Gasp! That's a military vehicle!

I'm kidding, but y'know. Still.

Who said you could make a toy out of a toy depicting a real world military vehicle? Was WWII finally determined old enough that it's historical and not too modern to corrupt the imaginative play of children? Or is it just because everything's a vibrant green? Outrageous! The youth should not be exposed to such things!

Ah, yes, the only Toy Story set I own (twice!).

It was quite the stirring thing, back in 2010 when LEGO proved amenable to (GASP!) Army Men, but in hindsight, I feel like the actually impact on the parts of the MOCing community I saw were minimal. And in my own collection, I love that green head, but the "army" parts are a bit more meh.

I don't know what I've been told!
More Green Army Men are separately sold!
Sound Off: 1- 2- 3 - 4
I don't know what I've been told!
Hopping around on one joined-leg gets really old!
Sound off: 5 - 6 - 7 - 8!

(for best effect, read in R. Lee Ermey's voice)

One of the only original Toy Story sets I don't own. I had its big brother, 7595 (in fact, I got two of it), in fact I got all the sets except for the polybags. I was just so excited to see two of my favorite companies (Lego and Pixar) coming together.

My name is Chrsi, and this is my 30071 story.

I don't know how I got this particular polybag, but all I can remember is that it suddenly appeared in my room. It stared at me, menacingly, as if it were calling my name like a siren drawing a ship to the rocks. I should have run. I should have called for an adult to carefully push it into a trashcan with the end of a broomstick, but I was young, and foolish, and unaware entirely of the evils of this world.

I built the set.

But it was not enough, you see. It was not enough to build one single army Jeep, to put a single army man onto the green platform. I wanted more. I bought another polybag, and another, and another. But that wasn't enough, so I caved and bought 7595. Next thing I knew, I was reassembling yellow brick castles into tanks and emailing LEGO demanding a proper release of the Osprey TECHNIC set.

My parents begged me to stop. "This isn't you!" they said. I should have listened.

It all came to a dark end when I found myself destabilizing a small nation with my newfound skills of modern warfare, raiding their wealth to acquire more copies of this cursed polybag. Enough was enough. I sought help, ashamed of who I'd become. I rebuilt my yellow castle. I melted the rest of my collection. I gave away all my VIP points to the eliminated teams from LEGO Masters. I am a changed man, and I will never go back.

Parents, talk to your kids about LEGO military-but-not-actually-military-we-swear sets. You may just save a life.

Hmmm...You've got a friend and Jeep...writes itself:D

@GBP_Chris said: "It all came to a dark end when I found myself destabilizing a small nation with my newfound skills of modern warfare, raiding their wealth to acquire more copies of this cursed polybag."

You know, that's about the only way most of us can afford Lego sets, these days, so I'm really not going to judge you for it.

A nice set. I wish I got this along with Army Men on Patrol. Ironically I was just equipping these guys with some long awaited Brickarms. (I swapped the heads and hands for regular yellow).
As others have said, green army men were yet another case of Lego's hypocrisy about military matters. Yes it's a toy of a toy, but the subject matter remains Second World War U.S Army GIs with a Willy's Jeep.
Looking at Brickarms (such as Brickarms flintlock musket/pistol which make pirate sets look sooo much better,) I wish Lego made some 'military esque' stuff. Dino Attack was a cool theme but nope, got cancelled.
I understand and respect Lego's choice not to make realistic models of tanks and so forth, but it really gets ridiculous when we can't even have armed biplanes (despite already getting those in Adventurers, Pharaohs Quest and even a fully realistic model of an armed First World War Sopwith Camel), or especially when the new Avatar sets can't have any guns.
Last I checked a mech was fictional, sci fi, made up. There's no reason why it can't have sci fi guns on it, as it appears in the film.
And just on Avatar, given that the whole plot is based around a human semi realistic military, I really cannot understand why Lego would chose the theme in the first place. Some people respond to this with "Just deal with it", but that's not a valid argument to answer my question. I completely understand Lego not making a theme based around, say, The Great Escape or Where Eagles Dare films, because they are in WW2 and have lots of military stuff. So why then out of all the possible sci fi licenses out there, choose Avatar when lego clearly has big issues with a huge part of the plot???

