It’s Marvel Monday again and I’m down to the last two figures from the Allfather Wave. Today I’m a little pressed for time, so I’m taking a look at Sentry, because honestly, I don’t have a deep running relationship with this character. He’s certainly got some interesting stuff going on in his backstory, but I just don’t often bump into him in the books that I choose to read. Sentry was originally scheduled to appear as a running variant way back in the 2013 Hit Monkey BAF Wave, sharing the slot with Hyperion. As was often the case back in those days, the running variants didn’t always happen (although there are plenty of pictures of carded samples of this figure in the old style packaging floating around the InterTubeWeb) and so Hyperion was the only one of the “Conquering Heroes” to hit the pegs. This time around, Sentry is once again sharing a slot, this time with Machine Man as one of the “Avenging Allies.” Thankfully, Hasbro is doing things differently now and the variants are now being included as part of the standard case assortments.

I’ve got nothing much new to say about the packaging. It has the “Marvel” logo on top rather than the “Avengers” one and as already mentioned, the front of the package is labeled “Avenging Allies,” with Sentry’s name only appearing on the back panel with Machine Man’s and a very generic blurb about the two characters. Sentry is a pretty big boy and when you toss in Odin’s BAF arms, this tray comes packed with a lot of plastic.

Sentry appears to share most of the body that was used for Hyperion, which works for me. The only real changes to the costume sculpt are found in the boots, Sentry doesn’t have the cuffed tops, the cape, and Sentry sports his gigantic self-promoting belt buckle. The hands are also reversed between the two figures. Hyperion had the fist on the right and the holding hand on the left, wheras here it’s the other way around. I probably would have preferred both fists for Sentry. I really don’t need him holding anything, just punching. Anyway, the coloring on this figure is quite good. I always liked the pop of Sentry’s yellow and blue costume and it is most definitely well reproduced here. Hasbro sometimes has a habit of using some pretty shitty yellow plastic, but that’s not the case with Sentry’s buck and the paint apps are all nice and clean.

I really dig what Hasbro did with portrait here. It’s very detailed and loaded with personality. The hair is quite well done too. This is far better than what we got with the 3 3/4″ release, and I’m not just saying that because of scale change and quality of sculpt, but also from an artistic standpoint.

If you have Hyperion then you should know what to expect from Sentry’s articulation, but let’s run through it anyway. The arms have rotating hinges in the shoulders and fists, swivels in the biceps, and double hinges in the elbows. The legs are ball jointed at the hips, have swivels at the thighs and boots, double hinges in the knees, and hinges in the ankles. There’s an ab-crunch in the torso and the neck is both ball jointed and hinged.

Despite not being the biggest fan of Sentry around, my Marvel figure collecting addiction is all about universe building so I’m still very happy to get this guy in my collection. Sentry was also released a little while back in the Universe line as part of a New Avengers Comic 2-Pack, but that one passed me by so it’s nice to at least have him in the 6-inch scale. Sure it helps that I also get two more of the parts I need to build Odin, but I probably would have happily picked up this figure even if he wasn’t part of a BAF series.

Next week is going to be almost a straight Marvel Week. On Monday I’ll wrap up the individual figures in this wave with a look at Iron Fist. Tuesday, I’ll check out the BAF Odin, Wednesday I’ll look at the first figure from the Legends Thanos Wave, we’ll break for Transformers Thursday (Hey, Marvel used to do their comics, right?) and then Friday and Saturday I’ll feature the TRU Exclusive Agents of SHIELD 3-Pack.