For those of you who were wondering there is no diecast on the body itself. There are some metal pieces for the inner shoulders and some other places to help sturdiness of moving pieces however. The landing gears are made out of diecast however.
The instruction sheet has 5 different Squodron patches that you can put on him. One of those squodron patches is one for Waspinator. On the decal sheet you can pick what #'s you want to put on his tail, andthere is even another sticker for Waspinator markings on the tail.
So far I am very please with how the figure looks and feel, and the sucker is nice and big and the flaps are really neat. As you guys know, the nose cone opens up to reveal the radar dome, the canopy opens, the air brake opens up, the noozles can thrust vector (though an F-15 can not do that in real life).
He does NOT come with a Megatron gun, and the Dr. Archevil is horribly painted with just being grey plastic with an white coat. That said the F-15 Alternate mode is one of the most beautifully detailed and perfectly done Transformer ever. Besides the color, this truly is a Masterpiece figure.
I did the actual transformation to botmode, the inside is a metal "frame" in the chest. Basically the entire chest and upper half of the body slides down to meet the hips and stuff. It feels durable.
There are a few posing issues in bot mode, he seems top heavy at some times. But that's what the stand is for...and my god that stand is really good. I have gotten him into so many great hovering poses.
Box Dimensions:
L: 15
W: 10
H: 4
F-15 Dimensions:
L: 12.5
W: 8.5
H: 3.5
Robot Dimesnions:
Tall: 9.5
Wing to wing: 8
chest to back of tail: 4
Bot mode is really impressive, I am really digging this Bot mode. Like I said above it has some stability issues in certain poses, but just the overall look and appeal of the figure really does it for me.
