Transformers Collaborative: Marvel Comics X-Men Mash-Up: Ultimate X-Spanse Revealed!

Smelt

Personally, I just superglued it into the alt mode position. Doesn't really affect robot mode that much from my experience.

That was my first instinct too, and I wish I'd gone with it. Oh well.

halo4361

Basically, what I did was boil a pot of water until it was steaming and poured it into a plastic bowl. Then I put the wings in it for 1 minute and then I bent them a little bit*. I did this twice and tested them a bit. If they fit, then dunk them into ice water for awhile (I waited a couple hours) so the shape stays.

*The plastic was still hard, and I didn't need much pressure to fix it. Still, be careful though.

Jomar

I can confirm that the boiling water trick definitely helps. I didn't even bend the wings, I just put them in boiling water for about 30 seconds and then laid them flat on a table. When I reattached the wings about 20 minutes later they held their position much better (although still fairly loose.)

I also saw a reviewer (PrimeVsPrime maybe?) say that swapping the 2 wings results in them staying in place better. I tried it and sure enough the wings don't flop nearly as much, although you lose the "forward swept" look of the original configuration. Still looks pretty cool though.

A word of warning for anyone doing the boiling water trick: the wings parts are extremely easy to deform almost beyond recovery.

I've used the boiling water trick many times and have never had an experience like this. I always remove the water from heat before I dip any parts, and I usually dip for maybe 10 seconds tops. My wings warped severely after perhaps five seconds in the water, curling inwards towards the "waffled" underside of the part. The clip area also curled inwards enough that I couldn't even fit them back on.

I ended up doing multiple quick dips to flatten and adjust each part, and finally had to force them back on which resulted in stress marks at the inside corners of the clips.

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My recommendation is that anyone attempting this dip only the end of the wings with the clips on it, and only for one to two second at a time. Submerging the entire wings almost ruined the parts.

Ejector369

I don’t mean to revive this thread, but how successful did Ultimate X-Spanse sell?

I was hoping to see another Marvel X Transformers collaboration of another team (i.e. Avengers or Guardians of the Galaxy).

based on how often I see him on sale and for fairly large discount… I don’t think he sold great. I’d claim this is because he doesn’t weaponize well

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But honestly the fossilizers are marked down and they weaponize great.

Ejector369

Thank you, but I’m not interested in 3rd Party. That concept sound really cool, though!

Fair enough  

Ejector369

I don’t mean to revive this thread, but how successful did Ultimate X-Spanse sell?

I was hoping to see another Marvel X Transformers collaboration of another team (i.e. Avengers or Guardians of the Galaxy).

If you collect 3p at all, Maketoys Buster Stealthwing is an MCU Quinjet that turns into Jetfire.

This guy is one of GameStop’s deals of the day at $40: https://www.gamestop.com/toys-colle…e-retro-packaging-action-figure/11108741.html

This guy is half off right now on the Target app and the site, $32.50. Just ordered mine, he looks pretty cool.

Just got this fig in the mail. Anyone know if people have 3D printed his claw yet? Not digging on that unevenness of the figure. Really would have loved 2 claws.

Judgement prime

Got it. Just had to ask. Was curious. Would’ve been cool if they could’ve combined.

imagine if he could combine and then we got a MASK RHINO retooled from the corresponding SS Prime so we could make some sort of cursed MASK-X-Men combiner

Judgement prime

Hey has anyone checked to see if he can combine with optimus?

Can't. They share the same core engineering but they're two entirely different figures. I look at X-Savior as being what a g1/movieverse Jetfire could look like.