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/amg/ Army Men General - We remember the fallen

Anonymous Sun 10 Nov 2024 23:21:01 No.11228948 View View Reply Original Report

Welcome to the Army Men General!

Previously: >>11200639

>Plastic soldiers, knights and pirates, cowboys and indians, fantasy and sci-fi, cops and zombies, all are welcome here!

>Archived threads:
https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/Army%20Men%20General/

>Army men wargame rules:
https://combatstorm.com/
https://onepagerules.com/portfolio/one-off-games/
https://www.plasticcommand.com/
https://freewargamesrules.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Search?query=army+men

>Places to get army men:
https://bmctoys.com/ and https://victorybuy.com/
https://www.armiesinplastic.com/
https://www.toysoldierco.com/
https://www.classictoysoldiers.com/
https://www.toysoldiersdepot.com/
https://www.hobbybunker.com/
https://www.michtoy.com/
https://www.toysoldierhq.com/
https://micshaunscloset.com/
http://www.expeditionaryforce.com.sg/

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2024 06:50:04 No.11229369 Report

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>>11228948
Does anyone else remember a playset of army men like figurines that was themed around people in a city?

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2024 19:06:55 No.11229843 Report

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>>11229369
There's certainly been playsets along those lines over the years, though I couldn't come up with one off-hand; always been into the military side of things. I did one of these police sets, not sure if I also got the fire one at some point.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Nov 2024 19:08:32 No.11229845 Report

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>>11229843
Got these second-hand but they were some hunters on safari set originally, with a few natives of course.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 06:30:39 No.11230461 Report

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>>11229845

White Man's Burdern.
I suppose you could use one of the Fantasy barbarians as Tarzan.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 06:38:15 No.11230463 Report

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>>11230461
I have a few caveman figs for that, heh. They'll come in handy when the Greens decide to remake The Granite Family.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 07:41:43 No.11230503 Report

Quoted By: >>11230521

>>11229843
Thanks. This both look familiar.
>>11229845
It's always nice to see niche subjects with army men

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 08:17:35 No.11230521 Report

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>>11230503
Packs of these zombies and tombstones came out some years back at the dollar store, Dollar Tree I think?

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 08:19:39 No.11230522 Report

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>>11230521
Until recently they've been the better of the two dollar store powerhouses for army men (Dollarama being the other); currently both have zilch to offer around here. For a while Dollar Tree offered these, there was a fire one as well I didn't get.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 08:21:09 No.11230523 Report

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>>11230522
That you could get everything in pic related for a maplebuck was mind-blowing, hadn't seen that kind of value in a long time.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 08:22:47 No.11230524 Report

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>>11230523
The rubber dinghy is a weird choice for the police but I guess a squad car would've been outside the price point.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 08:24:38 No.11230525 Report

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>>11230524
The Wild West pack is unintentionally historically accurate in terms of proportionate numbers; the wagon and campfire are easily the best parts of it though.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 08:28:21 No.11230526 Report

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>>11230525
All but the military one faded away after a year or so, that one popped up once in a while but hasn't been seen in a couple years at least. I picked up a couple here and there, mostly as a dirt cheap source of armour but I didn't get around to actually opening them until quite some time later. Finally got to them in the middle of a major cleaning and reorganizing project.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 08:29:48 No.11230528 Report

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>>11230526
...And I was quite surprised to find that some of the packs had entirely different soldiers than had been typical, namely cheap copies of the old Timmee Vietnam War soldiers.

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Anonymous Tue 12 Nov 2024 08:33:50 No.11230531 Report

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>>11230528
I haven't found where these guys originated but from the five poses they're clearly pretty modern forces (note the one pose with a SCAR); the pose with the battering ram suggests SWAT but they could also work as Delta Force or any other special forces unit. Wish I'd recognized the alternate figures back when they were still available.

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Anonymous Thu 14 Nov 2024 18:26:17 No.11233674 Report

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Anonymous Fri 15 Nov 2024 05:02:38 No.11234397 Report

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>>11230528
Mutants vrs humans.

