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

[dw316]

Can this figure do this? If so, pics please! Thanks in advance.

 

[ZE_501]

The news regarding Spidey's homecoming didn't diminish my love for this figure one bit. I bought it because the costume looks perfect, regardless of how the movie was received. When I look at this figure I don't see a film that flopped or the actor who got mixed reviews in playing the role. I see Spider-man. Also, him appearing in a Marvel Studios film doesn't make it any less of a "let's wait and see if the suit would look great" scenario.

Exactly this. That being said, I only need one 1/6 iteration of Spider-Man; were a better-looking figure to arrive, I'd sell this one and upgrade, but who knows when or if that will come to pass? I'm really enjoying this one and not worried about something that hasn't been made.

 

[PopCultKid]

Can you guys share some insight on the neck seam? I've skimmed thru a lot of this thread since people started receiving this. I see a good bunch of pics where the figure has a tight, flush seam, and then I see others that have a gap like mine. I know that the webbing will never line up straight; that doesn't bother me, but I'm wondering how common the gap thing is. I have two figs with gaps (one worse than the other), but I'm a little worried about trying to exchange term because they're fine in all other respects (no black stain, no joint issues, etc.)

Has anyone had this issue that was able to fix it themselves since the head comes off?

 

[Jaycepticon]

Exactly this. That being said, I only need one 1/6 iteration of Spider-Man; were a better-looking figure to arrive, I'd sell this one and upgrade, but who knows when or if that will come to pass? I'm really enjoying this one and not worried about something that hasn't been made.

Agreed. At the absolute worst case scenario, you'll have two whole years to enjoy this figure before there's even another one out. Plus, how do you top perfection? This figure IS the definitive Spider, IMO....until Stark builds him electronic lenses that can open/close to mimic the comics

 

[ZE_501]

Guys, thought I'd throw this out there. I've had my Spidey up in an extreme stretchy pose pretty much since I got him...I guess months ago now. When I took him down today I carefully moved his limbs back to neutral, and of course the suit was all rucked up, stretched and wrinkled.

Careful and brief hits of steam from a kettle...like just a few seconds at a time...it's hotter than you think and you don't want to melt the suit...served to revert the suit back to factory-fresh condition.

Wrinkles disappear, suit tightens up.

I did it gradually so that the fabric went back to shape in steps, i.e. I gradually brought the legs together and did some manual adjustments as the fabric tightened after each hit.

It's important to let it cool in between the super-brief steam applications.

As far as I can tell the elasticity is not affected, but try this at your own risk. I have him shifted to a neutral pose for the moment but I'll report back if I notice anything when I pose him in extreme positions again.

 

[ZE_501]

Freshly steamed suit and a switched up display. Note the wrinkles in the left arm...that's part of the suit I did *not* steam.

And this was his previous pose for months:

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[loki2371]

Yea, this is still a great figure. And since it looks a lot like comic spidey may end up being the one going forward that most resembles it anyway. Hard to say this early.

I've said it before and I'll say it again in case anyone missed it...this type of agreement will be happening with fox as well. Fox really wants to do a TV deal and establish a TV universe with mutants and FF characters. More of the b listers that get little to no screen time in movies. But marvel owns all the TV rights. Well more like fox doesn't have them really. Anyway, I know they have reached out to mend fences after the AoU/DOFP fight between board and ceo/coo members. And have brought up the potential for a Sony type deal in exchange for TV rights or co producer rights. And from the talk I'm hearing they want those TV rights a lot. As soon as walking dead hit 20 million viewers two years ago fox started planning. They think that TV might be the best revenue stream for them with mutants, given the number of characters. An Excalibur team, a gen X team, x-force, xmen a and b teams, savage land, ect. Lots of possibilities. I think it's entirely feasable that by Infinity war at the latest Marvel could have access to its whole catalog of characters. Which would be amazing. Ten years ago the thoughts of a new Star Wars, Star Trek. Xmen, spiderman, terminator, Jurassic park, avengers, Justice league, fantastic four, mad max all within two or three years of each other....CRAZY. And it not only looks imminent, but that we may get more. Golden age of geekiness and CBM!

