MaydayMemer Reviews The Famous Cover Series Spider-Girl Figure

Due to some real-world set backs, I've been neglecting the blog. Fortunately, fellow MC2 fan and Meme Lord extraordinaire MaydayMemer offered up their first thoughts review of the Famous Cover Series Spider-Girl Figure. Thanks for covering for me, MaydayMemer! Without further ado:

The figure came in, it’s a pretty cool one. I unboxed it and was actually planning to make a meme with it. However I couldn’t get either of my ideas right. 

One was a recreation of that panel of her on the glider saying “don’t believe anything you read on the net." I have a Demogoblin Glider I was gonna use but I couldn’t get the perspective or pose right. Another was just a photo of her face looking stern, but the camera didn’t pick up the details right to make her look grumpy like she kinda does on the figure in person.The caption would’ve been:



Them: you can’t make a meme using a figure

 Me: [inserts image of Mayday Figure]




Here’s what she looks like just neutral outta the box:

She can move her head and arms, bend her elbows and swivel her wrists. She has a stomach crunch too.Then she can move her legs, knees and feet up and down.She can even swivel her ankles and do the splits which surprised me given the fact the figure is cloth covered.



Here’s me trying to recreate her iconic Spider-Girl #1 pose:

As you can see the only flaw I have with the figure is the mask; it looks really malformed. I suppose that’s the thing with cloth masks. Funny enough the fig was delivered using a gin tasting kit package. Weird, guess that was the only box he had. But she has the slit on the back of the former so she can reveal her face. She has a split on the mask and on the back, I have no idea why for the latter and I don’t want to know, frankly! lol

I had a Happy Meal/Burger King toy of Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man which had a removable cloth mask and what I think is clever about the back Velcro thing is they made it the black bit of the spider logo, a good way of making it unobtrusive with the design.

It’s actually a pretty neat representation of early issues Mayday, some great detail especially with her even wearing earrings. Makes me wonder how that’d work in real life though; it’d hurt like hell if she got a ring snagged under the mask wouldn’t it? Ah but I’m overthinking it! I will say I think she resembles moreso issues 2 or 3 Mayday a lot more than the first appearance Mayday. Again another nitpick as they’re not THAT different and I’m probably just remembering specific panels like during the basketball scene and taking my impressions from that memory.

Here’s my attempt at a backwards wall crawl sort of pose - with what I believe is a ToyBiz Iron Man to see what the scaling’s like:

Here’s the panel I was thinking of that looks just like the figure:

Here’s one final pic before I go for now. It’s on that Goblin Glider I had hanging around:

She fits surprisingly well on it! Hope you enjoyed the look at it, if you have any questions or anything feel free to ask.


A huge thank you again to MaydayMemer! Check out the Spider-Girl meme subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/MaydayMemes/ and check out some of the best quality memes ever made! 

Until I get off my lazy butt and write my own posts, I remain

frogoat

It Figures: Spider-Girl Action Figures

Hasbro has recently announced there 2015 Marvel Infinite Legends Spider-Man wave and it includes a certain web-stunner. Check it out:

 Yeah, I think I'll be ordering this particular figure. It looks pretty decent, well articulated and the coloring isn't bad either (I'd have preferred a brighter color pallet, personally) but the one major draw back for me is the webshooters. Those are not accurate. At all. But, nevertheless, I'm happy with the figure and look forward to putting down my hard-earned cash for this toy.

 Now is as good a time as any to take a look at the previous few Spider-Girl figures released over the years. Shall we jump in? Lets!

 

This one is from 1999,  a part of the Toy Biz Marvel Famous Covers series.Based on what I can gather from the box-art and online, this was initially made exclusively available through Previews magazine. You are looking at my own figure in the images above, which was one of the hardest to find items I've ever had the misfortune to seek on eBay. It's a nice package, but I wonder what the figure would be like out of the box....

These four figures pictured above were (again) made available exclusively through Previews as part of the Marvel Comics 2 1st Appearances set in 1999. Above we have: (from left to right) American Dream, Spider-Girl, Stinger and Wild Thing. The other three in the set were relatively easy (if not inexpensive) to track down, but Spider-Girl herself was a challenge to even find, let alone ship to Australia. It took the might and ingenuity of my loving and tolerant partner to find and organize the purchase and (by way of two separate countries postal services re-routing the item) shipping of the Spider-Girl figure you see before you. Thanks, honey! One comment about this line of toys; Those breasts are huge! My goodness me! The articulation isn't great, but salvageable with the leg joints being particularly irritating when trying to get the figures to stand and pose. Regardless, having a complete set entirely composed of some of the MC2's female heroes impresses me and I always enjoy seeing them sitting on my shelf.

That's it! There hasn't been a legitimate Spider-Girl action figure released since 1999, so this upcoming release by Hasbro has me enthused to say the least. If you are interested, take a look around the web and see some of the great MC2 custom figures people have made. Very cool stuff out there.

Until we get a new set of super poseable MC2 figures including J2, Darkdevil and the Ladyhawk twins with a Build-a-Figure Dragon King, I remain

frogoat  

 

Collector-Mania

So, I've been away from the keyboard for a long while now, and it comes with great joy that return to this haunt of mine and slip back into the habit.  But let's take baby steps first, start easy, shall we?

I've mentioned a few times my quest to collect all things Spider-Girl and MC2. Guess what I found online? German Spider-Girl comics! Oh, yes. You heard me right! They are reprints of early Spider-Girl issues, including #10 and #11, the time travel two-parter. I love that story! And now I can enjoy it in TWO languages...if I could read German, that is. Oops.

My simply wonderful partner-in-life bought me the much-sought-after First Appearance Spider-Girl figure, completing the MC2 set of ladies. If you're curious, the others in the set are American Dream, Stinger and Wild Thing. Having the full set is wonderful, even if the...um...... proportions are a little impractical. I may cover these figures later.

Sorry, only have a stock image at the moment.

While I'm on figures I finally (FINALLY!!!) found a Famous Cover Series Spider-Girl figure for a somewhat reasonable price.Mint in the box to boot! It's interesting the amount of items that came out within the first year or so of the MC2's imprint's run. Speaking of which...

During my occasionally *cough*frequent*cough* eBay crawls, I've come across this particular item: Battlebooks: Spider-Girl. What is it? Um...I've almost entirely no idea. An examination of this 'comic' reveals page after page of static images of our hero Spider-Girl reacting to various 'actions' as dictated by a matrix of number codes indicated by a card included inside the comic. Confused? Me too. Also, you need a friend with another, different book. Nuts to that, I say.

Until I get ever last stinkin' one of these collectables, I remain

frogoat