Halo Mega Bloks Metallic Drop Pods Series 2 Released!

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Just when I think I’ve seen every single one of the Fall 2014 Hall Mega Bloks sets, another one (or in this case, four) items show up that I’d forgotten about! While picking up some early Halloween candy at Target (who can resist Reese’s Pumpkins?), I ran across several boxes of a quartet of new Mega Bloks Halo sets that haven’t gotten a whole lot of fanfare: The Halo Mega Bloks Metallic Drop Pods Series 2 are now in stores!

Halo Mega Bloks Series 2 Metallic Drop Pods Storm Elites & ODST Figures

I used to really adore the Halo Mega Bloks Drop Pod sets. They retailed for about $10, featured a figure with great paint apps and weapons with paint deco on them, and gave us some of the best items in the whole Halo Mega Bloks line (such as the Flood Pod, the fully-painted Fuel Rod Cannon and the Not-Dare figure).

Unfortunately, those Drop Pods eventually became dead weight on shelves and ended up being put on clearance in many stores. As a result, 2014 has brought us the Mega Bloks Halo Drop Pod Metallic Series of figures. The Halo Mega Bloks Metallic Series 1 Drop Pods hit stores last winter, and now a new foursome of Metallic Drop Pods is arriving in stores.

Halo Mega Bloks Metallic Drop Pods Purple Crimson Elite Storm SetsThe big new addition for the Fall 2014 Halo Mega Bloks Metallic Drop pods series 2 assortment is (of course) the Covenant Drop Pods. Metallic Drop Pods Series 1 consisted of only four UNSC ODST Drop Pods, so the new Metallic Covenant Drop Pods shells are an all-new mold. Unfortunately, the figures inside are the same-old Halo Mega Bloks Storm Elites that we’ve been getting since last summer, albeit in very shiny metallic and crimson paint schemes.

Target had ample supplies of both the Halo Mega Bloks Metallic Drop Pods Crimson Elite 97355 (with Beam Rifle) and the Halo Mega Bloks Metallic Drop Pod Purple Elite 97356 (with Storm Rifle), far outnumbering the number of ODST Drop Pods that they had in stock.

Halo Mega Bloks Metallic Drop Pods Cobalt Copper ODST Sets

New to the Mega Bloks Halo Series 2 Metallic Drop Pods is the super-articulated body with customizable armor! I’m not sure how the metallic armor will look on other figures, but it’d certainly be interesting to find out.

Unlike the Elites, the Halo Mega Bloks Metallic Copper ODST Drop Pod 97353 (with Suppressed SMG) and Metallic Cobalt ODST Drop Pod 97354 (with M6C SOCOM) were mostly wiped out in the display boxes at the stores. MEGA Brands obviously left the Sangeili Elite Drop Pods out of Series 1 for fear of them not selling well, and it appears that those concerns may have been well-founded.

It is reassuring to see that the Metallic ODST Mega Bloks Drop Pod sets are still selling well, however, and that bodes well for the Spartan Drop Pod (Cryo Tube) sets that are due to hit stores in January, as Mega Bloks Spartans are always more popular than the ODSTs.

Series 2 Mega Bloks Halo Metallic Drop PodsI held these sets in my hands for a few long moments deliberating, but ultimately decided to pass on this wave of Halo Mega Bloks Metallic Drop Pods (at least for now). With zero new parts in this series (besides the Covenant Drop Pods themselves), there’s really nothing here that I feel like I want to spend $4+ each on.

What do you think of the Series 2 Mega Bloks Halo Metallic Drop Pods, Halo collectors? Is anyone going completist with this Metallic Drop Pod series, or are non-specific repaints of molds we already have over and over not your thing either?

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Halo Mega Bloks Metallic Drop Pods Series 2 Released! — 6 Comments

  1. Every time I think I’m going to stop buying Halo Mega Bloks for a bit, I find something new to buy.
    I’m just glad I stick to the cheap sets and clearance sale sets…

  2. The paint used on the wave 2 figures isn’t really that metallic. Certainly not as much as wave 1’s figures. I was a bit disappointed in this wave. I do think the color scheme for the Elites is cool and sets them apart from other Elite figures. Their lighter colored skin makes for a great contrast with their armor, as some previous Elites can look like one blob of color throughout the entire figure.

  4. I bought one of the covenant drop pods, thinking “Ooh, shiney new Elite!” I did not look at the picture close enough. If I had, I would have realized I would be getting the same Storm Elite I got in the series 8 blind bag and the Covenant Weapons pack (yes I know you already mentioned this in this review).

    Was I annoyed at the fact that I essentially had gotten the same elite three times in a row but with different weapons and paint jobs? Yes.

    Do I like the new paint job and new weapon? Yes.

    Did find it not worth it and did I regret my decision to buy the drop pod? Yes and yes.

    It was totally my fault that I did this, and I made up my mind: no more Halo Mega Bloks until the 2015 Spartan Cryo Pod release. Or at the very least until Target puts other weapon/armory packs on sale for a buck (seriously them doing that with the snowbound weapon packs is what started me down this path. I just wish they hadn’t canceled the Warcraft line).

  5. I’ll end guying only the gold odst, since it’s the closest thing that looks like a Dutch minifig.

  6. I saw these at the downtown Seattle Target, and variants of the Off-World Cyclops at the Renton Fred Meyer – one had the NMPD Police Cyclops figure, and the other had the standard marine with an unpainted white head. The saturation of the orange parts were slightly different between the Cyclopi, but I didn’t have a standard one to compare them to