Marvel Legends Giant-Man and Wasp review
Ever since the Marvel Legends team showed her at the end of the HasLab Giant-Man campaign, I’ve been anticipating this classic Wasp. The team had some surprises in store as Wasp wasn’t flying solo. She was packed with her longtime beau/husband Hank Pym. In a nice bit of synergy this is Hank in a normal height version of Giant-Man.
That was a welcome surprise and a definite cool bonus to complement my HasLab Giant-Man. Let’s see if this size-changing duo delivers or if my hopes get squashed.
Packaging: The ML team promised the Beyond Earth’s Mightiest packaging treatment celebrating 60 years of the Avengers wasn’t done in 2023. This two-pack reflects the updated take on that theme with the return of the plastic window. Along the sides is some of the main artwork from Tales to Astonish #50 (available on Amazon).
It’s still predominantly white with that cool metallic red and blue accents for the Beyond Earth’s Mightiest logo. The back is similar to the old layout with an action shot of the duo and their respective accessories.
Likeness: I love how Giant-Man looks so much like the HasLab version. There are some exceptions of course. The HasLab packs more detail to account for the scale, but this is a very good 6-inch version of Hank.
The default head sculpt is intense with Hank’s eyes looking up. This actually makes more sense in this context since he’s got to look up to make sure he’s not going to crash into anything when enlarging.
His belt is sculpted, but the detail from the HasLab — the gloves, chest harness, tights and boots are just painted on here. That’s understandable since Hasbro wasn’t going to make an all-new sculpt for him.
Hasbro has done solid work in capturing all of the looks of Hank recently. This one utilizes the Sunfire mold, which was consistent with the Ant-Man release from last year.
Since her debut, Wasp seemed destined to be on the shortlist for Marvel Legends Figure of the Year. This is Wasp’s original costume capturing that Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon style space hero design.
The sculpt is perfectly Silver Age goodness while showing how timeless these designs are with quality sculpting. The antennas are perfectly centered helping to create that subtle W with the pointed tip of her cowl/helmet.
Wasp’s ear coverings look solid with the left one containing a microphone so she can communicate with Hank. I really like the setup of her outfit with the slightly raised shoulder points, the belt with the size changing canisters and her skirt. The latter is angled just so to ensure it doesn’t hinder her leg articulation.
Wasp has one of the line’s best sculpted portraits. She looks like an adventurer while still coming off as Giant-Man’s far more playful partner. Her gloves have a little style to them as well. One cool aspect of the figure is she has new sculpted hands. With a new belt this can easily serve as the mold for many Wasp repaints.
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Paint: Both Wasp and Giant-Man have very strong paint work.
Giant-Man has some very minor paint chips and the red of his legs and boots don’t fully match up, but it’s not noticeable unless you were looking for flaws.
Wasp has a small black smudge on her shoulder. Otherwise, her paintwork is flawless highlighted by the exceptional work with her makeup.
Scale: At least at this normal size, Giant-Man shouldn’t be taller than Thor, Iron Man or Captain America.
He’s the smallest of the founding members while still being taller than Wasp. She scales properly to the rest of her teammates.
Articulation: Wasp doesn’t have any articulation limitations now thanks to the bicep and double-jointed articulation. She’s a flying energy projector character so these are very useful articulation points for her.
The skirt is positioned in a way so it doesn’t impede her leg articulation allowing her to hit some deeper poses. Wasp does lose the mid torso articulation as is becoming more of the norm particularly with female figures. She gets decent back and forth and side to side range all the same.
Giant-Man doesn’t have any movement issues either thanks to the exceptional Sunfire mold.
Ideally all you’ll really use him for is getting into position before he gets big.
But just in case he can’t enlarge he can tangle with all of his opponents at this standard size.
Giant-Man and Wasp have:
- neck
- ball-jointed shoulders
- bicep
- elbow (double-jointed — Black Knight only)
- wrist
- wrist hinge
- torso
- hip
- thigh
- knee (double-jointed)
- ankle
Accessories: Both Giant-Man and Wasp get a great allotment of accessories.
Giant-Man gets an alternate head sculpt — an unmasked Hank Pym portrait. This one was previously used with the West Coast Avengers Hank Pym figure and is a solid choice. The paintjob is slightly different however as this has a lighter shade of blonde.
It’s not an exact match with the Giant-Man portrait — the jawline is more pronounced and the lips are slightly smaller. Those are minor issues though and I appreciate the ML team giving us another head option.
Additionally, he’s got a clutching right hand and a left-hand fist. Giant Man also has two sets of beakers that were previously used with the Retro Card Beast (on Amazon). This time they’re shaded with a semi-opaque silver and blue.
To go along with the lab guy motif, Hank also gets a soft goods lab coat. This is a great addition and can be used for a variety of characters.
There’s also a scanner tablet device Hank can use while working out some calculations.
Finally, he’s got a mini–Avengers Quinjet. This is something that could make for a fun HasLab in itself so it was a cool bonus to get this as it will scale just fine with the HasLab Giant Man.
Wasp also gets an additional portrait. This one is even more useful as she’s got a cowl-less option.
The head sculpt is gorgeous right down to the classic 70s and 80s hairstyle. While helpful for a head swap here, this new portrait is one Hasbro can reuse repeatedly for subsequent classic Wasp figures.
The wings are the same translucent ones we’ve gotten from different figures. They’re more of a pure white than some other versions.
You can also detach the wings so you can have Wasp powered down. There’s no issue with them plugging them in and out of her back.
She also has a set of swappable fists.
A common complaint from fans when this set was revealed was the lack of a mini-Wasp. Those mini-versions tend to lack paint detail and don’t have any articulation so it’s kind of a wash.
Worth it? This set is $49.99, which is the standard price for two Marvel Legends. Most don’t traditionally have this accessory output so it’s a fair price point. Maybe this would eventually hit clearance, but I didn’t want to take the chance for two characters I definitely wanted in my collection.
Rating: 10 out of 10
It’s great having a full complement of the founding Avengers and Hasbro did full justice to Giant-Man and The Wasp with this set. They’ve got great likenesses and complete a team while further getting me hyped for the HasLab Giant-Man’s arrival.
Where to get it? This set is exclusive to Hasbro Pulse, which still has the set available.