>>10941985The local liquidation centre once had a pile of pic related for 5 maplebucks a pop, think I only bought a couple cuz the fig is a named character and I already had so many Ghosts from collecting the line from the beginning. Guess it was a foreshadowing of the decline; just a few years before that I remember when Halo Series 6 blindbags came out and Walmart had an entire standalone island display for the dozen cases of them in stock. Every series after that one they started stocking fewer cases, wondering if that was the high water mark for them.
>>10941998It was a right place and right time kind of thing, Halo was in its golden age of the best games, the best multiplayer and Mega pulled off a genius move by snapping up the license, knowing Lego likely passed on it cuz M rated. Once they got a generation of Halo fans hooked it was easy enough to keep stringing us along as we got older, had disposable income and Halo was still sacrosanct. Before the dark times, before 343...
