Yeah, I’ve been letting Marvel Legends start trickling back into the regular rotation around these parts. Obviously, I haven’t stopped collecting entirely, but I’m buying very few figures at full retail anymore, and skipping waves where I’m just not that interested. I’m also trying to win out over my OCD by embracing reviewing figures here and there as it strikes my fancy, and not necessarily caring whether it’s in any order or wave. With that having been said, Namorita from The Void Wave has been kicking around my desk for a long while, I thought I’d throw her some love.

I’ll concede that this Void Wave is a pretty strong assortment and I wouldn’t mind completing the BAF, but I’m not really interested in all of these figures. I already checked out Crystar from this wave, and I was able to track down Power Princess, which wasn’t easy. Justice and Vision look good, but I don’t really need another Black Panther or Namor. Either way, Namorita comes with The Void’s torso, which makes sense as she’s easily the smallest figure in this wave. Maybe someday I’ll make use of it, or maybe I won’t.

Obviously, Namorita has had a lot of changes to her appearance throughout the decades, mostly written off as biological changes from her cloning process… or emotional stress… or maybe both. I tend to lean toward the more classic look for this character, but I can see why Hasbro chose this one. It’s kind of an important version of her… something to do with a bus and a lot of dead kids and a little thing called Marvel’s Civil War. The body uses very little original sculpting and gets by with paint to convey her costume. You do get the sculpted wings on her ankles, some sculpting for her gloves, and I believe the female bare feet are new. Her skin uses a pale matte blue plastic, which looks very nice, especially alongside the high gloss red and white used for her one-piece swimsuit. The gloves are also painted red and she has some sharp white tattoo-like patterns printed on her arms and legs. She’s a colorful and pretty figure, no doubt, but it would have been nice to get some sculpted lines for her suit.

The head sculpt is solid, but pretty dour. She’s got a petite, perfectly sculpted nose and her hair is swept to the side to expose one pointed ear. The eye brows are actually part of the sculpt and not just painted on, and the lips and eyes are both printed very nicely, as are the white markings. You even get a bit of color in her cheeks. The white hair is sculpted separately from the head, making a sharp hairline and it dynamically sweeps to the side, which both favors articulation to the right, but hinders it to the left. I would have liked a more neutral expression or, even better, a second head with more relaxed hair, but I suppose the existing hair does have an appropriate floaty-ness about it like she’s underwater.

Namorita features a fully pinless body, which has been creeping into the line for a while now. But, since I don’t review as many Legends these days, it’s still kind of new to me, especially when we’re still seeing figures turn up with pins. I don’t think I’ll ever grow tired of appreciating seeing the ladies get double-hinged elbows and bicep swivels in these new figures. It’s always a treat, even if Namorita didn’t get swivels in the lower legs. She does come with an extra set of fist hands, but Hasbro couldn’t even bother to make them match the fingerless gloves on her regular hands.

Namorita looks really good for a figure that makes very little use of original sculpting, and I like her a lot. There’s nothing groundbreaking here, but she’s colorful and pretty fun to play around with. Plus, I can add her to my Night Thrasher, Speedball, and Firestar and assemble me some New Warriors, if I can track down which tote those other figures are in. If I get caught up on the other lines that I’m more actively collecting, I’ll try to work Power Princess into one of these weeks soon, and I’ll be keeping an eye on the rest of this wave to get discounted on Amazon.