@jtmarsh Just to assist in making (possibly) terrible financial decisions 🤣 .....remember the Sentinel is a preorder so you won't have to pay for it until it is shipping next year. Unlike the Haslabs that you have to pay for once the funding period ends.
Oh trust me I've marked the calendar for both. Just going through a lot of these "Pile On Preorders" and coming to realization one mustn't buy everything and can be happy with less. I like the Plasma Series Ghostbusters but they largely stay in my closet until the Halloween-ish time of year, they'll look great with the Ecto Haslab and for only $75 extra bucks you get the works as well. And all of it is likely to sit in my closet for 10 months of the year. It'll be cool as heck, but at the same time you can't buy/stock everything that's "cool as heck" forever. So I'm just enjoying the new Quicksilver figure and reminding myself, "you CAN be happy just spending $25 dollars and not always look to what's next."
That said, the 97 Sentinels look great. And I've been buying the 97 figures, but at the same time, I dunno that I'd want just 1-2 of the animated Sentinels, and then you're talking $500-ish and where to store THOSE and their likely giant box, which I still have from the Haslab. Just trying to be happy with less...for now...
Thankfully I've largely talked myself out of the Lego X-Mansion with all those characters that come with it because it would likely mean buying the Blackbird as well.
Oh trust me I've marked the calendar for both. Just going through a lot of these "Pile On Preorders" and coming to realization one mustn't buy everything and can be happy with less. I like the Plasma Series Ghostbusters but they largely stay in my closet until the Halloween-ish time of year, they'll look great with the Ecto Haslab and for only $75 extra bucks you get the works as well. And all of it is likely to sit in my closet for 10 months of the year. It'll be cool as heck, but at the same time you can't buy/stock everything that's "cool as heck" forever. So I'm just enjoying the new Quicksilver figure and reminding myself, "you CAN be happy just spending $25 dollars and not always look to what's next."
I like Ghostbusters as much as the next guy. Toy-wise, though, they come in behind GI Joe, Marvel, and Star Wars for me. That said, having never backed a Haslab, the Ecto-1 is probably the most tempting one ever. And the reason is that even if I went with the base offering I could consider the Plasma Series "complete" if I'm strictly a first movie kind of guy. Slimer is a big hole in the line, library ghost is iconic, and Ecto-1, like the Enterprise in Star Trek, is essentially a characters in itself.
Still, I have a good Ghostbusters display already. Got the vintage Echo-1 already and it's rolling out of the vintage firehouse with the vintage figures and ghosts populating it. NECA Toony Terrors Beetlejuice, Elvira, and Wednesday Adams are hanging around the place. I got a NECA Stay Puffed bank that's about 8 inches---not HUGE, but enough to pop. That's a good GB display (And since it's Halloween time, the wife allows it all to be displayed in our living room!). Why do I need MORE? "But Adam, that's all based on the old CARTOON GBs, now don't you need figures based on the LIVE ACTION GBs?" Eh......do I? These are the things that go through my mind at times like this.
Thanks for allowing me to hijack a Marvel thread for this.
I had no idea the classic Sentinel was being made. This is a must as this is the version I remember reading about in the comics growing up. Preordered 3. Feels like it’s some kind of pseudo Haslab considering the size but we don’t pay until it ships.
Looks pretty close to a classic comic Sentinel...even the pre-Byrne versions. Size-wise this new one is closer to the ones on the covers below than it is to the ones shown in X-Men '97.
These look absolutely amazing but between the Haslab, titan hero, and 2-pack versions I have spent enough on sentinels.
I certainly have a ton of nostalgia for sentinels, but not necessarily the looks from the comics. They were only simple in design to make them easier to draw, and I'm finding it difficult to look at this new one and then look at the Haslab version which is extremely detailed by comparison.
I'm sure I'll end up caving and buy one or two though. Dan Yun noting that the hand ports are compatible with the Haslab version makes it an easier choice since that also means we'll be able to use those new hand blasts with the Haslab.
Toyark has pretty good pictures of the prototype they had at the con.
https://www.toyark.com/2024/10/19/nycc-2024-hasbro-breakfast-marvel-photos-548341
"Figures do not fly."
Ugh, the state of the world that Hasbro's lawyers force this verbiage into reveals.
Haven't disclaimers like that been in toy commercials since like the 80s?
Haven't disclaimers like that been in toy commercials since like the 80s?
I don't think that "Figure does not actually fly" is even remotely close to the messages we got in the 80's or 90's. that was more in the vane of "Each figure sold separately. Batteries not included." That message was designed to be informative. "Figure does not actually fly" is meant to remind stupid people that they are in fact still very stupid. Because for a brief window in time they actually thought it could fly before they purchased it. Unfortunately that because its a 12 month long preorder window, these same idiots are going to open their sentinels and stupidly ask themselves "Hey does this thing fly?? *smash* oh wow, did you see how far it flew??? it landed like right at my feet and now its broken! This toy is awesome!!"
Thay sentinel looks really good but I can't justify spending that kind of money on it, especially with limited space. Same reason I didn't buy the Haslab one. If I were to get it i would want more then 1 and, again, no room, for something that expensive.
Shoulda known Hasbro would drop a beauty like that after I spent so much time trying to track down the basic Sentinels from the 97 toy line. I'm happy enough with how they look, even if they're wildly out of scale, but I can't deny how tempting this one is. I'm sure I'll cave eventually and get at least one, especially once the next wave of 97 figures is announced. If nothing else, it would make a hella cool centerpiece. At the very least, it's nice of them to leave the pre-order window open for so long, and to make it made-to-order. Wouldn't mind seeing that option for other lines, in place of a Haslab.
After teasing the Sentinel with the foot prints in the rubble, I was sure that would be included as a base. I'm going to guess that it just budgeted itself out of existence.
Haven't disclaimers like that been in toy commercials since like the 80s?
I think that tended to be used when the toy commercials showed the figures doing things in stop motion, or via special effects, that the toy couldn't do on its own - but yeah, I remember those disclaimers. But to be fair, those were commercials that 5 years olds were watching on Saturday morning while thinking about how to spend the $10 from Grandma...and might have some misconceptions about the reality of the commercials.
After teasing the Sentinel with the foot prints in the rubble, I was sure that would be included as a base. I'm going to guess that it just budgeted itself out of existence.
In an interview Ryan said he asked one of the sculptors to make a Sentinel footprint, and he said that guy took the 20th anniversary Hulk base and added Sentinel footprints to either end of it. He said it was a 3D print that was painted and never intended to be an accessory.
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