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McFarlane Toys: “Done with Originality!”

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

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In a move that wasn’t really surprising to me, McFarlane Toys has announced that they are canceling their original toy lines. That means that their Dragons, Legend of the Blade Hunters and Warriors of the Zodiac are dead.

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Halo 3 Exclusive at San Diego Comic Con

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

McFarlane Toys has revealed their exclusives for the 2008 San Diego Comic Con and I’ve got them here. Hurray! or something.

SPARTAN SOLDIER EVA “HELLSPARTAN”

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This is the figure that both Halo fans and Spawn geeks are going to need as this version of a Spartan soldier is painted to look like McFarlane’s money making machine. Gotta love the skull on the belt.

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More Halo 3 Figures Hitting the Net

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Online toy retailer Big Bad Toy Store recently put up wave three of the Halo 3 action figures from McFarlane Toys, allowing us all a good look at the figures. Here they are in all their McGlory:

Brute Chieftain Weapon Class

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What makes him a “Weapon Class” Brute? He comes with two weapons as opposed to a gravity hammer. If you want a Spiker grenade for your Master Chief then here you go. By the way, I love those things. They are so damn useful against idiots who run around in Ghosts.

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Contest Roundup: Win Some Heroes and Halo Goodness

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

You’ve probably no doubt realized that it’s a super slow week for toy news. In order to overcome this drought I’ve got two noteworthy contests.

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The first is from Mezco Toys who have the Heroes license. If you’re a Heroes fan and want to score a set of their test shot figures (there’s only five in existence), then all you have to do is dress up like your favorite Heroes character, take a picture of yourself, and then send it to heroes-contest@the-owi.com.

You know, this contest might be a little more effective if the Heroes characters were a little more distinct. Aside from the cheerleader when she wears her cheerleader outfit, they’re just a bunch of people dressed up like… regular people. Here’s to hoping it’s an excuse to see a bunch of hot chicks dressed up like cheerleaders and not forty year-old beast men dressed like Hiro.

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Moving from TV to video games, McFarlane Toys is giving away a full set of their Halo 3 series 1 figures. All you have to do to enter is to go to this page and then fill out some basic info. They have two sets available, so good luck because I’m winning one.

Update Boy, I am a fool. I forgot all about Poe Ghostal’s caption the pic contest were you can win a Hulkbuster Iron man figure. I won the last contest and got my prize in the mail, so it’s not an impossible win if I could do it.

McFarlane Toys Halo 3 Figures Seen in the Wild

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Just a quick update for you all to let you know that I personally saw some of the McFarlane Halo 3 figures for sale this weekend. No not at a retail store, but at a booth at the San Francisco Wondercon. Like an idiot I didn’t take a picture, but trust me the picture of the figures in the box suffices since there really wasn’t anything to see that hasn’t been put on the internet yet.

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Halo Figures in the Package

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

While checking out Unleaded Logic’s site the other day, I noticed he had posted images of Halo figures in their packages. I hadn’t seen this posted on any of my usual sites so I thought I’d share the picks here for those who are obsessed with all things Halo.

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Halo Money Shots: New Images of Halo Figures

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Halo fans, if you want some more Halo toy news I don’t have a whole lot, but I can point you towards McFarlane’s website where they posted some new pictures of Halo figures that will be on our way someday. Or you can just check them out here. Yeah, I’d like that.

Master Chief 2

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Master Chief is locked and loaded with a shotgun and a… damn what is that on his back? A Spartan Laser? First one of you to tell me what that is gets… nothing but my respect. But isn’t that what you really want anyway?

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McFarlane Reveals the Arbiter

Friday, January 4th, 2008

McFarlane Toys revealed this last week (or so) their version of the Arbiter from the mega popular, sweet ass, you should be dead if you haven’t heard of it yet, Halo 3.

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McFarlane Toys Exclusive Camo Spartan

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Just when I start dipping into my crappy emergency posts for something… anything for you guys, I find out that McFarlane toys has a new Halo figure update. Sweet.For their Collector’s Club exclusive figure, they’ve got an exclusive “camouflaged” Spartan in EVA armor:

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GameStop’s Exclusive Spartan

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Hardcore Halo fans and anyone interested in things that are awesome no doubt will want to pick up every single variation of McFalane’s upcoming Halo 3 series of figure. If you are one of these people then you’ll have to head on over to video game retailer (and secondary home to many greasy, pimply faced 13 year olds) GameStop, and get your exclusive Steel Spartan in Close Quarter Battle armor in March of 2008.

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Bungie’s Awesome Halo 3 Toy Pics

Monday, September 10th, 2007

The McFarlane Halo 3 toy blitz continues. Bungie.net, the maker of Halo 3’s own website, has posted a ton of cool Halo 3 toy pictures, of which I swiped. Thanks Bungie, you guys rule. If you want to go to the site to check them out please do, because they’ve got some pictures of the Halo 3 statues that I won’t be posting on ToyBender. (As always, click on the pictures to make them bigger)

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IGN’s Exclusive Halo Toy Images

Monday, September 10th, 2007

When I wrote my last post about G4’s Halo offerings, I hadn’t realized that it was a massive release of Halo toy images, so sorry about the multiple posts. This time IGN got some of the exclusive Halo toy action. Be sure to visit them to see the rest of the pics. (Make the pics larger by clicking on them, duh)

Here’s the Ghost:

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Looks sweet, but too bad there’s no dudes to put in it… yet.

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G4’s Halo Exclusive Grunts

Monday, September 10th, 2007

G4, the gaming television network that really doesn’t do a lot of gaming stuff anymore, got some exclusive pictures of one of Todd McFarlane’s Halo 3 action figures series. It’s for the Grunt two pack. Let’s give credit to McFarlane, it’s one of the few times that the Grunt has looked really cool. In the spirit of the internet, I swiped the pics. (Click on them to make them larger if you so choose.)

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McFarlane at SDCC: The Rest of the Figures

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

After blowing my McFarlane Halo load earlier in the week, I thought it was high time to share the rest of the images I gathered from the McFarlane Toys booth of goodness.

Spawn

There were enough Spawn figures to satisfy a Spawn fan and more than enough to satisfy a super casual, “Spawn’s kind of neat” follower like myself. The second wave for coolest Spawn figure series, The Adventures of Spawn was all up on display and the figures rocked.

Sultry McBigGun was on hand and she had… a big ass gun:

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McFarlane at SDCC: Halo Time

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Millionaire collector of fantastic balls and nerd dream maker, Todd McFarlane had one fine showing at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con. While the McFarlane Toys booth might not have been the flashiest, the display cases brought plenty of Teh Awesome to the show.

First off, let me please my core audience (basically myself) and show off what Todd had to offer in the way of Halo toys. Here’s a prototype of Master Chief himself:

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