YouTube user SentencedToBurn recently posted a video showing off their Borderlands 3 vending machine replica. Made out of 18 Gauge Panel Steel, this replica is motion activated and it features several different customer greetings inspired by Borderlands 3. Upon activating the replica, SentencedToBurn’s vending machine exclaims a familiar quote from Marcus Kincaid that in-game vending machines typically play.
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The vending machine lights up in several different colors, with a bright blue light showing the unit is active. This light typically acts as a character’s interface with the in-game vending machines just like similar machines in other titles such as Fortnite, and that’s no different with SentencedToBurn’s replica as the light is a button used to rotate the weapon rack. Their machine features a weapon rack that glows a different color depending on which panel is facing outwards just as it would in Borderlands 3. The weapon rack colors include green, orange, pink, and primarily white, the color of base weapons in Borderlands 3.
Comparable to every vending machine in Borderlands 3, SentencedToBurn’s replica features a screen at the top showing what it offers akin to the Borderlands arcade machine shown off by another fan recently. This replica’s screen tells Borderlands 3 fans to reload in scrolling text and a style influenced by a similar in-game screen, with the bottom half of the narrow LCD panel showing a plethora of bullets. Just as the font on the screen scrolls swiftly to the right, there are three small bulbs that illuminate from left to right.
There are multiple slots and buttons on SentencedToBurn’s vending machine, most of which are used simply to appropriately portray the in-game machine. One of these slots lights up similar to the light signifying the vending machine is on and it appears to be the cash insert that Borderlands 3 characters would use to purchase weapons from it. SentencedToBurn showed in their video how easily the side panels can be removed for maintenance, also displaying the few cables that make the Borderlands 3 visuals possible.
When SentencedToBurn first turned on their vending machine replica, the unit said “a fair price for peace of mind,” but there are several other familiar lines of dialogue from the game that play as it’s interacted with. Although Borderlands 3 offers several different types of vending machines such as Ammo Dump and Dr. Zed’s Meds, SentencedToBurn’s replica is a standard vending machine without branding. They also made a series of videos on their YouTube channel showing off how the giant replica was created. With multiple Borderlands projects on SentencedToBurn’s YouTube channel, there may be more to come in the future.
Borderlands 3 is available right now for Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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