MEGA Brands continues to expand deeper and deeper into the Halo Universe, and at the New York Toy Fair 2013 this week, they showed one of their most ambitious and innovative forays into Halo Mega Bloks yet: a Halo Mega Bloks Booster Frame, based on the vehicle from Halo Legends: The Package! Of course, the fact that it’s a Booster Frame isn’t what makes it innovative. No, it’s innovative because the Booster Frame’s pieces are split into three small sets–three small Halo Mega Bloks Summer 2013 sets that function as individual sets in their own right and combine to form the Halo Mega Bloks Booster Frame…

The Open Frame 92 Booster Frame is a cockpit-less vehicle that is one of the more controversial Halo vehicles. Some fans absolutely hate the impractical design of the Booster Frame, which only appears in the animated Halo Legends: The Package film. Personally, I like it because it comes from the cartoon that gave us our only visual reference for Spartans Kelly and Fred, but your mileage may vary.

The pieces that make up the Halo Mega Bloks Booster Frame will be split across three different Halo Mega Bloks 2013 Summer sets: a UNSC C&C Console, a Hangar Deck, and a Forerunner Terminal. All three of these sets function as small diorama terrain pieces in their own right, and each includes an exclusive Halo Mega Bloks figure.

I’m not real big on Marines, so the Halo 4 Marine figure with the UNSC C&C Console is kinda “ehn” for me, but I love the heck out of the other two figures. The EVA Spartan with the Hangar Deck is painted in a shiny, metallic-like teal paint that looks phenomenal and easily makes it one of the best-painted Spartan Mega Bloks figures I’ve seen. And the Crawler Prime Mega Bloks figure that comes with the Forerunner Terminal looks positively lethal (and stylish!) with the spikes sticking out of its back.

The Halo Booster Frame Mega Bloks vehicle itself is pretty much a design miracle. It’s really pretty amazing that MEGA Brands was able to get a vehicle that looks so authentic from three little diorama sets that look nice in their own right. I really wouldn’t have thought that incorporating the popular build-a-something gimmick into the Halo Mega Bloks line like this was possible, but MEGA Brands has proved me wrong again.

Since packaged samples of the 2013 Halo Mega Bloks Booster Frame combinable sets were on display at the 2013 Toy Fair this week, I suspect we’ll be seeing these sets in spring 2013 rather than with the later Halo Mega Bloks summer 2013 series, but that’s unconfirmed. The set of all three Halo Mega Bloks Booster Frame packs is now available for pre-order for $29.97.