![]() Additionally, there are two more LEDs in the balljoint the head fits onto, meaning the eyes will light up as well. A sincerely awesome one! The port on the chest acts as the control button: click it, and LEDs inside light up, making it look powerful. Out of it, and your Sentinel will now have a light-up feature. Go find your TV remote and take the two AAA batteries If you remove the large plate that covers the Sentinel's entire upper back, you'll get access to a panel you can unscrew to reveal a battery compartment. The chin is large and protrudes from the face a bit, rather than being a close fit. The head is very much what you think of when you think "Sentinel": the angled faceplate, the square nose, the round "pupils" floating inside dark mechanical sockets, the permanently open mouth with a grille visible inside, and the purple frame holding the entire thing together, with a ridge of bumps around the head just above the eyes, making it look like they're wearing a gigantic metal beanie to keep warm in the winter. It's unmistakably a machine, not a metal human. The interior of the joints - hips, shoulders, waist, neck - are sculpted to look like thick bundles of cables (with the largest cables on the abdomen actually being separate pieces from the rest), suggesting the connections that would make a robot function, and the outer shell has large panels with seams and vents and all the rest. Shapes that would be right at home on a Transformer, all blocky and angular. This one is inspired by the HoX/PoX crossover, which is a fairly classic look: mostly humanoid, but with Sentinels have been appearing in the comics since 1965, and have had lots of different designs. This is like unpacking a new computer or something. ![]() It's legitimately fun just to take the toy out of the tray, which isn't something we can often say. The figure and accessories are all wrapped up in tissue paper for protection, and thick foam blocks hold the Sentinel in place. Inside is a thick styrofoam tray with a clear plastic cover. It's beautiful stuff, which is nice since a lot of us will probably be using the box for storage when this monster isn't actively on display. The art on the box is designed to match the Series 8 packaging, with the Krakoan text and a massive battle scene that runs around all four sides, showing the X-Men battling various Sentinels. It's 31" tall, 22½" wide, and 8⅜" deep - and that's just its packaging, not the shipping box that's in, or the second shipping box that's in. The box it ships in is unfathomably massive. And only a year or so later, the final product just got dropped off at our doors. By the time the campaign closed on August 24th, they had 21,887. By the end, they didn't even have physical prototypes to show, they had to just post digital mock-ups. (The life-size Cookie Monster they were trying to do at the same time, sadly, did not.) Then on July 10th, 2020, came the Marvel Legends Sentinel, which blew through its initial goal in a single weekend, causing Hasbro to scramble to come up with some unlockable stretch goals. After that came a new version of Unicron it was close when the end came, so Hasbro extended the deadline a little and he made it. When Hasbro decided to start their "HasLab" crowdfunding site, they kickstarted things with a sail barge for Jabba the Hutt it reached its goal a bit before the end of the funding period. Programmed with only one objective, to destroy all mutant life on Earth, the Sentinel will not hesitate, will not falter, and will never ever stop hunting. Its body a towering, technological marvel, the Sentinel scans the world for its quarry, a searching light emanating from its chest, its glowing eyes a warning. B u y t h e t o y s, n o t t h e h y p e.
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