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To be fair, there's only one spider man vehicle I'd want a crossover toy of...his mech from the Japanese live action series that helped further the foundations of the Super Sentai series

ZeroWolf wrote:To be fair, there's only one spider man vehicle I'd want a crossover toy of...his mech from the Japanese live action series that helped further the foundations of the Super Sentai series

There's a Super Minipla and a re-issue of the SOC release to there are options for Leopardon.

Emerje wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:We have gotten GI Joe crossovers. Not as a line unto themselves, but they do exist. Hell, Viper was in Combiner Wars and the first Titanium Megatron, sucky as he may be, was also a mainstream release.

Non - mainstream saw FunPub Serpentor and there were a few crossover vehicles as part of a SDCC set (Starscream, Shockwave, and Jetfire) along with JI Joe styled figures of Ravage, Bludgeon, and more from Fun Pub.

Yes, and there was also Snowcat in Energon, but those are just homages. Snowcat isn't quite a Snowcat, he just has a strong resemblance to one. Viper is a tiny repainted Powerglide, doesn't really scale with anything. Titanium Megatron is only a Cobra tank in name, he isn't based on anything. The SDCC stuff and the Marisa with Afterburn set don't Transform so it isn't nearly as satisfying as other Transformers crossovers. Serpentor is really the closest to doing it right, but it's just repaint of Ratbat who himself is a retooled Scourge so it was a pretty effortless transition just like the Old Snake with BATS set. We really deserve something new and unique, not repaints and homages, but a purpose built figure (that parts shares with something existing).

Emerje

Cobra did have nondescript tanks, there was a Sears exclusive repaint of the Mobat that sorta was the staging ground of G2 Megs.

It's one thing to say "what we've gotten isn't good enough" - that's fair. But saying they haven't done it at all is just wrong.

The big problem is that GiJoes and TFs just don't scale with each other at all.

noctorro wrote:Yeah man, he's a identical. I see exactly what you mean. This is a lazy repaint of Studio Series Jetfire. My gods Hasbro get your act together. Why not just repaint Dark of the Moon Bumblebee grey and call him Batman sheesh.

Excuse me? I never said lazy or bad once in regards to the figure.

I said he was a remold

Which he is.

Ok, so obviously the wings are on backwards in 90% of the pics (only the box back was them forward swept), and that should be an easy fix if it really comes backwards.

But the tailfins...does anyone who has SS Jetfire know if they can be swapped easily so they are angled out? It would make it look a LOT more like the movie Blackbird.

Hasbro has posted a list of the retailers that will have the Ultimate X-Spanse bot from their Transformers and X-Men crossover. Preorders are available right now with Canada being the latest made available through EB Games.

The neXt eXciting Transformers Collaborative mash-up just flew in! The iconic X-Jet from the X-Men animated series is now a Transformers robot, called Ultimate X-Spanse! Pre-order NOW at Target: http://go.hasb.ro/2LNKZmI or see below for a list of some of our global retailers.

Global Retailers (not all are listed):
US:
-Target http://go.hasb.ro/2LNKZmI

CANADA:
-EB Games https://www.ebgames.ca/Toys-Collectible ... ader-class

Australia:
EB Games https://www.ebgames.com.au/product/toys ... e-x-spanse
Zing Pop https://www.zingpopculture.com.au/produ ... e-x-spanse

Germany:
-Heo
-Blackfire

UK:
-In Demand Toys
-Kapow Toys https://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/transformer ... sover.html

Spain:
-Frikipolis
-Amazon

China:
-Transformers T-Mall

Hong Kong
-Robot Kingdom
-Hobby Base

Malaysia
-MyToy Malasia
-1Toy Malaysia

Singapore:
-The Falcon’s Hangar
-Robo Robo

For those in the UK that want their wallets to be a little less fleeced, £66 delivered at comics and cocktails.

Just waiting for a coupon from Target to come along. $10 off $50+ would be perfect.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Just waiting for a coupon from Target to come along. $10 off $50+ would be perfect.