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Anonymous Fri 15 Nov 2024 05:25:05 No.11234416 Report

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>>11234397
A little unnerving when the mutants are packing bazookas and flammenwerfen (which werf flammen, if you were wondering).

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Anonymous Fri 15 Nov 2024 07:12:05 No.11234509 Report

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>>11230522
>>11230523
>>11230524
>>11230525
>>11230526
>>11230528
>>11230531
Thanks for always sharing your finds. I hate how the big toy companies have slowly taken over dollar stores and pushed out most of the cool stuff, like those niche army men. Sorta-kinda related, my dollar store had a bunch of not-Gundams that were really cool along side the army men and other toys.

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Anonymous Fri 15 Nov 2024 07:29:25 No.11234521 Report

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>>11234509
Yeah, I sorely miss all the mom-and-pop dollar and more shops that went under to the might of the duolith of Dollarama and Dollar Tree. Much of my collection was built on such foundations, from the dollar stores in Winnipeg to the buck-or-twos out west here. Much of my childhood was overseas where they didn't have dollar stores but flea markets and discount retailers made up for it, with just about every store there having a toy section (and some kind of army men in it too). Wonder if things have changed for the worse there since...

Pic related was one of my best dollar-plus store finds, close to 15 years on now I reckon. It was way on the northwest end of town so going out there was a rare occasion, but one day we happened to be in the area and had to check the place out. I don't remember much else of what they had but for army men they had bagged sets of that big Bradley or a large transport truck, with a few token troops. They were premium-priced relative to a lot of their other stuff as I recall, but even that would just be like 3 or 4 bucks a pop. Got myself all the Bradleys they had, plus a couple of the trucks.

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Anonymous Fri 15 Nov 2024 07:33:38 No.11234524 Report

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>>11234521
The Bradleys turned out to be cheap knock-offs of an old MicroMachines playset I once had (and later managed to get a replacement of through eBay); think two out of the three have their top machine guns glued on but they're great all the same. Years later I did find an online toy shop based in Ontario that sold 'em and the trucks, ordered a few of each to boost my mechanized forces and was delighted to find their Green version of the Bradley was somewhat better quality. Sadly that site has also long vanished from the internet and I've not seen those sets for sale anywhere. The Patriot launcher and truck in pic was a TRU find, from a little line of metal military vehicles they had at the time. Guess they didn't sell well cuz I was able to get a number of them on clearance, including the missile truck.

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Anonymous Fri 15 Nov 2024 07:39:29 No.11234531 Report

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>>11234524
The Humvee in pic is from that line; as I remember they had a three-pack that included a Humvee, Abrams tank and a truck with multiple-rocket launcher on the back. The Abrams have extendable barrels, useful for storage and I didn't even realize it until long after I'd bought 'em heh. Also in the line were flatbed trucks similar to that Patriot truck, with either an Abrams or a helicopter for cargo (can't remember if I bought one, have to someday dig through that giant tote where a lot of my older stuff is currently stored).

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Anonymous Fri 15 Nov 2024 07:43:59 No.11234532 Report

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>>11234531
Getting back to dollar stores, there was one in Winnipeg I hit up back in 2002 and let me tell you, that place was special. They had large bins and buckets full of toys and fun stuff that were 3 or 4 for a dollar. Among those treasures in bulk were little bags of army men and ninjas, the latter being a first for me at the time. I raised an entire division's worth of troops from the former, and added a handful of the latter as a kind of curiosity at the time.

Pic has one of each pose intermingled with some ninjas I got much later from ToySoldiersDepot online, might not be able to tell very well from pic but the shinier, less detailed figs are the dollar store ones.

