At Processed Plastics, millions of army men are churned out annually. Originally aired on "Our Favorite Toys" broadcast on the Discovery Channel, 1997. Narrated by Daniel Stern.
Good old days when I used to buy them at my local Toys r Us and Dollar Tree😌 I would also do mix battles with plastic army men and lego figures too, or sometimes I would get small rocks and try to knock them down.
Always a winner. Its why its always interesting to hear about modern action figure complaints about not having enough articulation; as much as I liked the original G.I. Joe and Mego figures, me and my friends never seemed to even have issue with zero points of articulation.
Because you and your friends bought toys to play with them and have fun and those action figure collectors buy toys to hang them on their shelves to look nice.
I Remember having my Xbox taken away from me so I resorted to some old army men my grandmother bought for me that I never used and toy models I made. I had never had so much fun just using my own imagination.
Still do! Collected about 5 full size bins of them at the moment. When everyone leaves the house for vacation...the living room is free game for them lol
It's a shame because they were so cheap and high quality back then compared to today. Nowadays they cost 4x as much but are not even a quarter the quality of what they once were.
@@FieldMarshalYT BMC and Tim Mee I have heard of...I actually own the Tim Mee AC-130 and made a video about it on my channel (well really a video showing my whole collection) they are quite good but way way too expensive.
@@BrokenCircle1 I agree that $18 for 100 figures is a bit spendy but they sell smaller 48pc packs for $13 now which isn't so bad. It also isn't bad considering the quality and amount of figures you get 3 tanks for $20 isn't too bad imo but everyone has different budgets.
Back in the early 60's I bought on a regular basis a unique type of plastic soldier which came in an elongated bag, they were called Cobra Battalion. Probably 30 figures in 3 basic poses as I remember. Included were pistol belts, 45's, Garand rifles, BAR rifles, helmets, M-1 carbines. Never enough equipment to totally outfit all the figures. Cannot find a trace anywhere of these figures, the figures were green and the equipment grey.
I regret losing the Vietnam Huey choppers I had but wish they came out with a special of ww1 plastic army men and vehicles ww1 Vietnam to today's wars I have one or two ww1 lot of ww2 and alot of somewhat Vietnam plastic army men I love these things!
I just bought an assorted army from a second hand shop, I don't know why. I washed them and put them into the groups they were made in. Now what? I've got to find a kid who wants loads of toy soldiers.
I was really enjoying that then it stopped...ah my soldiets from tbe 70s and 80s, rivalled only by my action men and star wars..favourite ?? Has to be my star wars.
I was thinking about it and I don't know why they didn't think of making farmers or civilians in general during the time of the anti-war policy, because let's think about it, it makes sense, you'll see if it's true that army men fight against other army men or do what you want them to do, but what if they had included normal people that the army men could protect ? Also If that had happened today they would be rare and expensive due to the circumstances in which they came onto the market.
Nowadays plastic soldiers came from China. The quality are crap, IMHO. Too thin and flimsy. And yet they cost most than what I had back in the 80's & 90's from Hong Kong. Those were superior plastic soldiers with fine detailed figures. Well at least we got 3D printers now to help relive that nostalgic childhood days and share it with younger generations.
there are some chinese brands that are making very good quality soldiers, not just the cheap toys. Caesar makes top notch figures. Fortunately there's a lot of people around the world who are reviving the art of the toy soldier.
TSSD is made in China, and they are some of the best army men on the market. Then there's Timmee toys, which was originally the company shown here, processed plastic. They're made in the USA. So is BMC toys, which uses original Marx molds, and their own molds, also made in the USA.
@@skyraider87 I believe Lanard toys are made in China but they’re actually really good. Like they have an interesting backstory and have good sculpts with nice detail and they’re unique.
How come finding purple soldiers is so hard? I have all the other colours, apart from purple. The only other 2 that are sort of hard to find, but not impossible is yellow and orange. I occasionally come across yellow and orange, but purple are the hardest to get hold of, I even have pink army men too, but no purple. I think it would be awesome if toy soldier companies made aluminium soldiers too, the only aluminium soldiers I can find is antique soldiers, I want modern aluminium soldiers such as the ones shown on this video! Police figures are also fun to collect, most of them are blue and red, finding the grey ones is more difficult, why are some colours harder to find than others when it's all made in a factory? Purple and grey plastic would be easy to create, is there some reason some colours aren't made very often?
I am so glad I stumbled upon this video this evening..These Army men were my favorite thing as a small boy..I still love them and turned my 4yr old grandson onto them as well and we have epic battles..this is a fantastic video, Thank you for sharing it, definitely brought back some great memories from my childhood!
