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Army men, or plastic soldiers, are toy soldiers that are about 5 cm (2.0 in) tall and most commonly molded from low-density polyethylene plastic, which makes them durable and flexible. Unlike the more expensive toy soldiers available in hobby shops, army men are sold at low prices in discount stores and supermarkets.
Despite the inroads of plastic toy soldiers, Barclay kept manufacturing theirs in metal. Following the war, Barclay changed the helmets on their soldiers to the M1 Helmet . In about 1951 Barclay conserved metal by eliminating bases on their soldiers, which collectors nicknamed podfoot soldiers because each foot appeared as a flattened rounded ...
This is a list of worldwide brands and manufactures of toy soldiers. A A Call To Arms; Accurate; Airfix; Almark; Armourfast; Atlantic (company) Aurora Plastics Corporation; Armies In Plastic; B Barcelona Universal Models (BUM) Barclay; Benbros; Bergen Toy & Novelty Co. or Beton [1] Billy V; Britains; BMC Toys; C Caesar; CBG Mignot; Chialu; Co ...
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes is a third-person shooter where players take the role of soldiers in 3D battlefields. [3] It has the feel, pace, weapons and level design of classic arcade shooters like Ikari Warriors (1986) and Guerrilla War (1987), and also features elements of GoldenEye (1997), Command & Conquer (1995), and platform video games. [3]
Pyro was the leading manufacturer of military "bin toys" in the early 1950s. [4] Bin toys were relatively inexpensive items, usually an assortment of miniature green-plastic "army men", vehicles or accessories, packaged in poly bags, wholesaled in bulk, and sold "grab-bag-style" from large cardboard bins in retail stores.
Elastolin was a trademark used by the German company O&M Hausser (O&M Haußer) for the toy soldiers and other types of figures it manufactured from composite material and later from plastic. The Hausser firm was founded in 1904 by Christian Hausser and his sons Otto and Max.
On "Pawn Stars," we learned that sometimes little toys can sell for big money in a look back at some of Corey and ChumLee's favorite items. ... A Star Wars Jawa figurine and a Stretch Serpent ...
Wargames Factory was an American plastic miniature manufacturer that opened in 2007. It specialized in highly detailed, multi-part models in hard plastic for wargaming . Wargames Factory produced models mostly in the 28 millimetres (1.1 in) range, but did other scales as well.