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 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Back in August, we first introduced you to a little girl with a really big idea. While playing with her toy army soldiers, 6-year-old Vivian Lord noticed none of them looked like ...

After hearing from many female veterans and fans, BMC Toys plans to release a female version of its toy soldiers -- but it was actually a letter from a little girl ...

A Pennsylvania toy manufacturer will start making female model soldiers after a six-year-old girl wrote a letter of complaint to the company. Vivian Lord was tired of not seeing women depicted in the ...

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 ...

BMC Toys started taking pre-orders for the soldiers earlier this week, and they are expected to ship in October. The Army women will have 15 different poses. BMC Toys The toy company behind the ...

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 ...

Gender equality has reached the world of toy soldiers. BMC Toys Inc. of Scranton, Pa., will have plastic toys of "green army women" — not men — available in time for the 2020 holiday season. BMC ...