BMC Toys: Plastic Army Women Project: Update #9

Posted by Jeff Imel on May 22, 2020

After months of being sworn to secrecy, I can finally announce that Little Big Shots with Melissa McCarthy invited 7 year old Vivian Lord and her family out to California to be part of the program. The show will air on NBC this Sunday evening at 7pm Eastern (March 24th, 2020). Vivian's letter brought the Plastic Army Women project to the media's attention last summer and really helped get the project moving forward.

Sean Clancy from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette most likely wrote the very first news story about Vivian's letter and has written a new article: Youngster gets her wish for green Army women and a spot on Little Big Shots

The next piece of exciting news is that all the resin prototypes have been completed and delivered to the plastic injection mold maker. Minor adjustments are being made to make sure the bases are all the right size and that the finished plastic figures will come out of the steel molds smoothly. It takes a couple of months for the plastic injection molds to be made, then the molds will be tested, refined, and tested again until the they're ready to ship to the factory in Pennsylvania for production of the finished plastic figures. Here's the figures that will be included in the set:
BMC Toys: Plastic Army Women 18pc Digital Mockup

If you look closely you'll see a new figure has been added to the set-- a variant of the Corpsman. Originally, both Corpsman were going to be identical, but I got the idea to change the head on the 2nd figure to add just a little more variety to the set. This brings the set to a total of 16 different figures, plus the military working dog and stretcher. Here's the 2 different Corpsman head sculpts:
BMC Toys Plastic Army Women Corpsman Head Variants
Here's the list of figures:

Pathfinder Captain
Standing Rifleman
Kneeling Rifleman
Prone Sharpshooter
Grenadier
Bazooka Operator
Running Riflemen
Combat Medic
Low Crawling Rifleman
Radio Operator
Wounded Soldier
Light Machine Gunner
Nurse
Corpsman with Helmet
Stretcher
Corpsman with Field Cap
Military Working Dog
MWD Handler

I think this is turning out to be a pretty epic set of plastic toy soldiers, and I can't wait to see the first test shots made from the new molds.

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