Talk:Army men

I'm wondering if

there needs to be an "Americanizing" of the language and spelling because this is an American toy. Thoughts? Edwartica (talk) 20:42, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

This could be expanded. For example, who came up with the design of this popular toy? SteelyDave 05:09, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, and ways to play with said toys. --Goonka 07:11, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Is it just me, or is the last part about super soldiers just a tad humorous!

Yes, it is.

I think we can include a link to tin soldiers, because these are clearly predecessors to plastic soldiers. - Redmess 13:17, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Childhood Violence

Any ideas why in a world in which watchdog groups will pounce on any form of media with depictions of violence that could be acessible to kids, that few, if any, seem to think there's a problem with allowing children to play with toys designed to simulate warfare? Food for thought. --66.253.36.46 (talk) 22:00, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Not sure, but maybe because even they aren't that big wheenies? Epstein's Mother (talk) 03:06, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Super Soldiers

I'm not really sure what that whole thing with "super soldiers" is, but maybe we should include a section about mutilation of army men instead of it. - MaxW 12:21, 5 November 2006

??

No pictures? Not even 8 paragraphs? Geez this needs expanding. Colonel Marksman 17:16, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Misinformation?

In the article, it says that 3DO made a series of "real-time strategy" games. I've played almost every single army men game, and I wouldn't call ANY of the games real-time strategy... but then again, I can't think of what type they are at all... any one got any suggestions? Maybe action-strategy? You control almost exclusively "Sarge", so would it be an action-RPG? Help me out here and we can change it. Kelpie K 19:08, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

what kind of plastic

PLEASE mention what is the specific kind of plastic used to make those extremely inexpensive toys. Is it liner low-density polyethylene? is it polystyrene? (doubt it) Thank you. I'd add to it if I knew. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.200.216.164 (talk) 04:22, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

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EngVar

This article uses "color" and "colour" with equal frequency. I haven't spotted any other EngVar tells. Which way should we standardize? --Khajidha (talk) 13:04, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Colour is always the way to go since original British English predates American English and all its misspellings. 02:17, 19 July 2020 (GMT)

Well, I don't think that's right. Clearly many articles are in "American English" and Wikipedia originated in America. I believe the standard rule here is to preserve the form of English that was used when the article was originally created. Jcbutler (talk) 15:23, 23 February 2024 (UTC)