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RememberingToy Soldiers
June 24, 2019, 06:17 PM
P250UA5RememberingToy Soldiers
A friend had a train around his room. We'd set them up & shoot them off with a blow/dart gun. Challenging to get them without putting holes in the walls.
The Enemy's gate is down. June 24, 2019, 06:39 PM
mojojojoThat reminds me of The Desert Fox playlet I got one Christmas. I played with those soldiers and tanks for years. As best I remember the soldiers were very well modeled and pretty realistic. One even had a hole/wound in his back and you could snap him onto another medic figure and carry him to safety.
Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew. June 24, 2019, 08:54 PM
mikeyspizzaUsed to set up our plastic armies on the carpet and roll or shoot marbles back and forth.
June 25, 2019, 04:18 AM
Fire AwayHad a Guns of Navarone playset as a kid. It was probably my favorite toy. My cat liked it too. I would set everything up preparing for battle and then Catzilla would come along and knock everything over.
June 25, 2019, 05:46 AM
StarTravelerI had a few plastic toy soldiers and several that I found along the way that was the good guy team (think A-Team, many years earlier). When I was a little older, I bought a set of plastic cowboys and Indians and painted them. Lincoln logs and marvels were good artillery at my house, too, but the good guy team often used infiltration methods similar to Captain Mallory in TGoN mentioned earlier.
When my wife and I visited Ireland a few years ago, we heard about the Prince August Toy Factory in a little village a short distance south of the road between Cork and Killarney. We stopped by for a tour of their facility and were impressed with it and their figures. They make and sell collectible figures, kits, molds, and supplies. There were a number of nice displays featuring figures from Greek and Roman times through the present. Their website is
https://shop.princeaugust.ie/I’m not associated in any way other than by visiting that morning.
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June 25, 2019, 06:25 AM
Blume9mmWhat I remember best about the plastic soldiers is if you lit one and held it the dripping burning plastic made the weirdest sound.
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June 25, 2019, 09:58 AM
MikeinNCI had green ( ‘Merica) ones and gray ( Zee germans) ones....used to play with them all over our yard, under the house in the crawl space, at my grandmas....then suddenly I didn’t, growing up sucks
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casThis was a big expensive gift when I got it. lol
The "Army men" I wish I still had more of are these guys. Army men, cowboys and indians. I have to tear the old shed down and I have a hunch when I do I may find a few more. They're maybe 5 1/2, 6" tall.
That cowboy's had his barrels chewed off and sports a couple BB gun wounds.
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June 25, 2019, 01:33 PM
2BobTannerHad one of these growing up; part of the Civil War Centennial marketing system.
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June 25, 2019, 01:55 PM
k4carbonCould not afford toy soldiers so I improvised and put blanket on floor and made folds and hills and then had battles between red beans and black beans with nails as cannon and machine guns. I had armies with hundreds on each side.
June 25, 2019, 04:22 PM
sigspecopsThey also had Roman legions, Medieval Knights and American revolutionary soldiers fighting the redcoats. For many years I bore the scars from soldiers that melted onto the top of my foot. Be careful when you set you’re toys on fire.
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June 25, 2019, 06:32 PM
ArtyOh yeah!! Lots of great memories.
Civil war with cannons, WW2 with a German 88, Panzer Tiger, and a castle with knights and working catapults, and Lincoln Logs!
So much fun!!!
"Ride to the sound of the big guns." June 25, 2019, 07:38 PM
PorterNdefinitely spent a lot of time playing with army men as a kid. I'm on the younger side of this conversation probably, but spent a lot of time in my mom's garden and flower boxes playing army men walking, crawling, and hiking through the mud, flowers, and "jungles." there's probably a few still in that back yard if someone looked hard enough.
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June 26, 2019, 08:36 AM
cslingerGod I loved that Navarone set. I remember buying it with birthday money.
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June 26, 2019, 10:39 AM
M'headSigWhen I was a kid there was this game called "Giant Cooties." They were big plastic multi-part six legged bugs. I didn't then and don't know now what the game rules were. I used the bugs to stage sci-fi movie scenes: I'd array the bugs against my back- of-the-comic book green army soldiers, with crumpled tissues to replicate artillery explosions.
June 26, 2019, 07:03 PM
Xer0I remember the plastic green ones would drip flaming little balls when lit on fire!
June 27, 2019, 02:26 AM
KMitch200quote:
Originally posted by Xer0:
I remember the plastic green ones would drip flaming little balls when lit on fire!
Which is why I didn't have any after a couple years of playing with them.
I guess I was destined to be a fireman even way back when.
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