>>11234536Before I pass out there's one more store (and army men find) I wanted to talk about. Also in Winnipeg, also around the same time, there was a large discount toy store called BJ's that I imagine had much in common with the KBs south of the border. Among their seemingly countless products were packages of these Matchbox US Infantry copies, slightly smaller than the average plastic soldiers but I didn't care. Because I had relatively few numbers of true "enemy" army men (mostly WW2 Germans) I designated this group as a "Rebel" division and they fought with distinction across many battlefields.
In the early 2010s I had to downsize my collection for reasons and ended up selling a hefty amount of soldiers through kijiji, though I made sure to keep a fraction of each army (a platoon here, a company there). The Rebel Division was no exception and I elected to retain enough for battalion strength; and then they seemingly disappeared. For years I was at a loss; even in my great clutter I could account for almost all other armies but those remained MIA. Was starting to believe I must've just sold all of them, until I randomly looked through a stack of containers that had been sitting right behind me all these years, having assumed they were all various lego pieces. One of them had the lost battalion, another a missing company of blue soldiers.
