I do love all the transparent spiders.

Look at the face of Mary Jane SPD008, she looks stone.

We've got a long way in minifig design - it seems like they find the proper style for them nowadays (IMO always).

The Raimi Movies are still my Spider-Man movies, Tobey's my Spider-Man. I will concede that Andrew is great, I didn't give him enough credit back in the day because the movies he was in were not to my liking, but he's very charismatic and his CG double in TASM2 has by far has the best webslinging we've seen on screen. And Tom's great as both Peter and Spidey, I'm hoping he's willing to do more because he's great, he just needs the right stories now that No Way Home has happened. Still though, nothing beats the irreverent camp and cheese that was so lovingly put into the Raimi movies. I even love Spider-Man 3 for all its faults and I think Sam Raimi is harder on himself than he should be since the whole Venom plot was not what he wanted to do, and he still made a great film that incorporated it and thematically worked. I don't need Spider-Man 4, in fact it's probably a mistake would it be made, but I like to think that everything turned out alright in the end. Spider-Man 3 ends with just a little bit of hope, and that's all I need.

Speaking of the LEGO sets however, I only ever got one set, and that was 1374 Green Goblin, and I'm pretty sure it was a gift. I've got nothing against these sets, but you know, I'm a Star Wars guy through and through, that's where my focus was even though Spider-Man is also pretty cool.

So, were *all* the spiders mutants, or did the transparency indicate something else? Also, it was nice of them to have that helmet ready so Norman didn't have to waste time creating a supervillain outfit.

You know, I'm something of an AFOL myself

Top 3 sets of all time for me. Got it as a Christmas gift in like 2008, couldn't believe my relative found it. I could take this apart and rebuild it without instructions over and over again. Love it!

Vignettes depicting the origins? Kind of a cool idea actually.

@SolidState said:
"I love all the different shades of dark grey in the lab build. At least they were honest?"

The difference of shooting product photos on camera vs. the CGI renders and heavily post processed photos we get now.

I believe this might have been the first source of "naked" yellow torsos. I bought several on Bricklink for use in my Neptune's Lagoon swimming pool Moonbase module, as they were the only option that didn't require scrubbing print off of the torso.

Also, my favorite Spiderman movie is Deadpool.

@xboxtravis7992 said:
" @SolidState said:
"I love all the different shades of dark grey in the lab build. At least they were honest?"

The difference of shooting product photos on camera vs. the CGI renders and heavily post processed photos we get now. "

It was also made during the beginning of the Great Color Switch. Probably one Grey was used for some parts, and Bley for the rest during final design phase.

@Murdoch17:
That was true for the first UCS Star Destroyer because it was introduced pre-2004 with old greys, and production continued for a few years even after they'd started to run out of old grey parts. New grey had to be subbed in whenever that happened. This was a one-and-done release that came out well in advance of the color change. I could see a slight possibility that they'd have been forced to make similar color subs late during the product lifespan, but certainly they should not have mixed greys that early for marketing stills. That also looks more like a difference in the way light is reflected off the parts than a mix of dark-grey and dark-bley, which has a much more pronounced difference than light-grey/light-bley.

The 2003 Spider-Man sets are second only to Vikings when it comes to unnecessarily long set names. Honorable mention to Dino Attack.

The only set to feature the iconic bite scene

@NotoriousJam:
According to Bricklink, it’s not the first use of a plain yellow torso assembly. 6872 is cataloged with a Classic Spaceman that has no printed logo, which seems in error. Very early on, white and red Spacemen did come with stickered logos on plain torsos, but I’ve never seen one in person. I’m doubtful that they were still issuing stickered torsos by the time the first yellow Spaceman rolled off the line, never mind as late as 1985. Next, it looks like 6285 uses one for the figurehead (as does reissue 10040), which has no leg assembly. Third was 1199, but again the minifig had a stickered torso in that set. So, yeah, this was the first set to feature a full minifig with a bare torso in yellow. Then there were tons of SpongeBob minifigs (always hidden under his sponge), two fantasy mermen, never-nude Santa bathing in a g-string, I’m guessing another figurehead for 21322, and finally the first monochrome yellow minifig with 40516.

https://www.maskofdestiny.com/news/neptunes-moon-lagoon

As for Neptune’s Lagoon, there you go. It looks like something might be wonky with the original image thumbnails, but the blank boxes still link to the full-size images.

"OUT, AM I?"

I usually don't care about licensed sets, however...

BASEPLATE

PRINTED PIECES

TRANSPARENT SPIDERS

YELLOW MINIFIGS

Discard the IP minifigs and it can work just as well with World City theme.

@PurpleDave it’s got to be 1984’s 6040 hasn’t it? Unless you’re discounting that because the hands aren’t yellow.

Man, I love this set so much. I don't own it and don't have the funds to probably ever own it. But it's so charming in its depiction of the first act of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man. There's even an action feature where you can lower a spider a tiny bit to have it pite Peter Parker!
And who doesn't like labs?!
Oh, and that fully printed Green Goblin <3

Fun fact: in-universe the actors of these sets also played in the 2002 Studios Horror sets as the gent and lady. So technically in the lego universe Daniel Dafoe and Kirsten Dunst played in universal-style horror movies. These Spider-Man 1 sets were technically Studio sets because one set in the lineup includes camera's and a stunt actor.
The Spider-Man 2 sets ditched the co-branding to become a full licensed standalone theme.