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David Miller
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A few months ago I pretty much woke up one morning and decided to start collecting Marvel Legends action figures. The slide into complete degeneracy didn't take long, and within hours of receiving my income tax return I found myself in circumstances for all intents and purpose identical to a drug addict, conducting a clandestine cash transaction in a strip mall parking lot for a HasLab Galactus, for the price of a quarter ounce of cocaine (or so Google sez). Worth it. (In the general scheme of these things, it was about as good a deal as I could have hoped for; I paid the original MSRP, which is about as inexpensive as they go for (although I don't think the people charging $1k are selling many units), and not paying tax or shipping saved me a good $100. I practically made money all things considered.)
Not that a middle aged man needs reasons to justify playing with dolls, but I particularly like how the figures are optimized to customize, with the swapable heads and stuff. In my youth, I loved customizing my Star Wars figures, which my parents hated because they thought I was just vandalizing expensive merchandise.
Here's my lazy stab at an MCU Doctor Doom:
Edited by David Miller on 03 May 2025 at 1:22am
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James Woodcock
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I almost went for the HasLab Galactus , but shied away as I already had the
Legends version. It is an incredibly sized beast though.
Are you going to go for the Sentinel as well?
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David Miller
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Galactus is frickin huge. Taller than many three year olds.
I feel like Galactus should be my insanity purchase for some time to come, but I keep an eye out for the HasLab Sentinel in case a promising lowball price coincides with a manic episode.
At 26" the HasLab sentinel is a little tall for my vision of a sentinel triad (my other two are each 16" ). And I feel like there's something incorrect about a sentinel standing chest high to Galactus.
The '97 sentinel coming out this fall looks promising. It's closer to the classic design and at 22" tall is closer to scale with the rest of my robot army in development.
Edited by David Miller on 03 May 2025 at 7:05am
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John Byrne
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Bizarre face on that sentinel.
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David Miller
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It's a "battle damaged" alternate face.
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John Byrne
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Yeah, I got that. Don’t like the teeth.
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David Miller
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Aha. I was caught up in not really caring for the entire damaged face, which looks like Popeye beat the sentinel up in a boxing ring, and details like the teeth eluded me. Until now. I won't be able to unsee it.
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David Miller
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The teeth just don't look good, plus they make the upper grill look like buckteeth.
Worse, they're nonsensical. What would be the point of building sentinels with a row of lower teeth hiding behind their usually-closed robot lips? They're not chewing anything. Like what the hell?
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Vinny Valenti
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Reminds me of when artists would draw teeth on Transformers.
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Shaun Barry
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New ROM: SPACEKNIGHT figure on the way! I've been waiting for something like this for decades!!
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David Miller wrote:
| Worse, they're nonsensical. What would be the point of building sentinels with a row of lower teeth hiding behind their usually-closed robot lips? They're not chewing anything. Like what the hell? |
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Which is all fair comment, but possibly veering into overthink. Kirby drew Sentinels with varying degrees of human-like features. There are panels where they have nostrils, philtrums (philtra?), lips, etc. There is no logical reason for this beyond they are made to look humanlike.
Regarding the specifics of where that battle-damaged face comes from -- it is evidently based on the Disney+ X-Men 97 cartoon.
(And, yeah, I don't like it either!)
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David Miller
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Peter Martin wrote:
| Which is all fair comment, but possibly veering into overthink. Kirby drew Sentinels with varying degrees of human-like features. There are panels where they have nostrils, philtrums (philtra?), lips, etc. There is no logical reason for this beyond they are made to look humanlike. |
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Hey, I wasn't thinking about it at all until John Byrne Himself slapped me into logic think. Before I posted my comment, to make sure I wasn't accidentally insulting JB, I quickly flipped through the sentinel stories up through Days of Future Past, and not a row of teeth was in sight.
My interpretation has usually been the sentinel faces were expressionless and unmoving, except when the robots are squawking in terror.
I saw your image while googling, and it almost looks like that specific frame was the reference for the toy.
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