The Halo Bulletin 9-17-14

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Over the past few weeks, you’ve been asking to see more of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. You’ve asked for footage from each game, glorious Gungoose gameplay, and (lots) more. Just today, we released a sneak peek at a bit more goodness in the form of Halo 2: Anniversary screenshots, video footage from Halo 2: Anniversary and Halo 3 on Xbox One. Let’s start by taking a look at some brand new shots, hot off the presses! We hope you like ‘em. Continue reading

HFFL’s 3rd Anniversary Trivia Contests to start tomorrow

To commemorate halofanforlife.com’s 3rd anniversary of coming into being, I’ll be posted trivia questions starting tomorrow and continuing through to the 23rd of Sept.

There will be small prizes for those who answer correctly FIRST.

In order to enter these trivia contests, you must be a blog member, which of course is free to join. Go HERE to register and be eligible to win prizes.

I will be posting questions via the blog, twitter, and HFFL’s Facebook page.

Again though, ONLY registered user of the blog can answer and ONLY via the blog itself. So if you answer on twitter or the Facebook page, those answers are NOT eligible to win.

Halo Toy Review: Mega Bloks Revenant Raid

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Mega Bloks Revenant Raid: Set #97517

Technical Specifications:
Build Time: 15 minutes sorting, 1 hour building
Set Piece Count: 275
Minifigs: Arctic Speckled Spartans: Gungnir, Scout, Recruit, Pilot
Weapons: Rocket Launcher, Target Locator, DMR, Magnum, Assault Rifle, Plasma Launcher, Energy Sword, 2X Sticky Grenades
Accessories: N/A
Special Features: Side wings pivot, cannon deploys
Cost: $33 – Wal*Mart Exclusive

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The Halo Bulletin 9-5-14

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This past weekend, we brought a few things we’ve been working on to this massive gaming expo called PAX Prime. It happens every year right down the road, so we usually walk over and check it out. Luckily for us, thousands of you came too, and even eagerly waited in line to play Halo: The Master Chief Collection for the first time in North America. With help from our friends at Xbox, ASTRO Gaming, Skullcandy Gaming, and ESL, we set up several 4v4 stations all around the expo with multiplayer gameplay on the recently announced re-mastered version of Lockout, set the game timer, and let you play to your heart’s content (or until you hit the score limit) (or the time limit). Continue reading

Halo Toy Review: Mega Bloks Police Air Support Hornet (NMPD Hornet)

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Mega Bloks Police Air Support Hornet (NMPD Hornet) Set #97429

Technical Specifications:
Build Time: 15 minutes sorting, 1 hour 35 minutes building (I took this slow as I had a headache when I was building it.)
Set Piece Count: 290
Minifigs: NMPD Trooper, NMPD Pilot
Weapons: Sniper Rifle, Magnum
Accessories: N/A
Special Features: Cockpit opens/close, rotors pivot/rotate
Cost: $30

And on with the pics! (Click pics to make BIGGER) Continue reading