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Long overdue, but the Tobey MacGuire Spiderman has finally graced my shelves in the form of his S.H. Figuarts from the No Way Home movie.
Lets get the most pressing part out of the way - the MacGuire sculpts. The neutral faced on is passable. I mean it's not great, but it at least resembles the man and is, in all likelihood, probably better than what you're going to get out of Legends. The smiling face is a complete disaster. It doesn't resemble the man, which is bad enough, but also, it just plain looks awkward expression wise.
Thank goodness this isn't Scarlett Johansson or else I'd lose my mind right about now.
As for the actual Spidey itself, well this is my first of such a character. t's not my first Figuart, naturally, but I can see that this version of the body trades off aesthetics for articulation, but at the same time keeping the aesthetics of the suit in place. The hip and thigh cuts are really the only awkward looking parts, undoubtedly inspired by their Dragonball work. Head, unfortunately, doesn't tilt very well.
This isn't to the desire of everyone, and I get that. I guess it's best to say this was a compromise of form and function. It would have been nice to have this figure reach Revoltech levels of posing, but at the same time the MacGuire character wasn't exactly known for being the most limber either.
The suit itself I'd say was recreated quite well, with great textures and of course the appropriate lenses, Spider symbols and a relatively stocky build, which is accurate to the character. If the Garfield version is ever released, I will have to see if they made his body a bit more slender.
The webbing effects are two part. There's short, medium and long. The short and medium ones attach to the wrist peg whereas the long one actually gets held in the open hand.
Clutched mask effect is decent, but it's not one I recall from the movie per se. I mean, if we're dipping into non movie items, it would have been nice to have a battle damaged head sculpt.
Overall, I think between the body and the hands, you should be OK for most parts. Additional head tilt range would have been fantastic as it would let you replicate any poses where he's prone, such as wall crawling. Of course, having a freaking stand would have REALLY helped with, well, everything seeing how Spidey spends much of his time in the ar.
DSC_1054
Long overdue, but the Tobey MacGuire Spiderman has finally graced my shelves in the form of his S.H. Figuarts from the No Way Home movie.
Lets get the most pressing part out of the way - the MacGuire sculpts. The neutral faced on is passable. I mean it's not great, but it at least resembles the man and is, in all likelihood, probably better than what you're going to get out of Legends. The smiling face is a complete disaster. It doesn't resemble the man, which is bad enough, but also, it just plain looks awkward expression wise.
Thank goodness this isn't Scarlett Johansson or else I'd lose my mind right about now.
As for the actual Spidey itself, well this is my first of such a character. t's not my first Figuart, naturally, but I can see that this version of the body trades off aesthetics for articulation, but at the same time keeping the aesthetics of the suit in place. The hip and thigh cuts are really the only awkward looking parts, undoubtedly inspired by their Dragonball work. Head, unfortunately, doesn't tilt very well.
This isn't to the desire of everyone, and I get that. I guess it's best to say this was a compromise of form and function. It would have been nice to have this figure reach Revoltech levels of posing, but at the same time the MacGuire character wasn't exactly known for being the most limber either.
The suit itself I'd say was recreated quite well, with great textures and of course the appropriate lenses, Spider symbols and a relatively stocky build, which is accurate to the character. If the Garfield version is ever released, I will have to see if they made his body a bit more slender.
The webbing effects are two part. There's short, medium and long. The short and medium ones attach to the wrist peg whereas the long one actually gets held in the open hand.
Clutched mask effect is decent, but it's not one I recall from the movie per se. I mean, if we're dipping into non movie items, it would have been nice to have a battle damaged head sculpt.
Overall, I think between the body and the hands, you should be OK for most parts. Additional head tilt range would have been fantastic as it would let you replicate any poses where he's prone, such as wall crawling. Of course, having a freaking stand would have REALLY helped with, well, everything seeing how Spidey spends much of his time in the ar.