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About Sal

I’ve got tons of experience with Halo gaming and collecting. I feel I have something to offer to the greater Halo fan community. Posts along the way will be about tips and tricks in the games as well as collecting and many more Halo related things. I’ll also repost interesting articles from the official site, Halowaypoint.com, or from fellow Halo fan sites. As I continue this blog, I hope to help gamers who want advice on the games, as well as any collectors with regards to where to find collectibles as well as deals, coupons and so on. You can also follow me on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/#!/HaloFanForLife or Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/halofanforlife11. Welcome to my blog and I hope you’ll come back again and again. -Sal

An even BETTER Halo Mega Bloks 5th year Anniversary

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Okay, just finished this one. This is what I had in mind originally, but I wanted to get something done quicker, so I did the other one first.

As I stated before, tis is a way for me to thank Mega Brands/Mega Bloks for their fantastic stewardship of their Halo license. I’m honored to call them my friends!

Right Click to download MUCH bigger version. (It may take awhile as it’s 48MB.) And please let people know where you got it from!

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Here’s an alternate poster with the Mega Bloks logo in the background.

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-Sal

A Happy 5th year Anniversary to Halo Mega Bloks!

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While I’m not certain of the exact date, I know the 5th anniversary of Mega Bloks having the Halo license is upon us. Especially so, given the video I posted previous to this article from Mega Bloks.

I took the opportunity earlier today to download all current figures (all 274 of them) they have on their newly redesigned site, with the idea of putting them all together in one massive collage.

Below is the end result of that. (Click to make BIGGER) And feel free to download!

Halo Mega Bloks 5th anni MINIFIGS

I want to thank Mega Brands, parent company of Mega Bloks for 5 great years so far. In specific, Andrew Sparkes, whom I’ve been fortunate to have made a friend of, as well as Tanya Furci-Argento. There are others at Mega Brands as well that I’ve had the pleasure to meet. And most recently, Tim, the Social Media fellow for Halo Mega Bloks.

You’ve got a GREAT crew there Mega and I applaud all of your hard work to the license as well as your dedication to the fans of it. Rarely have I seen a toy manufacturer genuinely CARE, not only about it’s product, but also the fans for whom the product is made.

Happy Fifth Anniversary of having the license! And I’m sure I speak for many when I say, we look forward to MANY more years to come!

To see the newly redesigned site, go HERE!

And for more Mega Bloks, news, previews and toy reviews, please check out my Halo Mega Bloks section of HFFL HERE!

-Sal

Random Halo SDCC pics…

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Just some random Halo related stuff showing up at SDCC.

Halo pins can be found at several booths. In this first pic, BS Angel shows off her collection:

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Frank O’Conner and Rob Semsey of 343 at SDCC:
Frank and Rob Semsey

The 405 (Halo cosplayers) at SDCC:
405th at Mega Booth LARGEMore 405th

More pics to come as I can find them.

-Sal

 

Sparth (amazing concept artist at 343) has posted some Mammoth concepts.

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Text from Sparth:
explorations and final concepts for the Halo 4 Mammoth.
first side concepts done by me. worked a lot with RJ Ranola and his awesome 3d skills in order to bring this vehicle to completion. third image is painted over his model. also adding a game screenshot of the front.
lots of work from all 343 teams too.

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-Sal

HALO: Initiation #1 Preview

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“Before she was a super solider defending humanity as part of the Spartan IV program, Sarah Palmer was an ODST—Orbital Drop Shock Trooper—carrying out the most dangerous missions behind enemy lines!”

Here is the preview of Halo Initiation (Click to make bigger):

I am SO looking forward to this!

Source Link

-Sal

Halo 4 Global Championship Top Ten Leaderboard update!

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As of 10AM Wednesday PST here are the top ten gamers in the Halo 4 Global Championship:

7-18-13 10 am PSTThe leaderboard has changed since yesterday. Wettimage who was in first yesterday with 66 1st place finishes has dropped down to 3rd place with 76 1st place finishes.

And “eL ToWn” has vaulted into first place with 82 1st place finishes. WOW! You can’t just be good to be in this competition. Not even GREAT… You have to be AWESOME!. The fourth place gamer currently has 71 1st place finishes.

This is what it takes if you want to go to Seattle to game for that $200K 1st place prize!

Good luck to all participants.

-Sal

3 Armor Mods cut from halo 4? IS THIS FOR REAL?

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I’m VERY skeptical about this, considering the video is done by “Halo4Modding”

Taking this with a HUGE grain of salt…

Last Gasp: So a grenade that poops out of you when you die? Um, I think we can ALL see why this was a good idea to cut. Seems like this happens without this mod anyway…

Aural Enhancement: Really? We need a back-up beeper to alert us of enemies? USE YOUR RADAR and your EYES folks….LOL Glad this wasn’t in either.

Battle Awareness: Seeing your enemy’s shields. Okay, if you’ve shot them 5 or 6 times, you should know they are ready to die. Honestly, if these three were really made for the game and then added, it would have shown that 343 was trying to make the game OVERLY n00b friendly, an accusation they’ve already been charged with by the masses.

I’m going to call this video BUNK. Again due to the author of the video, until 343 says otherwise.

Thanks to TeamBeyond for tweeting this…I guess. LOL

-Sal