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Of course, almost all of them had ended up in landfills by this point," Bradley explained to The Drive. "So, the sandbox I needed was only sold for around two years, 20 years ago-and all of them by this time had been scorched to a crisp with UV damage from two decades of sun, and children climbing over them. Because some families confused the vessel for a real watercraft, evidently getting a few kids in dangerous situations, Little Tikes pulled Tuggy's first iteration from store shelves and redesigned it to be unquestionably sea-unworthy before offering it again for a couple years.īut in doing so, though, Bradley says Little Tikes inadvertently made Tuggy even easier to turn into a boat, paving the way for his whimsical nautical adventure.
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Produced briefly around the turn of the millennium, the Tuggy was a dual-purpose sandbox and splash pool for toddlers shaped like a tugboat with a Cozy Coupe aesthetic. But with dreams of speed postponed by 2020's pandemic, Bradley refocused his creative energies on a smaller form: Converting Little Tikes "Tuggy" sandboxes into real, seaworthy boats.
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When The Drive last checked in on Bradley, he was preparing a kerosene-burning jet turbine train called the Speedbird to tackle a Guinness World Record. Original ideas, the knowhow to realize them, and then the moxie to do so is a potent hand few people have the fortune of being dealt-and British railroad engineer Scott Bradley is one of them.