Daily Archives: 02/15/2012

New York Toy Fair – McFarlane Halo Micro Ops line

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There are no less than 3 small scale lines of Halo Toys this year. McFarlane Toys Halo Micro Ops line is in a realistic style. Every piece in scale with one another. The difference between McFarlane’s and Jada Toys line is firstly price. I was not able to attend the Jada booth at Toy Fair as they were only allowing buyers in their booth. I do know they only had mockups. Anyway, McFarlane Toys was only too happy to give me a tour of their booth with a heavy concentration on their Halo lines. I spoke with Mark Weber Sports Project/Brand Manager with McFarlane for about 45 minutes.

During this discussion the topic of the other micro lines came up. I asked him his thoughts on this. To paraphrase he said that each line has an appeal to different people. With McFarlane’s line being realistic and affordable he believes it will be a huge success. I’m very inclined to agree with him, especially after seeing their product.

Hmm, so I guess you want to see those pics now???

Well, okay, because I love you.

As you can see by the detail, these are excellently sculpted. But then, we’d expect nothing less from McFarlane and they do hold up to the larger line.

I’m really excited for this line as I will now be able to create “forced perspective” dioramas. This is where you have larger scale objects in front and smaller scale objects in back therefore making a diorama look bigger and deeper than it actually is. Plus with the cost being very affordable it will be easy to amass a huge army!

Package shots are mostly mockups. So look for that product to change.

Look for these starting in Summer this year!

For larger pictures, please check out my flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23683004@N06/sets/72157629335596455/

New York Toy Fair-McFarlane Halo Avatar figures

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I was first skeptical of this line, but after seeing it in person, they are cute and not like the vinyl or bobblehead figures so many companies make. With the price being around $3 for the small ones, I’ll get them. I didn’t get a price on the larger one (Carter).

These aren’t due out for awhile yet and it looks like they are BLIND packaging. So that’s one thing that does hinder the line. At least for me. I’m not a fan of blind packaging.

The small ones will be just a few inches high. They separate at the head and hips so you can mix and match them!

Funko Halo Vinyl and Bobblehead figures from New York Toy Fair 2012

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Well, I was hoping they had more, but at least there was a few to see. Here is what Funko had for Halo products: (Clicky on pics to make bigger…)

I’m not usually one for Vinyls and Bobbleheads, but this is Halo, so I may make an exception here.

Mega Bloks Halo Reach LAN party at New York Toy Fair

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I had the pleasure of working with Brendon, Senior Community Manager at Mega Brands Inc., in putting together a LAN party during Toy Fair. Below is the set up. We had 16 consoles with a 25 inch tv for each, and wireless controllers. This photos was right at the beginning before everyone showed up, so it shows the set up more clearly.

I’m in the red (Iron Man) t-shirt. The fellow taking the pic of me is Brendon. The other seated fellows are friends of mine from my gaming group on XBOX Live. (Rated Mature) or www.ratedmature.net.  We’re Rated Mature because we are a 18 and over group. Feel free to check out the group if your looking for a fun group of adults. We’re not so much concerned with skill as we are having fun people to play with.

Anyway, back to the LAN for a moment. During the gaming session, prizes were given out. Anything from small Mega Bloks Halo blok sets, to the not yet in stores Battlescape II set, to copies of Halo Reach. Look for a contest shortly here to win a free copy of Halo Reach. (It also comes with the code for Recon (In Reach, not Halo 3…). Details on that tomorrow.

We had several games. We played some team games, then free for all slayer, then to end the night a free for all King of the Hill match. Winner got the Battlescape II. (I wasn’t the winner, sadface…heh heh)