Emerje

I managed to preorder mine through Target with one of the $25 off $100 orders. Everything weighted, I got him for $52.50 after taxes

WHOO HOO !

Just seen that this is up to go on sale in SMYTHS in Ireland circa March - so i presume it the same in the UK TOO.

https://www.smythstoys.com/ie/en-ie/toy ... e/p/197048

NOW its worth remembering smyths have a history of slapping up characters on their site that in the end DONT hit the shelves BUT it is a good sign that we may get this on our side of the Atlantic a bit more freely than others.

its a hefty price tag at €85 though !

partholon wrote:WHOO HOO !

Just seen that this is up to go on sale in SMYTHS in Ireland circa March - so i presume it the same in the UK TOO.

https://www.smythstoys.com/ie/en-ie/toy ... e/p/197048

NOW its worth remembering smyths have a history of slapping up characters on their site that in the end DONT hit the shelves BUT it is a good sign that we may get this on our side of the Atlantic a bit more freely than others.

its a hefty price tag at €85 though !

Yeah the international prices have been rough on this guy

Target let me know this is on the way and should arrive this Friday. Looking forward to this as I remember standing in line to pick up X-Men #1 by Jim Lee as well as the first episode of the X-men cartoon which was sorta based on that era of X-Men. I hope the blue matches the blue used on the Blackbird toy that turned into a base by ToyBiz.

Completely forgot about this figure

I find it tempting since I like the 90s X-Men. Even with the price.

Mine has shipped out too, $50 too thanks to coupons. Looks like mine is gonna take a week, I dunno why Target shipping is so slow for me

Mine came in the mail today! Not particularly pleased it got banged up. But I'm not in the reselling market anytime soon and I'm sure I'm going to open it down the line.

Fans are either getting shipping notices of the Transformers x Uncanny X-Men Collaboration figure called Ultimate X-Spanse. Fans are already taking images so below you'll see a bunch of in hand images. They come from TF fan JD who posted them on Facebook.

They show just how different this toy is to Studio Series Jetfire, making it look like a completely new mold practically. Are you still waiting for yours and if not, will you be getting it? Let us know!

Mine arrived yesterday, did a photoshoot today when I saw no one else had yet, although I have since been beaten to the punch for photos, so I went and did a pictorial/text review. I will crosspost to the review forum as well afterwards. Splitting it into two parts because of the 10 file limit. Post 1 is robot mode and leg transformation, 2 will be alt mode and blast effect.
Throughout the review I will be calling him X-guy, because "Ultimate X-panse" is just bad, but I haven't though of anything I like better.

First up is a size comparison with his 'pretool' ss jetfire, and ss86 grimlock. He is taller than both, but only because of jetfire's hunched posture.

X-guy's biggest strength is definitely his robot mode articulation. His arms have 360 wrist swivel, 90 elbow bend, 360 bicep swivel, ~95 in/out shoulder pivot, 360 shoulder rotation, and a ball joint used for transformation that gives ~5 front/back butterfly and 90 upwards stretch. This last one especially allows him to do the hardest letter of YMCA for action figures.

His legs have '360' ratcheting hip rotation with ~95 of front/back clearance between back kibble and belt, his thighs have '180' of in/out pivot on a ratchet joint, but only 100 of clearance before hitting belt. 360 thigh swivel, double jointed knees, both ratcheted, with a collective 90 of front back due to leg shape/knee kibble, 5 past neutral in either direction ankle rocker, with an extra ~2 from the thruster being on an extra ball joint for altmode posing. Transformation joint lets him tap his toe impatiently. No photos here due to how straight forward it is.

Neck has full 360* so long as head's up/down hinge is all the way down or visor is over eyes, otherwise visor antenna lock onto kibble behind the head, locking into place. Up/down has ~10 clearance, eking out an extra ~2 with visor down. Visor rests at slightly below neutral when deployed, allowing him to 'look' down.

