Walmart shipped early and received Green Goblin, Sandman and Matt. Andrew Spiderman was delivered from Pulse before selling out. MJ x 2 and Tom Spiderman delivered from GameStop. I'm still waiting on Tobey Spiderman from GameStop and Walmart for Andrew, Tom, Tobey Spiderman and Doc Ok.
Just got Final Swing Spidey in, and yep, his plastic feels unusually brittle compared to Hasbro's usual plastic. Kind of an immediate bummer, but I'm not bending any joints until he takes a dip in hot water after which I'm sure he'll be totally fine.
Five days later I now look at Final Swing Spidey as having a fatal engineering flaw by Hasbro with the brittle plastic. It's present throughout the figure, and I'm seeing pics of breakages at multiple joints throughout the figure posted daily on Reddit--the neck, elbows, biceps swivel, knees, torso--seemingly every joint is subject to break. I've given mine a heat bath twice, and while it helped it didn't solve the problem. The joints are tight, which is usually a great thing--but the strength of the plastic can't endure the tightness of the joints. I'm afraid my son is going to break him every time he tries bending a joint, and I feel like the biceps swivel and elbow are going to break at any time.
I still haven't opened my Andrew and Tobey, but I'm seeing the same kinds of Reddit posts showing breakages on at least Andrew as well. The issues with the plastic on these is making me suddenly glad I also have the 3-pack, and it's also complicating picking either of them as a figure of the year candidate when I thought they'd easily be candidates for it. I suppose Andrew still is if you just consider the 3-pack version...
Well my final swing Spidey better not break because I put all my other Tom Holland Spidey figures on ebay. (I'm trying the "one of each" approach in an attempt to scale down my MCU stuff.)
EDIT: I just pulled my final swing Spidey off the shelf to do some checking. I really have no real issues with mine. Things do feel tight, but not "Oh man, this is going to break" tight.
I'm trying the "one of each" approach in an attempt to scale down my MCU stuff.
Awesome, I commend you. I was mostly successful but allowed myself a second version of a few, and three versions for only Spider-Man, Hulk, and Iron Man.
Just got Final Swing Spidey in, and yep, his plastic feels unusually brittle compared to Hasbro's usual plastic. Kind of an immediate bummer, but I'm not bending any joints until he takes a dip in hot water after which I'm sure he'll be totally fine.
Five days later I now look at Final Swing Spidey as having a fatal engineering flaw by Hasbro with the brittle plastic. It's present throughout the figure, and I'm seeing pics of breakages at multiple joints throughout the figure posted daily on Reddit--the neck, elbows, biceps swivel, knees, torso--seemingly every joint is subject to break. I've given mine a heat bath twice, and while it helped it didn't solve the problem. The joints are tight, which is usually a great thing--but the strength of the plastic can't endure the tightness of the joints. I'm afraid my son is going to break him every time he tries bending a joint, and I feel like the biceps swivel and elbow are going to break at any time.
I still haven't opened my Andrew and Tobey, but I'm seeing the same kinds of Reddit posts showing breakages on at least Andrew as well. The issues with the plastic on these is making me suddenly glad I also have the 3-pack, and it's also complicating picking either of them as a figure of the year candidate when I thought they'd easily be candidates for it. I suppose Andrew still is if you just consider the 3-pack version...
I posed the final swing figure with care and haven't touched him since. I consider him a legends-scaled statue now.
Isaac Wong posted a bunch of pics of Doc Ock today. Looks fantastic.
Sweeeeet, can't wait to get him.
I'm trying the "one of each" approach in an attempt to scale down my MCU stuff.
Awesome, I commend you. I was mostly successful but allowed myself a second version of a few, and three versions for only Spider-Man, Hulk, and Iron Man.
It's tougher with some characters than others. Having trouble deciding on Thor. Dark World Thor has the more classic feel with the long hair and the hammer. Infinity War has my favorite Thor moment ("Bring me THANOS!") but has the less-traditional short hair and ax look. Love and Thunder Thor's action figure is beautiful with bright colors and really pops with other MCU stuff, but I kind of hate the movie it's from. So I don't know what to do about him.
Yeah, I get that. if they ever did a figure of Thor from the first scenes in Ragnarok, I could be happy with that being my only Thor, but right now I have a custom of that which I'm not happy with, and the Best Of Thor coming today will be my second and that'll probably be it.
The Infinity War Thor I would be cool with if he had a bigger and less limp Stormbreaker, and long hair. I know that isn't accurate but if I'm down to one Thor he has to have the locks.
Here's the saga of my Tobey Maguire figure: I was never hot for the figure because, as I've said, I was never a huge fan of the movies and don't like the look of the suit. I got him because I have Tom and Andrew but decided nah... I can't collect that way anymore, even for Spider-Man. So I set up a return with Target. They even said I could mail it, which was great since I declared I wouldn't set foot in a Target again until January. They refunded me for it (I also got 15% off him, Goblin, and Tom that I'd bought since they price matched for that sale, very nice), then emailed me saying "don't even bother sending it back, just keep it or donate it or something."
Which is... kinda incredible to me. But it's also bittersweet because it's sorta like kicking a snowball down a hill.
Ru... no... you aren't a fan of the Tobey movies or suit? I never woulda thought
Tobey Maguire is easily my least favorite of the actors who've played Spider-Man. I like the first two Raimi movies more than the entire Amazing franchise though. I thought those were the weakest of the franchises, though I loved the performances of and chemistry between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Tom Holland is far and away my favorite Spider-Man actor, and the "Home" trilogy is the most entertaining and consistent in terms of quality. I think they'd still be good if they didn't tie into the overall MCU, but the fact that it does tie in doesn't hurt! But what I'll never get over what No Way Home did to tie them all together and really redeem the other two franchises for me. The Home trilogy owes plenty to what came before, but those franchises owe just as much to the Home trilogy.
Finally got my Tobey after being on the USPS merry-go-round and passing by my house several times on the way to various postal hubs. For a bit I thought perhaps they were traveling through the multiverse.
Anyway, I pulled my Peter out and slowly manipulated it until it was nice and warm. Then once it was ready I gently pulled on the head until it popped. Had to force and twist the head repeatedly to seat it just right while holding it firmly at the base, but everything came out okay. Overall, it was an enjoyable and pleasant experience.
Also, my Spidey figure came out great 🤓
The worst thing about the brittle plastic in these figures is that they will be a breakage risk forever. Warm them up all you like, but unless you do that every time you articulate them there's always going to be a chance that when you bend a joint or pop off a head that the joint will break. 😐
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