Spider-Hulk by Toybiz

Spider-Hulk!

With a new influx of amazing product hitting the shelves I decided to devote my first review from my hiatus with the awesome figure Spider-Hulk!

The origin of this figure from the comics can be found here and here.

Unfortunately they are not exciting reads although the art appears to be awesome.

The packaging to these products is your classic blister card. I LOVE blister cards FYI. Easy to open! For MIP collectors though the elusive mint packaging can be a tough find.

Once opened, Spider-Hulk, while smelling pretty bad, is an awesome toy. I really hate when figures reek like glue paint out of the package. I can only assume that Toy Biz is rushing to get out as much product as possible before their license ends so there is no airing out the figures after painting.

This is a heavy figure - on the scale he tips almost 1 lb.! Many times I'm disgusted because Toy Biz's prototype figures are much better than the finished product. However, this time around, this figure met all my expectations. The rips in his shirt, pants, and leggings are detailed and crisp. The paint is almost perfect, and even his nails have a white/gray wash to give them a particular crusty feel. Specifically I like the large head that fits in scale with his body. His overall body sculpt is pretty awesome as well and, like my friend said when she was over, "He looks scary!" The scary factor is why I like him of course.

Another fine trait is that the joints are pretty tight. I've had problems with some of the larger scale Toy Biz figures in the past but they are finally perfecting their joint work with a tight "click" joint that will hold form and let's Spider-Hulk stand on his own on the shelf without falling. The articulation is overdone in my opinion, especially when some joints just don't work (in my Hulk it was a thumb joint). Still, I can get over that because he can be posed in a great many ways.

Of course, there is a downside to this cool abomination of a figure. The "action feature," which I will always insist is incredibly unnecessary, is very lame. Push a obtrusive button on Spider-Hulk's back and he'll "throw" the included rod that breaks in two. What basically happens is that after a few attempts of actually getting the piece into Spider-Hulk's hands (not that easy of a feat) you push the back button and the rod is dropped straight down, vertically. The back of the package made me chuckle because it has the rod moving quite a ways horizontally away from Hulk after that button is pushed. Uh....not possible and kinda mean to imply such could happen. The button does not stick out of his back as bad as the Wolfman villain from the previous Spider-Man series at least. Still, I'm sure kids could care less and collectors are peeved that it ruined the big Spider-Man symbol on his back.
Enough belly-aching though. Besides a few little problems this figure is definitely worth the $8 price tag. Just the fact that this is Spider-Man and the Hulk combined into one awesome action figure makes him this spring's "must have" figure.

My rating: 9/10