Yesterday I received a box of the sets from Bandai, directly. When I was at New York Toy Fair back in February, I talked with all of the licensees of Halo products.
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Stop Motion Sprukits vid with Spartan Thorne!
Heh, I like it. Hadn’t thought to use a Sprukits like this. Now I”m just going to HAVE to! LOL
-Sal
Halo Product Review: Metal Earth Master Chief Helmet
When I went to New York Toy Fair this year, I had the pleasure to meet not only the designer, but the owners of Fascinations as well. While taking with both of them about their Halo line, we discussed possible new models to come. During this conversation, the designer was kind enough to offer me one each of their Halo models to review on the blog. This is the first of 4 planned reviews for Fascinations line of Halo Metal Earth models.
Now before I get started, I need to say that this is the first time I’ve worked with laser cut models at this scale. I chose the Master Chief Helmet set to start with since I thought it might be the easiest one.
I learned very quickly that this is the kind of model you MUST take your time with. As such you can see below that it took me 3 1/2 hours to build.
Technical Specifications:
Build Time: 3 1/2 hours
Special Features: N/A
Cost: $13-15 retail
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Halo Toy Review: Mega Bloks Fireteam Eagle
Breaking from the norm here for a minute. I need to thank one of my fellow local Halo fans. He got this and the Sierra Squad sets for me. It was a surprise. He said the store was having a sale, saw that I hadn’t reviewed these on the site yet and knows of the plumbing issues at my home that are causing havoc on our finances, so he picked them up for me. That I know of there isn’t any sales going on at the major stores, so I take it that he is just being very nice. A HUGE thanks Dave. I’m holding his last name confidential as that’s his personal business. Bro, I owe you, TWO! THANKS!!!
Okay, on with the review!
Mega Bloks Sierra Squad: Set #CND00 <–Mega has gone with a new number system for their sets it appears.
Technical Specifications:
Build Time: 2 minutes sorting, less than 5 minutes building
Set Piece Count: 140
Minifigs: All Halo 4 style Spartans: Aviator, Scout, Enforcer, Oceanic, Soldier
Weapons: Scattershot, Light Rifle, Incineration Cannon, Boltshot, 4X Pulse Grenade,
Accessories: Jetpack, Light shield
Special Features: N/A
Cost: $15
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Dark Horse comics, Halo ships!
This was part of my coverage for New York Toy Fair. However, I held on to this as I was waiting on some official info from Dark Horse themselves for the product.
So here now are the ships that Dark Horse will be making available later this year and moving forward.
As you can see, the first three ships to be made are a UNSC Pelican, a Covenant CCS Cruiser and the UNSC Infinity.
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Halo Toy Review: Mega Bloks Sierra Squad multipack
Breaking from the norm here for a minute. I need to thank one of my fellow local Halo fans. He got this and another multipack set for me. I didn’t ask him, so it was a surprise. He said the store was having a sale, saw that I hadn’t reviewed these on the site yet and knows of the plumbing issues at my home that are causing havoc on our finances, so he picked them up for me. That I know of there isn’t any sales going on at the major stores, so I take it that he is just being very nice. If there is a sale (and he didn’t say what store he got these from), well, be on the lookout. Anyway, a HUGE thanks Dave. I’m holding his last name confidential as that’s his personal business. Bro, I owe you, TWO! THANKS!!!
Okay, on with the review!
Mega Bloks Sierra Squad: Set #CND01 <–Mega has gone with a new number system for their sets it appears.
Technical Specifications:
Build Time: 2 minutes sorting, less than 5 minutes building
Set Piece Count: 155
Minifigs: All Halo 4 style UNSC Marines: 1 officer (w/hat), 1 standard w/light skin, 1 standard w/dark skin, 2X with green visor
Weapons: Rocket Launcher, Sniper, 2X Assault Rifle, Battle Rifle, Pistol, SAW, Shotgun, Grenade Launcher
Accessories: 4X Backpack; Radioman Backpack, Waeapons crate w/ lid. Flag w/stand
Special Features: Rotating/Pivoting turret
Cost: $15
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New York Toy Fair Halo Review: Mega Bloks Promethean Phaeton Gunship
I saved what I feel is the best for last regarding Halo Mega Bloks stuff shown at Toy Fair.
When I first asked what the name of the ship was, I was told it wasn’t to be revealed. Fast forward less than a day later and James Monosmith, Marketing Manager for Halo Consumer Products at 343 Industries, confirms through a post on XBOX that the ship is called a Phaeton Gunship. That’s a cool name and I’ll get into it’s possible significance later in the article.
Now, maybe I’m looking into this too far, but this design reminds me of a cross between the Terminator ships and the ship from the Matrix.
I got shots from many angles of the Phaeton Gunship, so by the end of the article, you should have a very clear view of what it looks like all around. Let’s get started!
New York Toy Fair Halo Review: Mega Bloks Vulture
This is a ship fans have definitely been asking for for awhile. It’s one of the few remaining from Halo Wars for which Mega originally had the license for, before they got the complete license for all of Halo.
These two graphics are direct from the official HaloWars.com website. First this in-game version.
Next a concept piece of artwork:
Unfortunately, all but one of my full ship pics were blurry. We were in a hurry as the reps only had a few minutes to show us everything and this was the last set we went to. So this review will be scant on pics showing he full ship model. I do have a few close-ups of the features as well as Agent Locke. Read on!
New York Toy Fair Halo Review: Mega Bloks UNSC Firebase
Now here’s a set I know you folks have been wanting and waiting to see. It’s the UNSC Firebase. Once upon a time, a long long time ago…we got a glimpse of Mega Bloks proposed Firebase. Fans had mixed reactions to it. At the time, many fans balked the price of $199. Since then, we’ve shelled that much out and more for example the Covenant Scarab.
Mega Bloks listened to all of the concern regarding the original Firebase. So they nixed it. (to my disappointment)
Here’s the original listing for the Firebase from 2011:
IIRC, the hill background was just for show and not part of the planned set. Though I could be wrong on that, so don’t quote me.
Here’s a better graphic of the OLD proposed set:
Over the years Mega ‘parted’ the set out by releasing parts of the big set into smaller set. We of course got the Cyclops (many times over), the Troop Warthog, and the Vampire. We just needed the base. Well….read on and you’ll see what Mega is finally coming out with!
New York Toy Fair Halo Review: Kotobukiya Statues and Armor System Spartans
Kotobukiya is a company that is no stranger to awesome highly detail statues. Not only do they have the Master Chief statue (that you could get with the Collector edition of the Master Chief collection, they also have a neat new armor system for Spartan figures! Read on to see see the goodness coming from Kotobukiya! Continue reading