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Bought a couple things off Ali recently

>>11484123
Mega figs, weapons and parts on Ali isn't new but I found a store offering a fixed selection pile of weapons with storage case included. In the past your options were either a random assortment that was guaranteed to be at least 50% old-style ARs and hardly any Covenant weapons, or various listings of 10x this or that weapon with the best ones being always sold out. This listing gives you five each of fourteen different weapons (got stiffed one of the shotguns), still mostly UNSC but I'm quite happy that Maulers were included.

>>11484126
From the same store I also got a 15-pack of random figs, something that used to be commonplace but is harder and harder to find with most stores just offering specific selections. All but three are first-gen which suits me fine; the blue Elite Honour Guard is probably the most unusual one of the lot and I just happened to stock up on spare pikes heh. One thing that distinguishes this lot from others I've tried in the past is they actually include weapons, two per figure and ending as three of each weapon type from the same selection as the above lot, minus the silver shottys and ARs, carbines and pikes.

With only archived versions of the old Mega Halo pages it's more challenging to play ID the figure's origins but I'll be taking a crack at it, can probably solve a few by just going through my previous plays.

>>11484134
Oh my bad, it's a blue Elite Ultra and not an Honour Guard.

>>11484123
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>>11484134
I'm curios--anyone else in the thread can answer to--do you have more UNSC than Covenant? That seems to be pretty common amongst Halo Mega fans.

>>11484242
Back in 2016 when I did these shots that was certainly the case and although it's been almost a decade since I can't imagine the percentages have varied greatly. The line in general followed that trend so it's a safe bet that many collections will similarly have a UNSC majority.

>>11484242
I have definitely beefed up my collection of Covenant and specifically collected a lot of Banished, but the ratio is still probably about 4 to 3. Part of that is in buying lots of the cool armors from the heroes line, but once they revamped the grunt design I bought like 30 of them

>>11484242
I almost exclusively buy covies and banished, only because I have them fight my Diaclone Reboot 1/60 toys. The handful of UNSC figures I have came bundled with some buys.

>>11484464
I hadn't even played Halo when I started collecting them. The amount of covies that actual fans pass up seems crazy to me.

Does anyone have this set? One youtube review I watched said the griffen's legs are to weak for posing which is really dissapointing if true

>>11484616
I just wish Ali had a bunch of crap Geraults

>>11484616
Wish Ali had any Geraults.

The Fleetcom Mongoose was 4.39 maplebucks over Prime Day (week?), bought two (already had one from before) but no more cuz I couldn't think of why I'd want so many. Did also order the KO of the CoD BTR set, already had one of those too but was a few bucks off and I like it. Wasn't much else going on for the sale, already had everything that was discounted.

>>11483258 (OP)
Will there ever be more MCX MOTU figures?

>>11488997
A few months ago an Anon saying that Pokemon was going to Lego also said they're getting MOTU and Barbie, so probably not.

>>11489003
What???

>>11489003
>MOTU
>Barbie
Not likely, Mattel isn't going to license its own IPs to a direct competitor.

>>11489003
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>>11489016
January leak

>>11489018
>the word of a tripfag
lol

I’m new to this. Why are the WW2 sets so hard to find?

>>11489101
I mean, he's been correct so far.
>>11489141
I think it's because the longer a toyline goes on the less of it is produced. Not sure though.

>>11489141
Part of it is Mega tries to pretend some of them never happened, the ones with Nazis anyway.

>>11489161
I don't get this. If you're going to do something WW2 related, it's going to have Nazis (unless you're just doing the attack on Pearl Harbor). Hell, even Lego had Nazis in some Indiana Jones sets.
I just want sets themed after major WW2 battles. Why can't any construction toy company provide that?

>>11489163
Sluban, Cobi and other brands are all over those kinds of themes. Lego has a self-imposed ban on it but who cares about a small billions-dollar danish company's hypocrisy anyway.

>>11489161
>>11489163
Speaking if Nazis, did Mega actually make, you know, Nazi zombies?

>>11489538
Unfortunately no, as they made the mistake of leading with literally every other kind of zombie and ending the sub-theme after less than stellar performance.

