆 none of us cared or thought much of it. Skaters were all kinda weird back then and way harder core (mentally I mean, as in nothing offended us). I remember Anderson doing this big frontside flips in the snake run. It was a demo put on by Surf Plus, back in the day (the local shop).

[@atf_turtlboy1367]

Thats a legendary story dude! Middletown baby right here 😎 707!

[@mikeuptegrove]

@@atf_turtlboy1367 nice. I left 707 for 808.

[@MonkeyMagick]

I was there at Münster; it was amazing, as was that new deal deck when it came out.

[@johnjunior6650]

How did Ed “win 1st, 2nd, 3rd 4th && 5th place though??”…

[@nouserid.]

Good and Evil was my favourite video and era. J Lay and Billy had the best parts

[@randomfaux9647]

I think the toy machine bearings that come in the transistor pez dispenser was the greatest idea EVER....

[@ShredzShop]

So good haha

[@iamnotanumber100]

Cheers for this video, Ed is a legend 👏

[@jeroenretsok]

I reaaaally like what you do! And all hail templeton :) (Little dumb tip; when changing subject and reading the caption, give it a 1 or 2 second rest to make it feel not so rushed!)

[@ShredzShop]

Appreciate you enjoy the vids! 🙏 Thanks for the feedback!

[@justaguywithabible2313]

What is the can character? I got a long sleeve thrasher shirt that is a Collab thrasher and toy machine and it has the orange can on it. I didn’t know what the story behind the orange can toy machine.

[@Alskie666]

Is this a re upload? Swear i watched this one before.

[@pandabear6042]

Can you do a 14 things about Plan B?

[@ShredzShop]

We actually are working on something there

[@Matt_tenny92]

I actually just met some of the current riders for Toy Machine

[@ShredzShop]

🔥 🔥 🔥

[@Jensocunt]

Like who

[@santaincarolina]

Geoff Rowley is on now!

[@ramrunsfast]

That's pretty funny how you guys found a picture of Ed and Jamie in front of the Weed arch. I spent my childhood skateboarding in that small town in California. I think Toy Machines best era was when Jump Off a Building and Welcome to Hell were considered some of the best tapes for their time. Although nowadays they're legendary. One other fun fact about Ed Templeton was that he starred in the PlayStation game Grind Session, do you remember that one? Maybe for a 14 things you didn't know you could talk about Canada's skateboarding history. Shout out from São Paulo,Brazil!

[@ShredzShop]

Damn! I didn’t know Ed was in Grind Session!! Gonna have to dig up some info on that. Glad you enjoy the vids! 🙏🙌 Hopefully we’ll make it to Brazil on a skate trip one day!

[@lenchman]

Is this a reupload?

[@wtfRyantater]

Man what kinda team is Templeton running over there for the whole squad to quit 2x

[@ndlmous]

Due to a knee injury I got in a mosh pit I haven't been able to skate in years and I'd still love an Ed Templeton tattoo

[@fingerboardboi4382]

you should do a video about Lee ralph or vision

[@ShredzShop]

Vision is on our list!! 🙏

[@iamnotanumber100]

Lee Ralph rules 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@AlcoholicPapi]

When non-locals call Huntington Beach Hunt-ing-ton I die a little inside 😂 we call it Hunningtin.

[@thegreatKoRnholio]

I know 😂

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

dude im from Ohio and That's how I say it😅 who the fuck would say it like that?

[@drinkingpoolwater]

Ed originally wanted to call it “boy machine” LOL

[@helorumtheknightsofmambrin2155]

Ed's impossible is text book.

[@THVT_KDD]

Scorched 🌍 the Best video !

[@MasterCrvo]

I have that anthrax ad on my door

[@ShredzShop]

Haha so sick!!

[@thinkforyourself5672]

Welcome To Hell and Jump Off A Building are classics but Programing Injection is my #1 when it comes to the level of tricks being done. That video is super underrated but more importantly we need to support these companies who are still investing in making real skate videos. KZbin clips are cool but there is a nothing like popping in a legit brand new skate video.

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

no doubt. the interwebs ruined real sk8 videos. you know ppl are paying 30 n 50 bucks for old 411vm VHS? I want all the Best Of editions, it's literally all the most famous skaters from back then.

