The Grunt 2-Pack Not A 2-Pack

Well, it looks like Halo army builders took a big shot to the gut. I would have posted this earlier, but I was waiting on an official news story or announcement of some type from McFarlane in regards to this information. Here's what I can tell. I could be wrong about a great many things and I admit it so other than the quote take everything with a grain of salt. Last month or so, when the Halo figures went into the Spawn Store system for the public to see the Grunts were not listed with the rest of the figures. This sparked a bit of concern from some people, but many dismissed it or were simply unaware.

Then some retailers began to change thier product listing and descriptions about the 2-pack and relisted it as a single figure that would come in variations of green and orange, each with two weapons.

This popped up in conversation on the ToyPit message boards and got me thinking so I started digging since this contradicted what we'd been told about the figures that I could rememeber seeing. Then I found a post on Spawn asking about it. In the thread we got out answer.

According to Joe F (see post from this thread):

The grunt is a single pack. The terminology got confused because there are two weapons included with the figure – all other figures come with just one weapon in Series one.

It was a communication error on our part.

Straight from the Brand Managers mouth.

Remember, back in some of the original news articles it was revealed as a 2-pack (see G4 article) and on Spawn.com the first time I can find where this was contradicted was the thread that came later. Sure, the McFarlane listing have always said Grunt and not Grunts. However, in the official feedback thread it was fully communicated by fans that there were expecting a 2-pack of aliens and not of weapons. It saddens me that it wasn't addressed sooner. This is going to make some collector's angry, change the buying plans of others and have no impact on many I'm sure. Hopefully something happens which will soften the blow for those who have canceled pre-orders because of this "miscommunication."

I will say this, thus far the Grunts have proven to be more problematic for collectors than they ever were ingame, even on Legendary.

Oh, you pesky Grunts! Shame on you! Shame!