This summer, a young girl from Arkansas wrote a Northeastern Pennsylvania toy company out of frustration. "My name is Vivian. I am six years old. Why do you not make girl army men?" wrote Vivian Lord ...

BMC Toys makes plastic green Army women in response to Vivian Lord’s viral letter A 6-year-old girl in Arkansas is getting her request answered after a letter she wrote asking for little green Army ...

PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania toy company has announced a new line of “Army Women” plastic toys in order to represent the women who serve in the U.S. Military. BMC Toys, of Scranton, is one of the few ...

Look alive, Santa Claus: Plastic Army Women will be deployed into toy stores by Christmas 2020. As Chicago’s NBC 5 reports, the gender-reversed toy troops from BMC Toys made their debut at the Chicago ...

Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars, from director Brian Stillman, explores the groundbreaking and breathtaking world of Star Wars toys. Through interviews with former Kenner toy company employees, ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (WHTM) – A toy manufacturer in Scranton is one of the only makers of toy plastic Army men and soon will expand the line to include Army women. Jeff Imel, owner of BMC Toys, told WNEP the ...

Here is the first sculpted version of the 'plastic army women' collector series. VictoryBuy Inc. Since the 1930s, kids have been playing with little green army men; those iconic figurines made out of ...

SCRANTON, Pa. (CBS) -- A toy maker in Scranton is introducing its first ever line of plastic Army women. BMC Toys is one of the nation's largest makers of the little green Army men -- and women. But ...

For the first time, little green plastic army women will be stationed near their male counterparts on toy store shelves. Plastic Army Women will become available for purchase in time for the holiday ...

A letter written by Vivian Lord drew a flurry of news media attention and prompted one toymaker to develop, for the first time, a pack of the classic toy soldiers designed to be women. Credit...Jeff ...