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Are they worth it?

HELL YES!!
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DEAR GOD NO!!
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Post by stubby » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:43 pm

It took a lot of work though, the knobs that hold on MB heads are too small for Lego heads. I had to do some creative modification with electrical tape to keep the heads from falling off.

As a side note, I think electrical tape is the duct tape of Lego modification. It's easily removable, leaves no adhesive gunk, and is just the right amount of squishy that you can fit Lego bits to it without it having to necessarily be the right shape.

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Post by OneEye589 » Mon Apr 12, 2010 8:46 pm

I love electrical tape. It's pretty much the duct tape of a band, too. It's all nice and shiny, matches most equipment, and can be used to hold shit together AND fix electrical stuff. I always have a few rolls.

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Post by spartan117 » Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:12 am

no its CRAP (halo mega blocks not the tape thing) my family got me some for Manly Santa Day and i ONLY use the grunts...just for comady value


that always catches me off guard :lol:

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Post by Warhead » Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:27 am

stubby wrote:It took a lot of work though, the knobs that hold on MB heads are too small for Lego heads. I had to do some creative modification with electrical tape to keep the heads from falling off.

As a side note, I think electrical tape is the duct tape of Lego modification. It's easily removable, leaves no adhesive gunk, and is just the right amount of squishy that you can fit Lego bits to it without it having to necessarily be the right shape.
Yeah, it's the Blitzen, distinguished Owner of the English Language, only if you use it on torsos it will after a while remove the decal underneath. If you have decals you WANT removed use a rubber. Rubbers can remove all or even just a small part of decals if you use care.
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Post by BrickSyd » Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:12 am

Warhead wrote:Yeah, it's the Blitzen, distinguished Owner of the English Language, only if you use it on torsos it will after a while remove the decal underneath. If you have decals you WANT removed use a rubber. Rubbers can remove all or even just a small part of decals if you use care.
Wish I knew that before. Thank you sir.

As for the bloks, the sets are not bad but I think buying lego sets would be a superior way to spend your money... except if you think that lego is trash and plan on buying only maga blok set in the future.

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Post by Paco » Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:34 am

I'm concidering getting one of the army builders for the troops because they look somewhat decent. Or just for cannon fodder, seeing as I have no Jaw-Jaws.

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Post by Coximind » Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:41 pm

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Warhead wrote:Are the mega-fig parts especially the equipment interchangeable with Lego?
Remember the picture Rayhawk posted, the one with the really fat mom and the flamethrower? Those three troopers in front of her had Spartan torsos. Yeah, you can interchange megafigs with minifigs. You wouldn't want to though...
Really? Where?
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Post by MasterEcabob » Wed Apr 14, 2010 4:49 pm

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As if we care. More explosives!

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Post by muffinman42 » Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:01 pm

They look OK, im more interested in if they have any interesting or usefull pieces. a good SNOT brick would be a good one, or a shape that can't be built with lego.
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Post by Magic Soap » Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:44 am

What's weird about that picture is how Mike has managed to make them seem OK, at least to the extent that they're tolerable... But it must all be a lie.

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Post by Warhead » Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:16 pm

Remember as Stubby said we must take into account the fat fingerage of these mini-figs.
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Post by stubby » Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:48 pm

Warhead wrote:Remember as Stubby said we must take into account the fat fingerage of these mini-figs.
The reason I mention it is because the hinges are pretty loose, so they'll collapse at all the times when you're trying to get them to hold steady, and the ball joints are often very weak, so the limbs pop off when you're trying to pose them. If the joints and hinges were higher quality then fatfingering them wouldn't be so bad, but as it stands you're liable to destroy something whenever you try to change their poses.

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Post by Coximind » Fri Apr 16, 2010 2:57 pm

I have made my mind up. I don't think I will. My money will, instead, be better spent on PAB janitors. With miniguns!
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Post by trebnos1 » Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:56 pm

Well, I bought several of the sets, and I'm happy with them so far. They come with some pretty sweet pieces; especially the Brute Chopper, which is relatively cheap. The chainguns would be a fantastic buy on their own.
So, pros and cons:

Pros:
-The weapons are nice, detailed, and minifig-compatible (for the most part, see Cons).
-Each set comes with at least one or two custom pieces, some of which are really nice.
-The sets tend to be fairly inexpensive.
-The chainguns are in and of themselves a reason to buy at least a couple of these sets.
-Depending on which set you get, some of these come with some nice scorch-mark/bullet-hole stickers.

Cons:
-I have been informed that the megafigs don't count as minifigs. If you are a Lego purist, your hands will burn on contact.
-Quality isn't quite up to par with Lego, I suppose (though I've had no problems to speak of).
-The ball joints on the USNC Wolverine that hold the missile pods aren't really compatible with Lego.
-While the handheld weapons are nice, there aren't too many to choose from. Especially since the M7 submachinegun can't be held properly, even by a megafig (it's got this obnoxiously placed butt), and the flamethrowers, while they are awesome and look beautiful mounted on a hardsuit, aren't really minifig-compatible.

Overall, I recommend that you buy at least one or two sets to try out. I really liked the Brute Chopper (it has some nice detail pieces that Lego doesn't make, such as the double-sided studs 2x2, and is the cheapest set to include a chaingun), the Scorpion Tank (four treads, an interesting if cumbersome piece for the main gun, lots of nice decals, a custom hatch, and custom tread covers), and the Warthog (first, it's just a cool vehicle, but it also comes with a chaingun, some cool front-hook pieces, and some custom pieces with the Covenant turret, as well as some bullet hole and scorch-mark stickers).

I made some cool MOCs with pieces from the above sets, I'll post them later in the Armory section after that particular army is complete.

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Post by Coximind » Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:03 pm

Cons:
-I have been informed that the megafigs don't count as minifigs. If you are a Lego purist, your hands will burn on contact.
Do I really look like one? :?

-Quality isn't quite up to par with Lego, I suppose (though I've had no problems to speak of).
Again, most of my brix happen to be Nega-Blox.

-The ball joints on the USNC Wolverine that hold the missile pods aren't really compatible with Lego.
Huh?

-While the handheld weapons are nice, there aren't too many to choose from. Especially since the M7 submachinegun can't be held
properly, even by a megafig (it's got this obnoxiously placed butt), and the flamethrowers, while they are awesome and look beautiful mounted on a hardsuit, aren't really minifig-compatible.
I don't mind trimming with a scalpel. Variety is not an issue either.
And WTH is a chaingun?
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