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NEW SPIDERMAN TOYS IN PACKAGE Review
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02-01-2010, 11:45 PM
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Shin Densetsu
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... I just LITERALLY came back from Wal-Mart an hour and SAW these things. You guys are too generous... PRE-SCULPTED POSES... PACKED WITH UNNECESSARY ACCESORIES... VENOM HAS NO KNEES. I broke my imposed rule and scored MU Spidey and symbiote Spidey... for obvious reasons... and if you have a choice, GET THESE and leave the Spidey Classics ones on the shelf. These make the Marvel Universe figures look like friggin' works of art.
The best part[/sarcasm], they cost me $8 a piece, and yet, I scored an X-Men Origins Deadpool with cannon accessory... FOR $7!!!!
Careful... I brought that exact point up myself, and two particular posters jumped all over me for it. You may be safe, since you're a mod. But NO ONE'S gonna sit there and tell me this line isn't all that bad... because I've seen them UP CLOSE and personal... VENOM WITH NO KNEES!!!! NO KNEES, MAN!!!!
The line looks bad to me. Take for example Superhero Squad. Obviously it's not made with guys like us in mind. Yet you see stuff like Dark Knight 5" figures. Iron Man Armored Adventures. Wolverine & The X-Men. Then Marvel Universe.
Out of those lines, which one is most likely to last? Marvel Universe. Whether it's because more collectors amount to sales than officially acknowledged or due to higher articulation, in any case, Marvel Universe has longer legs.
An underarticulated Spiderman line is extremely disappointing. SPIDERMAN of all people? Yes again, maybe these toys aren't made for us but obviously they are made for an older audience than Superhero Squad, and Hasbro even said at UK Toy Fair that the reason the Iron Man 2 toys are in 3-3/4" are because kids like doing crossovers with that scale.
That's all well and good until you think "well hey, that must mean the Spiderman line can complement the larger Marvel Universe line, I mean they ALL are Marvel right?". Right except articulation is inconsistent with the new Spiderman line.
I think we can all agree that the new Venoms look BADASS but the articulation? NO KNEES? In a Spiderman line? Hell I would have BOUGHT most of the Armored Adventures figures had they been fully articulated. I see them shelfwarm. I see Superhero Squad sell more. I see Marvel Universe sell more. I even see DCIH and XMO Wolverine sell more.
Full articulation in the new Spiderman line lends itself better to cross-pollinating with the Marvel Universe line and that is a win/win situation for both kids and collectors alike which also results in more sales for Hasbro. Collectors want more rogues and Spidey allies without taking up valuable slots in the Marvel Universe line. Hopefully this will happen in the future.
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