>>11489551
RIP
At least the astronaut zombies are cool

>>11489560
Heh that's the post-Mattel re-issue, can you spot the difference

>>11489564
LOL Classic M*ttel. It's a shame they still exist.

>>11489567
The best was how un-subtle they went about it, both versions could be seen on shelves at the same time in many places.
>>11488476
Always great shots anon, your RPK barrel is upside-down though.

>>11489620
fixed. no need to thank me.

>>11484242
I can't speak for others, but for where I am In Canada when I was still collecting halo mega stuff the availability for covenant stuff was much more limited than for UNSC, availability here for the good mega stuff tends to suck anyway though

>>11489564
no? what am i missing?

>>11489968
One figure

>>11489742
Assignment Australia

Oh Hans, if you really knew....

Bacon is the hecking menu, fellas.

>>11491606
The liquidation centre had piles of these, at a maplebuck a pop they were well worth the interesting parts and stuff. Funny thing is Dollarama also got a stockpile recently and thinks they can get two or three times more a head.

Conversely Dollarama has had those awful GI Joe building blocks sets for $5, already overpriced but then the liquidation centre also has a bunch of the same sets with prices ranging from $7-12...

>>11489161
>hehe im just interested in history! :)
>99.9% times it's a nazie dick sucking polfag
This why toy companies avoid making nazie figs. Literally nobody cares about nazies except meme degens like you

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>>11491776
really glad this toyline failed, always came across as try hard and attempting to one up Lego yet failing every time

>>11491777
As much as I love your terrific positive attitude...
Can you please tell me again how this looks like LEGO to you?

>>11492120
>>11491777
I mean there are so many LEGO figures that look just like this. I'm surprised LEGO didn't sue.

>>11491777
Mega's old stuff was actually trying to be Lego and it was kino.

Dope.

>>11492125
Lego tried to sue Mega (back when it was still Mega Bloks) out of existence over the basic brick design, turns out that isn't something you can trademark.

>>11492549
Didn't their patent expire? Also it's very ironic because Lego originally made wooden toys and ripped-off their brick design from some other long forgotten company.

>>11492549
I know about that.
The comparing the figures.. which Mr.Snark was doing is apples and oranges.
THIS

>>11492701
is not THIS

>>11492695
It was Kiddicraft from whom they stole the original design (and may have driven the original creator to suicide); the patent had indeed expired so they tried to trademark basic lego brick designs and Canada's Supreme Court told them to sod off.
>>11492701
Eh, next time just post this

>>11492705
>It was Kiddicraft from whom they stole the original design (and may have driven the original creator to suicide);
RIP I know there is know "good corporations/companies" don't exist but I never thought Lego had literal skeletons in its closest.
>he patent had indeed expired so they tried to trademark basic lego brick designs and Canada's Supreme Court told them to sod off.
Based. Patents are cringe.

So as mentioned earlier I got the KO version of the CoD "Combat Vehicle Attack" set, aka the BTR-80 during Prime Day/Week for what turned out to be $30 off. Unusually for me this came in its original packaging; AliExpress rarely even provides the option to ship with box, always for a few bucks more so this is a rare experience.

>>11493736
I'd got one a few years before from Ali but far enough back and countless sets later that I barely remember the experience. Right off the bat we have a bit of an error in that the set is labeled an M1127 Stryker, a forgivable mistake considering the layman looking at a BTR-80 and a Stryker is only going to see 8 wheels and a gun turret and assume because it's copied from an American-made set the vehicle has to be the latter.

>>11493740
Check out this smug blockhead doing the Lego thing assuming most of their builders are very young and/or retarded and need extensive hand-holding right from the get-go. Will say for this set it's a bit misleading considering the entire booklet is about 40 pages long for a set with almost a thousand pieces, Lego's would be the size of a decent novel by comparison.

>>11493743
Speaking of misleading the opposite page demonstrates how to use a brick separator, something conspicuously absent from this set. Not that I mind myself, got so many kicking around and I'm guessing they throw this at the beginning of all their sets - there's a note on applying stickers when this set has none; the markings are entirely printed.