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Anonymous Fri 15 Nov 2024 07:51:00 No.11234536 Report

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>>11234532
These are the army men from that same store, a representative sample of the poses. They're clones of Airfix German Infantry, with the interesting modified officer pose where his cap has been replaced with a stahlhelm, more realistic for combat situations really. My records indicate the division strength to be over 200 effectives, almost all of them from that original dollar store visit. Despite being designated a Panzergrenadier unit their battle record is somewhat lacking; they've routinely been overlooked while the more glamourous Afrika Korps gets the nod for violence and action. I intend to rectify this in the near future, though whether it will be in the context of the Colour Wars or something else remains to be seen.

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Anonymous Fri 15 Nov 2024 08:01:06 No.11234542 Report

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>>11234536
Before 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.

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Anonymous Sat 16 Nov 2024 22:12:37 No.11236135 Report

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Going back to that big kijiji downsizing, 10 years on and I have more army men stuff than before it heh. Was helpful to re-house hundreds of troops that were never going to see action anyway though; a decade prior to the downsizing I'd gone on a bit of an army-building spree and could sometimes clear out a dollar store's stock in the pursuit of raising new divisions.

I remember finding at one store literally dozens of packages of the re-imagined Timmee clones, each pack containing about 50 men in green and tan, plus bunkers, barbed wire and trees. In hindsight I'm most thankful for getting all those trees heh, is hard to build a substantial plastic forest when you get maybe two or three for every company of infantry. At their peak the Green and Tan divisions of those troops easily numbered over a thousand for the former and above six hundred for the latter.

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Anonymous Sat 16 Nov 2024 22:14:42 No.11236136 Report

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>>11236135
If I regret giving up anything, it'd be the Red and Blue troops, not easily replaced when the Big Three colours (Green, Tan and Grey) tend to dominate the army men scene.

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Anonymous Sat 16 Nov 2024 23:57:24 No.11236215 Report

Quoted By: >>11236405

>>11234536

That just makes me sad.
I realized I haven't hit up any of the stores in Toronto in Chinatown.
We HAVE found some useful guns for S.T.A.K.E.R cosplay.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Nov 2024 05:04:55 No.11236405 Report

Quoted By: >>11239227

>>11236215
Get out of here, stalker.

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Anonymous Tue 19 Nov 2024 07:21:29 No.11238668 Report

Quoted By: >>11240149

>>11234531
Your pictures are so inspiring.

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Anonymous Wed 20 Nov 2024 00:15:11 No.11239227 Report

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>>11236405
You have me beat. :)

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Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2024 01:50:05 No.11240149 Report

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>>11238668
Thanks anon. Crazy how long it's been since that setup in particular, on a cheap digital cam I barely knew how to use.
>>11239227
Heh nah, we're all friends here... unless you're a T*n

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Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2024 07:13:14 No.11240394 Report

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>>11240149
That's what is endearing about it to me. Your older pictures have this old internet, "kid just fooling around in his grandparents house and posting to Imgur or some forum" kinda vibe.

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Anonymous Thu 21 Nov 2024 07:21:55 No.11240400 Report

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>>11240394
That setup was heavily inspired by the Believe ad campaign for Halo 3, even made a video along those lines.

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Anonymous Sat 23 Nov 2024 02:13:06 No.11242345 Report

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Anonymous Sat 23 Nov 2024 02:14:44 No.11242346 Report

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Anonymous Sat 23 Nov 2024 02:15:55 No.11242348 Report

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Anonymous Sat 23 Nov 2024 07:06:32 No.11242590 Report

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>>11242345
>>11242346
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>>11242396
Pretty charming; the little details like them using sticks for guns add a lot

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Anonymous Sun 24 Nov 2024 19:43:16 No.11244009 Report

Quoted By: >>11244467 >>11245063

How old were you when you got your first army men? Do you still have them?
>was 7 or 8
>pic related were some of the first troops in my armies

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Anonymous Mon 25 Nov 2024 04:21:12 No.11244402 Report

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>>11242590
I really like then but the shipping DSL (not UPS or Canada Post) doubled the price.
if that stuff gets worked out I would buy another set.

