Monday, December 18, 2023

Hasbro Announces Marvel Legends Wolverine 50th Anniversary 2-Pack with Lady Mandarin

ToyArk: The Marvel Team over at Hasbro just announced a heavy X-Men line with X-Men 97 Wave 2 and the launch of the Wolverine 50th 2-packs. One such pack features Betsy Braddock as Lady Mandarin! Check it out:


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19 comments:

lindsay said...

no need 4 da coochie cutter haterade here
armored and fly af please dont hate

December 18, 2023 at 8:40 PM
randybear said...

I never buy these Legends figures but I really want this! Also this mold with a few adjustments could work for a CB Betsy figure.

December 19, 2023 at 12:21 PM
Alex said...

I'll probably end up getting it. Certain sub lines within the Legends/Hasbro Pulse era have gotten better than prior makers. If it's good in person I could be tempted to get a second & make a custom CB figure.

December 19, 2023 at 5:28 PM
Kiki M. Ishola said...

You do get it yeah lintsay the Jim Lee cameltoe clipper has made Kwannon a laughingstock. It's called concern in 2023 soon 2024 women to be male gaze thirst traps. And cheap move a company to mooch off needy men. Betsy has dodged the coochie cutter curse in what 30 years in the making? And Kwannon is doomed in the second hand thong for forever.

December 20, 2023 at 2:48 PM
Kiki M. Ishola said...

Lady Mandarin was created to be Chinese not Japanese. Betsy was transformed by the Mandarin and co into Lady Mandarin. Then 1993 Revanche was shoehorned retcon fashion. A little consistency wouldn't hurt from Fabie to make Revanche Chinese.

December 20, 2023 at 2:52 PM
Unknown said...

And if the mandarin gangs wouldn't obey betsy because she was caucasian, they'll NEVER obey her if she was japanise

December 20, 2023 at 11:50 PM
FifthDream said...

There has never been a classic Psylocke (pink outfit) figure, never been an Outback Psylocke figure (not to mention the badass Inferno version of her and that outfit), no sign of a Betsy CB figure, but they're putting this out? JFC.

December 21, 2023 at 7:05 AM
randybear said...

I would die if they finally did a Legends figure of Outback Betsy but Marvel refuses to ever release OG Betsy merch wtf!

December 21, 2023 at 1:02 PM
Daud Rotama said...

I believe an artist on X (previously Twitter) had drawn a very good costume for Betsy. It's JSwayArt or something like that. He sort of combined her Outback era armor pieces with a flowy undergarment that covered up her body sans face. Then, he drew her with Krakoa era Betsy's face, complete with the flower. She looked so gorgeous there!

All this to say that, this Lady Mandarin costume is very outdated but it was at least culturally somewhat appropriate? I do know that Japanese samurais used bulky armor pieces. However, the entire "Lady Mandarin" name is just very unfortunate. It was just Chris Claremont being helplessly orientalist.

December 21, 2023 at 2:43 PM
Fred Duan said...

I don't understand Western fascination with race. Westerners don't understand anything about the Eastern culture. They think of it as a unified cluster.

LadyMandarin signifies Chinese culture. She is a product of the Mandarin nobility. A fool's work would confuse it with Japanese shoguns, samurais and ninjas. The fool here is the writers signing contracts in Western comics.

The Hand a Japanese criminal faction founded by a Japanese nationalist samurai would never ever join forces with a Chinese criminal faction and that of a Mandarin noble. You can't but hold laughs with their mix ups and mess ups.

December 21, 2023 at 3:07 PM
PoetryInMotion said...

Well, Claremont seemed at least conscious of the fact that an alliance between the Mandarin and the Hand would not be harmonious, since the Mandarin showed no respect for Hand operatives in the same story, despite shaking hands with them. Mobs in the West, as well as in the East, operating outside their land of origin is not unheard of either.

December 21, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Fred Duan said...

Are you aware of our conflict history with Japan? Should I list them because you seem a foreigner to it.

The Triad and other Chinese cartels would be better off dead than shaking hands with Japanese. The cartels are ultra national supremacists. So why would that be normal in comics. Comics are supposed to mimic reality. If not then stop appropriating Oriental themes.

December 21, 2023 at 6:09 PM
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December 21, 2023 at 6:56 PM
PoetryInMotion said...

The point is that they were clearly using each other. Mandarin was using the Hand in order to bring Hong Kong under his influence, and the Hand was using the Mandarin's resources to eliminate Wolverine. If you think Marvel take liberties as far as real life politics and status quo only where Asia is concerned, you'd be surprised.

December 21, 2023 at 6:57 PM
Mixia said...

Absolutely, and Hill doubled-down on the Japanese background story. It's such a mess. Lady Mandarin could never be Japanese.

December 21, 2023 at 7:53 PM
Fred Duan said...

The same reason Betsy is decimated. The liberties you are talking about were the end of her. When you don't stick to the core and values a hero is created with he she is destined to fail. Constant change and swap of identities is detrimental.

In real life politics Chinese government and cartels would never strike a shady deal for reasons of genocide and rivalry from the part of Japan. Anything that helps your opponent is off the table.

December 21, 2023 at 8:50 PM
Fred Duan said...

I see race will be the end of Western culture and status quo. I call it monomania and it leads you to certain doom.

Exactly the way the Psylocke name is steeped in race wars and appropriation accusations.

December 21, 2023 at 8:54 PM
Rahsaan said...

@Fred, I doubt that as the construct is heavily intertwined in Western culture and is part of its status quo, including its capitalism by very design. Sad but true.

December 22, 2023 at 2:13 AM
Daud Rotama said...

The Lady Mandarin story was the rarest misstep in Chris Claremont's career as a writer. But it's really made worse by Fabian Nicieza retconning it into something else entirely different. Had Betsy's story been kept as it was, that she was changed physically by Spiral and Mojo and it's under the supervision of a criminal organization, then the social commentary it could result in would have been plenty! Robust! How those men changed Betsy's physique, brainwashed her, probably sexually abused her as well, and subjected her to be agent of violence in the name of the Mandarin! Like, those are all horrific things that would've been ever the more relevant to us today. Plastic surgery, beauty standards, patriarchy in Asian culture, difference between each Asian culture even though they're from the same East Asian region. Also, Western culture's fixation on orientalism that still persists even today! It's all there!

December 22, 2023 at 6:08 AM

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