Hello once again YouTube and welcome back to the Domain. Today I've got something very special under this blanket. Wahaa, here we go. It is the Halo Infinite, Mercenary and UNICECE combat unit. Today is part one where I'll be unboxing this beautiful set and then next time I'll be unboxing this and if that doesn't quite quench your thirst for these sets, I'll do a full review of both of them together as well. And in these videos I might end up being a little more blunt than usual because when you compare these sets to the gods that have come before them, you only get three figures compared to the old five team fire teams. Five team fire teams that rolls up the tongue. Alright so today I mean first of all look at them side by side. It's so cool how they're shooting towards each other. I don't think they square up perfectly. The mountains definitely don't and they're on different terrains. I think they would probably all miss each other and it's also kind of funny where like they replace the muzzle flares the like they have special effects. I wonder actually how many people over the years have bought a set opened it and expected to get some kind of muzzle flare attachment. But this time you can actually see this one which is pretty cool. I mean all three of them are firing some kind of artillery. Hopefully we will see a touchable plasma like little muzzle flares for plasma in the future. Wouldn't that be cool? Especially for a needle or imagine if you could attach a needle around to that thing. Alright so we've got the mercenary combat unit. Three figures with a couple of nice accessories. One of them pretty basic I think. But if we look at the back it is a super cool set. We've got three of these figures. I mean this is definitely the best thing this year for Army building. You're banished not that you know there's even a banished game yet. I mean this Halo was too. But we don't have Halo Infinite for a lot more time. I kind of came to the realization the other day. We might get three full waves of these toys. We might get like three full blind bag series. Maybe even four blind bag series before we actually get Halo Infinite. How mad would that be? Hey there we go. Well that's any resell value gone. Alright what do we have inside? Cool cool. We've got the three figures in individual bags. That's great. And then I guess that's actually a lot of pieces. Yeah that's not bad. You'll sort of hear me going on and off about this throughout these reviews. That you can't help compare these to the old fire teams. I know when the Halo Infinite 2020 wave was announced. We were quite excited about all the sets but we weren't exactly thrilled to see that we were only getting three figures in the fire teams. Like that has literally just dropped off more and more. It used to be five. Then it was four and now look at us now we're on three. I get it that the pieces are a lot to make but then again all of these figures are just remolds of existing figures. I mean especially this brood my goodness we have just seen this brood so many times recently. I immediately see that this is the same as the skiff intercept brood warrior where it's only got one leg and one shoulder piece of armor. Only one for each side so yes it is still a really nice figure but it definitely has a lot less armor than say the Halo Hero series 12 create the brood. Also how are you doing Craig? It's been a while. I recently got to create the brood in my Spartan armor pack and yes that includes a full set of armor compared to this one. They have changed it up a bit. They try to make it slightly different colors. Definitely the figure that I'm excited the most about is this jackal. We've really only seen the jackal. Oh just it's just so ugly. I'm sorry jackals they really did a number on you. I think they definitely inspired a lot by the Halo 2 anniversary cutscenes. Those things were like bite your face off and really we only got a jackal in the warthog so it's cool to see another but he definitely works really well with this red color and his crotch piece I guess you would call it is only one piece but look at him he looks great. It's such a lanky boy my goodness. They need to feed you more jackal. You basically in a slave army or you paid. See that's a thing with Halo Wars because like what do you do with the covenant when there's no religious order? You pretty much just have to pay them and like that's the idea with the banish that they kind of mercenaries. What do you pay a jackal? Like why would a jackal leave its home world just to fight in your wars? Like why would it rage war against humanity? I don't think it'll ever get fleshed out either. I don't know exactly how much deep lore goes into some covenant species and why they fight for the covenant. I mean they all fight for the covenant because of the religious aspect I guess but then like yeah like why would some of these random species bother fighting like pretty much fighting humanity is probably wiped out like insane amounts of their species like Neigenicidal. I guess if they're sent to a ring they could be convinced that it's still some kind of religious affair like jackal freebooter. What is what is a freebooter? I'm not quite sure. We've got the elite ultra you know when the elite ultra was announced I was so excited about him and I still kind