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Anonymous Mon 25 Nov 2024 07:34:55 No.11244467 Report

Quoted By: >>11245063

>>11244009
Memories of my early life are non-existent. The earliest thing I remember is getting a bunch from the dollar store--firemen, police officers, and the actual soldiers--and having them participate in a much larger battle between clone troopers and droids.

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Anonymous Tue 26 Nov 2024 02:11:07 No.11245063 Report

Quoted By: >>11245252

>>11244009
>>11244467
For Christmas, one year, around six or so, my grandfather gave me a great big WWII box set with green Americans and grey Germans to play with while I was sitting on the floor watching war movies with him. However, my main bread-and-butter was Wild West and Civil War stuff. It went well with my G-scale Gold Rush train set and the display my dad helped me build for it.

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Anonymous Tue 26 Nov 2024 07:33:57 No.11245252 Report

Quoted By: >>11245861

>>11245063
Awesome memories. Grandpas really are the best.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 2024 01:24:20 No.11245861 Report

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>>11245252
He taught me all I know about miniatures, scale modeling, and everything else that goes into trains and wargaming.

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Anonymous Thu 28 Nov 2024 07:16:18 No.11246966 Report

Quoted By: >>11246972

Thoughts on these guys and or Britain Deetail? I just discovered them by watching YouTube videos? It's cool that Brits have their own BMC/Timee equivalent that's been around for ages. The paint and really dynamic poses are also another stand out feature.
https://www.wbritain.com/product-store
https://www.historynet.com/w-britain-model-soldiers/

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Anonymous Thu 28 Nov 2024 07:28:36 No.11246972 Report

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>>11246966
They look great, might have one or two random ones in my collection. I don't remember what company made pic related but they're probably the most vintage soldiers I have.

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Anonymous Thu 28 Nov 2024 07:33:36 No.11246978 Report

Quoted By: >>11246981 >>11247951

>>11246972
In my plastic armed forces there is a Veterans' Brigade, comprised of all the soldiers who don't have an army of their own for various reasons, usually cuz they're the only representatives. Years ago I took some pics of the members and I'm guessing one or both the painted Brit soldiers at the back would be Britains.

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Anonymous Thu 28 Nov 2024 07:38:03 No.11246981 Report

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>>11246978
A sub-unit of the Veterans' Brigade are these war-torn figures, repaired to the best of my abilities but rather too fragile to be stored in the main container. The standing painted guy with FAL and grenade is almost certainly a Britains figure, was missing his stand but I cannibalized one from a batch of particularly poorly made soldiers I had in abundance; most of the others are also recipients of such transplants.

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Anonymous Fri 29 Nov 2024 07:04:15 No.11247951 Report

Quoted By: >>11247977

>>11246978
>That guy without a head
>The random /k/ommando hunter with the orange hat and vest
>>11246981
I think that German is a Britain figure too.
https://haroldsrangers.wordpress.com/2012/09/

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Anonymous Fri 29 Nov 2024 07:59:03 No.11247977 Report

Quoted By: >>11248897

>>11247951
Not having a head just grants you immunity from headshots; additionally in my armed forces it grants the label of "Davy Crockett" (old in-joke with brother). Good catch with the German, wondered cuz of the paint apps. These guys are vintage too, US-made but I forget the companies behind them. Really miss Thor's Army Men website, had this kind of info but it's lost to the internet since his passing.

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Anonymous Sat 30 Nov 2024 05:15:08 No.11248897 Report

Quoted By: >>11248941

>>11247977
the more information we have - or is boasted about - the more we seem to lose.
These shitbird attacks on the internet archive don't help either

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Anonymous Sat 30 Nov 2024 06:17:51 No.11248941 Report

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>>11248897
Still have it in my bookmarks but the archive just says it was excluded, no reason given. However, I just learned some awesome news - apparently train autism runs deeper than one could imagine. Seems the model train community which was his main love came together and somehow got his site back online a few years ago. It's currently down again but this time around the archive saved it!

https://web.archive.org/web/20210407135421/http://www.thortrains.us/armymen/index.html

Gonna save all the pages myself, just in case.