[@hover_roller_balance_boards]

Bro who else watched WTH on VHS over 100 times?! tape got more play than Hef

[@ShredzShop]

Kids today will never know the pain of rewinding a VHS to watch it again…

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

no doubt..... 411vm Best of, and a Jerry Springer too hot 4 Tv tape😅 I fuckin loved 8th grade dude😅my boy ganged the Jerry tape from his DAD and we would watch it at everyone's house😅 he'd have it in his backpack everyday lmfao everywhere we went bro, tits n violence JER-RY! JER-RY!

[@TravisRoj]

Been skating toy for 25 years ha man I feel old af

[@doodoofart5004]

Can’t Wait

[@lexushing1873]

I really like your vids, and I will watch every single one of them, but there's usually one or two inaccuracies. For example, Provost is on Creature not TM

[@joelglanton6531]

Shalom

[@speedieclaxt0n453]

And is dashawn not on the team anymore? I hope he is I feel his skating brings alot to the team. He only had a few clips in the video they just dropped too so idk

[@jpgrdnr]

I like how Elissa was almost their biggest pro with Pro Skater coming out. And some of the biggest pros left Toy, Bam, Kalis and Muska all had top selling shoes and Thomas I guess really with Circa.

[@tiarnan2628]

Reupload?

[@ShredzShop]

Made a couple fixes! 🤝

[@anusproofproductions]

I was boutta say, I swear I’ve seen this before😂 Can’t wait to see the updates!!

[@joelglanton6531]

What is it with Templeton that his whole team quit so many times? Coincidence?

[@Inyuasha6]

No coincidence, he’s an art prick…a super cool art prick

[@speedieclaxt0n453]

I read that the whole Bam/Maldonado/Getz thing was because they were all good friends and tod swank wasnt paying bam proper royalties for the CKY videos so they all quit. So in that case it had nothing to do with Ed

[@joelglanton6531]

@@speedieclaxt0n453 That's interesting. Questions like these are why I miss Big Brother; they weren't afraid to ask the difficult questions in their interviews (and publish the answers).

[@frankcastle3827]

You should make a video on how Canadians know so much about American skateboarding history 😂😂👌👌

[@Break.o_o]

please make one for 10c41🙏

[@WoozieFace]

legendary 1 minute names segment

[@dx3385]

I loved every “toy machine” deck I ever bought

[@ShredzShop]

🤝 🔥

[@thinkforyourself5672]

Brian Anderson will always be in my top 3 of all time. He's an amazing person

[@MrJasonodonnell]

Was it Toy machine that had the "scratch and sniff" ad in Big Brother? , I left it on a coffee table A Music school and the next day it was all scratched up from dudes trying to figure it out,

[@burakburak4349]

What is a light switch cover

[@ShredzShop]

Its the plastic rectangle that goes around a light switch on the wall. Usually they're white plastic, but you can get fancy ones.

[@burakburak4349]

@@ShredzShop so how he makes prints with it

[@burakburak4349]

Huh

[@rats0fft0ya]

do u not like leo romero? you straight omitted him from the emerica video (he's been since this is skateboarding to present) and in the last roster count in this one, i thought u were gonna do it again until the very end lol.

[@TheRealWarez]

Good god that Jamie Thomas rebuilt team has to be one of the best teams ever assembled in skateboarding.

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

yeah dude with kalis, muska, Jamie, Elissa, Chris senn, A young Bam AND Kerry getz?!?!? bruh.... That's more stacked than workshop in like 99 lol That's like DC stacked.... but shit, most of the workshop team had DC pro model shoes back then😅😅😅😅😅😅 damn in stoned AF. I wish I had all my CCS catalogs from back then😢and sk8 mags

[@Retro-2-now]

My son is named after Ethan Fowler. Then I needed a middle name so I just went with Riley, because the Riley hawk. Riley hawk was still young my son is 19 now. Ethan Fowler was always my favorite skater

[@gavinreyes5465]

I still got two tech decks that are toy machine from 02 I’m 31 now

[@mobsyndicate1389]

Not to mention Supreme X Toy Machine colab dropped today..!

[@ShredzShop]

Actually looks really good! Wonder what the hype beasts will think of it.

[@mobsyndicate1389]

@@ShredzShop over 85 % sold out within 10 minutes but you never know w/ supreme if it's resellers. I coped the leopard pants just because it's so random & will be classic to skate in.

[@fat30y10]

Good and evil was a very good video especially Jonah harmonys part

[@Kennyjamesss]

Why wasn’t Dashawn not mentioned in the team?

