Omega Sentinel (Energon)

The name or term "Omega Sentinel" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Omega Sentinel (disambiguation).

Omega Sentinel is an Autobot or Warrior of the Seven Lights from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

Colors: Patriotic.

Omega Sentinel, often regarded simply as Sentinel, is a legendary warrior from the Transformers' distant past. A bot of few words, he is stoic to a fault, relentlessly loyal and tactically minded, though not averse to solving a problem with brute force if necessary. While greatly respected by his comrades on the whole, they often find him over-technical and a bit boring. Sentinel's personality may make him a less than scintillating conversationalist, but he believes these very traits may be the ones that some day save them all.

On the rare occasions that he should assume robot mode, his head is formed by a smaller robot named Guardian.

Fiction

Energon toy bios

Omega Sentinel was the commander of the legendary Guardians of Cybertron.

Energon cartoon

Omega Sentinel does not appear in the Energon cartoon. However, Omega Supreme, one of Omega Sentinel's Guardians of Cybertron, appears as an ancient robot who once single-handedly defeated Unicron. (Speaks rather well of the unit as a whole, that does). In the scene where Omega Supreme is revived, a number of other robot forms are visible behind him. It is possible that these are Omega Sentinel and/or the other Guardians of Cybertron.

Ask Vector Prime

Vector Prime noted Aurex 604.0 Beta as a good example of a universe where Omega Sentinel was the leader of the Guardians of Cybertron. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/23

Precursor World

Deco: Virtual.

New Toy: Unlikely.

Sentinel was the Blue Order's representative in the Sentinel Armada, the Primus Vanguard's mighty starfleet.

When Blue Big Convoy used his α Matrix to light a distress beacon in the Vanguard's final battle against the Specters, Sentinel sped at the forefront of the Armada to rescue his commander. Blue Big Convoy comic

The Vanguard's supreme leader Primus deployed the Armada to quell a subsequent Vok incursion endangering the Green Planet. This did not go particularly well. Finale Prelude

After the Vok were vanquished through other means, Sentinel joined his Blue Order comrades planetside in his little seen robot mode to intercede in the battle of the dimension-tossed future warriors Star Convoy and Ultra Megatron in defense of the Blue Planet and its people. Super Megatron comic 2 This didn't go so hot either. God Neptune comic 1

Some time after the fall of the Blue Order at the hands of the traitorous Straxus twins and the subsequent resolution of all that interdimensional time loop business with the fading into myth of the Vanguard overall, Sentinel reacted swiftly to a final flare of Blue Big Convoy's spark within the captive Matrix Sword, teleporting in to rescue both the artifact and the brash youth Magna Convoy from the Straxuses' fortress Darkmount. As the fading Big imparted his final counsel to Magna, Sentinel crashed in a nearby swamp, having seemingly spent the last of his energy in the rescue, and both Blue Warriors fell unconscious. Cybertron Magna Convoy prequel comic

Three of the Straxuses' escaped experiments found their way into the inert Sentinel, first Megalligator, who rooted around Sentinel's memory banks, and then the more kindly Convobat and his drone Ape X Arms, who awoke the duo. Cybertron Convobat

Just as Magna discovered evidence of Megalligator's mischief on Sentinel's internal terminals, Straxus caught up to the gang of misfits and Sentinel was swarmed with Rollermaster drones! Magna hurled his shield through Sentinel's canopy (ow) and leapt outside to battle the villains. Convobat joined him in short order, leaving Ape X Arms and the seemingly still helpless Sentinel behind. Magna and Convobat prevailed against Straxus' forces, and some way or other they got Sentinel's engines up and running again. As the Blue crew departed, Sentinel communicated that he had picked up faint signals of other Primus Vanguard survivors, and Magna Convoy resolved to create the Blue Order anew. Cybertron Magna Convoy

Magna eventually proved fantastically successful, and Sentinel was spotted soaring amongst the restored Sentinel Armada in his next-generation Primus Vanguard. Finale

Toys

Energon

Interestingly enough, not the most expensive army-builder toy in Transformers. (Supertrain mode not shown as it won't fit in the lightbox.)

• Omega Sentinel (Supreme Class, 2005)

• Accessories: 2 missiles
• Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), Marcelo Matere (packaging artist)

Released in the third and final wave of Hasbro's Energon Supreme-class toys, Omega Sentinel is a redeco of Omega Supreme, nominally composed of two major vehicle components that combine into a singular robot. He comes with an unnamed Mini-Con that combines with each component/mode in a variety of ways.