>>11493745
Once again doing the Lego thing where at the start they will show what all the 1-numbered bags will come together as.

>>11489141
Less of them produced at the time because they dont sell as well.

>>11489161
>>11489163
Western companies have gotten far more conscious about depicting Nazis now. Probably because that stuff is more relevant with alt revolutionary types than ever.

>>11493747
Beyond that they fully embrace their Mega heritage and give you a hefty list of pieces for each building step and reasonable guidance in the illustration as to where they all go. I find it interesting that they're basically brick-building the terrain piece Mega used quite frequently in its CoD and other sets for years, a piece that has been KO'ed as well but apparently not by these guys.

>>11493750
This little build falters a couple steps by sticking close to its origins but not accounting for a couple crucial factors:
>brick-built instead of single plate terrain
The brick-built terrain is a little too fragile to support the problem brought about by the second issue, really needed a few more plates to secure them better;
>barbed wire coil plastic
The coil of barbed wire is of a different kind of plastic than the Mega original, has less flexibility to it which causes the terrain to break apart when attempting to connect the coil to the poles at either end; have to settle for the middle pole to keep the thing from self-destructing. Not that big a deal overall, stick the whole thing on a baseplate and it should be ok though the poles will probably bend some.

>>11493756
Still have a few steps left to finish the BTR itself but I will mention the difficulty curve of telling green and dark grey parts apart in the instructions; had to backtrack more than once cuz i got the wrong colours and needed my phone light quite a bit to make sure I wasn't mixing them up again. Definitely not a kit for the easily frustrated.

>>11493761
I regret missing the original Mega set but the Chinese did a really good job with this knock-off, much better than the Half-Track and its useless treads. The finished vehicle is wonderfully huge and is quite roomy inside; most of the top cover lifts off easily to access it with doors on either side as well.

One minor bug is that they failed to provide the right part for a couple spots, namely corner plates with holes instead of solid studs; there's a couple spots on the top side armour panels where a grey bar piece is supposed to go but the corner plates with solid studs provided prevent their installation, largely a cosmetic slight but they should've done better. They also don't mention you will pretty much have to cut down the red hose piece significantly to fit into the engine compartment.

Those quibbles aside it really is one of the best KO sets on the market, the fact that it's still available while most of the rest have come and gone is a good indicator too I'd say.

Thank you for coming to the Crusty Krab.

This is called scale creep.
at first level they were the size of his fist.
Also, now with a less pasty more grizzled head.

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>>11498410
Is that Krab thing one from one of those Mega Egg series?

>>11498535
It's one of the Schleich ELDRADOR fantasy figures I got off Ali.
I have 2 of the rock golem dudes, the Magma Scorpion and a couple of others.

>>11498550
These guys

>>11499028
this guy

>>11499029
This guy. A dumb ice guy. a vine dragon (that the guy shipped my mistake and told me to keep and 2 or 3 wolves with flames or ice running down their spines.

>>11492150
Speaking of

Finally dusted off my Pyrates ships and crew and put them on a proper shelf. The one thing that did always annoy be about Mega (Megabloks back then) was the quality of the minifigs and pieces.

Going all the way back to the Dragons sets (Which I have no space to display atm) I always found myself breaking off the hands of the figures because they would just wear with time when putting on accessories and such. They also had a problem with the legs which would wear out so they would fall over at the hip joints. I found this problem with the plastic extended to pretty much all individual pieces, when dusting off my Dread Eye's phantom the plank broke into several parts because the plastic hardened and just split. Never had such issues with my Lego minifigs or pieces, maybe a loose arm but nothing like this, nor was it this common.

>>11499323

Pretty mad too that I had these ships stored for years at my parents' house and when I finally retrieved them, Dread Eye's sword was missing and the cannons on my Stormstalker were not working. And here I thought there was no harm in letting small kids play with them.

>>11499325

I would've loved to collect the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman sets when they came out for the PoTC: At World's End series. The hardest part would've been to collect enough crew for them, especially for the Dutchman. Been eyeing them on e-bay but they're even rarer than some Lego sets I've been looking for.