I hope Marvel tells Fox to "**** off!". It's too late for a deal like this. Marvel already had to change the origins of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch not only in the movies, but in the comic books too. They had to rewrite their 60 year continuity since fox wouldn't even let them use the word "mutant". So now they have to make them Inhumans. Then you have the whole Fantastic Four debacle. Fox is only making this turd of a movie to keep the rights and in essence were laughing at Marvel. It kills me that we'll have a Thanos and infinity war story line with NO SILVER SURFER!!! All because of Fox. Marvel better not give in...

 

[third3ye]

So... looks like I may end up selling my ASM2 figure before I even display it J/k, sorta... really depends how the MCU Spidey looks, but I imagine Marvel Studios wouldn't stray too far from the source material and the iconic red and blue would be the front runner. Would be nice if they could build off the ASM2 costume, that was already pretty close to perfection IMO.

 

[Motuxmen]

I hope Marvel tells Fox to "**** off!". It's too late for a deal like this. Marvel already had to change the origins of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch not only in the movies, but in the comic books too. They had to rewrite their 60 year continuity since fox wouldn't even let them use the word "mutant". So now they have to make them Inhumans. Then you have the whole Fantastic Four debacle. Fox is only making this turd of a movie to keep the rights and in essence were laughing at Marvel. It kills me that we'll have a Thanos and infinity war story line with NO SILVER SURFER!!! All because of Fox. Marvel better not give in...

I disagree. First, your upset about Silver Surfer not in a movie that if this deal went thru could still happen. That movies is years away. As for the twins background...they can always change it. Or say they discovered the mutant x gene. Whatever way they want to do it.

I don't get the "it's to late" argument. To late for what exactly?

As for fox saying marvel couldn't use the word mutant...I agree it's a bad look. But it's not like marvel did themselves any favors early on. Things like that mutant x TV show for example.

And as for the new FF being bad...kinda hard to know that without actually seeing it. I'll hold judgment till then. And even if it is, and it's done to retain rights...so what? That's the way business works. If it where not for fox and Sony buying film rights when they did marvel may not exist. At all. And if not for them doing the first true tent pole CBM back in the early 2000s who knows if the genre ever takes off. I would prefer marvel have creative control over everything..but I don't fault fox or Sony for not giving away billions of dollars either. Marvel made the contracts. They easily could have added time limits no matter if there where new films, or over ride control or a buy out clause. They did not. That's on marvel not fox or Sony.

I hope marvel does work out a deal. I'd love to see a hugh Jackman wolverine alongside a spiderman with RDJ tony stark and Chris Evans Cap and a hemsworth thor..fighting a Tom Loki and Fassbender Magneto and a rhino and sentinels. And everything else that comes with that. Finally getting a magneto hot toy for starters.

 

[WhoaItsJBot]

I knew Spidey would join the MCU sooner or later, I was confident of it. Can't wait to see how he will look.

 

[loki2371]

I disagree. First, your upset about Silver Surfer not in a movie that if this deal went thru could still happen. That movies is years away. As for the twins background...they can always change it. Or say they discovered the mutant x gene. Whatever way they want to do it.

I don't get the "it's to late" argument. To late for what exactly?

As for fox saying marvel couldn't use the word mutant...I agree it's a bad look. But it's not like marvel did themselves any favors early on. Things like that mutant x TV show for example.

And as for the new FF being bad...kinda hard to know that without actually seeing it. I'll hold judgment till then. And even if it is, and it's done to retain rights...so what? That's the way business works. If it where not for fox and Sony buying film rights when they did marvel may not exist. At all. And if not for them doing the first true tent pole CBM back in the early 2000s who knows if the genre ever takes off. I would prefer marvel have creative control over everything..but I don't fault fox or Sony for not giving away billions of dollars either. Marvel made the contracts. They easily could have added time limits no matter if there where new films, or over ride control or a buy out clause. They did not. That's on marvel not fox or Sony.

I hope marvel does work out a deal. I'd love to see a hugh Jackman wolverine alongside a spiderman with RDJ tony stark and Chris Evans Cap and a hemsworth thor..fighting a Tom Loki and Fassbender Magneto and a rhino and sentinels. And everything else that comes with that. Finally getting a magneto hot toy for starters.

