[En Sabah Nerd]

While grocery shopping last night I happened upon a fresh case of the X-Men wave so I got Beast, Blink, and Gambit. I already knew I was going to want Beast and Blink but I caved on Gambit in store because despite his stupid hair it's a good looking figure.
Beast was my big want from the wave and he's great but definitely could have been better. An alternate head would have gone a long way since with his given expression I feel obliged to display him in a feral action pose even though that may not have been my initial preference. It's a good head for being an angry beastly Beast but that's all it's for. His hand selection is also wonky as there are no pairings of anything, each hand is just kind of doing its own thing randomly. Still, the base figure itself is really well done in terms of sculpt, articulation, and paint (minimal as it appears to be) so I'm happy with it.
Blink doesn't have a whole terrible lot going on but what she has is going great. The entire head is an excellent delivery of the character with what I think is an entirely new sculpt and some sharp paint that pops. Her body is then basically all reused parts as is tradition with the exception of her sculpted collar-thing and her skirt/sash-belt piece but honestly Blink never had a very complicated outfit so there's nothing wrong with recycling pieces. Probably my only issue with the figure is that her portal ring base can be an issue with fitting her into groups.
Gambit was an impulse buy as I do like the character (he's a guy who throws things hard) but going back to the toy's reveal I never liked this stupid swept hair. Seeing it in hand though I just really dig everything else about the figure. So yes he has stupid looking hair but at the same time his energy card pieces are cool and all of the rest of the toy from the hairline down has nice paintwork and sculpting.