A Girl Asked Toy Companies To Make Green Army Women, And One Actually Did
Vivian Lord asked toymakers why the iconic toy soldiers weren’t available as women — and BMC Toys made the nonexistent figurines a reality.
ByJohanna Silver
BMC PLASTIC ARMY WOMEN | bmctoys.com
BMC PLASTIC ARMY WOMEN | bmctoys.com
The iconic Green Army Men figurines will now be available in another version as women, thanks to a request from a 7-year-old girl in Little Rock, Arkansas.
When Vivian Lord, then 6, won a set of plastic green Army men from an arcade, she questioned why none of the figurines were women. She then sent a letter in 2019 to several toymakers asking them to make the iconic toy figurines available in her gender.