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Titans Return Sentinel Prime
The Titans Return Voyager Class toy of Sentinel Prime is rendered in an uncharacteristically bright-neon-orange deco never before seen for the character. This iteration of the Sentinel is directly based on his appearances in Spotlight: Optimus Prime and Megatron: Origin, themselves based on his original appearance in the Marvel Comic The Legacy of Unicron!, which are all depicted as primarily yellow bots with red and orange accents.
The error stems from the only high-quality, full-body image of Sentinel on the internet at the time (used on his disambiguation page to denote the G1 version), which showcases him drenched in early-2000s dramatic mid-day sunlight. Without knowing what Sentinel's colors are actually supposed to look like, the deco artist probably eye-dropped the colors from the image and applied them directly to the toy in development. This incorrect coloring has since went on to influence his depictions in future media as well, most notably IDW's new rebooted series of comics
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Sentinel Prime's original Generation One design -
Sentinel Prime's design in Megatron: Origin -
Full body picture of Sentinel from Megatron: Origin
stronger sunsets than a Michael Bay movie -
2016 Titans Return toy
For style reference:
The Kingdom Leader Class toy of T-Wrecks has a colour scheme which is much more drab than the original Beast Machines Ultra Class iteration, with the brown-tinted torso being swapped for a dull grey, and the bright bronze of his helmet being swapped for the same red as his beast-mode skin. More noticeably, only the lower portion of T-Wrecks's crotch is molded blue, with the waist itself being left unpainted grey. It seems that these changes are the result of the wiki's photo of the original toy being primarily used for reference; the lighting in the image is a little misleading, and the toy's posed leaning forward such that its belly overhangs its waist entirely! The Kingdom T-Wrecks's eyes are also yellow rather than the green of the Beast Machines toy. It would seem that some of the other pictures on his page may have played into this color change also.
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Finalized 2000 deco pictured -
Prototype 2000 deco pictured -
2021 toy pictured
His bronze and innocence: Gone.
