Anyone recommend a good place to get Spidey? HLJ and AmiAmi are sold out, and Nippon is same price as BBTS.
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I like it. The sculpt, articulation, and accessories are great, but the paint is just poor for a $80+ figure. I canceled my order awhile ago and I'm kinda glad I did.
I have a ton of Spider-Men including TB McFarlane Spidey, don't think I need this one.
Well, I purchased out of curiosity. I've already turned around and sold it, only because I don't collect this scale anymore -- my tiny BTAS collection doesn't count because they're so stylized they're kinda their own thing, very far removed from my 1/6 collections. But having had most of the best 6" renditions of Spidey, had I stayed with 6-inch action figures, this would have been a keeper.
Feels really nice and high quality, hands on mine were easy to swap, paint was well-done, i.e. very smooth and sharp. I *do* kinda see what you're saying; they could have done better here and there in terms of design and production decisions, but that's often par for the course with toys.
Strangely, after all the SHF, Figma, Mezco, MAFEX, Toybiz and various Legends --- my all-time favourite 6-inch Spider-Man is still the Marvel Legends Pizza Spidey.
But this one is really no slouch, and while the price is quite high for what you get, that's the case with every single import figure, so that's a personal decision of course.
[...] do I really need a $90 6" Spider-Man figure even if it's the best comic one?
I need to get rid of some toys.
My $30 Marvel Select Venom came in today as a birthday present to myself, love this version so now I don't need that $95 Mafex Venom.
The $65 that I didn't spend will help me finish the ML Kingpin BAF.
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Yes ML is a lot cheaper and the quality has improved over the years, but when it comes to Spidey , I’ve only seen very little growth for some reason . Pizza Spidey is great but I can’t put it in my favorite 6” Spidey catorgory of all time. With ML Spidey , what bothers me is they seem to use the same mode of body in hindsight is not entirely accurate compared to other lines.
IMO, the ML Spidey figures are too bulky and muscular and range in mediocre articulation with very little improvements from each new wave, example, they still haven’t created a Spidey that can do the splits , nor have they fixed the issue with the wrong paint color for divets in the arms.
What I’m saying people really need to give this Spidey a chance in hand and witness that this particular Mafex Spidey is the best they have come up with thus far in terms of a complete redesign in body and overall idealism for Spider-man figures. Don’t let the SRP scare you off, if you collect 6” Spider-man and are looking for the next step in an all purpose Spidey figure then this is it..or at least Mafex is on the right track with this new Marvel comic line and are still surpassing ML attempts at Spidey figures IMO.
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