Jan 16, 2019

It came from the Toy chest: 6 armed Spider-Man

Spidey: what are you two up to?
Morbius and Lizard: Nothing!
Spidey: Whatever it is cut it out!
You two being together caused me
A lot of trouble last time...
No witty title or punny remark... I'm afraid. This time Spidey is dangerous and overarmed...
So, Parker tried to cure himself from his Spideyness and developed 4 more arms by accident. While fighting Morbius, he figures out an antidote for his situation with the help of Doctor Curt Connors whose mind was currently functioning normally from inside the Lizard (due to a bite from Morbius. )
Spidey:*Wilhelm scream*

Articulation:
He has extra arms, boot cut, but everything else lost a big deal. He cannot do ANY of the Spider poses I use to test if a Spidey figure is good:
Web Yoyo
Crouch pose
MVC stance
He fails them all. Why is that? Lack of torso articulation. I understand that the torso had to be sacrificed for the arms, BUT the vanilla posed torso cancels all the point of 0posability... I have a bad feeling that Doppelganger will be made reusing this torso.
3.0
That's as dynamic as
Poseable...

Paint and sculpt:
For some reason, they reused the head, arms and legs from an Amazing Spider-Man figure... as in the Andrew Garfield ASM. Thus means etched webbing... unpainted  and texture on his blue areas and shorter than normal Spideys. The red has a mild orange tinge in person. It looks Happy Meal toy... So Captain Paintbrush was summoned to give him a black wash to paint the webbing. The End result is reminiscent of a sloppy Toy Biz era wash only on the red. Gray was used on the blue areas of the suit, where muscles are located.

After the repaint, the inferior sculpt is almost palatable.
2.0  before Repaint 2.5 after repaint.

Accessories:
Nothing, zilch, nada, the big goose egg.

Overall:
2.5 or 2.75 for six armed Spidey.  Figure was supposed to be a hit and ended up veing the biggest miss of the wave. It sucked the fun out of getting him harder than Kirby sucks his enemies in Smash or the Kirby games.

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