{"id":32809,"date":"2018-12-23T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T20:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=32809"},"modified":"2020-11-04T06:18:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T11:18:44","slug":"spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-miles-morales-and-spider-gwen-two-pack-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-miles-morales-and-spider-gwen-two-pack-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Miles Morales and Spider-Gwen two-pack review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's been a week since <i>Into the Spider-Verse<\/i> opened, and while we won't be getting into spoilers today, I think we can all agree the film is fantastic. However, when it comes to toys, things are rather lacking.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->While there are a few action figures available, they're only in the slightly-small \"kids\" line. If you want something you could integrate with your <i>Marvel Legends<\/i> collection, the only option is this two-pack available exclusively at Target stores:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/smsv1_mmsg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/smsv1_mmsg1-300x253.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We won't be reviewing this pair, because neither figure warrants it. Here: it's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/smhml4_ucsm.php\">this Miles Morales<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/smhml3_sg.php\">this Spider-Gwen<\/a>, with minorly different paint. Review over.<\/p>\n<p>Do you notice what's wrong, though? Look at both figures' heads: they're the comic versions, quite clearly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/smsv1_mmsg2.jpg\" title=\"comic heads\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>How long has this movie been in development? How long did it take to animate? Could Hasbro have not at least spent a little money creating heads that were distinctly based on the characters' cartoon appearance? Keep everything the same, but give us Miles' puffy hair, and Gwen's side-shave.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/smsv1_mmsg3.jpg\" title=\"cartoon heads\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><i>Into the Spider-Verse<\/i> is outstanding, but this two-pack still seems to be something of a slow seller, probably because it's two glorified re-releases. 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However, when it comes to toys, things are rather lacking. &lt;i&gt;And now, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-miles-morales-and-spider-gwen-two-pack-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,34,8,31],"tags":[88,59],"class_list":["post-32809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-exclusive-review","category-commentary","category-hasbro","category-target","tag-marvel-legends","tag-spider-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32815,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32809\/revisions\/32815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}