Toy Machine is a skateboard company, housed under the tum yeto distribution company, started by Ed Templeton in 1993
Prior to inception, Templeton was unable to decide on either "Toy Skateboards" or "Machine Skateboards" for a company name—friend and fellow professional skateboarder Ethan Fowler suggested a combination of the two propositions.
Some of the skateboarders who joined the company during its early period were Brian Anderson and Brad Staba