



Another week, another Legends wave in the can. Today, we finish up the Wendigo wave by taking a look at X-Force Wolverine, Guardian, and the fearsome Wendigo BAF himself. Let's get to it!





Packaging:





The packaging is the standard Legends greatness. Eye catching, colorful, and character specific. Best of all, the packages specify what team the figures are from, with Alpha Flight on Guardian and Uncanny X-Force for Wolverine. It's a very nice touch.





Sculpting:





I feel like I've reviewed like, fifteen Wolverines recently. I totally get what people mean when they complain about his overexposure. Fortunately, this figure has plenty of nice details that set him apart. His sculpt is reused from previous releases, but without shoulder pads, new gloves, a new belt, and different boots.





He scales about the same as other Logan figures, and as such is appropriately short and stout as Logan is meant to be. No complaints here, solid sculpting work here.









Guardian, I believe, is built on the Cosmic Spider-Man body, and it's a very nice one. Sleek, smooth, and powerful, it makes Guardian cut a cool, powerful silhouette. His face sculpt is a bit on the cartoonish side, but the determined, lantern chinned visage is well done if nothing else.









The only other Alpha Flight member I own is Sasquatch, but he looks pretty good with his furry orange teammate. He'll look great with that upcoming boxset filling the ranks.









Wendigo is a BAF, and, as expected, is largely taken from the previous Sasquatch BAF. It's an obvious case of reuse, but the new tooling, such as his hands, feet, tail, and snarling, rabid head all came out great. He's huge and beastly, and that's the main thing to capture when sculpting an abominable snow monster.





His head sculpt is pretty great. With a furrowed brow, sunken in eyes, bat ears, and especially a wide open, roaring mouth, he's clearly not a friendly beast. There's also smaller detailed hairs on the white sections of his body, to compliment the light blue fur patches.









The tail attaches to a hole in his lower back, and it's useful to keep him standing in some wide stance poses.





Articulation:





Wolverine is more than capable of taking some berserker action poses. His articulation includes: A ball jointed head, ball/butterfly shoulders, cut biceps, double pin elbows, pin/cut wrists, an ab crunch, cut waist, ball hips, thigh swivel, double pin knees, boot cuts, and rocker ankles. All of them came out sturdy, and he's pretty fun to pose.









Guardian can do nearly any pose you'd want him too, thanks to his impressive articulation scheme. He has: A ball joint head, ball shoulders, cut biceps, double pin elbows, cut/pin wrists, an ab crunch, cut waist, ball hips, thigh cuts, double pin knees, boot cuts, and rocker ankles. No issue with any of his joints, Guardian held all his poses very well.









Wendigo is a big, fearsome beast, but that doesn't mean he's inflexible. Far from it, as he has: A ball joint neck, ball shoulders, cut biceps, pin elbows, cut/pin wrists, a deep ab crunch, a cut waist, ball hips, double pin knees, and rocker ankles. His tail is also a cut joint, as noted above. I can't stress enough how much fun I had posing Wendigo, and his great articulation is a big part of why.





Accessories:





Wolverine comes with Wendigo's head, which, when combined with Logan's claws, make it look like he's got an exotic new hunting trophy. He comes with exactly zero specific accessories. No alternate hands, no unmasked head. It's disappointing, to be sure. His claws are a new sculpt, however, and they're pretty nice. They're thicker, and feel more solid overall. I'd like to see Hasbro keep using these, it'd do a lot to fight the flimsy claw issue plaguing most other Wolverines.





Guardian comes with Wendigo's huge torso and tail, and nothing else. He could've come with some energy blast hands, or some energy effects. At least, he looks pretty good if you put some effects over his hands. Meh.









Wendigo is a BAF, one with no accessories. I didn't expect him to, so that's fine. I really just wanted to share this size comparison pic I took, because it looks like they're yelling at someone across the street, and I think that's kinda funny.





Paint:





X-Force uniforms are black and gray, and Wolverine's looks pretty sharp. There are a few spots where the black spilled onto the gray, but his overall paint is really good. The mask is especially nice, with clean definition between the sections, and the red eyes done excellently.









Guardian's maple leaf costume is beautifully realized! It's a great design to begin with, and the figure pulls it off tremendously. The lines separating the red from white are all clean, and it's impressive that a mostly white figure doesn't have any paint slop.

The head also has some nice work, especially on his chin, and the eyes of his mask pop.









Wendigo is mostly solid white, but there's several paint apps that make him special. The afore mentioned light blue is great, but his head has the most impressive work. The gray "hair", the narrowed red eyes, and the open mouth are excellent. His teeth do have some red slop, but since it can easily pass for blood, it's an improvement.





Overall:

Wolverine is a well done figure, and a great improvement on Hasbro's earlier pass on this costume. He's a must for an X-Force display, although I'm still perfectly happy with the Jim Lee version. Essentially, he's a great figure, but one I don't feel the need to own.





Guardian has a striking look, and a good choice of sculpt. I don't know much about him, but I like his figure enough to add him to my X-Men display, the highest honor an unknown character can receive.





Wendigo is an amazing BAF! I have a passion for Sasquatch, yeti, and other cryptic monsters, and he's a great representation of not just the comic villain, but the creature he represents. He makes a great generic monster figure as well as an Alpha Flight baddie, so he gets bonus points.





These are all good-to-great figures. Wendigo especially really impressed me, and I have no qualms recommending these three to my fellow collectors.





Best/Worst





There were two really impressive figures in this wave.

Mr. Sinister is a great take on a classic X villain, given an imposing sculpt and a great cape.









The absolute best though, isn't much of a contest. It's Nightcrawler





My love for the character aside, Kurt not only provides a much needed update on the Toybiz version, he also has an amazing sculpt, two alternate heads, and a great sword. Hasbro knocked it out of the park.





There's not much use teasing who the worst figure is, much has already been made of what a bad decision it was on Hasbro's part. So, without further ado, the worst figure from this wave is:





Poor Cannonball. Only one possible pose, and about half the articulation of most other Legends. Oh, and he has no legs and he's permanently posed like he sat on a nuke. Why, Hasbro, why?





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