{"id":13004,"date":"2014-02-17T09:16:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=13004"},"modified":"2014-02-17T09:16:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:16:05","slug":"new-york-toy-fair-2014-halo-toy-news-mega-bloks-mantis-more-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/?p=13004","title":{"rendered":"New York Toy Fair 2014 Halo toy news: Mega Bloks Mantis – more details"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MB<\/a>Let’s take a closer look at the Remote Controlled Mantis. Pics are from figures.com. I cropped and color corrected fro clarity.<\/p>\n

\"RC<\/a>The boxed shot as seen on the shelf at NTYF 2014.
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Same shot with the perspective fixed.
\n\"RC<\/a>The box says 85 pieces. If you can’t by the pics, many of the pieces are special molded parts. So this isn’t a true fully blok piece set. Does that matter though? Not to me! With lights and sounds, new articulated figure, launching rockets, etc., this sets seems ready to be a success!
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\"RC
\n<\/a>As you can tell, it towers over the minifies. So what can we expect to pay for this? That’s a tough call as the piece count isn’t reflective of the price with this set. Considering the electronics involved, I’d make a guess at $50. Hopefully we’ll get an answer from Mega Brands soon.
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One last cool thing is that the controller for this looks much like an XBOX controller.
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So might you be getting this?<\/p>\n

-Sal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s take a closer look at the Remote Controlled Mantis. Pics are from figures.com. I cropped and color corrected fro clarity. The boxed shot as seen on the shelf at NTYF 2014. Same shot with the perspective fixed. The box … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13011,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004\/revisions\/13011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halofanforlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}