[@chadragan8871]

None of these videos are old,but most of them had already been posted. Every so often you’ll find that you’ve already seen be reposted as if it’s new. With that being said all of these videos are really good, but if you pay attention to detail all the videos that currently exist eventually you’ll find one of them re-posted.

[@Kennyjamesss]

@@chadragan8871 oh weird

[@jeffkoppleman3891]

You forgot about myles Willard! He just turned pro for toy and he's from Baltimore. He had the cover of thrasher doing that gnarly wall ride off a roof

[@ShredzShop]

🙏🙏it’s a old video we re-uploaded and forgot to update the team! Myles rips!!! 🙌🔥

[@Chris-Ian]

Ed Templeton is an awesome, friendly, super creative dude, who's vegan as well. That's more than enough reasons to support Toy Machine.

[@gawdlyinhale4203]

what i do know, is that the toy machine decks right now are pretty much all slightly defective, except for the pro models

[@ShredzShop]

I think lots of brands had to move around their woodshops around a bit during the pandemic, hopefully things get back to normal this year.

[@jaytheboatguy]

👊🏻TOY MACHINE👊🏻

[@algunnickvalido]

I'm missing the Almost video

[@cbasbwoyETP]

this guy literally does homework assignments

[@matthewmolnar2230]

Do airwalk next

[@schwinnbike18]

Welcome To Hell - The whole dang vid 👍

[@DudeEggs]

Kerry Getz is way underrated.

[@mathiasparkinson7536]

Thanx dude Welcome to Hell Jamie Thomas Iron Maiden section

[@gordonhuskin7337]

YOU FORGOT MYLES WILLARD! Bruhhh imagine forgetting Myles, SAD!

[@Zombie-TV]

I have a friend who wants me to sponsor them when my board company becomes popular.

[@bobbydirtamiyer2151]

Kerry Getz Busy!!! I used to live by Jump off a Building.

[@ShredzShop]

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@danleonard3110]

That was interesting

[@cracklarock1941]

RIP Matookie Slaughter THR

[@n.i.t.f919]

Met and talked to the new pro Myles Willard for toy machine was super stoked to see him go pro

[@killerkowalski6215]

Fun Fact. Gonz 50-50ed the first handrail

[@dark_knight1982]

Favorite era jump off a building Favorite part nick trappaso suffer the joy and yes levi i know its one of your favorites too

[@jaytheboatguy]

Braden Hoban is 🔥🔥🔥

[@J.W.Brogan]

Is that how Mike Vallely's name is pronounced?

[@TheVeganeater]

Elisa steamer took a brutal faceplant in welcome to hell and adidas shelltoes were an amazing flat sole shoe to skate in transferring feeling from the board to the bottom of your feet

[@waynek7953]

Toy machine on vices king of the road is my favorite tm part

[@waynek7953]

@Heinous Anus I call her queen of the choad

[@daggertoothskateboarding4971]

Fowler is a cool dude, I got to skate with that guy.

[@Heavilymoderated]

Jump Off a Building was a big deal for me when I was a kid.

[@ShredzShop]

🙏🙏🙏

[@tiredasf107]

But collin provost is on creature now….

[@mAcShred]

Tmbssc is still the purest company.

[@DeerfieldDiscGolf]

Did You ask Ed to give you some secret sect info 😉

[@ShredzShop]

🌶🌶🌶

[@slambslambslamb5414]

You guys forgot to mention Dashawn is on the current team

[@kingcain7477]

Yea how the hell he forget him

[@fafdus]

my favorite thing about toy machine is the punk rock inspired subluminal messaging punk rock and skateboarding go hand in hand weather you like it or not lol. green day is a pop punk band not representative of all punk rock xD. skate punk is awesome and so is street punk crust punk and more. the first hardcore punk band came from mexico in the 50s/60s

[@enjoy_the_board]

Welcome to Hell opened my eyes to insane skateboarding shit. The Jamie Thomas era is the best era to me.

[@allanreyes5520]

This is a repost vid from months ago right?.. Ode to indy x Toy mac trucks i think

[@ShredzShop]

It is! We needed to fix a couple things! Didn’t realize the team changed so much in the last few months! 😅

[@allanreyes5520]

@@ShredzShop yup lots of folks here in d comment section might be thinkin this is a "new" shredz vid