Mega Brand’s 3rd (technically fourth) battlescape brings us Forerunner Sentinels! As well a cool Forerunner structure and a Reddish Mark VII Spartan.
The beautifully packaged set. Graphics are always top notch here.
A shot of the back of the box. Note that it shows when you combine the forerunner structure here with the one in the new Warthog set that you can make a Forerunner tower. Very cool!
The contents of the box.
All the pieces sorted. As you can see the majority of them are of the dark grey variety.
The Sentinel Enforcer starts to take shape.
The Enforcer is completed and looks GREAT!
Now we move on to the regular Sentinel.
The core of the Sentinel.
Back wings.
The back wings attached, the front arms, then attached. This is already starting to look like a Sentinel.
The head, detail, and attachment.
Note the Sentinel Beam on the underside of it! The Sentinel has 4 points of articulation.
Moving on, we now see how the Forerunner structure takes place.
The simple base portion as it attaches to the Battlescape baseplates.
Walls and ramparts are added, as well as the tall side parts.
The set is finished with the Sentinels being raised in the air with translucent bars. Also note the Reddish Spartan figure. It’s not entirely Red. It’s more a tomato red with a slight orange tinge. I like it!
I do plan on taking the Forerunner structure apart and making it into something else. However, as an option you can also simply remove the bloks that atach it to the baseplate and have this:
This is an ever so simple modification that still keeps the structure intact. The bloks from the underside have been added to the structure by the tall parts. If you have two of these sets, you could make a cool enclosed fort.
At 242 pieces, the set is a bit low on parts. However, you do get the LARGE battlescape. I was able to get this set on a buy one, get one half off sale from Toys R Us. Certainly that makes it worth it. I really hope we get to see the regular Sentinel again in future sets. It’s a great buildable “minifig.”
At $50 it’s a bit pricey. Other than that, the set is VERY cool!
I give this set an 8 of 10 medals.
-Sal