
A street of a trouble and a line-up of villains to boot!
The LEGO Marvel Spider-Man vs. Oscorp is not only one of the taller sets of the wave, but also one of the weirdest names. Is Oscorp an evil conglomerate that Spider-Man is having beef with? Not just the Green Goblin?
Anyways – we have a street of villains, we have a tower to battle it out in, and we have heroes to save the day. Is this a set of epic proportions or something comically bad? Read on!
Mini Mart & Corner Lights
Starting out on the street, we get what is undeniably a very small street shop.
With a small corner space that can be added to the side, like all other builds in this set, there is modularity. This model gives us a shop with fish crackers, popcorn and cereal, that’s it. Clearly intended to be a background to the street, our shop isn’t really lively.
Upstairs is a small Spider-Den for what I can assume is Eddie Brock’s house. Why? The chicken! Yes, Venom owns chickens. Wild.
The small space upstairs has a dartboard with Spidey’s face on it. As well as a small computer with what looks like a messenger chat happening. Seems Eddie suggested a plan and Green Goblin does NOT agree.
Marvelous Jewelry
The name of this shop is a pun on ‘Marvel’, with jewelry in the American spelling… It’s jewellery for those who want to spell it correctly!
More of a backdrop to the fighting happening outside – this part of the set is mainly to support the Oscorp tower. The inside of the model is very bare-bones, but it seems like this is with intention.
We have a jewellery shop, but no cashier. The shop also has a window to be smashed out, which is always fun to have a feature to play with. We have a small bedroom apartment upstairs (indicated to be Miles’), but not much else. The main dedication of the set comes to these high-rise building for dynamic street fights, not so much the battle indoors.
It’s a nice little street model, but it does feel strangely empty without something to save.
Oscorp Tower
Oscorp Tower is the primary building of the set, and with a contrasting grey and green colour palette, definitely stands out.
The exterior of the building gives us a hacked tv screen showing the Green Goblin’s face and plenty of exterior studs for characters to run up. This screen can also be knocked off to try and hit our heroes with too.
Inside the model is a bit of a mix. We have the Goblin Glider with a pumpkin bomb and Bunsen-burner, a lab above with the spider and a venom symbiote piece too. We also have a desk with a changing chamber for Norman to change into the goblin.
But beside these things – the model looks weirdly empty. Heck, even the first floor has a thin desk, a fire extinguisher and a coffee cup. It’s just, empty.
Minifigures
Our minifigure line-up for this set is quite the cast! We have Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Spider-Man (Miles Morales), Ghost-Spider, Eddie Brock, Norman Osborn, Kraven the Hunter and the Green Goblin.
Our Spider-heroes are actually all non-exclusive figures. Each one of these figures have appeared in a previous set, with figures like Spider-Woman coming in a cheaper set with dual moulded legs. But this is her second appearance, so any win is a win.
As for our villains, Kraven gets an updated look from his 2016 appearance. This is one of the highlights of the sets for collectors, given they don’t have the bridge battle he came in.
With Norman Osborn and Eddie Brock, these figures reuse parts from other figures. Norman Osborn’s face is the same as Arthur Weasley, and Eddie is Quicksilver!
Our last exclusive figure out of the set is Green Goblin, who is a controversial choice. Where we would expect a goblin like the live action films or the cartoon style, we get something quite different. The mask isn’t the best representation of the character, and the Ninjago hood works but the pointed ears hood would have been better. I feel like if you showed this character to someone without context, they would hesitate before answering ‘Green Goblin’. I don’t know how to feel about him, but it isn’t great.
Verdict
Overall, this set is all about the figures and the fights you can make on the street. To be simple – this is not a set for adults. Its for kids!
We have a line up of four good guys, four bad guys, and a street to battle it out in. We don’t need to care about shop clerks and where characters sleep. It’s about the classic Good v. Evil.
When we look at the price tag and look at what we get, adult collectors might think it be insane for what you get. But it’s a set with 8 figures, and quite a lot of real estate. There isn’t anything stopping you or kids from putting in your own clerks and civilians as you see need.
Adults? Don’t recommend. Kids? Recommend.
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