The Marvel Legends line started in 2002 with Toy Biz, bringing collectors 1/12 scale figures of their favorite Marvel characters. Highly poseable (generally) and detailed these figures looked like they'd jumped right off the page. In 2006 Hasbro took over but continued to make good quality Marvel heroes and villains at an affordable price. Affordable if you find them at retail, at least.
Over the 14 years Marvel Legends have been made there have been many versions of Spider-Man. This is true for all of Marvels biggest names. And it makes sense why. A kid who's just discovered Marvel should be able to go down to their local toy store and buy their favorite hero. For collectors it means we often end up with shelves dedicated to a single character. As a massive Spider-Man fan (I even enjoyed the Clone Saga!) I don't have an issue with this.
The subject of today's review is the Spider-Man figure from the 2014 Ultimate Green Goblin series. This version of Spider-Man is featured in The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro which was in cinemas at the same time this figure was released.
Sculpt:
The sculpting on this figure is very nice. All of the web detailing on Spidey's costume is present. The blue sections are also textured like the movie costume. These could easily have been left flat so I appreciate the effort. The masks eyes and the spider emblems on the front and back of the costume are also molded cleanly.
Paint:
This has got to be one of the best painted Marvel Legends figures in my collection. All of the paint applications are really clean. This was not the case with every figure in the set (I had to go through quite a few Spider-Girls that either had messy faces or messy costume detailing).
A wash has been applied to the red areas to bring out all of the webbing details. This has left a couple of dirty spots. But they look like dirt not great globs of sloppy paint and as such don't hurt the figures look. Easy enough to pass of as the result of going toe-to-toe with Electro.
The eyes on mine don't quite line up with the sculpting. On a shelf it's fine. It's only if you go looking at them up close that you can notice it. The other main paint applications are his front and back spider emblems which I'm happy to say are both spot on.
Articulation:
"Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can." When you buy a Spider-Man toy you want it to be able to recreate all of your favorite dynamic moments from the comics/films/cartoons/lunch-boxes/etc. And this Spider-Man certainly can. 26 points of articulation, mostly in the arms and legs, make Spidey very poseable. You might even say super poseable.
... Yeah, ok, that was terrible. Sorry.
Whether you want him to be swinging through New York, climbing up the side of a building, or punching bad guys Spidey can do it all. The way the shoulders are jointed go a long way into helping with this. They are able to swivel inward and outward on joints dedicated to just this movement. It's not something I've seen on many toys outside of your Figuarts/Figmas/etc. Certainly not on Hasbro figures. Everything else is pretty standard but all works together well to keep pretty much any pose you'd want to put Spidey in looking natural.
Accessories:
As most of Spidey's only gadgets are his webshooters which are built into his costume he doesn't really need a whole lot of accessories. He does come with two sets of hands - fists and web shooting. These are enough to get you by but a set of open hands (like the Hobgoblin series Spider-Man got) would've been nice to make the wall crawling look a bit more convincing.
Final Thoughts:
This is a great, affordable option if you're looking for a Spider-Man for your collection. While based on the movie version of the costume it's close enough to the comic design that he won't have trouble fitting in with comic-based figures. The Hobgloblin series Spider-Man (affectionately known as Pizza Spidey) does everything this guy can a little better. But if this is the only Spider-Man figure you can find I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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