I still appreciate it as a display piece - looking at this detailed X-Wing and knowing that it becomes an articulated robot, it is impressive. It looks great, but once you start handling this jet it becomes less spectacular. The wings are meant to lock into each other (non-attack position) and considering that they're not really designed to move into the X position, this should be a no-brainer, but they don't clip together very well. They wont fall off, but they flop around needlessly - to the point that I've hesitant to touch the launchers. The wing-pins (I'm sure a Star Wars fan can supply me with the correct term - contact me!) are missiles, pressing on the back of them will cause them to fire, and while they fire well, the launchers don't sit very well on the wings. The cockpit opens and you can place the little orange Luke Skywalker figurine inside - and sit him down, and there are three retractable legs underneath - one under the nose and one under the engines on either side. The play value here is good in some ways, bad in others. As is typical of SWTFs, the detailing is good (actually, it is excellent here), with not only R2D2 but a seat in side the cockpit (painted black), little semi-circles on the front of the wing-pins (see the picture!) and a detailed sculpt in general. The wings don't really open too well, mind you - doing that reveals orange arms and the joints at the base of the wings are set up for the transformation instead. The wings stretch out to either side and look like they open like scissors (forming an "X" profile from either end, hence the name!) while the engines sit at the base of the four wing panels. The fuselage is long and tapers at the front, with angles rather than curves. I'm not entirely sure about scoring in colour (the ochre), but otherwise the colours are thoughtful and do a good job of making this X-Wing look like those in the films. The colour scheme is pretty good, understated whilst still focused. Lastly we have some yellow panels on the top of the fuselage, in front of the cockpit. The panel behind the canopy is painted silver with an R2D2 head moulded on - and there's blue paint where appropriate. The canopy is composed of colourless plastic with a grey painted on the frame. Thanks to Goktimus Prime for loaning me the X-Wing for this reviewĪn off white X-Wing fighter with some grey "grime" painted on the engines, some ochre stripes on the fuselage and ochre detailing on the wings - with deliberate wear on both and some ochre scoring on the nose.
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