Huwbot's enjoying the predecessor Superhero themes this week. Spider-man's a bit more in my wheelhouse than Batman: the Spider-Man 2 stuff sort of transitioned out of the last memories of the Studios theme into the realm of just being a straight-up licenced theme. I wasn't super-interested in them, but they are a part of the mid-2000s LEGO landscape.

This one's not bad: I liked the dark-blue Spider-man at the time, the street-sign pieces were cool, and I would have been all over that Classic Space logo-bearing jacket (those took quite a while to become passé for me). The design of the set is a bit thin, but that's not exactly unusual, in that era or any other, and would really come down to the pricepoint. Three figs and some window-dressing for $10 wasn't too bad.

I like how the thief is displaying the jewels on the back of his trike.

HAHA insomniacs spiderman 2 just got reavealed! great timing huwbot!

This...isn’t Batman. This is like getting carob bars in your Halloween candy.

I like these original Spider-Man movie series sets. I always wanted the bridge with the cable car, but sadly was in my dark ages then.

Old greys and browns but non-yellow heads and hands for random baddies. A unique time.

Edit: double-checked and I was mistaken. The modern colours are already here.

Hot take: Skateboard Guy is actually helping Spider-Man; note the design on his board. The jewel he's holding is the only one he was able to recover before the thief got on his trike and drove off.

Only interesting things in this set are the radioactive spider and the Spiderman himself. The rest is just forgettable for me.

I find the use of the classic City crook face in this licensed set so hilarious...

@Mr__Thrawn:
I feel like I need to be concerned that you might launch into a rant about “leaving Britney alone” next.

I miss the trikes.

Adjusting for inflation, this set would be $16-18 USD today.

It's always so weird seeing familiar yellow minifigure faces reprinted on flesh-tone heads. I think there were a few times it happened, but this is easily the most obvious, since that grinning face with the gold tooth can ONLY be associated with Lego City criminals, in my mind...

Never seen these Spider-Man movies. I've highly enjoyed his MCU entries though, as well as Into the Spider-Verse, so maybe I should give them a try sometime...

This was one of the lesser expensive ways of getting a hold of that Classic Space jacket at the time. There were a few cheaper sets, but sometimes those were hard to come by.

It was very exciting for a Spacer to see that beautiful golden planet and starship again.

EDIT: Actually I just checked BL, and at the time it was either this set or the World City train station. The jacket wouldn’t be available in inexpensive sets for a few more years.

i had 2 of these!

i had all the spider man sets except 4852!

Does huwbot choose sets at random?

@The_Byzantine_Knight said:
" @Mr__Thrawn said:
" @Slithus_Venom said:
"WARNING! SPOILERS FOR SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME!

(I missed the part where that's my problem)"

There are few tragedies greater than LEGO losing the Spider-Man license before Spider-Man 3 (2007), AKA the Single Greatest Cinematic Work of All Time. Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai, The Godfather, The Seventh Seal might all be great films, but none of those have emo Tobey Maguire, so Citizen Kane can be content with the 2 spot."

I can tell that you were slightly sarcastic, but seriously though; Spider-Man 3 is very underrated."

I like it less than The Seventh Seal but more than Citizen Kane.

@Mr__Thrawn:
@The_Byzantine_Knight:

I like it more than Battlefield Earth...I assume. But that’s more a criticism of Battlefield Earth than an endorsement of Pajama Boy.

@zeah209 said:
"Does huwbot choose sets at random? "

Within a few constraints, yeah. I think it's something like, the sets that are eligible to be picked have to:
Be from ten years ago or more.
Have more than ten pieces.
Not have been picked for RSotD before (exception made for sets that have been released under multiple different numbers).

There are a few themes excluded as well, such as Duplo. And occasionally, there will be exceptions; for the date of Ninjago's tenth anniversary, for example, the pool Huwbot could pick from was shrunk to just be the 2011 Ninjago sets, to guarantee that a fitting set would be picked that day, while still maintaining an element of randomness; but that's only happened twice, as far as I'm aware (the other occasion being one April Fools' day, where the pool was reduced to just Clikits sets as a joke).

Otherwise though, yeah: within those criteria, the sets are picked fully at random ^^

@Rimefang said:
"Adjusting for inflation, this set would be $16-18 USD today. "

And yet, it might only sell for $12.99 given Lego inflation.