>>11499329

One thing Mega was definitely superior at was making ships. I never got the Dragons ships, which built more like a standard Lego ship with lots of plates and bricks, but the Pyrates ships beat the hell out of anything Lego has made in terms of ships. Not only do the Pyrates ships have better proportions, but they are also great with them being basically 3-5 large pieces that you ensemble together for the hull and then smaller pieces that you add on such as the masts and helm.

>>11499335

So if you look at the Pyrates ships vs for example the Lego Black Pearl you'll just see this massive difference in quality. DESU, I also saw the Mega version of the Black Pear and I don't love it either but it just feels more complete and with slightly better proportions. What annoys me is both versions look real bad proportion-wise, they look like oversized boats instead of the actual size of the black pearl. The issue I think was trying to make them look like the movie which in some shots looks short and bulky, but the ships definitely need to be longer to have a better sense of perspective in relation to the minifigures.

I've also found the box in which I have all my Dragons armies. I don't have a space large enough to place the sets but maybe I'll put the armies on display for a few pictures

>>11498550
>>11499028
Oooooooh, I recognize that name. Their monsters remind me of this really old line of Mega figures called, "Something Kreeps".
>>11499593
Sorry that happened to you. Nothing feels worse than recovering a toy from childhood only for it to break apart. People really weren't kidding when they say Mega used to paint their stuff; the bow (i don't know ships) looks gnarly>>11499335
Those statues look cool too.

Has MEGA done any other large reptiles or dragons besides Alduin?

All this Pyrates and PotC talk reminds me, I got an incomplete Black Pearl from Value Village ages ago, no figures or cannon but most of the ship itself and its masts, is currently sharing a bin with Phantoms and a Pelican but on this old pic it was atop a shelf.
>>11499916
Drogon, Viserion, Charizard, Gyarados

>>11499729

They did paint stuff, but it varied. With the Dragons series, at least when it came to the minifigs they only did the "important" ones such as wizards. Some accessories such as shields and banners had extreme level of detail, while weapons were just the regular stuff.

>>11500971

You can see in the previous pic the infamous hand issue which plagued all Mega products up to the Pyrates line at least. I stopped getting Mega after that, from new stuff I think I have maybe one Halo figure somewhere. If you see the figures used to be much more stiff, kinda like Lego figures basically but you couldn't rotate the hands.

That all changed when they introduced Pyrates since that minifig has been the template for Mega ever since. The only thing they have really changed is the quality of the plastic they use nowadays.

>>11500974

Anyway the Dragons line basically ended after Metal Ages which was their peak. After Metal Ages they had some new stuff with these red and platinum colors like the guy on the far right in this pic, from what I remember and I investigated this was the Battlestorm Epic which was the last series.

It was weird because I remember getting the Battlestorm sets BEFORE Plasma Dragons but Plasma came before battlestorm so idk. Thing is Dragons did a weird thing changing the figures for one series only before returning for the final series and then they just said "Fuck it" and booted the Dragons Universe.

By this point they had already incursioned into Pyrates and their first license which was Pirates of the Caribbean.

>>11499916
A ton.
>>11500971
By the way, you could super glue weapons into the broken hands. Kreo mini-figs had this problem where the wrist area would get stress marks, causing the hands to fall out. I ended up just gluing some weapons. I figured I should share this just in case.
>>11500974
The art style looks like it changed too. The second from the left looks closer to war hammer.

>>11491606
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All of these are terribly iconic and about as far away from any sort of blocky LEGO. the sculpts on these are great. Halo and the other stuff moved way from this but the sculpts and design were still great.

>>11501658
100% agree. I am buying the Stormstalker, and I am going to put these Mega Construx figures on it.

Is “Mattel Brick Shop” a rebranding of MEGA or its replacement?

>>11501658

They are, I am actually in the process of building something with the boxes I retrieved with all my blocks. I am actually missing some pieces that I needed for large towers, but at least I do have most of what I need. I hope to get more space in the near future to display all of it because as of now I have really nowhere to display the actual dragons and there will be barely enough space to place the armies

So is mega dead nowadays or what

>>11504735
It seems like they’re not using the name Mega anymore.

>>11505024
shame