Bingo! Until my TS start shooting real bullets and inflict real casualties, they will remain TOY soldiers, regardless of semantics. -- AlAlways 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. -- AlAlways have been and always will be toy soldiers for me. I just play with them more carefully these days
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
Paulo, I bought my two daughters plastic army tanks and soldiers at the Westcoaster....they love them!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!