Halo MegaBloks Series 7 Blind Bag Minifigures

Out shopping today, I found a box of series 7 Halo Megabloks minifigs. I grabbed 5 bags.

In this wave, the character sheet tells us that we can get:

UNSC Spartan Mark VI (common)
Covenant Grunt (common)
Flood Combat Form (common)
Covenant Grunt (common)
Covenant Grunt Spec Ops (common)
UNSC Marine - 2 different styles, both common
Covenant Elite Zealot (common)
Covenant Elite Commando (common)
UNSC ODST (common)
UNSC Spartan CQB (rare)
UNSC Mark VI (rare)
UNSC Spartan Scout (rare)
Covenant Brute Jump Pack (rare)
UNSC Spartan EOD (rare)
UNSC Spartan Security (ultra rare)

So let's go ahead and start with the bad, which is this guy

I was delighted to pull the ultra rare UNSC Spartan Security figure. Except it came minus an arm. And when I tried to put the one arm on that I did get the joint was brittle and snapped (sadly not the first time this has happened with a Halo Megabloks figure for me).

So I was down to 4 figures instead of 5. Damn.

But on we go, and next up, I pulled 2 common figures

The covenant grunt and UNSC Marine. Both solid little figures and good for army building.

And the next 2 figures I pulled were both rare, so that was a nice surprise

The Covenant Brute Jump Pack in that nice red colour which I think is very cool, and the UNSC Spartan CQB in the dark and light grey - both great looking figures.

Disappointed in the Spartan Security fig, but happy with the other 4!

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Custom Spartan Mark VI

I picked up a spare white Mark VI Spartan figure in a sale recently for a super cheap price so I've decided to customise him. I have a good idea at the moment of where I want to take the colour scheme so stay tuned for where I take this, I might totally screw it up but I'm willing to take that chance!

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Halo Mega Bloks 97339 UNSC All-Terain Mongoose with UNSC Spartan Emile

I've found recently that more places seem to be selling off their Halo Mega Bloks sets, which is good for me, but I hope these sets won't end. I found this set in Jenner's today for 25% oof making it £7.50, which I thought was a pretty nice deal for what you're getting in this set - a vehicle and a very cool figure.

Emile, the UNSC Spartan that this set comes with, is a great looking little figure. Paint detail is great throughout with his shiny gold face mask with the kind of skull detail over the front, his armour is grey and black with light brown detailing, silver grey boots, and a red shoulder pad.

Emile comes with a tactical shotgun and a Kukri knife, both of which are flat colours but nicely sculpted. The sculpted detail in such a small figure is excellent overall, as is the articulation.

Emile's head is on a ball joint which lets it turn from side to side and look down (but not up), shoulders are on a ball and hinge as are the elbows, and the wrists swivel. There's a waist rotation, hips are on a ball joint and there's a single joint in the knee. For such a small figure this is a great amount of articulation.

The All-Terrain Mongoose vehicle is a simple little build at only 82 pieces and doesn't take long to put together, but it's nice little vehicle that looks good with the small UNSC insignia and logo. It also rolls really nicely which is a plus.

Emile sits on the Mongoose nicely and is able to hold the small handlebars nicely. There are also foot rests and even wing mirrors on the Mongoose.

This is a pretty small set but for £7.50 I'm happy to add Emile to my Spartan army.

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Halo Mega Bloks Series 4 Blind Bag

I thought I'd go look on eBay and have a little look for blind bag Halo Mega Blok packs to bolster my collection. I'd never picked up any of the earlier series of these blind bags so when I saw I could get 3 bags for £10, I thought that was quite a good deal. And this series had some nice figures including:

Cortana
Purple UNSC EVA Spartan
Yellow UNSC ODST
Arctic UNSC Pilot
Blue Covenant Elite
Copper Covenant Brute
Green UNSC Marine
Crimson Elite Pilot

Any 3 of these would be great to add to my tiny army. Firstly out the bag

The green UNSC marine. Good start, a cool looking character. Second up

Oh. OK, bit of a pain. But onto number 3!

Goddammit.

I guess I'm in the army building game now... Go Figure!

Toys for sale on eBay

Hi guys, I hope you don't mind me doing this:

I thought I'd pop links up here for a few toys I'm selling on eBay. I'm hoping to get some funds just to buy a few newer things to put up on the blog. Thanks for looking!!

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McFarlane Master Chief "The Package"

Spartan Mk VI

Thanks guys, I won't do this often, trust me!!

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McFarlane Halo 2 Master Chief

Picked up my first McFarlane figure in this Master Chief figure. I love the Halo series, so having a fully articulated Master Chief based on his look in Halo 2 at such a nice price was a no brainer! This figure was a little over a tenner from Forbidden Planet and it's an excellent toy for such a low price.

Along with this Master Chief, in the same wave McFarlane has released a Halo 5 MC with cloak - you can see him on the back of the packaging

I also picked him up - at that price I couldn't pass him up! I'll review him in the near future.

Let's have a look at the accessories first. Master Chief comes with 2 covenant blasters

These are nicely sculpted and really nicely painted with red, yellow, gun metal and blue.

He comes with a rifle

Again, nicely sculpted in a black and gun metal grey, this also comes with a small peg that can be removed. This is for attaching it to the Chief for storage

Master Chief also comes with a grenade

And 2 sub machine guns

These guns again have the pegs for storage. Master Chief is armed to the teeth!

Master Chief himself is a great looking piece with a nice dark metallic green colour scheme with scuffs, blacks, silvers and an amazing shiny gold visor. Chief is really game accurate, McFarlane nailed the look of the Spartan hero.

Chief holds all his guns nicely, other than the blaster rifle, simply because there's not much of a handle. I couldn't really get him holding the grenade either sadly, but it sits nicely on his back.

John 117's head turns and moves down - but not up. He has a ratchet joint at the shoulder which moves up and down and it can move back and forward. There's a swivel and bend at the elbow and wrist.

There's a great torso crunch and swivel, the hips move in and out, and there's a thigh cut. His knees bend 90 degrees and there are ratcheted ball joints in the ankle and toe articulation giving the Chief overall some excellent articulation.

If you're into Halo I'd recommend picking this guy up and I'm really looking forward to checking out the cloaked Chief from Halo 5. I'd definitely be interested in adding to these Halo figures in the future if they're all as cool as this one.

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