Over the past week I’ve had the opportunity to talk about some sensational upcoming Halo Mega Bloks exclusive sets, from the gigantically amazing Halo Mega Bloks UNSC Mammoth to the slick black recolor of the Mega Bloks Halo Covert Ops UNSC Falcon to the way cool glow-in-the-dark Last Man Standing Zombie Pack. But sometimes it’s my duty to talk about Halo Mega Bloks sets that aren’t exactly the best. Such is the case with today’s topic: the upcoming Target exclusive Halo Mega Bloks Blue Warthog and Blue Banshee sets…

So, uhhh… yeah. Along with the wicked-cool Halo Mega Bloks Last Man Standing Zombie Pack 97199 coming to Target stores this summer, Target will have two more exclusives. And the theme for those exclusives is apparently… “Team Blue”? Or something very similar to it.

As part of this new Summer/Fall 2013 Halo Mega Bloks “Blue” theme, we’ll be getting a Blue Covenant Banshee 97202 set and a Blue UNSC Warthog 97159 set. The Blue Warthog Halo Mega Bloks set looks a little bit weird, but the bright blue is actually less jarring than the red Warthog that MEGA Brands released a few years ago. Also on the bright side, at least this blue Mega Bloks Warthog is my favorite style of Warthog–the Missile Launcher Warthog. And the blue Spartan Airborne Assault and Mark V(B) figures look really nice–nicer than the Warthog they come with, to be totally honest.

The Halo Mega Bloks Blue Banshee… well, that wouldn’t have been my first choice for a set to recolor. I actually really loved the Halo Mega Bloks Orbital Banshee Blitz set that I reviewed last year, but that particular set always seemed like a major flop at every store I visited–and this older model of the Covenant Banshee is vastly inferior to that one. I seem to recall this Mega Bloks Halo Banshee sitting on store shelves and gathering dust for years, so I’m pretty dubious about how well a blue variant of the old Banshee is going to do at retail, but hopefully that blue Elite Ultra included with the set will give it a little bit of “oomph” to move at retail.

In some ways, it makes a logical sort of sense to have a “Blue” theme as exclusives this year, as it nicely complements the “Red” theme of the Walmart Exclusives like the Red UNSC Spade 97158 set that was revealed last month. Even the Last Man Standing Zombie Pack fits into the “blue” theme, as the sole uninfected Spartan in that set is a blue Spartan Security figure. Even so, I’m not particularly enamored with either of these sets and it’s unlikely I’ll be picking up either of them personally.

The Halo Mega Bloks Blue Warthog and Banshee sets will be a Target stores retailer exclusive set in the United States, and should be in stores later this summer. I’ll add more details about these sets as they’re released. Thanks to Vanocean for letting Halo Toy News share his photos of the upcoming sets!