I pointedly only bought one copy of this to stay 100% complete on Toy Story sets. Instead, I got at least 15 copies of 7595 because it was a better deal. Using the minifigs from all but one copy of AMOP, I filled a real licensed Bucket O Soldiers with a pile of Green Army Men. Included is a tank with intentionally non-rolling black treads (instead it has four wheels mounted to the underside like a tank costume on a small car), a bigger Jeep that can actually seat two, a functional paratrooper (with a real camouflaged LEGO parachute), and a whole host of Green Army Men that are not only all posed differently, but they are each individually based on the poses of one of the original contents of the bucket, or some other plastic army men I was able to find photos of online. With the help of two copies of Brickarms' green accessory pack, I was able to make Green Army Men with a machine gun, a bazooka, a mortar and shell, a flamethrower, two poses with a bayonetted rifle, one with a grenade, officers with pistols, communications, several poses with basic riflemen, and I even made both regular and "broken" versions of the minesweeper (the latter being carried on a stretcher in reference to the scene in the first movie).

@R1_Drift:
I cannot concur. That honor goes to 30070. This was a Target exclusive, while the Claw Alien was only found at TRU. Thankfully, at the time they were available, TRU kept doing promos that worked really well with them. Buy $10 in LEGO product, get one Claw Alien polybag free (and they didn't ban you from buying $10 in Claw Alien polybags to qualify for a free one). BOGOHO. I was cleaning out every TRU within about a 10 mile radius every time I spotted them. Someday I really need to make a Claw Machine MOC...

It's easy to see why LEGO made an army Jeep even when they are opposed to war toys: Disney made them do it.

No matter how much I like the WW2 machinery, I don't want Lego to make real world war machines. In that I support Lego. First of all, they don't come in fun colors. Second, you cannot have smiley faces when you're at war. And I like my little Lego people with smiles on their faces.

@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"I knew LEGO made the patrol set, but there was a polybag too!? How did they get away with this!?"

Indiana jones has german and russian soldiers.
We had models of WW I fighter planes
The lego values seem to be a bit flexible sometimes

This seems like a nice set but sadly I had no buget for toy story and now I have no room

I always found it funny how this depicts the same thing as the 10 euro set, just smaller. And in both cases I always wonder how an army man with the stand attached to his feet is supposed to sit in the vehicle.

It saddens me how almost all the comments so far are about the no modern military conflict policy. I came here to look at the nostalgic thingy you know.

Here's my 5 cents:
Yes, it's hipocritical and lego's stance has wobbled over the years. But it's there for a reason. Here in Europe war is still recent. There's still people alive traumatized by WWII or even one of the more recent conflicts. Not to mention the general bloody history and the current war in Ukraine.

My grandpa was a child during the Dutch occupation. And I'm relatively young on this site. Speaking personally, in my circles war is considered as something that must not be forgotten and freedom as something precious people had suffered for to create. And it's a fragile thing.
If lego as a Danish company decides so, who are we to demand otherwise? It's a cultural thing.

From previous discussions I've heard the countries that were allies and saw no recent war on their soil -like the US- are more likely to consider depicting war as a way to honor the ones who fought. While in Europe modern war is more stigmatized and taboo. That's why you're more likely to see MOCs of WWII battles in american conventions than in european ones. Not everyone is like that of course, but it's the general trend.

From what I could find about lego's reasoning it's to not produce things that resemble modern military conflict as to not present weaponry that people might have been traumatized by IRL. In addition it's to not glorify real-world violence and not support military institutions.

I like to criticize lego as much as the next guy. And I agree they have made some questionable decisions with this policy. Even the Star Wars license wasn't free from scrutiny back in the day (and it opened the floodgates for more cases). But let's not forget that the policy is lego's cultural heritage at least. I'd rather lego stick to their own policy than to see them abandon it altogether.

This set, the indiana jones sets and stuff like Star Wars all skirt the line between make-believe and modern real-world violence. The osprey was based literally on an exclusively army-contracted vehicle specifically by name and putting rescue stickers on it to act like it was still make-believe. It's not the same. But if you ask me the indiana jones, avatar and army soldier depictions were not in line with the policy. Again: I'd rather lego stick to their own policy if they're serious about it at least.