Customer Reviews

Halo 3 Series 3 - War Chieftain Weapon Class

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

A real world story ...

Because of an unbelievable holiday price, I purchased two of these, one as a Christmas gift for my 12 year-old son, and one for the collectible value later on.

On Christmas morning, it took less than 5 minutes for the War Chieftain's left hand to break off as my son was trying to position it. It does appear to be a movable joint. While my son is generally careful with his toys, I assumed he must have done something wrong for it to break so quickly.

In an effort to make it look like a "super repair" job, I decided to secretly substitute the extra one I bought with the broken War Chieftain. I opened the package and looked at the left hand. It appeared movable. I gently tried to position it as he had intended (so it could hold the weapon). As soon as I did, I could just tell the turn had twisted the plastic and not actually moved at the joint. With one more movement it would be just as the one my son had .... oops, too late. Yes, it had broken just as the first one had, and I did it to the second one.

This is not durable as a toy. It should only be purchased if you want to display it as a collectible with minimal handling, not actually play with it.

Unfortunately literally 10 seconds after getting the Brute out of the package his hand fell off while I was trying to pose him. I guess I just had a dud unfortunate but what are you going to do.

This Brute Chieftain is a very large, detailed Halo 3 figure. His helmet is removable, and he can be posed with or without the Fuel Rod Gun. However, unlike the Halo 3 Series 3 - Elite Combat Soldier, his shoulder armor is not intentionally removable. It is difficult to pose the Chieftain with the Fuel Rod Gun, with the barrel parallel with his line of vision. Its also hard to get his left hand to touch the gun while the right hand is gripping the handle. Also, when I made the right hand grip the handle, the trigger broke off. I couldn't see a way to get the hand to grip the handle with the trigger there.
However, the detail on this toy is amazing. Although he has a lot of weight above his waist, the large feet help balance the Chieftan in many different positions.

This toy was very fun accept for the fact it was not very movable. The head can move side to side. Its arms can move up and down and its legs can just barley move back and forth. When I received it in the male I tried to twist the hands and one of them broke off. Then attempting to hold the gun with the broken hand, the trigger broke off as well. We are going to fix it with super glue as we have done with other Halo items. If you buy this item or any other brutes, don't twist the hands and be careful with the guns.

My eleven year old son purchased this toy and BOTH hands fell off with almost no pressure or movement within the first minute or two out of the box. My son used his own saved funds to purchase this. The only reason he gave it a 2-star rating on educational value was because he "learned" to read reviews on Amazon BEFORE making a decision about what to purchase instead of an impulse buy when he sees a new toy he thinks he has to have. As a Mom, I know that is a valuable lesson, along with the experience of taking it back to get a refund. I'm going to let him do the talking at the store. As someone else said, this is NOT an action toy, just, IMHO, an ugly lump of plastic to sit around on a shelf collecting dust and hoping you don't loose any parts while waiting for it to appreciate, if it ever does.

This is a great action figure but... the hand will break off if you try to attach him rocket launcher. It is EXTREMELY delicate, but it is a great figure.

I'm a huge fan of McFarlane's Halo 3 line, but the first War Chieftain I bought broke almost as soon as I removed it from the package. When I tryed to turn the hand, it twisted right off it's peg. When you are loosenign this figure up, move its hand up and down or left and right or something before you try to TURN it. Do NOT TURN until the wrist joint is loose.

Ok this toy looks very much like the game's war chieftain!!Just the shoulders are very hard to move. Overall a very good figure for any Halo collector!!

It took all of 2 minutes for this figure's hand to fall off as my son attempted to get the figure's gun into it. I was able to repair it with some creative drill and super glue work, but was very upset that I had to do any of it. This action figure comes completely unready for any "action".

Figure is great and detailed. Once you put the gun in his hand dont take it out as the handle is a bit fragile and might break like mine did.