What can I say? I honestly did not have many toys of my own growing up… when cultural toy landmarks like Stretch Armstrong, the Muhammad Ali action figure, Big Wheel Bikes, the G.I. Joe with the Fu Grip and Star Wars X-Wing Fighters came and went, I would jealously watch my friends play with theirs and whisper to myself someday… someday…
So I was shopping in Wal-Mart today and saw a big ol’ display of these things in the toy department. Before I knew it, I was shelling out an extra 21 bucks at the checkout counter. I’ve spent the last two hours recreating the poses on the sides of the box and coming up with a few of my own.
So I’m planning to take it to my kindergarten classroom in the near future, where I plan have it on display on a bookshelf in the most educational pose I can justify: Spiderman, reclining on his stomach, legs crossed, reading a stack of Spider-Man comic books. I’m going to draw and ink a sign that says: “Even superheroes love to read.”
I await with bated breath the Batman version of this baby…
Holy crap. Even its fingers are articulated? God, I remember when I was growing up in the eighties and my He-Man, with its five points of articulation, was still hot-stuff.
Kids these days don’t know how well they’ve got it.
It’s really neat how I can use mounting glue tabs and affix them to his hands, arms, knees and feet and have Spider-Man scaling the walls, or shooting off spider webs or whatever.
It’s a heavy plastic figure, but if you position the tabs just right it will hold.
I wish I could post pictures!
Hee. I’ve been playing with this thing on and off for four hours now.
Wow, that’s cool. But don’t they have any toys like that depicting DC characters like Superman, or at least cool Marvel ones like Thor? Because Spider-Man is a sissy emo kid.
Secondly, no. No Thor or DC heroes like this, although there’s a Batman figure with 36 points of articulation. This figure has 67 points of articulation – it’s THE most articulated action figure ever designed. The hands are amazing.
I don’t see any figures as poseable as this one, but with THE INCREDIBLES and BATMAN BEGINS on the horizon, it’s a sure bet there will be more toys like this.
No, but if there were, and both toys were fully anatomically correct, Toy Biz would have a real popular item on its super-articulated little hands. >>Naughty Grin<<
I was also thinking how super-articulated Barbie dolls would go over big.
Oh, come on, people! Don’t tell me I killed ANOTHER thread. I admit I’ve got a really dirty mind, but even so, I doubt if Ray Harryhausen’s models were as well articulated as that Spiderman doll … er, action figure. Surely this is a logical train of thought.
I don’t think it was you, Evil Captor. I think it’s the Labor Day Weekend and the fact that people are waiting until payday to buy the Coolest Action Figure Ever.
If they do an articulated Thing or Black Panther that looks this good, I can see me shelling out some deep wallet-sized chunks in my budget.
The Thing shouldn’t be super articulated. He’s a freakin’ mountain on legs.
They need to make a Nightcrawler though. I mean, only two people are more flexible than him and you already own one of them and if they’re going to make a Mr Fantastic figure, he should be all Stretch Armstrong-like and stuff.
pizzabrat. I’m pretty sure I paid $21.99 at Wal-Mart.
Aesiron. Having now owned this Spider-Man for the past four days, and played around with it longer than I’m comfortable admitting, I now feel ALL superhero action figures should be super-articulated and at least 18 inches tall. Whether or not their range of movement should be as extensive as Spider-Man is debatable, but every one should have finger/wrist joints and feet/ankle movement like this. Captain America, Wolverine, Superman, Wonder Woman, Venom, Batman, Robin, etc, would absolutely rock in this format.