Today, McFarlane Toys announced that they have partnered with Microsoft to create eight exclusive Halo 3 figures that'll be available Spring 2008. McFarlane will be creating highly detailed figures that are roughly five inches tall including five character figures (Master Chief, Cortana, Brute Chieftain, Jackal Sniper and a Grunt two pack) and three vehicles (Warthog, Ghost and the new Brute Chopper). But there are a few things we're confused about. Why the heck is it taking until 2008 to get our action figure fix? It's not like they didn't know the game was coming out this year. Second, what happened to Joyride Studios creating Halo figures? Maybe they lost their street cred.Prototype McFarlane Master Chief figure in all his five inch glory posted after the break. Enjoy.
[Thanks, TMD]
McFarlane Master Chief Prototype
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6-18-2007 @ 3:17PM
TMD said...
I had the same thoughts...then I found this:
http://www.toybender.com/wtf-happened-to-joyride-studios/
Kind of a bummer, but I'd say the license is in much more capable hands now. :)
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6-18-2007 @ 3:36PM
DjDATZ said...
uuuuu...je likey. :D
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6-18-2007 @ 3:49PM
Ian said...
Will we be able to put the characters in the vehicles?
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6-18-2007 @ 4:04PM
Les Doodis said...
While that Master Chief prototype looks seriously kick-ass, I'm upset that they're making the figures five inches in height, so that they'll no longer match my collection of the Joyride seven-inch figures.
:(
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6-18-2007 @ 5:19PM
junior said...
Heck Yeah!!! In Mcfarlane we trust, maybe smaller but a lot of more detail!
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6-18-2007 @ 6:16PM
Richard Mitchell said...
Light-up Cortana is going on my desk :)
If only I tell her to open programs on my PC ...
"Cortana, open Firefox, Trillian, and Audacity. Oh, and a little Debussy, please."
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6-18-2007 @ 6:17PM
Richard Mitchell said...
sigh,
If only I *could* tell her ...
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6-18-2007 @ 11:35PM
TeRm said...
They make the highest quality toys around, i have been hoping they would go to them. Joyride toys are so cheap and crappy.
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6-19-2007 @ 12:58AM
Pink Chiefette said...
McFarlane makes good detailed figurines, but terrible poseable action figures. Oh well, I still have some Joyride toys, and I'll probably pick up a H3 Master Chief. Thanks for the link TMD, I was quite shocked when I tried looking up Joyride Studios and finding completely different stuff.
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6-25-2007 @ 9:51PM
Ralph said...
Wait, the figures are to scale with each other, but the vehicles are not? Seeing the vehicles as 3" compared to 5" Master Chief.
Another sucky toy line. Make the figures GIJOE (the new smaller ones) and STAR WARS sized, and you're guaranteed continual sell-out.
Don't give the license to someone who's going to make them just for "don't take it out of the packaging!" collectors.
Very disappointed in this announcement. It would have been better had Hasbro gotten the line; at least we'd get a full run of figures, characters, and vehicles -- at the "industry standard" 3 3/4" or thereabouts, we could probably have gotten a Pelican out of the line as well.
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