Halo Toy Review: Bandai Sprukits Spartan Thorne

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This review is the third of the four currently at retail as of this posting. It’s Spartan Gabriel Thorne.

Okay, without further ado, let’s get to the review.

Technical Specifications:
Build Time: 45 minutes building, Your time will vary as I was taking pictures along the way for this review.
Set Piece Count: 110
Weapons: One Assault Rifle, One Magnum
Accessories: Figure Stand
Special Features: Fully articulated at the following:
• Ball Joint Head,
• Ball Joint Shoulders
• Double hinge jointed Elbows
• Ball Jointed Wrists
• Ball Jointed Waist
• Ball Jointed Hips
• Double Hinge Jointed Knees
• Ball Jointed Ankles
As well, the model includes a set of fisted hands, a set of ‘trigger’ hands, plus a third left hand that is open. This can be used to help hold and assault rifle.

Cost: $20 at retail

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Canon Fodder Issue 18: Clarity & Grace

By GrimBrother One

ISSUE 18

Greetings! Welcome back to Canon Fodder. I assume everyone had a smooth week with no oddities and absurdities thrown their way? No? Excellent, then let’s get started. This week we’ve got another Community Q&A, where myself and a few members of the Franchise Team lock ourselves in the hidden and dusty 343 Lore Chambers armed with nothing but arcane knowledge, tired typing fingers, and chocolate. Well that and sweet tea – the drink of the gods – which keeps this Florida-born Grim full of more inspiration than perspiration. Before we begin, I wanted to talk briefly about how to best go about increasing your chances to get a question answered. I supposed I could also title this list “how to guarantee your question won’t get picked,” but let’s stay focused on the positives! Here are a few tips:

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A new category added to sidebar: HUNTtheTRUTH

Since it looks like there are going to be a lot more entries for this, I wanted to make it easier for you all to find the HUNTtheTRUTH (HTT) articles I’ve posted on the blog.

Go to the sidebar on the main page. Click on the button for ‘categories’. Scroll down. Just under the HaloWaypoint link is the sub-category for HUNTtheTRUTH. Click that and you’ll find all of the related articles. I’ll keep adding to this category as new HTT information presents itself.

-Sal

HUNTtheTRUTH Another clue or a misdirection?

As of this writing, I can not corroborate the following two graphics coming from 343/Halo.

These were supposedly tweeted out by a ‘ghost’ twitter account and @Halo favorited it. However, I checked their account and could not find the favorite. So take these with a grain of salt. If /when I get corroborating links/evidence, I’ll post that information in this article. For now, treat it as a possible fan entry into the HTT campaign. Continue reading