It was a pretty busy weekend for me, and the primary reason for that was that I spent four hours driving around to 11 different Walgreens stores in my area. My disdain for toy shopping at Walgreens is well-known, and there’s … Continue Reading →
Category Archives: McFarlane Toys Halo News
Considering that McFarlane Toys Halo action figure collectors have had to go almost a year without any new Halo 4 figures, some fans have started to develop a bit of a Chicken Little “The Sky Is Falling” complex about McFarlane … Continue Reading →
When you haven’t had a new action figure released in your favorite toy line in a year, every little dribble of news is exciting. Well, McFarlane Toys has now opened up the floodgates by confirming the release date for the long-awaited McFarlane Halo 4 Series 2 and posting packaged photos of each and every figure in Halo 4 Wave 2!
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For months speculation has run rampant as to the retail store that would obtain the fabled Steel/Green Spartan CIO figure exclusive as part of McFarlane Toys Halo 4 Series 2. Would it be the latest in a long history of Walmart or Gamestop Halo exclusives? Would Target or Toys R Us be returning Halo action figures to their rightful throne of prominence within their action figure aisles? Could Amazon be looking to stage a coup and claim the richest McFarlane Halo 4 Series 2 exclusive figure for themselves? Well, it turns out it’s none of the above. Instead, the C.I.O. Spartan exclusive green and steel action figure will be going to the wretched hive of scum and villainy known as Walgreens…
Continue Reading →This weekend we’ll all turn our calendars to September 2013, which means we’ll be within one month of the anticipated release date of McFarlane Toys’ Halo 4 Series 2 figures set. Officially scheduled to arrive in October 2013, online retailers … Continue Reading →
We’re coming up on it being close to a year since McFarlane Toys released their last series of Halo 4 action figures. With the exception of the GameStop Rewards Red Spartan Warrior figure exclusive, McFarlane Toys hasn’t released a single … Continue Reading →
There’s one pretty significant Halo product being displayed at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con this week that has sort of fallen through the cracks this week, and it’s a biggie! Coming from McFarlane Toys in late 2013/early 2014, it’s … Continue Reading →
Last week, McFarlane Toys sent out a bunch of press photos of their old Halo 4 Series 2 figures prototypes that we’d already seen a million times before. Nothing to get excited about there. But–but! Todd McFarlane has also updated … Continue Reading →
Last week we broke the news of the exclusive Halo 4 downloadable content codes that will be packed in with McFarlane Toys’ Halo 4 Series 2 coming this summer. And while those Halo 4 exclusive unlockables are in fact a … Continue Reading →
It’s not exactly a secret that McFarlane Toys has been planning to start bundling exclusive Halo 4 DLC (downloadable content) unlockables with their upcoming Assassin’s Creed and Halo 4 action figure lines, but the specifics of that Halo 4 downloadable … Continue Reading →
If you’ve held off on purchasing any of the Halo 4 figures or Halo Micro Ops sets released since last fall (and if you have, shame on you), you may in luck–all of my local Target stores have begun a … Continue Reading →
It was just a couple days ago that I was sent photography of the McFarlane Toys Halo 4 Series 2 Spartan Scout, and now another prototype from Halo 4 Series 2 has hit the internet–the Jackal Storm! Not only are … Continue Reading →
Halo 4 Series 2 isn’t due out from McFarlane Toys for at least four more months, but today I got a pretty great surprise in my inbox: an E-Mail from reader Capsule_x_Nike with a ton of high-resolution photos attached and … Continue Reading →
Well, the bad news keeps on coming for collectors of the McFarlane Halo 4 figure line. Something collectors have been speculating about for over a month now became official today. Retailers are now being informed by McFarlane Toys that the … Continue Reading →
Earlier this week I wrote an editorial discussing the question of whether or not the McFarlane Toys Halo action figure line is dying. As distressing as that topic is (and it definitely distresses me), it gave me the opportunity to … Continue Reading →
I get a couple messages from readers in my inbox every week asking if the Halo McFarlane Toys line of action figures and vehicles is dying. Unfortunately, I’m not on Todd McFarlane’s Christmas card list and the development team over … Continue Reading →
For the McFarlane Halo 4 collector who has to have everything (and I mean everything), a brand-new Halo 4 action figure from McFarlane Toys has finally turned up: a Gamestop Powerups Rewards exclusive red Spartan Warrior! And if you’ve got … Continue Reading →
Obviously through some sort of arcane sorcery, McFarlane Toys actually managed to get an entire product series out to retailers before showing off any prototypes of the figures to the public! We saw them today for the first time at … Continue Reading →
Though we’ve been going through a little bit of McFarlane Halo 4 withdrawal the last few months, McFarlane Toys has bounced back to surprise us several times this week! First it was the unannounced reveal of the Gamestop Powerup Rewards … Continue Reading →
Earlier today I discussed the prototypes of McFarlane Toys’ Halo 4 Series action figures, and now I’m back to talk a little bit about the 2013 Halo Micro Ops Series 2 assortment! … Continue Reading →