It’s been a little quiet here at Halo Toy News this last week, as I spent the past week preparing for, going to, and reporting from New York Comic Con 2013 for my various blogs. But as you may have … Continue Reading →
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It was a close call there for a while, but McFarlane Toys has managed to pull off what many collectors thought they wouldn’t: they managed to release the entirety of the Halo 4 Series 2 action figures assortment during their … Continue Reading →
While I’ve been driving around like a crazy person trying to hunt down McFarlane Toys Halo 4 Series 2 from what seems like an infinite number of Walgreens stores (and no, I haven’t found any yet besides Master Chief & … Continue Reading →
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 →
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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After having to deal in guesswork and suppositions all summer, while having to stare at the same unfinished Halo Mega Bloks UNSC Mammoth 97174, all of that detective work is at an end! This weekend, the Canadian Toys R Us … Continue Reading →
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…
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Remember that Halo Mega Bloks Signature Series UNSC Mammoth 97174 set that news (and a mockup photo) leaked of several months ago? Well… it’s still not out. But the good news is, it looks like it will be arriving sooner than later! As part of their newest aisle reset, Toys R Us stores have reserved shelf space for the Mega Bloks Halo Mammoth yet, confirming both that the set should be arriving in the near future and also its official price-point of $179.99…
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When 3AToys posted the teaser photo of their Halo Reach Emile 1/6 Figure’s helmet yesterday, I knew it wasn’t going to be long before they let us see the rest of their latest masterpiece. And as usual, I was right. Today, the ThreeA Toys Emile Halo Sixth Scale figure was fully unveiled, and 3A even let us know when this hotly-anticipated figure will go up for reservations…
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With the official announcement of the ThreeA Toys Halo Reach Emile Sixth Scale figure this week, we all suspected that it was only a matter of time until ThreeA Toys announced an exclusive Halo 1/6 figure to accompany the preorder for 3A Emile. And lo and behold, here it is! Going up for order on August 20, 2013–the 3A Halo Spartan Mark V EVA Exclusive 1/6th scale figure!
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 →
We’ve had a bit of a dearth of news to discuss lately (other than the massive number of new Halo Mega Bloks sets finally hitting stores this summer), but today we’ve got something totally fresh and different to discuss: the … Continue Reading →
For the Halo Mega Bloks collectors who have to have everything, there’s a new pair of store-exclusive Mega Bloks Halo sets that have just been released. We first saw photos of these sets leaked when the Halo Mega Bloks Last … Continue Reading →
Last week I posted my glowing review of the first half of the Halo Mega Bloks Series 7 assortment, and now I’m back to finish the fight with the latter eight figures from the series! (I’m not into the radioactive … Continue Reading →
Now that the Fall 2013 Halo Mega Bloks sets are starting to hit stores in force in some areas, I decided to head out today and hunt for some more Alpha Crawlers and Promethean Watchers (with the Forerunner Weapons Pack … Continue Reading →
Are you the type of Halo collector who has to have everything (and I do mean everything)? Then MEGA Brands may have just the thing for you, Halo Mega Bloks completist! Coming to a store near you this month–some old … Continue Reading →
One of the companies I was most looking forward to seeing new figures from at San Diego Comic-Con is a company that’s quickly becoming one of my favorite toy manufacturers: Square-Enix. Well, the good news is that Square-Enix brought tons … 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 →