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Hello.
My name is Matt.
And I'm a minifigaholic.
I just spent $30.00 to get the Spider Man minifig.
Pity me.
___
So, the only items in the new 2002 set line-up that really interested me
were the two Spider Man movie sets. Of course, I thought it would be CRAZY
to pay $30.00 just to get LEGO Spidey. I swore up and down that I'd never
pay that...I'd just wait for the figs to show up on BrickLink.
Right.
So my Wal*Mart had both the Spidey and Green Goblin sets out today. I HAD to
buy them (boy is the wife peeved!).
Neat things in the sets:
-The LEGO Spidey (DUH!)
-The entire Green Goblin fig...the body, legs, head, arms and helmet are all
in a brighter green color, the hands and hips are a flat version of regular
green. The design of the printing is great...and he has full printing on the
back of the head and torso.
-The Mary Jane fig has a cool regular face (reverses to a scared face that
I'm not thrilled with), rust orange ponytail hair, and maroon torso, hips
and legs.
- Spidey and Goblin both have the single hollow stud backplate (red and
green respectively) and clear posing sticks.
-The Goblin's flying platform has flat silver elements! I wasn't expecting
his...way cool! 2 of the new quarter slopes (with a decent purple bat wing
pattern) and 1 of the Racers 2X2 plates modified with flare fenders (with a
good orange circle scheme).
-White climbing vine for Spidey's swingin' web; white net for webbing.
-Trans anti-freeze orange minifig heads.
Everything else is pretty much standard fare: also, the sticker sheet with
the NYPD graphics is useless-small, unreadable graphics and typical poor
printing.
But I got LEGO Spidey!
WHOO-HOO!
Matt
(FUT wherever you want)
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Gerber writes:
> Hello.
>
> My name is Matt.
>
> And I'm a minifigaholic.
>
> I just spent $30.00 to get the Spider Man minifig.
>
> Pity me.
This, from the man who co-invented Stubbies™? Why would
you even want to recover?
> So, the only items in the new 2002 set line-up that really interested me
> were the two Spider Man movie sets. Of course, I thought it would be CRAZY
> to pay $30.00 just to get LEGO Spidey. I swore up and down that I'd never
> pay that...I'd just wait for the figs to show up on BrickLink.
>
> Right.
Like anyone's going to give up a Spidey this early in the game,
for less than $8, anyways.
> So my Wal*Mart had both the Spidey and Green Goblin sets out today. I HAD to
> buy them (boy is the wife peeved!).
Solution: Fix priorities. Bachelordom = +LEGO -Family +work
+disposable income. Yes.
> Neat things in the sets:
>
> -The LEGO Spidey (DUH!)
> -The entire Green Goblin fig...the body, legs, head, arms and helmet are all
> in a brighter green color, the hands and hips are a flat version of regular
> green. The design of the printing is great...and he has full printing on the
> back of the head and torso.
That's very cool. I noticed that right off--and without the mask,
one can make him into a very cool reptile-alien.
> -The Mary Jane fig has a cool regular face (reverses to a scared face that
> I'm not thrilled with), rust orange ponytail hair, and maroon torso, hips
> and legs.
Uh, mine's standard orange. Is yours somehow different?
> - Spidey and Goblin both have the single hollow stud backplate (red and
> green respectively) and clear posing sticks.
I love that stick. I'm not sure what I'll use it for, but I love it.
The stud-vest is neat, too.
> -The Goblin's flying platform has flat silver elements! I wasn't expecting
> his...way cool! 2 of the new quarter slopes (with a decent purple bat wing
> pattern) and 1 of the Racers 2X2 plates modified with flare fenders (with a
> good orange circle scheme).
Ugh. Here's where we part ways, ol' buddy. I was *so* hoping those
were light grey--because I wanted to brasso them down and use them
in other things. I can still do it, but they'll look odd.
> -Trans anti-freeze orange minifig heads.
Jango Fett's Slave I (7153) has three of these too. They seem to be
in danger of being very common this year.
> WHOO-HOO!
>
> Matt
>
> (FUT wherever you want)
FUTted nowhere different. I AM INDECISION PERSONIFIED.
best
LFB
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In lugnet.general, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.general, Matthew Gerber writes:
> Like anyone's going to give up a Spidey this early in the game,
> for less than $8, anyways.
I would have paid that actually...now I've got a bunch of scrap to deal
with. Ah well...such is the minifigaholics burden.