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Anonymous Sat 30 Nov 2024 06:30:33 No.11248954 Report

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>>11248941
Unfortunately I was a bit premature in my celebrations, as while a decent amount of the main pages have been archived, almost none of the ones about different kinds of soldiers he had have made it. Another letdown, doesn't look like it'll be coming back up either if the one post asking about it from earlier this year is anything to go by. Still don't have an answer to the above soldiers but there's other places with that knowledge I guess.

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Anonymous Sat 30 Nov 2024 08:12:54 No.11249010 Report

Quoted By: >>11250072

Found these cool videos:
https://youtu.be/EXSo9LeuX2M?si=1nVSTbhBtTreu3RV
https://youtu.be/jVcUurs0RR4?si=Sm0hsWuAAQdOi6oT
I think it’s cool to see and hear about army men history

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Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 06:33:35 No.11250072 Report

Quoted By: >>11250076

>>11249010
Yeah it's good stuff, though the guy is rather annoying. Course I'd probably be just as awkward heh.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Dec 2024 06:38:15 No.11250076 Report

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>>11250072
And in fairness it could be worse, tried watching The Plastic Commander...

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Anonymous Tue 03 Dec 2024 22:25:01 No.11252754 Report

Quoted By: >>11252934 >>11253189

Went out and froze my butt today.
Some Americans v Koreans.
Stalkin Shipwreck and a bear
some MEGA Trek and then searched for the goblin I lost this summer. (as grass is short)
The goblin is officially gone and will be missed. - as I sure as hell am not paying that price again.

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 02:11:27 No.11252934 Report

Quoted By: >>11253028 >>11253189

>>11252754
MIA but not forgotten, possibly deserted to join the feral toys out in the wild.

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 02:52:28 No.11252961 Report

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Holy shit, Flight 556 anon reporting in. Work had me away from home for the last 6 months. I'm back and getting everything lined up for the photo shoot.
As a consolation, here's a line of tanks that I recently acquired.

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 02:54:10 No.11252964 Report

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>>11252961

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 02:56:57 No.11252966 Report

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>>11252964
And from left to right. 1. tank from the soldier force tank bucket. 2. Bonnie bilt pop up tank. 3. Shing Fat die cast tank. 4. mystery Abrams for scale.

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 02:58:56 No.11252968 Report

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>>11252961
>>11252964
Welcome back, you out on an oil rig or somethin? I recognize the troops and stuff all around, that one unholy olive "tank" tho... what's that one's story?

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 03:03:09 No.11252971 Report

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>>11252966
Posted too soon heh, very interesting. It's like the Schneider CA1 and Saint-Chamond made a bastard child to equip the doughboys,

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 03:45:08 No.11253016 Report

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>>11252968
I'm a railroad conductor, I took a temporary transfer up to Montana to work. It was originally supposed to be for about 3 months as they hired more local guys to move the trains. But no one wants to do that kind of work anymore. So got stuck up there. Home for Christmas though. So I got that going for me.
I'm not sure what Bonnie Bilt based the tank off of, I feel like someone at the company got a vague description of a tank, and said "fuck it, this'll do." The internal mechanic for making the driver pop up and main gun move are super simple. But really satisfying to watch as you roll it around.

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 03:46:10 No.11253018 Report

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>>11253016

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 03:55:06 No.11253028 Report

Quoted By: >>11253037 >>11253067

>>11252934
Here's the last picture I took of him with his reprobate friends.
(He's the one on top of the Earth Elemental.)

