After visiting two dozen Walgreens stores in a period of eight days (and no, that’s not hyperbole), I finally managed to hunt down the one exclusive figure from McFarlane Toys Halo 4 Series 2: the Green/Steel CIO Spartan action figure… … Continue Reading →
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Having driven around like a crazy person all last week on the prowl for Halo 4 Series 2 figures at a dozen and a half local Walgreens stores, I finally came across a lone Halo 4 Series 2 Rust Spartan … Continue Reading →
Of the four electronic lights and sounds Halo Mega Bloks sets that MEGA Brands unveiled at the 2013 New York Toy Fair, the 97134 Halo Mega Bloks UNSC Night Ops Gausshog was easily the one I was least interested in. Compared to the Mega Bloks Halo Wars vehicles sets (UNSC Cobra, UNSC Hornet and Covenant Vampire) and a new UNSC Pelican, a new Halo 4 Mega Bloks Warthog didn’t seem all that compelling. Well, I received my Night Ops Gausshog Mega Bloks set from BA Toys last week, and not only do I find the completed set compelling, but I can give it a wholehearted recommendation…
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The 2009 Halo Mega Bloks UNSC Hornet was one of the very first Halo Mega Bloks sets that I ever built, so getting to build and hold an all-new Hornet as part of the Halo Mega Bloks UNSC Hornet vs. … Continue Reading →
Lest anyone begin speculating that my collecting greed is dissipating, let me remove all doubt: Yes, I did indeed purchase this bright green Spartan Warrior Funko POP! Vinyl SDCC 2013 Exclusive figure in addition to its yellow companion. I lauded … Continue Reading →
I really, truly intended for the Halo Mega Bloks Brute Battle Unit 97085 to be the first of the Summer/Fall 2013 Halo Mega Bloks sets that I reviewed, but one after the next, newer and more captivating sets started being released. Now, almost two months after receiving it, I’m stepping back to give the Mega Bloks Halo Brute Battle Unit the review spotlight it so richly deserves…
Continue Reading →The Halo Funko POP! Vinyls seem like a weird thing to review, as you tend to either really like Funko’s super-deformed style of figures or not. Even so, what you see in the official glamor photos from Funko isn’t always … Continue Reading →
The long-awaited Halo Mega Bloks Series 7 figures began to reach stores last month, and I got my Halo Mega Bloks Series 7 case from BA Toys on the very first day anyone received the figures. I’ve finally got the … Continue Reading →
I feel like it’s Christmas a couple times a month this summer, as I’ve been getting little boxes of my Halo Mega Bloks Summer 2013 sets order from BA Toys in the mail a couple times a month. With the … Continue Reading →
Last week I reviewed the first set of the new Halo Mega Bloks ONI REAP-X sub-theme, the UNSC Siege Bike. I wasn’t expecting a lot from that vehicle, but I ended up thinking it was a worthy purchase. Today, I’ve … Continue Reading →
Now that the craziness of San Diego Comic Con 2013 is no longer upon us, let’s switch gears from looking at the future to talking about the here and now. So let’s journey back and discuss another of the Halo Mega Bloks Summer Sets for 2013, the Halo Mega Bloks UNSC Attack Cyclops 97108…
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In late winter 2013, intel leaked that MEGA Brands was working on a newly themed series of Halo Mega Bloks sets featuring original designs not seen in the Halo video games. Dubbed Halo Mega Bloks ONI REAP-X, the line features … Continue Reading →
I was pretty hard on the Halo Mega Bloks C&C Console, Forerunner Terminal and UNSC Hangar Bay in my recent streak of Halo Mega Bloks reviews. Of course, those reviews didn’t give a full perspective on the value of any of those three sets, as that trio of Halo Mega Bloks sets has a secondary (or honestly–primary) purpose: to combine to form the Halo Mega Bloks Booster Frame vehicle from “Halo Legends”. You’ve been patient, Halo fans, and now it’s time answer the age-old question of “Is the whole Halo Mega Bloks Booster Frame” better than the sum of its individual Mega Bloks components?”
Continue Reading →I am a total sucker for arctic-themed anything. As a kid the arctic G.I. Joes were always my favorite, I loved the battle of Hoth, and I bought every crummy “snowy” variant with a couple specks of paint randomly thrown … Continue Reading →
Before I can review the Halo Mega Bloks Booster Frame next week (spoilers: I like it more than the individual sets you get the parts for it from), I need to cover the last of the three sets needed to … Continue Reading →
I’ll be giving the buildable Halo Mega Bloks Booster Frame vehicle its own review, but before I get there, I’ve got to review each of the three smaller summer 2013 Halo Mega Bloks sets which combine to create the UNSC Booster Frame. I started off with the passable Forerunner Terminal set (with awesome Promethean Alpha Crawler figure), and today I’m moving onto another set where the highlight is definitely the included figure: the Mega Bloks Halo UNSC C&C Console 97131…
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I was partway through writing my reviews for the new summer 2013 Halo Mega Bloks Brute Battle Unit and UNSC Weapons Pack when I received a flurry of requests to start covering the Booster Frame sets, so I decided to … Continue Reading →
Last week I started off my coverage of the newly released 2013 Halo Mega Bloks Summer sets with the riveting Forerunner Weapons Pack and ODST Battle Unit. Now I’m ready to move on to the second of the three summer … Continue Reading →
Just when you think you’ve seen just about every variation imaginable of Halo Mega Bloks figures, MEGA Brands pulls a rabbit (or in this case a Hunter) out of a hat! As part of the summer 2013 wave of Halo … Continue Reading →
I had been planning to start my series of Halo Mega Bloks Summer 2013 set reviews with the new Battle Units, but as I started opening sets, there was an unexpected hit. One set that stood out from the rest I was opening as being the most fun and interesting and thus the one I was most excited to begin talking about. The surprise standout of the new Weapons Packs (and perhaps the small size summer Halo Mega Bloks sets altogether) is the Halo Mega Bloks Forerunner Weapons Pack 97066…
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