This brings us to the torso. Waist has 30 clearance either way before leg hits back kibble. Ab crunch(!) has 10 forward clearance before chestplate hits belt, and left/right spine rocker pin(!) has ~2 clearance at best either direction, but this goes up to ~7-10 when ab crunched forward. It is also loose, at least on my copy, and flops some, although the lack of clearance in neutral posture keeps it from being too annoying. The really impressive thing about both these joints is that they are completely gratuitous; they aren't used in transformation, only for robot articulation. Here are pics showing them off, with the chestplate transformed out of the way.


Most of the figure's transformation complexity is from the leg transformation, with a really clever double turnaround on the leg panels. However, the firmness with which they tab in can make it difficult to untab them to transform in either direction. You will also probably need to sacrifice a small child to get the various ratchets lined up perfectly to get things to play nice the first few times you transform it.




A note for transforming back into robot mode: there is a tab in the inside of the tailfin inherited from jetfire. It is important for clearance reasons that it tabs into its slot, shown here.

As stated above, altmode and blast effects in post 2.

This post will focus on the altmode, especially in comparison to SS Jetfire, who he shares surprisingly few parts, almost all of them from the central fuselage panels. I can't attest as to the altmode's accuracy, having not seen the X-Men cartoon in question, but it does compare rather favorably with Jetfire as a more cartoony, stylized take on the iconic SR-71 silhouette.

X-guy is slightly shorter than Jetfire in length, due to the blunter nose. You can also see nearly every shared part, almost all of them part of the kibble backpack. There's the fuselage tail, the central fuselage and it's two 'wings', the shoulder wings, the vertical tailfins and the chunk of fuselage between the wings and the nose. Not seen is the connector that lets the central fuselage fold over the tail panel.

He's noticeably less hefty than Jetfire in hand, owing to having significantly less robot undercarriage. Not having a giant bobblehead, hunchback, and digitigrade legs will do that. This results in a much cleaner undercarriage, both from below and the side.



Probably the biggest real weak point of the figure is the side wings. The friction pegs holding them on aren't as good as they need to be. They wobble in place when touched, and pop off very easily when pressure is put against them. Fortunately, this same flaw means they are easy to reattach. Again, this might be a qc thing on my copy, but that remains to be seen.

Now for the accessories. He comes with 5 accessories: two pink blast effects compatible with 5mm ports (but not 3mm pegs like wfc blasts) resembling psyonic copies of Psylocke's psiblade and Wolverine's claws respectively, two plastic slugs of Wolverine and Sabretooth, and a small piece resembling Psylocke's 'psionic butterfly' aura. I didn't bother photographing anything other than the blast effects, because there isn't anything the stock photos don't show that's worth/easily photographable. The figurines are flexible enough that I suspect they are molded from the same pink flexplastic as the blast effects. but given that they are literally completely coated in paint, this is unverifiable without doing irreversible damage. Despite resembling the aura that surrounds Psylocke's face, the small plastic piece is too small to do the same for X-guy, and is only good as a belt for the slugs, as seen in stock photos. I also did not bother photographing the packaging or instructions.

The blast effects are meant to tab in to 5mm ports on the back of each hand. His hands themselves are not sculpted in a way that lets him hold weapons. Due to the pliable plastic used, the effects are uncooperative in being pegged in anywhere. Also of note is the correct orientation of the arm panels, mistransformed in stock photos.

There is storage for the two blast effects in both modes. In altmode, there are two 5mm ports in the armpits where the instructions tell you to put them. There are also 2 5mm holes on each foot, allowing for these or wfc effects to be used as thruster fire. (not shown) There are also 3mm holes on the side of each effect, allowing them to peg onto the 3mm posts on the landing gear at his waist.


All in all, a fairly large and fairly respectable leader class figure, with above and beyond articulation, marred by qc issues. If you were able to get him at discount for standard leader price or below as I was, it is definitely worthwhile. Whether it is worth the 30% Collaborative markup is up to personal preference.

They really should have named him "X-Celsior".

Sabrblade wrote:They really should have named him "X-Celsior".

That would have been a cool name or even X-Celsion. I also thought of either X-force or or maybe Weapon-X.

Anyway this is pretty damn impressive IMO. I'm already thinking repaints and retools of this mold...'NUFF SAID!