Review: 31209 The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man BY JOHN ROMITA SR., you mean.

“I think the head looks fantastic from the front, but gaps are inevitably visible from either side.”

The Mona Lisa looks a bit average from the side too.

Needs more Batman.

This set releasing is certainly a canon event.

Really love the general direction of the art sets recently. Between this, Starry Night, the Great Wave, and even the modern art set, Lego seems to have finally found a niche for the line with the 3D models. The mosaics were interesting but these few much more classically Lego since they take advantage of the medium with the depth. Can’t wait to see what’s in the pipeline for future sets!

I don't think we need to go full Lore Time here. I think we've all sat through enough dead Bens and Gwens and Osborn-mens to know who, what and why this dude is. Let's focus on some lesser-known trivia instead.

- Spider-Man's buggy, which can climb walls, is canon, whether you or Spidey like it or not. Spider-Man may hate that thing, but it just keeps showing up, much to TLG's delight. Chronologically, it last popped up in 'Old Man Logan', where two decrepit have-been heroes use it for their final adventure.

- While Spider-Man generally respects the fourth wall, he is somehow able to tell when you fail to pronounce the hyphen in his name, and will correct you when you refer to him as "Spiderman".

- Peter Parker is widely considered to be one of the smartest people in the Marvel universe, up there with Stark, Pym, McCoy, von Doom, Richards, Banner and Cho, but it would take him half a century to finally earn his PhD. Even then, it wasn't Peter Parker himself who earned the PhD, it was Doc Ock who had taken over Parker's body during the 'Superior Spider-Man'-arc.

- Spider-Man is notorious for pulling his punches. Considering he may be roughly as strong as the Hulk, that's probably a good thing. It might be annoying to deal when half of New York is covered with webs in various states of decay, but that's still not as gross as having to clean up what's left of random muggers after a full-strength Spider-punch turns them into soup.

- Currently, Spider-Man's best frenemy is probably Deadpool, but it used to be the Human Torch. The Torch was supposed to shack up with Spidey and Iceman for the original Super-Friends cartoon, but executives were worried that kids might set themselves on fire to emulate the Torch, so Firestar was invented and starred in his stead. This is probably a good thing - not because children aren't likely to be stupid enough to set themselves on fire, but because Johnny Storm is just a garbage-character. He's just the worst.

- It's not known if the rumour about people eating eight spiders per year in their sleep is actually true. It's also not known if those spiders gain, for the briefest of moments, the proportional powers of a human. If you're worried about missing your quota, just eat your eight spiders at the beginning of the calendar-year to be sure.

@Ridgeheart said:
"- It's not known if the rumour about people eating eight spiders per year in their sleep is actually true. It's also not known if those spiders gain, for the briefest of moments, the proportional powers of a human. If you're worried about missing your quota, just eat your eight spiders at the beginning of the calendar-year to be sure."

From what I understand not only is that not true (which makes sense really because what spider is going to be stupid enough to walk into your mouth?) but it’s an untruth created specifically to demonstrated how fast misinformation can travel and spread in the internet

@Brickalili said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"- It's not known if the rumour about people eating eight spiders per year in their sleep is actually true. It's also not known if those spiders gain, for the briefest of moments, the proportional powers of a human. If you're worried about missing your quota, just eat your eight spiders at the beginning of the calendar-year to be sure."

From what I understand not only is that not true (which makes sense really because what spider is going to be stupid enough to walk into your mouth?) but it’s an untruth created specifically to demonstrated how fast misinformation can travel and spread in the internet "

I heard it was ten spiders in an average lifetime. Which is far more plausible than eight per year, but still hard to believe.

2099 parts lol

@Brickalili said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"- It's not known if the rumour about people eating eight spiders per year in their sleep is actually true. It's also not known if those spiders gain, for the briefest of moments, the proportional powers of a human. If you're worried about missing your quota, just eat your eight spiders at the beginning of the calendar-year to be sure."

From what I understand not only is that not true (which makes sense really because what spider is going to be stupid enough to walk into your mouth?) but it’s an untruth created specifically to demonstrated how fast misinformation can travel and spread in the internet "

Yeah I'd be more worried about one crawling into my ear while I'm asleep. But in my experience, they usually snuggle under the covers with me and then bite me when I inevitably roll over...

@Sethro3 said:
" @Brickalili said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"- It's not known if the rumour about people eating eight spiders per year in their sleep is actually true. It's also not known if those spiders gain, for the briefest of moments, the proportional powers of a human. If you're worried about missing your quota, just eat your eight spiders at the beginning of the calendar-year to be sure."

From what I understand not only is that not true (which makes sense really because what spider is going to be stupid enough to walk into your mouth?) but it’s an untruth created specifically to demonstrated how fast misinformation can travel and spread in the internet "

Yeah I'd be more worried about one crawling into my ear while I'm asleep. But in my experience, they usually snuggle under the covers with me and then bite me when I inevitably roll over..."

Yikes, where do you live?
Just so I can mark on my map where not to stop over. Lol :-)

Pizza time.

I’mma be honest, when you focus on the shoulders, especially the left one (right from our view), they look sort of weird.

@ItisNoe said:
"I’mma be honest, when you focus on the shoulders, especially the left one (right from our view), they look sort of weird."
Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
Doctor: Then don't do that!

My favorite part of this set is the graphic in the corner that says "With great power there must also come great responsibility"

@560heliport said:
" @Brickalili said:
" @Ridgeheart said:
"- It's not known if the rumour about people eating eight spiders per year in their sleep is actually true. It's also not known if those spiders gain, for the briefest of moments, the proportional powers of a human. If you're worried about missing your quota, just eat your eight spiders at the beginning of the calendar-year to be sure."

From what I understand not only is that not true (which makes sense really because what spider is going to be stupid enough to walk into your mouth?) but it’s an untruth created specifically to demonstrated how fast misinformation can travel and spread in the internet "

I heard it was ten spiders in an average lifetime. Which is far more plausible than eight per year, but still hard to believe."

Honestly, I find it very hard to stop at eight.

@CapnRex101 said:
" @Kynareth said:
"“I think the head looks fantastic from the front, but gaps are inevitably visible from either side.”

The Mona Lisa looks a bit average from the side too."

True, but there are no actual gaps in the Mona Lisa from any angle, as far as I am aware.

@NasaNerd said:
"My favorite part of this set is the graphic in the corner that says "With great power there must also come great responsibility""

I do wonder about the author(s) of LEGO press releases sometimes."

The press releases all sound so similar and yet don't seem like something a person would say... Maybe they're all done by an A.I.?

@PurpleDave said:
"Needs more Batman."
I'm reminded of the comic that came out shortly after the 1989 Batman movie in which a crook asks Spidey, "Who are you?" His answer was, "I'm Bat-*cough* I'm Spider-Man."

@Ridgeheart: “average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted” One of my favorite memes.