“Dad. A guy dressed like a bee tried to kill me in my room when I was six. I’ve never had a normal life.”
As has become standard for most Marvel Cinematic movies outside the main Avengers volumes, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was given a partial wave of figures to mark its release, with a trio of Quanumania Marvel Legends sharing the case with four other comic book figures that were Ant-Man related. The wave was also given a Quantumania Build-a-Figure of Cassie Lang, bringing the movie’s entire complement of figures at release to four. Unusually the Quantumania figures arrived much later than the movie thanks to a change of scheduling swapping around Quantumania and The Marvels in the release schedule. So while we all saw the movie in the February of 2024 it was mid-summer until the figures arrived on shelves.
As the build-a-figure for the Quantumania movie wave, Cassie Lang is split across 6 of the 7 figures in the wave meaning anyone just collecting MCU figures will still have to purchase the four comic book releases or source those parts on the secondary market. Assembly is relatively straightforward with a central torso complete with upper thighs onto which the other elements click easily.
Cassie stands 10.25 inches tall (26cm) and is a full new figure designed around her suit as worn during her adventures in the Quantum Realm. Like Wasp and Ant-Man the suit is black as a base colour. Cassie’s suit has purple textured paneling as well as silver details around the circular section on the chest, down the arms and legs, and into the wrist bracers. There are also small touches of red detail in the belt and at the shoulders. Cassie is wearing her sneakers also in purple with a white sole and sculpted lace detail.
The figure features two heads (both packed with Kang) allowing you to display Cassie with or without her helmet. The helmet design is similar to the other Ant-Man & Wasp figures with a gunmetal front panel, and translucent visors in purple behind which you can see sculpted and painted eyes - these have been inserted as a piece underneath the main helmet. The unmasked head is brilliant in terms of likeness to actor Kathryn Newton, although the larger size has helped. The facial printing at this scale is even more detailed around the eyes, as well as the mouth and eyebrows. The hair, an individual piece connected to the head, is a single brown finish but includes a lot of sculpted detail as well as a ponytail that can rotate within its socket.
As well as the dual head options, Cassie also featured two sets of hands - one a pair of clenched fists, the other sculpted as open hands. Like all the other pieces, these swap in and out easily and allow for some variation in display. Articulation is fully pinless, and there are 19 points of articulation in total with both an ab-crunch and torso ball joint on the main body to allow ‘giant’ Cassie to look down on the other characters. Leg and arm movement are unrestricted so the joints get a full range of motion allowing a wide range of poses possible including kneeling to bring Cassie down to the usual 6-inch scale - useful in a more restricted display. She stands in most two-footed positions, but I did struggle to get her in the raised foot ‘stomping’ pose we saw in the promo images - for that one you will need a stand of some kind.
There is not much to fault on our ‘giant’ Cassie Lang build-a-figure other than the choice itself of including Cassie in this format when a regular-sized Cassie to complete the Quantumania trio may have been preferred by many. The BAF slot might have then been filled with other options - although MODOK’s reveal probably came too late to make that a possibility. With the state of these individual MCU movies recently and the limited nature of the figure releases we get on the back of them, we have to be grateful Cassie was made at all. Not only that, but the fact she is executed to such a high standard across likeness, decor, articulation, and head/hand choices - something not usually included on BAF releases. For those not wanting to purchase the four comic book figures, there is the secondary market, but that seems unusually sparse on parts considering four of them come with figures not directly related to Quantumania
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