> > So my Wal*Mart had both the Spidey and Green Goblin sets out today. I HAD to
> > buy them (boy is the wife peeved!).
>
> Solution: Fix priorities. Bachelordom = +LEGO -Family +work
> +disposable income. Yes.
- Family = 8,?(
No go. No way. No how.
> > -The entire Green Goblin fig...the body, legs, head, arms and helmet are all
> > in a brighter green color, the hands and hips are a flat version of regular
> > green. The design of the printing is great...and he has full printing on the
> > back of the head and torso.
>
> That's very cool. I noticed that right off--and without the mask,
> one can make him into a very cool reptile-alien.
Yup...he's pretty much Serpentor already. Yo Joe!
> > -The Mary Jane fig has a cool regular face (reverses to a scared face that
> > I'm not thrilled with), rust orange ponytail hair, and maroon torso, hips
> > and legs.
>
> Uh, mine's standard orange. Is yours somehow different?
Nope...you're correct. I mis-oranged. (Is that really such a surprise in
this day and age of multiLEGOorangedom?)
> > - Spidey and Goblin both have the single hollow stud backplate (red and
> > green respectively) and clear posing sticks.
>
> I love that stick. I'm not sure what I'll use it for, but I love it.
> The stud-vest is neat, too.
Um...posing?
Personally, I've been wooshing the Goblin around the house with it, with
LEGO Spidey dangling underneath the flying platform on his web. WHOOSH!
I like how they are including the stick/vest in the new Extreme Island sets
to move the skateboarders around and such...good simple playability.
> > -The Goblin's flying platform has flat silver elements! I wasn't expecting
> > his...way cool! 2 of the new quarter slopes (with a decent purple bat wing
> > pattern) and 1 of the Racers 2X2 plates modified with flare fenders (with a
> > good orange circle scheme).
>
> Ugh. Here's where we part ways, ol' buddy. I was *so* hoping those
> were light grey--because I wanted to brasso them down and use them
> in other things. I can still do it, but they'll look odd.
I think they'll look great with dark grey...I'm already contemplating
several more instances of the parts in a new mecha design.
> > -Trans anti-freeze orange minifig heads.
>
> Jango Fett's Slave I (7153) has three of these too. They seem to be
> in danger of being very common this year.
I was actually hoping for more jack o'lantern heads for the Goblin's
throwing bombs, but I guess that's another change in the movie. Sigh.
Matt
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Gerber writes:
> And I'm a minifigaholic.
> I just spent $30.00 to get the Spider Man minifig.
I too am in the same dilemma as Matt was…
Thankfully I’m far more disciplined…I think?
I'm just gonna have to wait till the little ol’
Web-Crawler becomes more readily available!
Here’s what I'm depending upon.
(what my sanity’s dependin’ upon)
(2) Two things:
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1st. That the Studio line will issue a Spider-Man & Villain
mini set late in the year, or possible early 2003 for about $4.99.
or
2nd. That a whole new batch of minifig collectable 3-packs will
be available from Shop@Home. Similar to the previous ones:
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/3341 that came out during 2000.
http://news.lugnet.com/year/2002/?n=364
I'd be ecstatic to see a minifig limited edition collectors set
with 2 Imperial Guards http://guide.lugnet.com/set/7166
and a special Snow trooper.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=13448
And The Spider-Man limited edition collectors 3-pack minifig
sets should have a Spidey, Mary-Jane, and a Green Goblin.
Matt wrote:
> > Trans anti-freeze orange minifig heads.
LFB wrote:
> Jango Fett's Slave I (7153) has three of these too.
> They seem to be in danger of being very common this year.
If this is danger, then hazards my middle name!
~For I simple adore the trans-pumpkin-heads!!!
¤Sincerely,
--==RïçhårÐ==--
Yes, I was practically inclined to post cause both Matt and LFB already did.
~You must understand that, if ever two of us initiates a conversation the
third person is utterly compelled to join in…Why? Well I don’t know,
that’s just the way our system happens to work… ;)
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In lugnet.general, Matthew Gerber writes:
> I was actually hoping for more jack o'lantern heads for the Goblin's
> throwing bombs, but I guess that's another change in the movie. Sigh.
That's my only disappointment. I wanted to make an army of Jack-O-Lantern
head undead but don't want to buy a whole bunch of Troll-in-the-Bathroom
sets to do so.
Bruce
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