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FAST FWD TO 2018 & We're all singing a different tune about Hasbro!
Night & FREAKIN' DAY! 2010 those were some dark days...now Hasblow er, Hasbro done picked up the rebound & scored some major touchdowns & grand SLAMS!

On a personal level, it sux 4 me cuz I don't have the funds nor the space to keep collecting, but Damn it feels good to be a gangsta!(Or Toy Collector.)

Personally I say move with the times, if that's all thats available we have to use them. I bought some 3.75 joes the other day just to have a go with them and see how that works out. If it's bad I've always got the WWE and there countless moneymaking figures to fall back on. Besides, I reckon it will be a while before most of the more common legends become stupidly expensive and hard to find. We will find a way!!!!!

Oh god no! u can't do that! Dou have an idea how many customizers would b out of work? some of us can only make deadpool

Or you could use a hair dryer and a xacto knife.

Well, paint thinner or mineral spirts, but I have found that enamel thinner works for removing or weaking glues and various adhesives, but be careful simply because it can eat away some of the plastic or paint.

Have you ever used that stuff to weaken the glue used inside the figure, on the pegs? Torso cracking is one of the most frustrating things we do, but if we can dunk the figure in mineral spirits or something to dissolve the glue, we could crack open torsos easily.

I looking for this figurine. Any for sale here? 😊

Both Mockingbird and Beetle have soft plastic upper torsos, so it's just a matter of heat and pop, either dunk them in boiling water or heat them up with a hair dryer and pull them apart. If you've never done this before, just remember it will take a few minutes of heating to get the plastic soft enough to pop off of the larger torso peg, if it doesn't come off with a moderate amount of force keep heating it until it does. The arms, which have smaller pegs will pop off before the torso will, but the same applies, if they aren't coming out relatively easily, continue heating, otherwise you can rip the upper arms off the shoulder pegs if you use too much force. Anyway, I've found that sometimes there are subtle differences between parts on the Marvel Legends figures, especially with upper t ...

Everything is basically interchangeable between the two. The real struggle will be shaping the wonderwoman multiverse joints to fit in the marvel legends female mold. Regardless, now I'm one step closer! - Thigr

look' forward 2 ur project!

You're welcome, glad I could be of assistance and it worked out. I have disassembled both figures, but never combined any of their parts.

Added image for wrists. Not sure it offers much though, I don't see anything wrong with just having swappable hands via the wrist pegs like we do now. I'd just add the 1mm gap to prevent paint rub, as shown before.

Would also switch the starburst holes to polygonal shapes (like a hexagon) to increase durability since it eliminates any little teeth.

Added some thoughts

how cool,may you should send this 'tutorial' to companys,that think they're doin bases^^ I tried some gonative blanx alpha,but didn't even started to do something with them,because I was diappointed by the "ready to customize" think I would really try to do my bases like the 'letsmakeactionfigures' guy on youtube soon great post!

Well,I always use the marvel legends nick fury or spider man noir sleeves and trench coat, but you could always use the noir jacket piece and leave the sleeves or resculpt the arms when needed. Now for softgoods, I would use spandex or heavy cotton simply because they don't fray as bad as cotton, of course I would make it a size smaller, that way it can fit a bit tighter, and work itself around the articulation.But cut it in two halves and add the sleeves and then sow the two halves together, it will look more realistic. hope this helps

It helps to look up free patterns for clothes, then resize them as needed. Recently I had to make a big cloak and did it this way.

Sometimes you can even simplify the process since you can glue instead of sew, you don't have to hem everything, etc.

For example, trenchcoats are usually two halves stitched together, with the lower halves stitched on too, but I'm sure you can make the trenchcoat with one piece of fabric. You'll just have to measure for the arm holes, cut it out and slip it on. ...

You can upscale/downsize existing figures thru "traditional" casting and molding techniques as well. Just saying. I've done it for a bunch of items in my eBay store. Upscaling 3.75" heads to work with Marvel Legends and SW Black Series, as well as downsizing Hot Toys heads to work with the 6" scale figures. It can be an expensive and time consuming process, sure, but it's totally doable. I hope to get a bunch more stuff done.... someday.... lol