Toy Soldiers and Figures Books

this is a great book and i think it would be able to make another great movie.i saw the the movie and i am telling you it is funny.

My 8-year old son and I both really enjoyed this book. Having already seen the movie, we felt that we knew the characters, and truly enjoyed their antics. We are hoping that Gavin Scott will write more books in this series!

A riveting adventure......The adventure continues. If you loved small solidiers, this is your type of Book!!!!!! Action and comedy around every turn.This book is a small masterpiece

The un-official sequel to the awesome flick Small Soldiers is no where near as good as the original,but a fine follow-up nothenless.This sequel lacked the action of the first and the ending is even worse than that of the first,but it's improved in places.The human characters have much better development than those from the first and the script is a lot less predictable.You get to know the Gorgonites better than in the first so you'll really start to like them,as they go on great adventures.Driving a toy jeep in a toy store,doing battle with The Commando Elite with a bulldozers and dueling in a fortress with the commandos.This sequel also has a lot less plot holes than the first and the violence is very low,so it'll probably be rated PG if it's turned into a movie.Although it's no where near as entertaining or as funny as the first and it was a bit disappointing that none of the human characters from the original returned,it's still an above-average follow-up to the first.It simply MUST be turned into a movie and I really hope a Small Soldiers 3 is planned!

This is one of the best books written on the subject in years! It is very detailed and full of color photos of these great old toy soldiers. If you have this book and Richard O'Briens...thats all you need as a resource on the subject!

This is one of the best books written on the subject in years! It is very detailed and full of color photos of these great old toy soldiers. If you have this book and Richard O'Briens...thats all you need as a resource on the subject!

Absolutely fantastic book! I purchased a copy and was able to identify every foreign soldier I had and sold them for big bucks. COuldn't be happier!!

Small Soldiers
This book is about soldiers and the gorgonites they are enemies. They ship in these new toys and Alan buys some and he takes them home and he has archer he is the leader of the gorgonites and he can talk. Next is Chip Hazard he is the leader of the enemies. Chip is trying to start a war with the gorgonites so Chip's army has to get ready and prepare with their weapons and everything they can think of to beat the gorgonites. Archer and the gorgonites like to hide and they want to hide. So at the end they have a big war and see who proves who is the best soldier.

The Main character in the main book is Alan. Alan is a troublemaker that works at his dad's toy store. He got kicked
Out of two schools and he's trying to prove that his parents will trust him in hard situations.

I really like this book and movie. My favorite part is when they have a big war and decide who is the winner, because archer was the man who is for the gorgonites.

Sam Watson 10-08-04

SMALL SOLDIERS Small soldiers is about a man called Larry who invented THE COMMANDO ELITE a squadron of muscle army guys.There was also a man called Irwin who invented THE GORGONITES a collection of strange monsters.But the boss Mr.Mars wanted toys that when you play with them they play back so they sended the toys to a kid called Alan so when he got them he started selling them.He got 6 COMMANDOS the leader was MAJOR CHIP HAZARD the rest are LINK STATIC,BRICK BAZOOKA, KIP KILLIGAN,BUTCH MEATHOOK,AND NICK NITRO.Also 7 GORGONITE the emasery of the GORGONITES was ARCHER and the rest are OCULA,PUNCH-IT,SCRATCH-IT,INSANIAC SLAMFIST,and who use to be TROGLOKHAN is FREAKENSTAIN. THE SMALL SOLDIERS WILL BE WON.

I gotta say that this book is a lot better than the movie.I like the part where the GORGANITES go to the lake on the boat that Alan had gave them. I would wish that there was a part 2 !!!!!!!!!!!

This book is about this guy named Alan.He gets a delivery of some talking toys.But these toys aren't ordinary toys.There toys that destroy everything in their path.And there is no off switch!

When Alan Abernathy,a typical teenager gets a delivery of cool toys,he 'borrows' them and sells them.Little does he know that these toy have top-secret chips in their heads.Soon Alan and his family is caught in a toy war.What happens? To find out read this cool book!

I received my first set of old Britains lead toy soldiers when I was five years old. Two sets, actually, the cavalry and infantry display sets of Union and Confederate troops of the American Civil War were under the Christmas tree and I played with them until they literally fell apart, except for one Union infantryman which I still have.

I was hooked, and I scrimped and saved to get the ocassional set for myself when going down to the old Buffums' Department Store in downtown Long Beach, California through grade school and high school. Metal and plastic, swoppet knights and Guradsmen, Waterloo artillery and French Zouaves, they all found their way into my modest collection, to end up in boxes in my closet until one day in 1987 when I bought one of James Opies' superb books on Britains and the bug hit again. I broght out the old figures, put them on display and started to buy the old veterans on the secondary market, to where I now have over 2,000 of them and my modest collection is becoming somewhat definitive.

This book, which chronicles the output of Britains for 100 years is indispensable to the collector and enthusiast. If you don't own it, you are missing out on a visual treat, seeing soldiers produced by Britains that you may not know even exist. As I restore and convert the old broken ones I find, it is also invaluable as a photographic record of Britains immense output over the years.

The book was issued a Britains catalogue number, was issued in two 'versions', one with a set of four new figures, two Scots' Greys and two fusiliers, in a box, the other with a dustcover.

The book IS expensive, but well worth the cost, and I have used it innumerable times to research a figure, read the text, or to just enjoy the pictures.

I have over 4,000 total Britains now, old and new, metal and plastice, and the collection has grown in large part because of James Opie, and his books, especially this one.

This lavishly illustrated history of the world's greatest manfacturer of toy soldiers is a must for fans of William Britain's company. From the early hollow metal days through the years of great plastic models to the recent resurgence of metals, it's all in here.

I reluctantly gave this book 4 stars because of the English translation. Want to turn your GI Joe into a museum piece? The Fort Lewis (Washington state) Military Museum has many 12-inch figures on display to represent soldiers of different eras. "Second World War And 12-Inch Action Figures" is a how-to guide on turning 1:6th-scale action figures from Dragon, 21st Century, and Blue Box Toys into museum minatures. I have a minor complaint about the American soldier shown on pages 64 and 65--the sling on his M1903 Springfield rifle is attached to the stacking swivel instead of the forward sling swivel. I can't gripe much--the original GI Joe made the same mistake with the M1 rifle! Another minor glich is calling a 75mm recoiless rifle (page 4) a 57mm recoiless rifle. Even so, the advice on modelling tools and techniques and the photos and descriptions of the finished figures made for an entertaining read. I may even be able to use some of these techniques.