Halo Universe Anniversary Series 2
 

It's nice to see an official announcement of this series/wave, even though we've known about it for a while now (BBTS listings). I'll probably get the Master Chief, Captain Keyes, Mickey, and 343 Guilty Spark & Sentinel figures. Don't think I'll get the Mk.VI figure, but I have a friend that might be interested in it, but not the logo piece, so I might be able to work-out a trade with him for it.

It's really nice to see that the 343 Guilty Spark and Sentinel set will have a base for them to float over. Also, the reversible eye on GS is a nice touch, as are the movable parts on the sentinel. Even if it wasn't for the BAL (build-a-logo), this would be an instant buy for me, and the same goes for Chief.

I sorta hope they do at least one more series of these after this. Miranda Keyes and Dr. Halsey are two characters I'd love to see made into action figures (would make for a nice little family display with Captain Keyes). I'd also like to see another Grunt or two (the Spec Ops one from series 1 is the first of the Halo 3 Grunt mold I've ever owned). A Grunt Deacon would be something I would be interested in seeing. I don't believe that rank of Grunt has ever been visually represented before though, so I'm not sure what it would/could look like.

Anyways, I'm looking forward to seeing the actual toy photos of these and the Reach series 6 figures. Should be interesting to see how they compare to the preliminary pictures of them.

...Falcon... Where's my Falcon...

I imagine it's either been canned, or they've been working on trying to make it retail-worthy (much like they are the Banshee). They might also have trouble trying to convince retailers it's worth selling, like Hasbro did with Animated towards it's demise. It is, after-all, a big gamble. Hardcore fans would buy it, but kids might not be interested. Though if they can get it to retail and it does well, it'll hopefully open-up the doors for some of the other large vehicles, like the Scorpion and Wraith. We'll just have to wait and see. Personally I'm hoping that McFarlane is keeping quiet about it so they cake make it's release a big surprise, or something like that.

Slightly off-topic, but I wasn't sure if this had been mentioned over here or not, and I think it's worth mentioning. The Halo Reach series 6 "Team Objectives" set was canceled for some currently unknown reason. Scythe over at TFW got an email from BBTS saying that the set was canceled, and that they would have to cancel all of the pre-orders for it.