There aren’t too many quintessential environments in the Halo games that could be considered absolutely iconic, but the UNSC Cryo Bay is one of them. It’s where we meet the Master Chief for the first time in Halo: Combat Evolved … Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Toys Reviews
To my great shame, once in a while, a really great Halo toy slips through the cracks without getting a review. The Halo 4 UNSC Cryo Tube with frozen Master Chief figure by McFarlane is one of those toys. I’ve … Continue Reading →
If there’s one facet of Halo I can never get enough of in the Halo Mega Bloks line, it’s sets based upon vehicles and concepts from the Halo Wars video game. Last year year I was beginning to think that … Continue Reading →
It would be a blackened lie if I tried to say I was a huge fan of the Mega Bloks Halo Universe Metal Series figures, but I decided I wanted to give the Halo Metal Series vehicles a chance. And … Continue Reading →
Today I’m covering a Halo Mega Bloks set that’s a little bit different. I usually only cover newly-released sets, but I came across this Halo Mega Bloks EVA’s Last Stand 96937 set on sale. I’d been holding out on this … Continue Reading →
Today I’ve got a first for Halo Toy News: a guest review! I purchase so many Halo toys and review them so rapidly that there hasn’t really been a need for a guest reviewer before. But with the onslaught of … Continue Reading →
If there was one scientific law-like certainty about the Halo 4 toys lineup, it’s that the Master Chief would get a new Halo 4 action figure in McFarlane Toys’ first assortment. No one can argue that the Master Chief hasn’t … Continue Reading →
Last month I reviewed the Halo Mega Bloks Halo 4 Warthog Resistance set and praised the hell out of the Elite Zealot figure as being one of the most ornately sculpted figures MEGA Brands has ever done. Now I’ve got … Continue Reading →
Every once in a while, MEGA Brands manages to truly and genuinely surprise me. Oh yeah, the Halo Mega Bloks sets we expect get released like new Warthogs, Wraiths, and Banshees, but occasionally MEGA Brands will deliver something that’s utterly … Continue Reading →
For a lot of folks, the word “Spartan” is synonymous with “Warrior”. So with Halo 4 fast approaching and new Spartan armor permutations starting to leak out, I’m not the least bit surprised to see one named as the Spartan … Continue Reading →
Over the weekend I had to give a rare negative review to the Halo Mega Bloks Covenant Armory Pack II set, which disappointed me by being something the majority of Halo Mega Bloks sets I review aren’t: below average. But … Continue Reading →
Let’s face it: I’m pretty much a Halo Mega Bloks groupie at this point. I didn’t start out that way and I certainly never intended it, but one thing led to another, and Halo Mega Bloks is my clear frontrunner … Continue Reading →
Call me a bleeding heart, but I have always had a soft spot for the Grunts. The poor, subservient Unggoy have pretty terrible lives as part of the Covenant, and I immediately sympathized with them after reading my first Halo … Continue Reading →
Earlier today I posted news about the first set of Halo Avatar Figures by McFarlane Toys arriving in stores. I picked up one of the XBox Live avatar-inspired blind-packaged figures this afternoon, hoping to get lucky and draw the flaming … Continue Reading →
If you asked me which of the eight Fall 2012 mass-release Halo Mega Bloks sets had been at the bottom of my wish-list, I would have immediately responded with “the Orbital Banshee Blitz 97010”. I’m not big into Covenant Banshees … Continue Reading →
When I ran a poll a couple weeks ago to determine what Halo Mega Bloks Summer 2012 set collectors were anticipating most, the answer was a blowout: the Halo Mega Bloks Warthog Resistance 97011 set earned nearly 50% of all … Continue Reading →
If there’s one thing Halo Mega Bloks collectors can never get enough of, it’s Spartans. And that’s a good thing, because MEGA Brands releases dozens and dozens and dozens of Mega Bloks Spartan figures each year. Army-builder figure multipacks have … Continue Reading →
Dark secret time: Though winter is my favorite season (by far), I am utterly terrified of snow. I spun out on the highway in a snowstorm one too many times (which was once), and ever since I’ve been petrified every … Continue Reading →
I keep mentioning Hasbro’s Marvel Legends as being the front-runner for my 2012 Toy Line of the Year, but its main threat for that title is certainly the Halo Mega Bloks line. Virtually every Halo Mega Bloks set MEGA Brands … Continue Reading →
When MEGA Brands released the first Halo Mega Bloks Brute Chopper in the Halo Covenant Brute Chopper 96845 set back in 2010, I didn’t really care that much. In general I don’t usually like Brutes, and I’m especially not a … Continue Reading →