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Review: Marvel Select Spider-Woman
— June 6, 2006 Leave a Comment
I received the new Marvel Select Spider-Woman from my local comic book store last Wednesday. I thought I would try giving it a review here at Hero Hunt. First, I am a big fan of this character. That is pretty much the only reason I picked this up. I don’t own any other Marvel Select figures. But, when I saw the prototype images for this figure, I knew I would want it. It was a slightly different story though once I got it. I like this figure overall. However, the problems with this figure stem from the differences between the prototype and the final version.
The sculpt is great. It matches the source material very well and looks exactly like the Spider-Woman we have seen in the pages of the New Avengers. One of the first things that catches your eye is the wings. The wings are sculpted out of hard plastic and are attached to the arms and hips. This affects the articulation but I will talk about that later. Other than that, I did not have any issues with the sculpt of this figure. She is even small enough to be in scale with your Marvel Legends.
Of the ones I saw, every one of them had issues with the paint however. I was able to pick out the best one, but I got lucky. Hopefully, you may have an easier time. But the ones I looked at had very sloppy paint jobs. The one on mine is satisfactory, but there is a lot of potential for bleed with all the red, black and yellow. The paint is also a metallic color which may throw you off at first glance.
The articulation on Spider-Woman is very good. She has a ball jointed neck, shoulders and hips with pin wrists, elbows, knees and ankles. That is better than a DC Direct figure usually but not Marvel Legends. As I mentioned before though, the wings restrict the arm movement. The neck joint is also restricted by the hair a bit.
Last, we have the accessories. She comes with a base with 3 Hydra henchmen that attach to pegs on the base. Also included is some sort of blast that attaches to something but I couldn’t figure out where. The base and the figures are very nicely sculpted and painted, but this is where a lot was lost in translation from prototype to final product. In the prototype images, Spider-Woman is standing atop the stairs facing the soldiers. On the base I received, the stairs are not facing the henchmen and there is an urn with fire sculpted onto the top of the stairs. There is a peg for her foot next to it, but she will not fit standing at the top with the urn there. This is not what was shown in the prototype images, and renders the base pretty useless in my opinion.
This is my first Marvel Select figure. Overall, I really like it, but I may be biased because Spider-Woman is my favorite female character. If you can find a good paint job, I recommend picking it up. It will tide you over at least until the Marvel Legends version comes out. At $19, it was a bit pricey though. Especially since the base was probably the most expensive thing, and you can’t pose the figure with it like it was originally intended.
