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/