Well, dang. That's a shame.

 

A word of warning for anyone doing the boiling water trick: the wings parts are extremely easy to deform almost beyond recovery.

I've used the boiling water trick many times and have never had an experience like this. I always remove the water from heat before I dip any parts, and I usually dip for maybe 10 seconds tops. My wings warped severely after perhaps five seconds in the water, curling inwards towards the "waffled" underside of the part. The clip area also curled inwards enough that I couldn't even fit them back on.

I ended up doing multiple quick dips to flatten and adjust each part, and finally had to force them back on which resulted in stress marks at the inside corners of the clips.



My recommendation is that anyone attempting this dip only the end of the wings with the clips on it, and only for one to two second at a time. Submerging the entire wings almost ruined the parts.

 

Personally, I just superglued it into the alt mode position. Doesn't really affect robot mode that much from my experience.

 

That was my first instinct too, and I wish I'd gone with it. Oh well.

 

Exactly what I did, too. Saw no negative impact doing so would have on the alt-mode or transformation, and so I just glued it.