Good old days when I used to buy them at my local Toys r Us and Dollar Tree😌 I would also do mix battles with plastic army men and lego figures too, or sometimes I would get small rocks and try to knock them down.
Plastic army men: "We're clones sir... We're meant to be expendable..."
5y/o me: "Not to me."
😂😂😂
Nice reference
Always a winner. Its why its always interesting to hear about modern action figure complaints about not having enough articulation; as much as I liked the original G.I. Joe and Mego figures, me and my friends never seemed to even have issue with zero points of articulation.
Because you and your friends bought toys to play with them and have fun and those action figure collectors buy toys to hang them on their shelves to look nice.
0:33 You cannot escape the bazooka guy. Bazooka guy is inevitable.
I like the old 1960's WW2 Timmy plastic soldiers I grew up with. Then around 68,69 Timmy Toys switched to the Vietnam Era soldiers.
Casually sitting in a mound of toy soldiers like it's not the funniest thing ever , engineers are hilarious.
1:00 so that’s why some of my guys are broken
I Remember having my Xbox taken away from me so I resorted to some old army men my grandmother bought for me that I never used and toy models I made. I had never had so much fun just using my own imagination.
Plastic soldier are my childhood
i had a d day set and loved it. I went in the army in 70s. it preparred me
I’m I the only one who still wants to play with them
Still do! Collected about 5 full size bins of them at the moment. When everyone leaves the house for vacation...the living room is free game for them lol
Same
Same bro I got 107
Ur not alone I got more than 700
Same
Dude. It’s the voice of the guy from the sandlot that’s narrating
the good people are green, bad people are grey; and for some reason one christmas they forgot all that...
It's a shame because they were so cheap and high quality back then compared to today. Nowadays they cost 4x as much but are not even a quarter the quality of what they once were.
Have you seen Armies in Plastic, Classictoysoldiers, Tim Mee and BMC soldiers?
@@FieldMarshalYT BMC and Tim Mee I have heard of...I actually own the Tim Mee AC-130 and made a video about it on my channel (well really a video showing my whole collection) they are quite good but way way too expensive.
@@BrokenCircle1 I agree that $18 for 100 figures is a bit spendy but they sell smaller 48pc packs for $13 now which isn't so bad. It also isn't bad considering the quality and amount of figures you get 3 tanks for $20 isn't too bad imo but everyone has different budgets.
The design quality in the film was very poor, no detail.
i got those poses from ebay the company delta force
renember the old days of geting vietnam era toy soldiers. they didnt even had rigs but chould not find my og ones too soon.
Me : thats trash its not man-
*TOY SOLDIER PILE*
Me : how much?
one christmas i got a huge bag of toy soldiers and that was one of favorite Christmases
is there a tabletop game to play with it?
marx toys made the best army soldiers
A toy for everyone, with creativity not as comparable to lego, but up there
I use to play with Lego soldiers lmao or put the Legos as walls or sandbags with the plastic soldiers
Every time I went to the dollar store I would BEG my mom and dad for this
So cool
WRONG!!! 13 Poses!!!!!!!!!
Back in the early 60's I bought on a regular basis a unique type of plastic soldier which came in an elongated bag, they were called Cobra Battalion. Probably 30 figures in 3 basic poses as I remember. Included were pistol belts, 45's, Garand rifles, BAR rifles, helmets, M-1 carbines. Never enough equipment to totally outfit all the figures. Cannot find a trace anywhere of these figures, the figures were green and the equipment grey.
Those were the original GI Joe figures I believe. If you still have those collectors would probably offer a pretty penny.
@@thehengy3232 I don't believe so, they were injected plastic and came in only 3 poses, standing, kneeling and prone and were only about 3" tall.
Holy plastic that's a lot of soldiers he's sitting on
he is death, destroyer of worlds.
Yeah. I want to work at Timmee Toys, the current version of processed plastic
Me throwing a fire cracker on a jeep or plane carrying at least 124 soldiers it's just so satisfying
Even A Bucket O Soldiers By The Movies, Toy Story And Toy Story 2.
Now I've finally seen a soldier pile that rivals my unpainted lead mountain. But only just.
I’d like to see your collection
Love toy soldiers!
I have over 7 army colors I have black ,blue ,pink ,green,tan,gray ,red and I’m 16 and I still play with them
Long live the greens
Ww2 soldiers holding m16s
RW:tbh i could never get enough of them 😁
I regret losing the Vietnam Huey choppers I had but wish they came out with a special of ww1 plastic army men and vehicles ww1 Vietnam to today's wars I have one or two ww1 lot of ww2 and alot of somewhat Vietnam plastic army men I love these things!
army men knew how to bring out the evil in all of us. War, war never changes.