I don't think you realize the extent that Marvel/Disney has gone to hurt Fox. We don't know what's happened behind the scenes, but I'm sure Marvel has approached Fox several times, each time with Fox not willing to deal. Fox must have really upset the wrong people at Marvel/Disney (rumors it went all the way up to Disney CEO Bob Iger, not just Marvel's Kevin Feige). There's no X-Men movie merchandise or toys to support Fox (last 2 movies). Pretty unheard of for this type of cinema to not have a toy merchandise line especially since that hurts Marvel as much as Fox as they would make the greater percentage of all movie tie-ins and merchandise. Then they declare internally (at Marvel) that no one is to use the Fantastic Four in any future story lines, and ending a comic run that literally started the Marvel Age of comics in the 60's and continued till today. I could only assume that while asking for Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch Marvel also had hoped to procure Fox's allowance of using the Silver Surfer for their Infinity War / cosmic plans. We know that didn't go well. Marvel then killed off Wolverine, the spokesperson for Mutants, and now rumors of the demise of Deadpool, the second fan favored mutant. Marvel's not too fond of Fox right now, but now Fox needs them for TV rights.... Fox didn't play nice cause they didn't need anything unlike Sony's struggle with Spider-Man and financial problems. Fox made it personal. Especially when they showed to have no regards with the FF. There was no reason to reboot a movie that didn't do well to begin with or to stray so far from the source material that it's barely recognizable. They should've made a deal back then....

 

[third3ye]

Fox must have really upset the wrong people at Marvel/Disney (rumors it went all the way up to Disney CEO Bob Iger, not just Marvel's Kevin Feige).

It wasn't Bob, it was Ike who got PO'd at Fox.

 

[loki2371]

It wasn't Bob, it was Ike who got PO'd at Fox.

Your right on that, my mistake...

 

[Motuxmen]

I do know the back story. I work in the film industry. Worked for both studios. And I've seen all the same public news reported as well. It was actually worse then the news let on. In term of how disrespectful Fox was toward marvel, and how pissed marvel and disney both where. And that's the latest stuff. It was as bad or worse back when marvel made that mutant TV show. That's when fox sued marvel and they settled on not using the mutant name. It's been bad for a long time.

As for there being no marvel merchandise for xmen. It's a but overstated. There are products in both BnM stores as well as adult lines. There's halloween costumes and other stuff. A large part of it is that the xmen merch just doesn't move anywhere near the other property's and other companies just don't pay for the license. Yes marvel has done fox no favors. But they are not saying no just to say no on everything.

The comics characters getting killed doesn't mean much. Marvel is rebooting the whole comic universe and blending both original and ultimate versions. Killing anyone person or property is of no consequence.

Fox has been mending fences for sometime. If marvel can get even it's foot in the door it won't let past BS get in the way. They have wanted to get both spidey verse and xmen back for sometime. That's where the anger comes from. If fox gives them what they wanted all along why on earth would marvel say no?

Fox is trying to help its TV chanels, it's movies, and ultimately it's pocket book. Getting a deal where they can make shows like flash or arrow or AoS and have iron man or blade or hulk in its xmen films...it's a win win for both.

 

[sifu74]

I asked in the Movie thread but since you guys are talking about Fox and Xmen here, do you know when and if Xmen and other Marvel entities goes back to Marvel? The license deal has to end sometime right, its not in perpetuity right?

 

[WhoaItsJBot]

I was under the impression they lost the rights if a movie wasn't made after a certain period of time, which is why they cobbled together the new F4.

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I hope Marvel tells Fox to "**** off!". It's too late for a deal like this. Marvel already had to change the origins of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch not only in the movies, but in the comic books too. They had to rewrite their 60 year continuity since fox wouldn't even let them use the word "mutant". So now they have to make them Inhumans. Then you have the whole Fantastic Four debacle. Fox is only making this turd of a movie to keep the rights and in essence were laughing at Marvel. It kills me that we'll have a Thanos and infinity war story line with NO SILVER SURFER!!! All because of Fox. Marvel better not give in...

