Halo 5 Guardians Spartan Fred

Halo 5 Guardians Spartan Fred

Presenting the McFarlane Toys Spartan Fred from the Halo 5 Guardians video game.

To the uninitiated, this is Lientenant Junior Grade - yes, he outranks the Master Chief - Frederic Ellsworth, one of the last Spartan II supersoldiers in the service of the United Nations Space Command's Naval Special Warefare Command (UNSC)

For more about the Master Chief, click here.

Spartan Fred (Call sign Sierra 104) is technically the ranking officer of Blue team and is a natural leader and brilliant strategist, but he constantly defers to the leadership of Master Chief John 117 (He even holds the designation "Blue Three").

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HALO 5 Guardians Spartan Buck

HALO 5 Guardians Spartan Buck

Presenting Spartan IV Edward "Eddie" Buck former ODST and member of Team Osiris from the HALO 5 Guardians video-game and McFarlane Toys.

Click here to read about the other HALO 5 Guardians action figures in our collection. 

This is the character based upon the looks and personality of Nathan Fillon, the lead of the much loved and missed Firefly TV series and current lead of the detective rom/com Castle - though I hear his partner, Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) has left the series.

Nathan also provides the voice for Spartan Buck and has been providing his voice since Buck appeared as an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper (ODST) in Halo 3 ODST.

The writers behind HALO 5 Guardians also have Spartan Buck screaming "Gorram!" and "Bam, said the lady!" which are quotes from Firefly and Castle respectively.

McFarlane HALO 5 Spartan Kelly - 087

McFarlane HALO 5 Spartan Kelly - 087

Presenting Spartan Kelly - 087 from the McFarlane HALO 5 toyline. 

Kelly Shaddock is one of the last survivors of the SPARTAN II program of the UNSC - the program that included her closest friend Master Chief John-117.

Spartan Kelly-07 was one of the original members of the Spartan II program Blue Team. Kelly-087 served as the fireteam's scout. She was renown for her unmatched running speed - both with or without her Mjolnir armor.

Spartan Kelly-07 was again with the Blue Team that went AWOL along with Master Chief John-117 in his pursuit of his "reborn" AI companion, Cortana.

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HALO 4 Commander Sarah Palmer

Presenting Mc Farlane's Commander Sarah Palmer the SPARTAN Commander from HALO 4. 

Sarah Palmer is a member of the SPARTAN IV program - which mean's in essence she's a Mjolnir Gen 2 armor augmented and genetically modified professional soldier. This distinguishes her from the members of Noble Team who are members of the SPARTAN III program - basically cannon fodder soldiers who did not receive the same genetic augmentation that the members of the SPARTAN I, II and IV programs received.

Sarah Palmer was received training from one of Noble Team's survivors: Jun A266 - Noble 3.

SPARTAN Commander Sarah Palmer encountered the Master Chief when he rescued the beleaguered crew of the UNSC Infinity during the First Battle of Requiem. She thought the Master Chief would be taller.

HALO Reach SPARTAN Jorge 052 Noble 5

Presenting McFarlane Toy's Spartan Jorge 052 - Noble 5 -  from the HALO Reach video-game. 

Chief Warrant Officer Jorge-052 was a member of the SPARTAN II program - the same program that produced the Master Chief. SPARTAN Jorge was one of the few SPARTAN II survivors who got assigned to work with SPARTAN IIIs. He served with Noble Team as their heavy weapon's specialist with the designation Noble 5.

As a member of the SPARTAN II program, Jorge received the same genetic augmentation and training that the Master Chief received. This made him stronger, than the members of the SPARTAN III program - who were just armor enhanced elite soldiers.

SPARTAN Jorge was killed during Operation Uppercut during the Battle of Reach. He was the first member of Noble Team in the HALO: Reach game to die. Fearing that they would lose the battle thanks to the arrival of a Covenant Supercarrier, Noble 5 and Noble 6 infiltrated the Supercarrier to deliver a slipstream bomb. Unfortunately their escape options were cut off and the bomb's timer was damaged. Noble 5 Jorge 052, gave Noble 6 his dogtags and literally picked up and threw Noble 6 off the supercarrier. He stayed behind to detonate the bomb manually.

SPARTAN Jorge-052's last words to Noble 6 was "Tell em to make it count"

SPARTAN THORNE - Mc Farlane Toys Halo 4

Presenting from McFarlane Toys, SPARTAN Gabriel Thorne, the main character of the SPARTAN Ops series of Halo 4 where he served as a rifleman in Fireteam Majestic. 

Now to the uninitiated - and this get confusing - SPARTAN Thorne is a member of the SPARTAN IV program - which is essentially a batch of genetically modified adults given Mjolnir armors to create super-soldiers.

SPARTAN IVs are not to be confused in with the cannon-fodder members of the SPARTAN III program which included Noble Team, as these were just soldiers given superior training in tactics along with Mjolnir power armor. They were literally released to die and delay the Covenant. 

And not to be confused with the members of the SPARTAN II program from which John 117 hails. He was kidnapped as a child, subjected to training and genetic augmentation and then given  Mjonir Power Armor - which also explains why he's so expensive. Modifying adults was cheaper. SPARTAN II's were still superior to SPARTAN IVs - though SPARTAN IV Mjolnir Generation 2 armor is superior to the Mjolnir armor issued to SPARTAN IIs.

But then, John 117 now wears a SPARTAN Mjolnir Generation 2 armor. 

So he's superior in every way.

Halo 3: Mongoose

Halo 3 Mongoose

Presenting the Halo 3 Mongoose! Easily one of the worst possible vehicles you can find yourself driving in that awesome video game. If you've played the game then you know that the Halo Mongoose is unarmed, tends to skid a lot - great for drifting - has a horn for an offensive weapon (Beats shouting "Get out of the way!")  and is one of the most unstable gun platforms (Even with a rocket-launcher) in the game - one of the easiest if not the easiest to overturn. I came across this particular Halo 3 Mongoose in Filbars while spending the afternoon with my wife. It cost me around PhP 1,600. It costs around PhP 1,000 on Amazon sans shipping

UNSC Special Warfare Command Group Three

Presenting elements of the UNSC Special Warfare Command Group Three (AKA Noble Team):  (L-R) Warrant Officer Emile-A239 (Noble Four), Lieutenant SPARTAN-B312 (Noble Six), and the big-boy Chief warrant Officer Jorge-052 (Noble Five). Spoiler: By the end of the video game, Halo:Reach, all three are dead - including, well... you since you'll be playing Noble Six.

Halo Reach: Noble Six (Lieutenant SPARTAN-B312)

Purchased Oct, 2010
PhP 999.75 at Toys R'Us



I didn't really enjoy the video game because of the ending - though you get a hint of it at the start (I really don't understand why video game developers think that players want to die in the end). Anyway, here's the avatar of one of John 117's brothers who you can play - and customize (hell you can even make the brother a sister in the video game) in the Halo prequel: Halo Reach. He's the first in a series released by McFarlane (mcfarlane.com/halo) for the video game. Series 1 includes custom Spartans and some of the other Spartans that you can see - but not play - in the video game (Emile and Jorge).