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 03:55:42 No.11253029 Report

Quoted By: >>11253032 >>11253189

>>11253018
And lets see if this vid works. lol

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 04:06:07 No.11253032 Report

Quoted By: >>11253069

>>11253016
>>11253018
>>11253029
Haha charming really, very much retro vibes, like something out of Babes in Toyland.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 04:10:07 No.11253037 Report

Quoted By: >>11253072

>>11253028
A moment of silence for all wayward toys, off on grand adventures never to be retold but endlessly imagined by those who lost them.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 04:58:53 No.11253067 Report

Quoted By: >>11253072

>>11253028
To the gobbo lost in bush, we salute you. May the tales of your antics and misadventures spread far and wide.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 05:00:35 No.11253069 Report

Quoted By:

>>11253032
It has definitely made me want to track down some of the old wind up tin tanks to add to my collection.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 05:12:06 No.11253072 Report

Quoted By:

>>11253067
>>11253037

Empty a cup to the fallen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 08:06:39 No.11253189 Report

Quoted By: >>11253343 >>11253679

>>11252754
>>11252934
RIP to all the MIA toys in the world. Hopefully they find new owners that care for them just as much as their previous ones.
>>11252961
>>11252964
oooo Wheere are those modern soldiers from? They look different from the ones I have.
>>11253029
That's a wacky tank. Is it based off a scrapped tank schematics or something?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 15:35:04 No.11253343 Report

Quoted By: >>11254086

>>11253189
Nta but they're Soldier Force

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2024 22:14:48 No.11253679 Report

Quoted By: >>11253907 >>11254086

>>11253189
As the other anon already posted, it's the soldier force tank bucket by Chap Mei from Dollar General. Sculpt quality is fantastic.
And as for what the Bonnie Bilt tank is based off of, your guess is as good as mine.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 02:36:52 No.11253907 Report

Quoted By: >>11253909 >>11254273

>>11253679
Just realized the big tank is the bucket, pretty cool. We haven't got those here that I seen, been a few years since we last had Soldier Force and only at TRU, they were the 50pc boxes and the 100pc buckets with yellow lids that doubled as bunkers. Been a while since I stopped in, they've had zilch for army men for years now and their Mega offerings aren't much better... maybe they've finally got something new, we don't have Dollar General here so a bucket like that would need to come through TRU or Walmart.

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Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 02:37:51 No.11253909 Report

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>>11253907
Walmarts here just have pic related, been about the only army men playset you can find on the shelf in town for years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 07:17:57 No.11254086 Report

Quoted By:

>>11253343
>>11253679
Thanks

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 15:08:37 No.11254273 Report

Quoted By: >>11254440 >>11254716

>>11253907
Similar story for my area. About the only places that do carry army men are dollar stores. Most of the companies that make them have moved to being completely online. Mores the pity, I finally have money to throw at them and I would love nothing more than to walk into a toy store and see bags, boxes, and buckets of soldiers waiting to be bought and played with.
Soldier force also used to have helicopter buckets.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 18:11:26 No.11254440 Report

Quoted By: >>11254449 >>11254963

>>11254273
With pure toy stores on the decline for decades now, may never get to experience that again sadly. Most of the playsets I've bought lately have been from China, a lot of mediocre to decent stuff but there's some great ones too, though the one company offering them has steep shipping costs.

5 years ago all but one of pic related could be found in-store here; leftmost was an Amazon buy but even that one had a weird semi-release here last year through Dollarama.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 18:19:17 No.11254449 Report

Quoted By: >>11254455

>>11254440
Same soldiers, same jet and heli, same accessories (except no tanks) released as a carded playset, mixed in with similar playsets of animals and I almost missed them. Managed to get a few before they were gone, seems it was a limited release.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 18:21:08 No.11254455 Report

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>>11254449
There's a couple AliExpress stores that sell the soldiers in bulk, at least one also has the tanks and aircraft.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 05 Dec 2024 21:30:56 No.11254716 Report

Quoted By: >>11254965

>>11254273

We still have TRU up in Canada but there have been a bunch of new closings. Also they are more interested in "diversifying" the store with old HMV Records, CDs and movies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 00:41:58 No.11254963 Report

Quoted By:

>>11254440
The town I live in is lucky enough to have a pure toy store. And while the carry many army men adjacent toys. Toy trains, dinosaurs, knights, etc. They don't have any of our little soldiers. Hasn't stopped me from patronizing them. I try and give them as much business as I can. I just wish they'd stocks some.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 00:43:27 No.11254965 Report

Quoted By: >>11255379

>>11254716
Huh, I figured TRU had done away with all their physical stores.

