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. — 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 ...

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 ...

Six-year-old Vivian Lord was tired of not seeing women depicted in a classic toy that she wanted to play with, so she wrote a letter. The first grader from Arkansas wrote to BMC Toys, the maker of ...

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 ...

Young Vivian Lord of Arkansas recently acquired a set of the instantly recognizable plastic green Army men figurines, iconic toys the 6-year-old had been pining after for weeks. Excitedly, the little ...

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 ...