Marvel Legends Maximum Series

[TheSameIdiot]

Today I boiled some water and let Deadpool (and Extremis 2.0) get a little hot water bath. I articulated their ab crunches that felt a little springy and hindered to the max the sculpt would allow and then let them cool while they were in that position. That seemed to fix the issue with the joint. If you do go to try this with Extremis 2.0, make sure you're careful of the paint on the Unibeam. It can scrape off VERY easily. I'd recommend clear coating it first.

Deadpool becomes a MUCH better figure once you get these joints working properly.

What's your theory? Paint in the joint? Excess plastic?

 

[Resilient]

Based on Extremis from when i took him apart, the bar that connects the lower and upper part of has four detents in it. You can feel it click the one time but it doesn’t click after that and he just springs back. I’m not super familiar with the inner workings on bodies with reverse abcrunch and torso rocker so it was new to me, but with Extremis Iron Man the bar slides into a soft rubber piece that also houses the torso rocker joint. Getting the heat/hot water to that part and rocking the joint forward seems to let that soft rubber piece form better to the bar somehow. I’m not 100% why it works but it works.

 

[NORM]

Based on Extremis from when i took him apart, the bar that connects the lower and upper part of has four detents in it. You can feel it click the one time but it doesn’t click after that and he just springs back. I’m not super familiar with the inner workings on bodies with reverse abcrunch and torso rocker so it was new to me, but with Extremis Iron Man the bar slides into a soft rubber piece that also houses the torso rocker joint. Getting the heat/hot water to that part and rocking the joint forward seems to let that soft rubber piece form better to the bar somehow. I’m not 100% why it works but it works.

It sounds like too few detents. Four? It's like when you don't have enough clearance on a hexagonal nut for an Allan wrench to get more than a quarter rotation. While I appreciate the new ab crunch, it's obviously not getting its full range without modification. I ain't cracking open a figure like what you described to fix something that should have been designed better. I appreciate you doing the footwork, your trial and error will benefit plenty. They really should have done the barbell/socket joints instead of that old ab hinge.