One of the significant gaps in the Marvel Legends MCU range of figures following the 2021 release of Spider-Man: No Way Home were figures of the returning Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, such had been the secrecy around their return. Hasbro confirmed a three-pack was being worked on, and in July 2023 the No Way Home 3-pack finally arrived in collector hands.
The set comes in a widened box to encompass all three figures, but retains the same height and depth as a normal Marvel Legends box, with the same scooped sides with artwork depicting the characters in the set. This is a plastic-free release, so there are no windows or any way of checking the contents unless you unbox it - the contents are illustrated on the reverse for clarity. Inside each Spider-man is wrapped in wax paper and slotted into an inner brown cardboard tray. A further waxy paper bag contains all the alternative hands, and a longer bag the three web accessories.
Working in order of original movie releases, we will start with Tobey Maguire who is a new pinless figure with his red and blue suit sculpted with the deeper web lines with these then picked out in silver paint. The central chest Spider icon is also sculpted and then painted black, with a second relief version on the reverse - this time painted in red. The mask has the same sculpted and silver-painted web lines with the eyes painted a very light reflective silver and edged in black. While there have been reports of some quality control issues with Maguire, our version was fine with all web lines and painted details where they should be. The overall proportions are that of the older Peter Parker from No Way Home with a slightly heavier set than his original movies.
This Spider-Man has three hand options, allowing you to choose any combo from a pair of clenched fists, a pair of open hands, and a pair of web-slinging hands. Maguire has 21 points of articulation including shoulder butterfly joints and a dual ab crunch and ball joint in the torso. Despite all of these he is not overly easy to pose, with the joints very tight and even ‘springy’ in places - especially the torso ball joint - and the hips in particular not mobile enough for the crouching poses we did see on some of the early digital images for the set.
Moving onto Andrew Garfield, this is another full new pinless figure and a significant (as expected) improvement on the much older 2014 Spider-Man figure from Amazing Spider-Man 2. Like Tobey, the Andrew Spider-Man is cast predominantly in dark blue plastic with red panels on the chest, arms, and boots, and sculpted web lines. These web lines are painted in black as is the chest logo, with the rear logo painted in red. The Garfield Spider-man is taller than the other two in the set and reflective of his stature in No Way Home but does perhaps look a little too skinny. The masked head is implemented in the same way with painted sculpted web lines along with a very light silver reflective eye lens with black edging.
Garfield also comes with three pairs of hands to choose from. Again we have a pair of fists, a pair with open-handed posing, and the web-slinging pair. This Spider-man also weighs in with 21 points of articulation with the butterfly shoulders and dual joints in the torso. With a slightly slimmer waist, the Garfield Spider-man is slightly more wide-ranging in posing options with some level of crouching poses available to you. The ‘springy’ torso and hips do carry forward onto this figure and that can impede some poses.
The set is concluded with the Tom Holland Spider-man from No Way Home, and disappointingly this is a repack of the 2021 integrated suit complete with the gold wrist pieces that aren’t actually seen in the final scenes with all three Peter Parkers. The suit is cast in dark blue with red painted detail across a sculpted spider-web effect with further gold trim added. The huge improvement to the 2021 version is the decor around these web lines which are all now painted in blue - while the original figure left them unpainted in the base red. This does make a huge difference to the figure, particularly in the chest and on the masked head which is now much more realistic to the movie with the blue weblines and white eyes with black border. This is the only figure in my set with paint issues, with some stray red paint splashed on the legs.
The Tom Holland Spidey also gets three pairs of hands. These include the fists and web-slinging hands from the 2021 version and a new set of open 'on the floor' crouching hands. It is worth noting that those inaccurate wrist pieces are removable once you take off the hands. It does leave a very slim wrist behind but maybe a better option for those looking for a more accurate No Way Home finale Spider-Man. Again there are 21 points of articulation on a fully pinless body and that gives a reasonable degree of movement but again not quite the very dynamic posing we did see on the digital artwork for the set.
The Spider-Man set also comes with three of the longer flexible webs that made their MCU debut with the 2021 Upgraded Suit Spider-man from No Way Home. In principle these are great for display with a hook at one end, and a handle at the other end for the figure to hold. And the ‘hold’ word is the issue here as none of the Spider-man figures come with gripping hands to use with the webs. While you can do some balancing poses - as seen in our images - none of these are secure enough for display and is another disappointment in the set, especially as a pair of hands are available for the Holland Spider-Man at least from the aforementioned Upgraded suit release.
The Spider-Man: No Way Home 3-pack is a very expensive set retailing as a Hasbro Pulse Exclusive at £99 - putting a £33 price on each figure, a good £8 above the usual retail price. Granted, for that we get improved paint work on the web lines - but the set needed much more to create value for money for the collector. Unmasked heads would have been the first improvement - with a Holland sculpt already available - as would including gripping hands that would work with the web lines included. I would also argue that the Iron Spider legs for the Holland version - even repurposed from the Infinity War release - would have given the set more gravitas considering that is a key look we don’t have yet for No Way Home.
In the end, the set gives us three good representations of the Multiverse Spider-men, albeit without the unmasked heads. The set is selling partly on the strength of 'FOMO' at the moment, with it going out of stock and then being restocked on Hasbro Pulse. And on the strong rumours of a future No Way Home wave with unmasked heads incoming. This set is expensive, but in the long run may be the only route to a definitive trio of No Way Home Peter Parkers, albeit with parts from future sets.
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