I came looking for bronze. Instead I found gold.
Yep talk about world domination
OR.....House domination
Your comments are scary
hey that was a fallout reference!
I loved toy soldiers since i was a baby i was born 2012
I just bought an assorted army from a second hand shop, I don't know why. I washed them and put them into the groups they were made in. Now what? I've got to find a kid who wants loads of toy soldiers.
Just imagine being a kid into army men and seeing this
Wow!
Its my dream!
My creators
I love toy arm man
The ice cream truck sold the paratrooper ones with the parachutes. I loved those
Lost a few of those in the trees.
@@Zizzbiz may they rest in piece, they were good soldiers very brave
@@weirdhungidas8998 "American anthem plays"
Haha Harris ha Greg army men
Did anyone else think the minesweeper was the most useless army guy?
I have thousands and thousands.
I was really enjoying that then it stopped...ah my soldiets from tbe 70s and 80s, rivalled only by my action men and star wars..favourite ?? Has to be my star wars.
I loved army men as a kid
I was thinking about it and I don't know why they didn't think of making farmers or civilians in general during the time of the anti-war policy, because let's think about it, it makes sense, you'll see if it's true that army men fight against other army men or do what you want them to do, but what if they had included normal people that the army men could protect ? Also If that had happened today they would be rare and expensive due to the circumstances in which they came onto the market.
This brings back some memories for me army men in big bags for a $1.00 back in the 1970's
I sometimes repaint WW2 soldiers to look like Anglo-Zulu War British. Guns are never quite right, though!
green radio operator: WE NEED MORE FIRE POWER.... 1:20
Pov you had all those toy soldiers that the man was in what would you do or what would your reaction be ?
Nowadays plastic soldiers came from China. The quality are crap, IMHO. Too thin and flimsy. And yet they cost most than what I had back in the 80's & 90's from Hong Kong. Those were superior plastic soldiers with fine detailed figures.
Well at least we got 3D printers now to help relive that nostalgic childhood days and share it with younger generations.
there are some chinese brands that are making very good quality soldiers, not just the cheap toys. Caesar makes top notch figures. Fortunately there's a lot of people around the world who are reviving the art of the toy soldier.
TSSD is made in China, and they are some of the best army men on the market. Then there's Timmee toys, which was originally the company shown here, processed plastic. They're made in the USA. So is BMC toys, which uses original Marx molds, and their own molds, also made in the USA.
@@skyraider87 I believe Lanard toys are made in China but they’re actually really good. Like they have an interesting backstory and have good sculpts with nice detail and they’re unique.
F this
Ill buy another pack of army men again
We used to play with these guys for hours.
I still do 😂
I still do
How come finding purple soldiers is so hard? I have all the other colours, apart from purple. The only other 2 that are sort of hard to find, but not impossible is yellow and orange. I occasionally come across yellow and orange, but purple are the hardest to get hold of, I even have pink army men too, but no purple. I think it would be awesome if toy soldier companies made aluminium soldiers too, the only aluminium soldiers I can find is antique soldiers, I want modern aluminium soldiers such as the ones shown on this video! Police figures are also fun to collect, most of them are blue and red, finding the grey ones is more difficult, why are some colours harder to find than others when it's all made in a factory? Purple and grey plastic would be easy to create, is there some reason some colours aren't made very often?
Aluminium sucks. Make them out of iron.
@@shroomer8294 Maybe other metals and alloys too!
Dear santa
For Christmas I want a mood to make my own army men
the army men is so much that make them like look like a cereal☠
There were actually 12 poses
I WONDER IF THEY COULD REUSE BROKEN ARMY MEN
I'm sure they were dropped into the melting pot and "reincarnated" to battle on.
That’s like the plot to army men green rouge besides the army men stayed alive
I am so glad I stumbled upon this video this evening..These Army men were my favorite thing as a small boy..I still love them and turned my 4yr old grandson onto them as well and we have epic battles..this is a fantastic video, Thank you for sharing it, definitely brought back some great memories from my childhood!
Thank you, please check out my channel for more toy related vids... www.youtube.com/@Zizzbiz
HOLA GENTE ALGUIEN ME PODRIA DECIR , DE QUE AÑO SON LOS SOLDADITOS EPOPEYA ? O EN QUE AÑO SE ABRIO LA FABRICA EN ARGENTINA . GRACIAS
You’re not the only one
Loking at timmee army men makes me pissed bc o cant get where i live
I dont no army plastic.
English please
wat is the alien saying
@@wavleoo Mate teasing this dude for hes English but he can't spell "what" 💀💀
war since the 19s to the future🤦♂️
The design of the soldiers in the film is low grade. No detail.
yo I love toy soldiers