Interesting models, coloration gives them an almost bright and cheerful look, which would fit the the toy appeal goal.
Actually, battleships have both bridges and conning towers.
USS Missouri BB-63 for example, chosen because I live in Missouri, had a conning tower with 17 inch armor.
A quote from a source,
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Missouri (BB-63) and the Wisconsin (BB-64) were completed with enclosed square-faced bridges like this one. There were no baffles, but glass windshields could be raised to protect both primary and secondary conning positions. Note the siren bracketed to the side of the forward fire control tower, and the small Mark 27 radar that replaced the Mark 3 of earlier battleships atop the conning tower. Abaft it is a 36-inch searchlight. The newly completed Missouri is shown at the NYNY on 23 July 1944. Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman.
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Battleship Photo Index BB-63 USS MISSOURI
HMS Dreadnought herself had a conning tower with, as this source from Osprey books relates, 8 to 11 inches of armor.
https://books.google.com/books?id=B8...0tower&f=false