Yesterday I broke the disappointing news that there is likely to only be one boxed Halo Mega Bloks 2016 set released this winter–the Covenant Watch Tower. But while that point of information is definitely a bummer, it doesn’t mean that there’s not unboxed Halo Mega Bloks 2016 sets on the way! And the most exciting of which for most fans is unquestionably the Halo Mega Bloks Delta Series figures!

MEGA Brands hadn’t been planning on the Halo Series Delta blind bag figures photos leaking out as early as they did, but the cat slipped out of the bag now and MEGA has posted official photos to verify the entire series of figures!

The following figures are included in the Mega Bloks Halo Delta Series:

• Halo Wars Brown/Green UNSC Marine
• Orange EVA Spartan (GEN-1)
• Gold Protector Spartan (GEN-2)
• Pink Hermes Spartan (GEN-2)
• Purple Imperial Grunt
• Promethean Snipe Crawler
• Black Storm Elite
• White Flood-Infected Spartan

Admittedly, I am not overjoyed to see the Gold Spartan Protector or Orange EVA Spartan here. These colored Spartans are so common at this point that army-building them in these mystery packs isn’t particularly exciting any more–especially when they’re almost always commons.

That said, I’m extremely content with the rest of this series! We haven’t had a chance to army-build Halo Wars Marines figures in a while, and the brown and green paint scheme is appealing.  Meanwhile, the white Flood Spartan looks amazingly cool! While I hate pure Flood forms, being able to army-build Flood Spartans is gonna be a blast!

As a rule, one can never have too many Grunts, and the purple Grunts in this series have never been released before. Pink Spartans are only released in the blind bags, so I can’t complain about the Pink Spartan Hermes. Finally, we’ve got the deadly Crawler Snipe and black Storm Elites, which should both be popular with collectors.

But, of course, there are also the ever-popular Series Delta Gummi figures! This time out, there’s only two Delta Series Mystery figures, and both of them are Spartans. One is the translucent Red Spartan Protector with Forerunner Railgun. The other is a translucent blue Orbital Spartan, although I can’t quite make out what his gun is (can you, readers?).

I’m at the point in my collecting life where I won’t go out and actively hunt for the Gummi clear Halo Mega Bloks figures anymore, but I also won’t turn my nose up at them if I come across them by happenstance!

What do you think of the first 2016 Halo Mega Bloks series of figures, Halo collectors? Will you be picking-and-choosing from this blind-bagged set, aiming to own all ten figures, or even planning on army-building by buying more than ten figures?