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Today’s review: Studio Series Voyager class Sentinel Prime!

I can’t decide where to begin with this figure... the paint? Love it. The details? Love it. The transformation? Love it. The weapons? ...Okay they need work, BUT STILL the rest of this is amazing.

The vehicle mode is an accurate Rosenbauer emergency response airport firetruck, coming in a very sharp red on dark brown / black. The sculpting of its details are nicely captured, with the roof bars, ladders and hoseline all standing out. The hoseline is slightly articulated, moving up and down but with no rotation. It can lock to the roof if you want it to store in place rather than sit upwards as I have it.

Transformation is rather like the DOTM Voyager Optimus in some regards, with a bit of engineering of the DOTM Leader Sentinel as well. It all comes together nicely to give us the best representation of the character to date and I cannot stress that enough.

Sentinel’s robot mode is absolutely spot on. At first I thought the shoulders were too small and too low, until I looked back on images of Sentinel and saw they’re actually correct. The colours and details (especially the chest, if you check out image 6 you’ll see what I mean) are all captured brilliantly. They even sculpted the gears behind the translucent chest windows and painted them! His weapon though... it’s sub par. It’s his sword, but it’s formed of two side panels from alt mode so they’re the wrong shape and colour. I will be getting the DNA set to complete this figure as he needs the right everything for his accessories.