It seems like most of my Marvel Legends buying these days is stuff on deep discount, but every now and then Hasbro tosses something out there that gets me a bit excited. This time it was a new two-pack featuring Hank Pym as Giant-Man and Janet Van Dyne as The Wasp. It was an interesting reveal, coming shortly after the Giant-Man HasLab project just squeaked by, begging the question why wasn’t this pair of figures part of that project? If these were included, it would have given me the push I needed to back it, but since it wasn’t, I was able to pick up the figures off of Pulse and saved myself about $200 and the bother of finding somewhere to stand that huge figure. What was even more surprising is, this pack went up with a lot of people, myself including, believing it was a pre-order, but it actually shipped right away!

And here’s the snazzy packaging! Hank and Jan come in a colorful window box with a white front and lots of artwork on the side panels and the back. The figures are set against a blue background and when combined with the red and blue Avengers logo, this presentation really pops beautifully! The window is absolutely cluttered with accessories and extra hands and heads, making this feel like a decent value at the $50 price tag. I’m going to start with Hank, but let’s check him out as Giant-Man first…

We last saw Hank Pym as Giant-Man in Marvel Legends ten years ago as part of the Ultron Wave, and HOLY SHIT… TEN YEARS??? That was an OK figure, but it was definitely not my preferred version of the costume. Here, we finally get the good stuff, as Hank dons the bright red and blue suit, and the coloring here is absolutely gorgeous. Sure, the red paint above the zig-zag patterns on his boots doesn’t quite match the red plastic on the legs, but it’s a minor discrepancy on a tiny area. The black V-decoration on the torso is pretty sharp and you get a segmented silver belt worn around the waist, which does have a habit of riding up and needing adjusting.

The head sculpt shows some excellent definition in the facial features and it looks like the lower face is sculpted separately from the rest of the mask allowing for razor sharp lines. The red hood is broken up a bit by the white shingles on the sides of the head, the eyes are printed very well, and his antennae sweep up prominently from his brow.

The proportions on this figure are certainly a lot better than what we got last time and it features the wonders of pinless technology. The articulation follows the usual Legends formula with the bonus of butterfly shoulder crunches. You get two sets of hands, which include two graspy hands, as well as a right trigger finger hand and a left fist. The trigger finger hand is a strange choice, but it does actually work well with some of his accessories.

And I do enjoy that one of his accessories is a Quinjet. Is it supposed to be something that Hank shrunk down or is it a normal sized jet for Giant-Man to play with? I like to imagine it’s the later and he flies it around making whooshing noises, while The Avengers trapped inside scream in terror.

Swap the head and toss on his white coat and you have a Hank Pym to putter around in his Lab. The coat is surprisingly well tailored, considering this is kind of a first for modern Legends. It fits the figure nicely, the stitching is pretty tidy and while it lacks a ubiquitous pocket of pencils, I like it a lot. Had I picked up that West Coast Avengers boxed set, I would probably use the jacket on that Hank Pym figure, but with how much that set is being discounted these days, I may wind up with it eventually.

The head sculpt looks to be the same as the one included on Hank in that set and I dig it a lot. Pym is sporting his best serious scientist expression and the hair is sculpted as a separate piece and attached to the head.

Pym comes with a number of science accessories including including two pieces of glassware, which if my High School Science Class serves me well, I believe are a Florence Flask and an Erlenmeyer Flask. These are both frosted with some blue plastic inside ot look like liquid. You also get what looks like a data pad or perhaps a circuit pulled out of Pym’s latest invention. I guess it could be whatever you want it to be. Whatever the case, it’s a nice assortment of science lab stuff for Pym to work with. Now, let’s move on to Janet…

We’ve had plenty of Wasps in Marvel Legends, but I do believe that this is the first time we’ve got Janet in her classic (and IMHO best!) costume. The red dress with the flared shoulders, the high boots, the black undersuit, and the plunging neckline exposing her blue W, and the canisters on her belt… I just love this costume! If you have any of the previous Wasp figures from Legends, the wings should be familiar to you. Hasbro has certainly got their mileage out of these. The two sets plug into her back on hinges with the lower wings pegging into those, offering a good deal of posability.

Like Hank, you get two heads for Janet: One in costume and one out and both are gorgeous! The costumed head features her pointed cowl, complete with headset and antennae. The antennae are actually jointed inside where they connect to the head and can be articulated a little bit, which is really cool. The microphone on her headset can also be raised or lowered. The face is sculpted separately from the hood, offering a clean line between the two. And boy is the face beautiful! The printing on the eyes is just about perfect, there’s some nice color to her cheeks and her lips are fantastic!

And the other head is quite spectacular too! It’s a different face sculpt with notable differences to the eyebrows, but otherwise pretty close. The vintage style coif is sculpted separately from the head in an almost chocolate brown plastic with some adorable curls at the ends. I’d definitely say Janet here ranks up there among Hasbro’s best female portraits.

Like Hank, Janet’s body is pinless and if I still reviewed Legends figures as much as I used to, I’d probably stop pointing that out by now, but it’s still kind of new to me. It’s really nice to see the gals getting double hinged elbows and bicep swivels as opposed to just the rotating hinges in the elbows. The joints here all feel really nice and you get two sets of hands: One pair of fists and one pair of gesturing hands.

With Legends going for about $25 these days, the $50 price tag on this set seems about right. Actually if you include all the extras, it’s probably even a bit better. Given how much I love these characters, this set was a must-have for me and with it being a Pulse Exclusive, I wasn’t willing to risk not getting it to see if it would eventually be clearanced at the Pulse Outlet. I buy so few new Legends these days, I don’t feel bad about splurging on a set like this. Both figures are excellent, but for me it was getting the classic costume Wasp that really made my day!