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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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!

NECA Aliens Sergeant Craig Windrix

I've been looking to pick up the NECA Hudson and Hicks figures, but I've had a hard time finding them in the wild, or for a reasonable online price.

I found this guy though, who isn't in any of the Alien movies, but has a great back story.

Kyle Windrix is a sculptor who works for NECA and his brother, Craig, was sadly diagnosed with cancer. NECA were good enough to immortalise Craig as a Sergeant in the USCM as a 6 inch articulated marine. Sadly Craig passed away in February this year, but I'm really glad that this excellent figure exists to keep his memory alive.

The sculpt on Sergeant Windrix is great. Great head sculpt straight off the bat, but it's the smaller sculpted details that I love on this guy, like the armour, the boots, and the belt with the accessories hanging off of it.

The articulation on the Sergeant is excellent. The head swivels, there are hinge joints in the shoulders (unfortunately these a re a little impeded by his body armour), there's a ball and hinge in the elbow and the same in the wrists. He has a torso crunch, hip joints, a double knee joint, ankle swivel and pivot, and toe articulation.

Craig comes with three removable accessories: A shoulder mounted cam and light, his motion tracker, and his flame thrower.

All of these are well sculpted, but the motion tracker is the stand out piece for me. It has a little "blip" screen and everything! So cool!

I really like this guy, along with the stellar head sculpt, the paint work is what gives this guy his personality. The camo is brilliant, but the small touches like the US flag on his shoulder above his stripes showing his rank, or the love heart painted on his armour, and not forgetting the penguin on his back ("stay frosty!") all make the Sergeant a real USCM that will stand proudly next to Hudson and Hicks once they're added to my collection.

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Shout out to Fezbongo for taking all the pictures in this review. You can see more of his stuff on his Tumblr!