BMC Toys debuted a prototype figurine at the Chicago Toy Soldier Show. The Pennsylvania toy maker who responded to a viral letter from a 6-year-old girl asking for a female version of the iconic Green ...

Vivian Lord, now 7, wrote a letter to toymakers with a request for women toys. A 7-year-old Arkansas girl who pleaded with a toymaker to start making a female version of the iconic Green Army Men ...

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 Pennsylvania toy company debuted its newest product at a trade show on Sunday: female toy soldiers inspired by a letter sent by a 6-year-old girl. Vivian Lord, a first-grade student in Arkansas, ...

SCRANTON, Pa. — A toy manufacturer in Scranton is using some imagination in the fight for equality. The small operation is one of the only makers of toy plastic Army men, and soon, it'll be expanding ...

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 ...

The green army men toys are getting an update. The green army women are the result of queries by female veterans and one six-year-old girl's letter in particular. The figures will release in 2020. One ...

Little Rock, Arkansas — It was during one of her brother's air raids, that 6-year-old Vivian Lord was struck by the fact that her army men were all just that — men. "I noticed that there was no girl ...

A Pennsylvania toy company says it’s making plastic toy female soldiers thanks to requests from female veterans, toy fans, and a persuasive letter from a 6-year-old girl. The new troops will be female ...

The toy company behind the Plastic Army Women project says the tiny, female troops will be ready to deploy in time for the holidays. BMC Toys started taking pre-orders for the soldiers earlier this ...

The tiny green plastic army man is a timeless cheap toy. It dates back to 1938, and has basically remained the same since the 1950s. You probably have a dozen scattered around your house, in nooks and ...