The one True Spartan

Well as if playing the game wasnt enough, Mcfarlane Toys knowing how big the franchise is, capitalized on this when they accquired the rights to Halo 3. So I picked up Master Chief and the Brute Chieftain and I have to be honest on first onlook I wasnt really impressed. For one I was utterly disgusted at how small these figures are. I mean most Mcfarlane figures are about 7 to 8 inches and then out of no where we get some of the best characters ever from one of the best video games ever and blamo Mcfarlane toys shrunk the chief down. Well another thing aside from the size was the fact that....what do I see, could it be, no it cant be...Mcfarlane Toys putting articulation into a figure. HOLY SHIT!!! 18 points of articulation on the chief and 15 on the Brute. Now that Mcfarlane finally got some joints in a figure they decide to shrink it...ok i'll stop talking about that. To the left here we have the chief himself in his standard armor. This is basically the default armor that you have when you start the game. If you decide to play online the higher your rank and as you unlock achievements you unlock more armor which Mcfarlane also is making each individual armor in varying colors so you too can go broke buying each Spartan. He comes with a frag and his trusty assualt rifle. I wish he would have come with more weapons but again it looks like Mcfarlane is going to supply certain armors with certain guns. That pretty much sums up the chief, and to go back to the quality of the figure. I have to say one thing Mcfarlane is known for is the sculpts. Most of his toys are usually pretty well sculpted ressembling there real life counter part or whatever fantasy figure there trying to emulate. So to add, once I actually opened the chief up I was pretty impressed at his poseability and how cool he looks out of the package. Most of the time once you open a figure they sometimes lose that coolness but the chief holds his own out of the package.

Now on to the Brute Chieftain, now as much as I love Master Chief and the Spartans, I always seem to have a soft spot for the bad guys especially when there alien monsters. The brutes are these gorilla type aliens that are basically trying to kick the Chief's ass. So when I seen the Brute Chieftain with his heavy armor and that helmet...I was sold. Im such a geek for armor. Very samuraish in that him being the chieftain he has this elborate head piece while most of the other brutes have smaller simpler helmets. I noticed that Mcfarlane also has some other brutes coming out soon also.
Well, the chieftain comes with his trusty gravity hammer and a frag. Why I didnt get this pic with this hammer...I have no idea. Anyways again 15 points of articulation, only problem to me being the legs, the joints are horrible, its hard to pose his feet correctly without him looking off balance or have his legs look anotomically incorrect. Once you mess around with it enough you'll see where the legs turn...yeah i said turn, for whatever reason (Im thinking the armor) his legs dont bend. If they do the joints are so tight Im scared to break him. Which his shoulders had this problem also and I noticed when I actually did get them moving I could see what looked like some sort of greese. Which explains the heavy plastic/greese smell that he put off. Most toy collectors know that awsome new smell when you first open a toy, its basically the equivilent of the famous new car smell, but in the toy world were a much simpler group.