Mine still hasn't done anything
Still no movement on my Ock, either. For those who've managed to get theirs, how well can he stand on his lower tentacles? I haven't seen many, if any, pictures of folks posing him like that, but that would probably be my desired pose. Is it easy enough to do, and get him to stay? Or is he too top heavy?
@joshsquash729 I have mine like that but the way he is on the shelf, I kinda cheated it. He is between Lizard and Vulture and behind Sandman and Tobey, with his back to the wall. The tentacles are pretty stiff and may be able to support him, but he is leaning against the wall some while Lizard and Vulture are keeping his lower tentacles from spreading into the splits. Not that they would have spread THAT far, but I think his weight was pushing them to spread an inch or so each way if the other two villains weren't holding them where I wanted. So clustering everyone together like that is keeping him right where I wanted him. The other tentacles are reaching forward toward you, which also keeps him balanced some and not entirely leaning against the wall behind him.
Literally decided to finally re-register just to post about Ock and his ability to stand.
He can do so and do it real well. Got mine yesterday and was shocked at how solid he is when put in a standing position on his tentacles.
He'll stay solid, too. Obviously he'll quiver around if you shake the area around him enough, but I don't think you'd have to worry about him falling out of the pose if you put him on the shelf that way. Pretty sure his tentacles were made so stiff specifically to help support the weight of the figure and other figures or items if you want his claws to hold onto stuff.
Still no movement on my Ock, either. For those who've managed to get theirs, how well can he stand on his lower tentacles? I haven't seen many, if any, pictures of folks posing him like that, but that would probably be my desired pose. Is it easy enough to do, and get him to stay? Or is he too top heavy?
I have him like that and have for a few days and there have been no issues. I did have to angle his upper half slightly back so he didn't fall forward, so his feet are sticking out in front of him a bit but it isn't that noticeable.
Ock arrived today, and my experience making him stand is that it's tedious to do and I don't trust it staying that way without a flight stand or something keeping him in place, so I am opting to not do it. But he looks amazing! Gonna be hard for another 2024 to beat him (since I got him in 2024 he is a 2024 release to me)
Got Ock yesterday and he’s top 10 for 2024. I was quite surprised on how sturdy the tentacles are. The weak point is the connection to the claw. It is a peg and hole. So maneuvering around is a little tricky but much easier than I thought it would be to stand.
I think if the connection to the flattened out claw was stronger you could balance the whole figure on one tentacle. Those tentacles are very solid. They have a rock solid connection to the figure. I was playing around a nearly got Ock on one tentacle balanced while holding Tobey Spider-Man figure. Just too much give between post and the hole on the claw.
So much damn fun to pose! I do wish there were a set of all four claws with posable joints, four claws with static grabbing poses, and four all flattened out. This box says Spider-Man 2 but it’s No Way Home Ock from bridge attack before he absorbs Stark nano-bots. I don’t care for the belt. It looks like cheap plastic. Spider-Man 2 Ock needs more paint on the tentacles and to look more separated in the segments. I have the Toybiz one for that.
Despite my bits to pic, I love it!
I want a No Way Home style multi-Universe pack of Aunt Mays now. Get on it Hasbro. How good would that three pack sell? Ha!
Thwipp!
Pulse sent notice that they're getting ready to ship Otto.
Opened Ock last night and can't get him to stay up on the tentacles AT ALL. They want to splay sideways always and I got tired of trying. And yes - all four arms should have the articulated heads.
Got my Ock yesterday and he's a definite top 10 of the year. Which year is debatable, but you still can't easily order him anywhere I know of so the only objectively reasonable way to split him is into 2024.
The strength is the tentacles and the overall sculpt, both of which are amazing. The weakness is the engineering on the pincers. I can only assume they gave us the three different types because they couldn't get the articulation to work right to give us just one fully functional pincer, and none of them are all that satisfying. The attachment point on the folding pincers is bad and they fall off a lot. The flat ones are OK and really do help with keeping him standing well, but they're also disappointing since they're not articulated.
Also I'm seeing at least a few people showing the tentacles ripping out of his back, and it's REALLY easy to see how once you get him in hand. It's so hard to bend the tentacles that you want to rely on the connection points at the back to make bending them easier, but relying upon that back anchor point looks HUGELY risky. Every time you bend the tentacles if you don't use a second hand as your anchor and just use the back connection it looks like it's going to break right off of the back as people are showing in pictures. To be fair they're attached pretty well, but the tentacles are so stiff that I can definitely see any of us being tempted to just push like crazy to bend them and exceeding the strength of the glue. I'm mostly using two fingers an inch or two from the back to protect that back connection point, and then my other hand to bend in the way that I want. I'm satisfied with that technique, but if you don't have above-average hand or arm strength I doubt that using one hand to protect the back connection is even possible. Kids in particular probably will press like crazy on the tentacles, trust that back connection, and the tentacles will eventually rip out of the back.
But everything else is fantastic. Hard to imagine ten other figures coming out this year that will pass this first exceptional effort. Once you get the tentacles in the right position he looks more like an import figure than a Hasbro.
Opened Ock last night and can't get him to stay up on the tentacles AT ALL.
Can you give details as to why? I find the two-tentacle stance to be somewhat challenging to stay longer term, but short term it's pretty easy to get him onto two. Three tentacle stances are much easier and steadier for long-term shelf poses. I am impressed though that they made two-tentacle poses a possibility, and he's definitely steadier on two tentacles than that animated Ock from the 2-pack with Aunt May can support himself on all four of his.
If you watch Ock in the films he mostly uses three tentacles to support his own weight with the fourth used to grip something like an object or Mary Jane, so that's mostly how I intend to use him as a figure. I re-watched most of the Ock scenes from Spider-Man 2 and No Way Home, and when he's tentacle-walking he balances himself on two tentacles until he can move the third one forward to steady the stance. He doesn't tentacle-walk much, but when he does I haven't seen an example yet where he's using just two--so I don't mind balancing him on two as an action figure being difficult since the animators seemed to also conclude that he would mostly use three tentacles to support his weight in a steady way.
Below is one of the main scenes where you see Ock doing extended tentacle-walking, and in this one he uses three both on the ground and also when he's carrying Mary Jane vertically up a building. This is also one of the best superhero action sequences ever. I have a Youtube play list of awesome action scenes, and this is in that list. In some ways it's the climax of the film because it's the moment where Peter finally gains clarity that he's Spider-Man first and Peter Parker second.
MAN do I love this film. I get why some people don't like it and think it's campy since almost everything Raimi does has at least a bit of camp in it, but they're overlooking the extreme emotional depth of the film. All of the best superhero films feature a hero conflicted about whether or not they should be a hero, and no other superhero film explores that in more exceptional depth than Spider-Man 2. It's the second-best superhero film ever behind The Dark Knight.
He stands on his own 2 feet easily. Tentacle feet, I don't trust long tern without some type of stand
There used to be a "Knoc-off" thread on the old board, but can't find it here.
I keep seeing pop up adds for the old ToyBiz Man-Spider figure. Looks like someone is knocking this off. Anybody buy one?
This has been annoying me for months.
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