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 00:45:36 No.11254967 Report

Quoted By: >>11254971 >>11255404

And got some soldiers in the mail today. Tim Mee had a buy a dump truck and get 6 jumbo soldiers deal going on. So for shits and giggles I ordered one. Put a regular soldier in the cab to act as driver.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 00:47:06 No.11254971 Report

Quoted By: >>11254972 >>11255404

>>11254967
All in all the truck is solid, reminds me of some of the Tonka toys I had as a lad.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 00:48:20 No.11254972 Report

Quoted By: >>11254975 >>11255404

>>11254971
Wheels roll smoothly, and its got pretty good ground clearance.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 00:49:52 No.11254975 Report

Quoted By: >>11254977 >>11255404

>>11254972
I think I'll want to get some decals to slap on it.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 00:51:30 No.11254977 Report

Quoted By: >>11254980 >>11255404

>>11254975
And in the bed it can hold a lot of plastic. Or anything you might need to cart across the war zone.

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 00:53:30 No.11254980 Report

Quoted By: >>11255404

>>11254977
And the truck does dump.
I have more pictures of the guys, but I'll post them in a bit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 04:37:43 No.11255379 Report

Quoted By:

>>11254965
Canada and Australia I think

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 04:51:55 No.11255404 Report

Quoted By: >>11255623

>>11254967
>>11254971
>>11254972
>>11254975
>>11254977
>>11254980
Impressive. Battlefield engineering is an underappreciated aspect of warfare and plastic conflicts are no exception, have to admit it's an area my forces are woefully underequipped for. It's something that gets handwaved a lot, heh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 08:42:16 No.11255623 Report

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>>11255404
I normally hand wave a lot of things, but ever since I started telling stories with my little dioramas I have wanted to add greater details.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 08:43:39 No.11255626 Report

Quoted By: >>11255627 >>11256270 >>11256496

And the soldiers are excellent quality, mirrors of their smaller brethren.

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 08:44:41 No.11255627 Report

Quoted By: >>11256270 >>11256496

>>11255626

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 23:04:19 No.11256270 Report

Quoted By: >>11256271 >>11256496 >>11256623 >>11258330

>>11255626
>>11255627
Those are nice - but HUGE

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Anonymous Fri 06 Dec 2024 23:05:22 No.11256271 Report

Quoted By: >>11256496 >>11258330

>>11256270

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Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 02:21:19 No.11256496 Report

Quoted By: >>11256501

>>11255626
>>11255627
>>11256270
>>11256271
The benefits of giants in warfare have been well understood since biblical times.

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Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 02:26:14 No.11256501 Report

Quoted By: >>11258330

>>11256496
That deleted scene from 300 of the giant with mounted archer still cracks me up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 05:05:57 No.11256623 Report

Quoted By: >>11256734

>>11256270
They'd be great for kids with less fine motor skills. I'll have them be the leader of the greens body guards. His version of the Potsdam gaints.

And oh shit! That soldier might need more than his side arm to take down that beast!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 08:38:14 No.11256734 Report

Quoted By: >>11256738 >>11258330

>>11256623
He has terribly goofy eyes,
I really like the positioning in the sand though.

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Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 08:40:23 No.11256738 Report

Quoted By: >>11258330

>>11256734
I love how you can't see the joints in the prev shot. Unintentional.

I was having so much fun.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 08 Dec 2024 03:53:26 No.11257796 Report

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>>11257795

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 08 Dec 2024 17:55:28 No.11258330 Report

Quoted By:

>>11256270
>>11256271
>>11256734
>>11256738
These picture sets out in the sand are fucking beautiful. Each one is definitely worth a thousand words.
>>11256501
God damned wizard summoned giant ninjas! this is why you can never trust a spell caster to come honorably.

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