WASP

MARVEL LEGENDS (HASBRO)

“Hope Van Dyne is now the leader of Pym Van Dyne Industries, a global organization focused on improving life on Earth with groundbreaking technology.”

Okay, I’m gonna level with you guys: I don’t have a good intro for this one.  Like, I really tried.  I wrote several variations of an intro explaining something about Hope Van Dyne, and it just never clicked, and it all felt boring.  So, I’m sorry.  I couldn’t come up with anything better.  It’s not even that I don’t like Hope, or the Wasp.  I do.  But, what is there to say?  It’s all been said, right?  Right.  So, you get this thing instead.  Ta-daaaaaa?  ….let’s just look at the figure, I guess.

THE FIGURE ITSELF

Wasp is the first figure in the Cassie Lang Series of Marvel Legends, based on her updated design from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.  While Scott just gets minor tweaks to the overall design, Hope’s new look is a little more removed.  It borrows a lot from Jan’s black and gold number from the comics.  I’m admittedly not the biggest fan of that look in the comics, but something about how it was adapted here just feels like it works a bit better.  Maybe it’s the blue accenting?  It could be.  The figure stands 6 inches tall and she has 26 points of articulation, 30 if you’ve got her set-up with the fully-extended wings.  Hope gets an all-new sculpt, and it’s honestly a pretty good one.  Her last figure wasn’t bad, but it was a little bit odd on the proportions.  This one is definitely a bit more natural, and the articulation is definitely more worked in.  The detailing on the textures is definitely top-notch here, and she once again gets that awesome transparent lens set-up on the helmeted head.  It looks super spiffy.  Wasp’s color work is pretty solid stuff.  The colors on her suit are actually largely painted, which is a bit of a change-up, but they’re handled quite well.  The application’s nice and clean, and the yellow and blue definitely give her some pop.  Wasp is packed with a second, unmasked head, which has a respectable likeness of Evangeline Lily, which is honestly even better than the last one, which was a pretty good offering itself.  She’s also got an alternate wing pack that’s collapsed, as well as two sets of hands, one in fists, the other open, and the right leg to the Cassie Lang Build-A-Figure.

THE ME HALF OF THE EQUATION

After the last Wasp, I wasn’t in desperate need of a new one or anything, since that one was pretty good.  Her new design is pretty cool, I’ll admit, but cool enough that I needed another figure?  Well, sort of, but it was largely the BaF piece that was fueling it, I think.  But, I was kind of open-minded on this one, I think, and it paid off.  Like Ant-Man, I wasn’t expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised by this one.  She’s not *quite* on the same level as Ant-Man, but she’s pretty nice.

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