1/6 Hot Toys - MMS244 - Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Spider-Man Figure

[The Jerker]

I got a few Spideys from SS and none had the black stains. One recommendation could be to call Sideshow to place your order and verbally ask them to do a visual inspection of the figure before they send it to you. You can open the box and look at the figure within the plastic bubble and notice if there's a black mark or not.

I'm not up on what's going on, but it seems silly that Sideshow claims they have "no replacements" when the figure is clearly still in-stock.

Ah, thanks much! That puts my mind at ease. Good idea about calling as well. Seems like SS just doesn't want to bothered doing returns on it but I guess they have their reasons. Will be ordering soon!

 

[joebizz34]

Here's my review vid on this bad boy. Best 1/6 Spidey figure to date in my opinion.

 

[Furyan]

Here's my review vid on this bad boy. Best 1/6 Spidey figure to date in my opinion.

Cool! You got a vid of your whole collection?

 

[Darth Zangetsu]

I am sooooo tempted to grab this guy. But with AOU stuff about to hit big time, I really need to save the money.

 

[karamazov80]

Spider-Man > other Marvel guys

This Spider-Man doll > other Spider-Man toys

Easy decision.

 

[HeubertMichael]

in 2, maybe 3 or 4 years we'll see more of "This is the Cap to have!", "This is the Thor to have!", etc, but still this would be the Spidey to have, considering the film franchise's bleak future.

 

[Khev]

Spider-Man > other Marvel guys

 

[Darth Zangetsu]

Spider-Man > other Marvel guys

This Spider-Man doll > other Spider-Man toys

Easy decision.

And if money were no object, you would be absolutely right. I am still kicking myself for cancelling this guy before the final product came out.

 

[karamazov80]

Most important, most popular, arguably the most likable of all the Marvel characters. If you don't like Spidey, then you have no soul.

 

[ZE_501]

Most important, most popular, arguably the most likable of all the Marvel characters. If you don't like Spidey, then you have no soul.

PREACH! One of my top 3 collectibles.


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[Khev]

Most important, most popular, arguably the most likable of all the Marvel characters. If you don't like Spidey, then you have no soul.

Most popular, yes. Biggest icon, yes. But why would you say most important? The MCU has proven him to be an expendable asset.

But still, being the most popular icon doesn't make you "greater" than your fellows. Spidey might just be the Justin Bieber or McDonald's of superheroes.

 

[karamazov80]

Because there would be no "Marvel Comics" as we know of it without the success of Spidey, and secondary to that, the Fantastic Four.

And you can say he's expendable to the success of some comic movies, but that could be the case for any single character in the Marvel U, though again, without the monster success of Iron Man I doubt seriously we would be on our 3rd Cap and Thor movies by now, so some are clearly more important than others.

 

[Khev]

I don't know, Cap created an alternative to DC for a couple decades before Spidey came along. I'm not sure that Marvel (as we know it) would have formed out of a vacuum without him.

I think that the absence of Spidey, or Captain America, or the Fantastic Four would obviously have been a massive change to the history of comics but I don't know how you can single any one of them out as being the "most" important.

You can even make a case for the X-Men. Their success with comics in the 90's led to them being the first live-action Marvel superhero movie (I don't really count Blade) which then paved the way for Spider-Man, which then paved the way for the MCU and now the present time when even fifth string Marvel characters are household names.

 

[Darth Zangetsu]

I don't know, Cap created an alternative to DC for a couple decades before Spidey came along. I'm not sure that Marvel (as we know it) would have formed out of a vacuum without him.

I think that the absence of Spidey, or Captain America, or the Fantastic Four would obviously have been a massive change to the history of comics but I don't know how you can single any one of them out as being the "most" important.

You can even make a case for the X-Men. Their success with comics in the 90's led to them being the first live-action Marvel superhero movie (I don't really count Blade) which then paved the way for Spider-Man, which then paved the way for the MCU and now the present time when even fifth string Marvel characters are household names.

Blade gets no respect for what it did for the comic film genre.

 

[karamazov80]

Well I think you're love of Cap may be skewing your perceptions just a tad if you think he was a major alternative to DC. He was a WWII-era character, whose popularity waned after the war along with scores of others, even if he was popular at the time. And Marvel didn't need him when they started up in earnest in the early '60s, though he became one of their primary guys pretty quickly thereafter. I doubt very seriously that Marvel would have been a major competitor for DC without Spidey in the '60s. At which point, they might have faded into obscurity by the time the '70s came on.

X-Men was on the verge of cancellation a few times in the '60s and '70s, but the success of Spidey allowed fledgling titles like that to be kept around (even though X-Men was just reprints for a long time).

 

[Darth Zangetsu]

Most important, most popular, arguably the most likable of all the Marvel characters. If you don't like Spidey, then you have no soul.

Then I guess I have no soul. Peter Parker is really not even in my top 5 Marvel characters. I prefer Black Panther, Cap, Wolverine, Thor, and Miles Morales all over Peter. I recognize his importance, but he was never my fav.

 

[Khev]

Blade gets no respect for what it did for the comic film genre.

Because I don't think anyone (in the industry or audience) really equated him with superheroes coming to the screen. Yes he was technically a Marvel character but really he was just a gun-toting monster hunter. Guns and vampires aren't really synonymous with superheroes and we'd seen both of those things plenty of times on film before. Him running around blowing away powerful bad guys in disguise as part of a secret war on contemporary Earth is more "Terminator" than Superman or Batman. But X-Men? That was pure comic books, brought to the big screen and truly representing Marvel for the first time.

 

[Khev]

Well I think you're love of Cap may be skewing your perceptions just a tad if you think he was a major alternative to DC.

I didn't say "major" but he was an ongoing alternative which just kind of kept the company going until it could really explode in the 60's.

And Marvel didn't need him when they started up in earnest in the early '60s,

See to me this is you basically saying the equivalent of "The MCU didn't need Spidey in the late 2000's." Yes Spidey became huge and carried the company without Cap in the 60's just like Iron Man and the Avengers became huge and carried the superhero film industry without Spidey from 2008 and onward. BUT would either success have even been possible if we didn't have those early Cap stories? Hard to say.

 

[karamazov80]

Well I'll put it this way--if you asked 1,000 hardcore comic fans (or even casual observers) to vote on the "most historically important Marvel character or team," my guess is Spidey would win in a landslide.

 

[Khev]

Looks like we're both wrong: Why Thor is Marvel’s Most Important Superhero | TIME.com