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#0, a random act of curiosity
Posted by Gryphon on Mar-24-22 at 01:06 AM
Favorite green army man, go.

Mine was Man Preparing to Throw Hand Grenade, because in the set I inherited from an uncle as a child, mine had a broken rifle, so he was clearly having himself a bit of a dramatic last stand.

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#1, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by The Traitor on Mar-24-22 at 03:38 AM
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Mine were in a variety of colours: Classic Dark Green, Desert Sand, Hopefully Not Confederates Grey, Baby Diarrhoea Olive, all the greats. However, my favourite was the bazooka guy. I had a model tank with a spring-loaded gun that fired toothpicks, and he was crouched down low enough to hide behind the turret. Tactically sound? Possibly not. Have I ever once let that stop me? I'm the woman entering melee tanks into Gryph's sensha-do format, take a wild guess. =]

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#2, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by Lime2K on Mar-24-22 at 07:10 AM
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>I'm the woman entering melee tanks into
>Gryph's sensha-do format,

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#3, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by Sofaspud on Mar-24-22 at 04:08 PM
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Crawling Guy is my all time favorite. As mentioned elsewhere (Games, I think) I have A Thing about sniping and he always seemed the sniper-y-est.

I had two sets of army men, Traditional Green and It's Not A Blatant Knock Off We Promise Pink. The latter were *significantly* worse quality, which is saying a lot since the Traditional guys were... not great themselves.

--sofaspud
--I usually had the Army Dudes facing off against my Mangled War Veterans GI Joes, on the rationale that their larger size made up for their missing limbs


#4, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by zwol on Mar-24-22 at 08:23 PM
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I never had any green army men. I had a large collection of small stuffed animals instead, and me and my little sister would send them on Expeditions to Discover the North Pole, like in the Winnie-the-Pooh novels.

#5, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by Droken on Mar-24-22 at 10:59 PM
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I'd say the standing guy looking down the sights. Always appreciated someone actually performing the function of fighting in things like green army men and micro machines etc.

#6, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by Zemyla on Mar-25-22 at 12:30 PM
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My favorite was the guy with the binoculars. He became the one who called down artillery strikes.

#7, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by VoidRandom on Mar-26-22 at 10:32 PM
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Bagpiper.

https://www.tintoyarcade.com/army-guys-british-soldiers-in-tube.html

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#8, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by mdg1 on Mar-27-22 at 01:56 PM
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Mine was "the one with the bent rifle I don't remember ever buying or playing with, but found in the Big Box O' LEGO® Bricks™ anyway". :)

#9, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by Bad Moon Again on Mar-28-22 at 01:18 AM
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Guy holding bayonet rifle above his head. I think he's wading in water? Or gonna stab somebody? It was always weirdly funny to me

#10, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by cyberpagan on Apr-01-22 at 00:00 AM
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I liked the radio guy, and the machine gunner. But really I liked all of them, until I set them on fire. I wasn't a normal child...


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#11, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by Gryphon on Apr-01-22 at 00:53 AM
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>I liked the radio guy, and the machine gunner. But really I liked all
>of them, until I set them on fire. I wasn't a normal child...

"What's going on here?! Why is that soldier strapped to an explosive device?"

"Oh, no. It's a Combat Carl."

--G.
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#12, RE: a random act of curiosity
Posted by DaemeonX on Apr-07-22 at 03:35 PM
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I have a fond memory of army men. I was about six and my brother around 9. We had a babysitter named Tim. After the 4th of July there were some left over firecrackers, normal small ones with a fuse, and we had a "war". Many army men lost their lives to artillery fire that day out in the woods near my house. Trench warfare is hell gentlemen.


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