Monday, September 12, 2005
In the final segment of his Marvel Legends Series 10 reviews, guest reviewer bluesparrow gives us a look at the "build a figure" bonus figure that you can assemble from parts included with the individual figures in the series. (For his reviews of those figures check out Part 1 and Part 2.)
We tried writing this review ourselves, but the best we could come up with was "Awesome!" There’s that, plus we don’t actually have a Sentinel figure yet. Read on!
Sentinel
Toybiz’s Marvel Legends series ten Build-a-Figure Sentinel!
Sculpt
Excellent. You’re going to read the word "best" fairly often in this review, and we’re going to start here. Every cable, every metal plate, the textures, the proportions, EVERY SINGLE DETAIL of this figure is sublime. There is nothing to dislike here.
Paint
Excellent. Wow. Not sure what’s plastic, and what’s paint on this figure. Every part of him is covered with a weathered-looking metal sheen.
Articulation
Excellent. As much articulation as a regular 6" ML, he isn’t limited by a skirt like Galactus is, and is thus that much more of an action toy. He has a swivel/hinge neck without much give on the up/down motion, ball shoulders, shoulder-pad hinges, bicep swivels, double-hinged elbows, ball wrists, ab swivel/hinge, ball waist, ball hips, thigh swivels below the ball hips, double-hinged knees, limited articulation ankle swivels. So around 25-29 POA.
Accessories
Excellent. I rate these by what they need, and frankly as an accessory himself the Sentinel is good enough without any accessories, but Toybiz gave us a pair of tentacles for him anyway. They’re exactly the same as those that come with Omega Red, but I won’t quibble.
Overall
Excellent. Best figure ever released in Marvel Legends? YES.
About bluesparrow
bluesparrow joined the Fwoosh back in March of this year, and just wrote that oh-so-special one thousandth post. Being generally bored and spending so much time online talking about toys, he created Neon Batman (with Sword-Slashing action!) – a repository for his thoughts on toys, collecting, the industry, etc. Stop by his site for more pictures of ML 10 and more.