The "Construction vehicle" vehicle is a Cybertronian construction-themed train engine. The front end has a small rotating turret with a trio of adjustable manipulator arms, though their limited reach gives them pretty limited functionality. The "caboose" features a large construction claw-arm which extends on a gear mechanism with the push of a slider, though the actual claw must be opened and closed manually. The cab portion of the arm also has an opening canopy to fit a Mini-Con (or any other small toy you can cram in there), though the extremely limited amount of legroom inside means few Mini-Cons outside of Sentinel's own Mini-Con component can securely fit inside.

The "Cruiser" is a space battleship with multiple gun turrets. The front two (non-firing) artillery turrets and double spring-loaded missile launching turret are geared together to turn in tandem, which can also be done with a small spin-wheel on the side of the prow. The gun barrels on the smaller turrets also raise up automatically when turned to the sides, plus activate blaster sounds when they hit the end of their turning radius in either direction. The rear turret is not part of this mechanism and can be freely turned and elevated. A small button in front of the spin-wheel activates a light-and-sound gimmick for the clear-plastic blaster array on the ship's prow. The conning tower has an adjustable radar dish, plus opens up to allow the Mini-Con to merge with it to form a somewhat different, more chunky conning tower. There's also a spark crystal to serve as an Energon Chip connector on the ship's deck in front of the first turret.

Each major component can also form a ground-based "platform" for other toys to man; both components feature small flip-out "guns" with 5 mm wide barrels that serve as handles in emplacement mode. The train can also plug into the back of the battleship to form the Cybertronian Armored Supertrain. Both vehicles also have a Mini-Con Powerlinx hardpoint on each side: on the crane cab for the train, and on the front-sides of the battleship.

The two vehicles combine to form the Omega Sentinel robot. In this mode he retains most of the gimmicks of his components, with the slight change that the gun turret and missile launcher on his left shoulder are now disconnected from the wheel-activated gear mechanism (though they are still geared together so they still turn in tandem with each other). The Mini-Con forms the robot's head, the primary alt-mode for the little bot. The neck socket for Omega Sentinel's robot mode extends slightly to reveal a very squished robot face; this head is so the robot form will still have some form of head even if the Mini-Con is lost.

He can also combine with Energon Optimus Prime, with Optimus sitting inside Omega Sentinel's chest cavity. As he replaces the Mini-Con as the head of the giant, it must be placed in the crane-cab or conning tower if you want him to stay connected. (the Mini-Con lacks a Powerlinx socket, and the hole for the screw holding him together sadly is too wide to fit on a 5 mm post, dangit.) This configuration also allows the attachment of Optimus Prime's Prime Force drone limb team or the dis-articulated parts of Wing Saber as auxiliary weapons, thanks to flip-out connector panels on the right arm, right shoulder, and each leg.

Stock photography of this toy consistently show the face-shield as opaque blue, but the final toy uses clear-blue.

This mold was retooled and redecoed to make the Platinum Edition "Year of the Snake" Omega Supreme.

• More information on Omega Sentinel at TFU.info

Merchandise

Attacktix

The actual piece's base is gold-colored, by the way.

• Galactic Showdown (Multi-pack, 2006)

Attacktix ID number: SVT01

Omega Sentinel is a redeco and partial retooling of the Omega Supreme Attacktix piece; instead of a melee-style claw-arm, Sentinel's right arm has a spring-loaded four-missile "gatling" feature. This claw is modeled after the Generation 1 Omega Supreme's claw-arm rather than the Energon version. A whopping 70-point "Mega"-class piece, which Special Power "Rally" lets you return any other defeated Autobot piece into play.

Omega was only available in the "Galactic Showdown" set with unique gold-base variants of Super Optimus Prime, Megatron, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, and the AT-RT (which also has a "gatling missile" attack feature).

• More information on Attacktix Omega Sentinel at TFU.info

Notes

• Sentinel's blue color scheme was chosen as homage to the Guardian robots of the original The Transformers cartoon, who were blue recolors (and rather Deryized restylings) of the original Omega Supreme. These Guardian Robots were referred to as "Omega Sentinels" in the Dreamwave Energon series. In fact, original plans stated by Hasbro were for the Omega Sentinels to be an army and play a major role in the cartoon, but like most ideas from Hasbro and Takara's toy developers, the cartoon makers never even heard it.
• The head-unit's robot mode sculpt is modeled after "Omega Spreem", the Action Master Elite incarnation of Omega Supreme.
• The Omega Sentinel in the Primus Vanguard is a "virtual redeco" of the Titans Return Voyager Class Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain mold, with a redeco of Titan Master Ptero as Guardian. In a nice touch of toy accuracy (a signature trait of Hayato Sakamoto), Omega Sentinel is colored in the Generations Selects comic with the red face of his toy, not the blue of his promotional artwork.