Marvel chose to **** with QS and SW in the comics. There was no need to pull that **** as the comics are seperate from the movie. They didn't need them different in comics in order to be different on film

Fox wouldnt let them because Marvel sold them that term, why should they let them use something they paid for for free.

Marvel sold Fantastic Four. They agreed to the terms and signed them away. If they hadn't sold them to Fox they'd have sold them to some other studio. It's Marvels fault the rights aren't theres.

I asked in the Movie thread but since you guys are talking about Fox and Xmen here, do you know when and if Xmen and other Marvel entities goes back to Marvel? The license deal has to end sometime right, its not in perpetuity right?

As long as they make movies they retain the rights. Marvel agreed to those terms, freely

I don't think you realize the extent that Marvel/Disney has gone to hurt Fox. We don't know what's happened behind the scenes, but I'm sure Marvel has approached Fox several times, each time with Fox not willing to deal. Fox must have really upset the wrong people at Marvel/Disney (rumors it went all the way up to Disney CEO Bob Iger, not just Marvel's Kevin Feige). There's no X-Men movie merchandise or toys to support Fox (last 2 movies). Pretty unheard of for this type of cinema to not have a toy merchandise line especially since that hurts Marvel as much as Fox as they would make the greater percentage of all movie tie-ins and merchandise. Then they declare internally (at Marvel) that no one is to use the Fantastic Four in any future story lines, and ending a comic run that literally started the Marvel Age of comics in the 60's and continued till today. I could only assume that while asking for Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch Marvel also had hoped to procure Fox's allowance of using the Silver Surfer for their Infinity War / cosmic plans. We know that didn't go well. Marvel then killed off Wolverine, the spokesperson for Mutants, and now rumors of the demise of Deadpool, the second fan favored mutant. Marvel's not too fond of Fox right now, but now Fox needs them for TV rights.... Fox didn't play nice cause they didn't need anything unlike Sony's struggle with Spider-Man and financial problems. Fox made it personal. Especially when they showed to have no regards with the FF. There was no reason to reboot a movie that didn't do well to begin with or to stray so far from the source material that it's barely recognizable. They should've made a deal back then....

How is Fox to blame for any of that? The only thing Fox has done is continue to make movies., they've not made it personal at all. Meanwhile Marvel has been doing those BS petty tactics to hurt their own comic characters in a futile attempt to hurt Fox.

 

[guy66657]

Well Marvel only sold the film rights to Spidey, Fantastic Four and X-Men because they were going bankrupt in the 90's and that literally saved them.

 

[third3ye]

Marvel chose to **** with QS and SW in the comics. There was no need to pull that **** as the comics are seperate from the movie. They didn't need them different in comics in order to be different on film

Fox wouldnt let them because Marvel sold them that term, why should they let them use something they paid for for free.

Marvel sold Fantastic Four. They agreed to the terms and signed them away. If they hadn't sold them to Fox they'd have sold them to some other studio. It's Marvels fault the rights aren't theres.



As long as they make movies they retain the rights. Marvel agreed to those terms, freely



How is Fox to blame for any of that? The only thing Fox has done is continue to make movies., they've not made it personal at all. Meanwhile Marvel has been doing those BS petty tactics to hurt their own comic characters in a futile attempt to hurt Fox.

To me this is just business, hard tactics sure but nothing unethical. Fox and Sony both capitalized on Marvel's struggles and inexperience during the 90s, and brokered VERY favorable deals for themselves. Today Marvel is a powerhouse brand and with Disney's backing can stand toe to toe with rival major studios. Sony and Marvel seem to get along fine, whereas Fox and Marvel are always butting heads... all signs seem to point to Fox playing hard ball and being difficult creative partners to work with. And for years Marvel's been negotiating with both studios to get the rights back, so no difference there. If Marvel wants to take a small publishing hit and starve Fox of new content and merchandising support b/c they don't like working with Fox, that's their right too. Flipping your argument around the other way, why should Marvel continue to provide support for franchises licensed to studios they don't even like working with when Fox gives them barely pennies on the dollar?

 

[WalkingDeadZombies]

Sorry for going off topic from your discussion guys but I wanted to buy this figure. Now that I know spidey will be in civil war movie, would it be best to wait it out or buy this now?