The death of the toy soldier (1 Viewer)

Always have been and always will be toy soldiers for me. I just play with them more carefully these days :)
Bingo! Until my TS start shooting real bullets and inflict real casualties, they will remain TOY soldiers, regardless of semantics. -- Al
 
I would be lying if I said that I have not pulled individual tanks from my collection and rolled a dice or 2 for some childlike play time. Same could be said for my glossies, all mounted on wood squares for wargaming.:redface2:..Michael
 
All toy soldiers are military models - though some may be more realistic than others. At the same time, the most realistic model of something military - be it a machine or a man, can be picked up and played with. So the distinction is really in the mind of the beholder.

So if I think my Stadden is a toy, and I play with it - then it is. If someone else thinks that their original Britains Hollowcast Toy Soldier is a military model, and keeps it under a glass dome - then it is!:eek:

At what point does a figure change from being the one, and become the other?:confused:

What's the problem? They are only words we use to describe the things we all enjoy. In my opinion,(and the one of James Opie, from whom I nicked the above idea), the terms are really quite interchangeable.

Toy Soldiers will never die - they may just look a bit more realistic, sometimes. johnnybach:salute::
 
Probably means nothing to collectors but, to manufacturers if they are called toys and not military miniatures you charge less call them military miniatures or collectables and, the price goes up
Mitch
 
Probably means nothing to collectors but, to manufacturers if they are called toys and not military miniatures you charge less call them military miniatures or collectables and, the price goes up
Mitch

I have always thought that.....^&grinMichael
 
It's probably just a matter of terminology that has already been debated here, but I would submit that toy soldiers, when it comes to collectors, no longer exist, because:

1-Collectors don't play with their figures, they display them, make dioramas, take photos, but don't throw them around or have them shoot each other making strange noises like if they were small children^&grin^&grin (which they are, but of a bigger variety)^&grin.

2-The toy soldier died when Trophy, K&C and others brought up the New Toy Soldiers, very unlike the early meant to play Britains, and figures are now getting more and more detailed and realistic, whether in matte of gloss.

So I would say that we now have model figures (and get more respect when receiving or sending their packages^&grin^&grin^&grin)

Any thoughts?
Paulo
Paulo, I bought my two daughters plastic army tanks and soldiers at the Westcoaster....they love them!
 
My son loves playing with little green men. As for me, I can't bring myself to shoot at my soldiers with a BB gun the way I sometimes did as a kid.
 
At the price of today's figures
it's hard to trow them around or shoot
at them with a BBgun
 

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