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[Hero of Spielberg]

They’re the carob of toys.

 

[synchronicity]

Agreed with this. Those two were my fave as well and seemingly the most rare in people's sets, lol.

I also liked the parachute ones they made.

That was the main use, yeah

I played with the army men as a kid. I guess I enjoyed it. You played with whatever you were given, lol.

*THIS* was the best parachute guy - this fisher-price adventure people guy. I spent countless hours rolling up his parachute as tight as possible and launching him skyward. Awesome toy.

They had so many awesome toys (Adventure People). I had so many of these:

They were cool, but I only used them here and there. I much preferred playing with “Cowboys and Indians.”

Yeah, me too. I had the Lone Ranger / Butch Cavendish and Johnny West. I played with those a ton and of course playing real-life outside with cap-guns and whatnot.

 

[badblue]

murica = the whole world. bullshit american propaganda toys don't really do well unless it's the USA.

 

[DeceptiveAlarm]

I loved the little cannon that shot the red things.

 

[0neAnd0nly]

As someone who identifies as green, these are deeply offensive to me.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

They melted real good tho

I'll always remember the screams when Sgt flamethrower had his tank shot and mums purfume spilled out across the platoon, engulfing them in liquid hot death..

The horror.

 

[jason10mm]

They were definitely enhanced with the cheap ass jeeps, tanks, and artillery. I had several armies worth of these things and played with them ENDLESSLY as a kid.

 

[BigBooper]

They were good for setting up across the living room and shooting with rubber band guns.

 

[12Goblins]

I always thought they were only meant to blow up with fireworks

 

[Chronicle]

Fun

 

[Cohetedor]

I remember melting a few to try and turn one of my sisters ken dolls into the incredible hulk, didn't work as I wound up melting kens head off.

 

[NahaNago]

I remember playing with those as a kid. They were simply used to increase the enemy troops.

 

[cormack12]

I never really understand what you were supposed to do with them until I slid the first one up my pooper.

/s

Seriously though I had loads, my dad wasn't around much growing up as he was constantly working but I always remember one Saturday morning he was off and I must have had hundreds of these guys, trucks, sandbags etc. And we tipped them all out. We both took half the bags and took an opposite end of the living room. Spent about half an hour setting up our tropps in infantry lines, convoys garrisons etc.

Then my dad got one of my sisters bouncy balls. Just those rubber things that bounce forever.

And we took turns lobbing it across the room to destroy/knock down each others armies. It got quite tense at the end when you had little pockets of single soldiers standing there.

Never forget that day man, mainly because afterwards it was the first time we had sex as well /s

 

[AJUMP23]

A step below GI Joe. But fun.

 

[kunonabi]

Never played with them much since my neighbor had like every G. I. JOE plus I was really into this one military polly pocket toy line.

 

[Mistake]

The green army versus a barrel of monkeys was a bloody war.

 

[mitch1971]

Then my dad got one of my sisters bouncy balls. Just those rubber things that bounce forever.

And we took turns lobbing it across the room to destroy/knock down each others armies. It got quite tense at the end when you had little pockets of single soldiers standing there.

Never forget that day man, mainly because afterwards it was the first time we had sex as well /s

Exactly what me and my cousin use to do - the soldiers bit, not the sex.

One time after setting up our army I jammed one of the soldiers in a lookout tower on a wooden fort. He spent an age trying to knock it over. He got so frustrated he picked up the nearest object - which was a bottle of his sisters perfume off the fireplace - and launced it at the fort. In the end, the living room smelt lovely but the soldier still stood.

 

[InfiniteCombo]

I played outside a lot when I was a kid. But when it rained... that's where the Green Army Men came in super handy. They were awesome. My brother and I would stage whole battles, and even give them backstories. Usually our main battle stories would be one of three kinds:

- Historical ("Allies vs Axis Powers")
- Fictional based on existing media ("G.I. Joe crew vs Cobra Commander's army")
- Completely fictional based on our own imagination ("Earthlings vs Martians")

We would sometimes use lighting techniques to project the Army Men onto the wall, giving them a larger than life presence.

I must've been like 5 or 6 years old at the time. Good times.

 

[lethial]

Anybody remember these?

 

[Pagusas]

have these been canceled yet it today’s culture?

 

[jason10mm]

have these been canceled yet it today’s culture?

They adapted....

 

[0neAnd0nly]

They adapted....

Still has guns. Still cancel.

 

[jason10mm]

Still has guns. Still cancel.

Those aren't guns, those are tools for fighting the (cishet) male patriarchy

 

[TGO]

Had the green & grey ones.
Big tub full of them.
They didn't stand a chance against the AT-AT though.