of am but I feel like we're definitely seeing enough of him. I mean we're already getting another elite ultra in the series 2 Halo Infinite Blind Bags so I just you know that's enough you know that's a good amount. Let's just stop there for a while. Let's not just keep on plowing these guys out just because they're a new mold. You really have to force these guys in or they'll just pop out of their torsos in the future. Okay that red is actually excellent that looks amazing. I am delightfully surprised by that and we also have this really nice light blue eye very cool. Look at these guys. Cool little team. Team freebooters or whatever whatever they're called. That is the free figures. Let's build some things. What do we have here? Let's see how quickly Sam and can build this. Pro builders. Oh my goodness. What? Why is this so comically big? What a waste. Look at all this dead space. Why are you printing on such a massive piece of paper that's unnecessary. Oh gosh. Oh god. Oh poor jackal. That is the suffer nightmares that is gross. That's actually very cool. I like that effect. Sort of like I don't know barbed wire in some kind of covenant way. I've said that these barricades are a little limp. They don't have anything on the back. They're not very 3D. They would kind of fall over very easily if they were actually in battle but still pretty nice and also that nice red color. I'm a big fan of. Let's build this thing up. So guys, as always, I hope you are enjoying my content. It's been a funny month. It's been a funny however long since we moved to Hong Kong. It's always a funny time. Trying to get some more complicated videos out. It's pretty difficult to film and release more complicated videos when you're also on like a super tight work schedule. It is much easier to film unboxing videos because I don't want you guys to go like high and dry. I'd rather be giving you some kind of content. So the unboxing videos are definitely the easiest. But I would like to get some more complicated videos out in the future and some kind of cinematic videos with like all different 4K Halo footage. I'm really trying to get hold of 4K Halo footage actually. I really honestly don't have the time or capacity to film my own stuff right now. I can't record all the Halo cutscenes. So if you listen to this video and you know a good place to get them, please do hit me up. That would be pretty awesome. I am no rookie to foreign astructures and here is another super bland on the back. That does not look like the back of a foreign astructure like it should be mirrored perfectly. So that's not amazing but still see what it looks like on a display. Okay, that's a cool design. It's sort of floating off the ground. I do enjoy that a lot. I mean that is ugly at the back. That's not amazing. That is a really cool mold. Let's put together this turret. They've really been throwing around this design. Whoever made this design must have got to raise it at the office this way to like easily insert plasma and stuff. Oh look at that. Oh yeah. Oh this is the controversy right? Because this comes out of this gun. Because like we haven't even seen this gun in action in Halo Infinite. So we don't know why it fires sort of like this fire. Maybe this is Mega Blocks variation of plasma or maybe it's some kind of electricity. I don't know. It looks pretty cool and then we can load one of these in easy peasy and then it pops that up and it's ready to fire. What a genius invention. Nice little handles in the back for your figure to hold and then okay. That's a lot more flexibility than I was expecting. So that's really cool. And then yeah okay. That's surprising to me. This could kind of just be like it's stationary position and then when you sort of touch it it's ready to go. Okay I'm impressed with that. That's really nice. That's all of our stuff built up. Let's display it. There you have it. I am seeing red and I am seeing banished glory. Look at this set. I've got a little cynical little skeptical because yes the fire team has been reduced from five to four to three. I mean it's been a gradual thing and now we're at the point where it is only three figures. But you've got to give it to Mega. They are some excellent figures. Yes some of them are a little bit of a rerun from old sets. Hello Craig. I mean I really need to see more variation than that. But this Elite Ultra and the Jackal really make it for me. The For and a Structure which yes I missed a couple of pieces off the back. I added them now. It still looks very bare and is a bit one dimensional. And I would say the same for the barricade. Usually barricades would have some pieces coming off the back. But the figures, epic and the turret really brought it home for me. I didn't expect to like this turret so much but it's got some great flexibility. A really nice single cast mold which is all they really needed. Great handles at the back and a very efficient firing mechanism. So all in all a quality set. A real quality set. In the next episode I'll be unboxing the UNSC Combat Unit and then if you would like I'll do a full review of both of them together. Thank you very much for tuning in today guys. I hope you enjoyed and this was another video with the Domain. As always you stay awesome out there. 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