June 30, 2008 - ...plastic toy soldiers were to little boys what Barbie was to little girls: indispensable and ubiquitous.They could be bought anywhere from 59 cents for a plastic bagful at a dime store to a princely $6.99 for the elaborately packaged playsets containing tin buildings and fortresses, so many of them (The Alamo, Valley Forge, D-Day) that the toy sections of department-store catalogs looked like military training manuals.The demand for plastic soldiers (or spacemen and aliens, cops...