I never would've guessed this series had no tie in with the actual toys, or with Toy Story. Somehow as a kid I always assumed Toy Story acquired the rights to the Army Men toys and then this franchise used the same type of licensing deal for their own franchise of games.

Nope.

Somehow this has absolutely nothing to do with the actual toys and was allowed to exist regardless. It was actually designed based on the plastic toys to avoid German censorship at the time, oddly enough. Considering Command & Conquer needed to have all the people turned into robots, they wanted to come up with something out the gate that didn't require multiple versions of the game. Weird considering it's an American company that was started by the guy who owned EA. I guess German markets were still large enough in gaming that this was a concern out the gate.

I never would've guessed this series had no tie in with the actual toys, or with Toy Story. Somehow as a kid I always assumed Toy Story acquired the rights to the Army Men toys and then this franchise used the same type of licensing deal for their own franchise of games. Nope. Somehow this has absolutely nothing to do with the actual toys and was allowed to exist regardless. It was actually designed based on the plastic toys to avoid German censorship at the time, oddly enough. Considering Command & Conquer needed to have all the people turned into robots, they wanted to come up with something out the gate that didn't require multiple versions of the game. Weird considering it's an American company that was started by the guy who owned EA. I guess German markets were still large enough in gaming that this was a concern out the gate.