Remember when?

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What about these guys? We played with plastic, non-moving army men for long periods of time, proof that kids can function fully well with little more than their imagination.

When I was a kid, we didn't have those little soldiers. We had larger, soldiers and cowboys and Indian figures [[probably 3 or 4 times as big. Cheaper ones were plastic, and one solid colour. But there were also wooden, hand painted ones. But those sets were much more expensive, and had much smaller amounts. But they cost more, and you couldn't have as many. The bags of many little ones for low cost, started around 1958 or so. I remember the adverts, 99 Soldiers for $1.85, on the back of comic books. They had a Civil War set, current WWII set, a Cowboy and Indian set, etc.