Still, it was quite a good look for the line.ĭoc Ock was a slight departure for the line, with one of the most extensive add-ons at the time. I myself am quite nostalgic for this particular style of packaging, although it did limit the ability to include extra parts with the figures. I don’t talk about packaging much on this site, but it’s notable that these guys were to first to be in the much smaller, windowless box packaging, which would be the line’s main jam for two years or so. I actually already reviewed the Spidey on his own a while back, and that review is here. Octopus were first released in Series 4 of the specialty line of Marvel Minimates, but the set was one of the ones that was carried over unchanged into the Walmart/Target assortments of the time, as well as both figures being released in one of TRU’s 4-packs, alongside Captain America and Absorbing Man. Octopus (who was, probably not coincidentally, the main foe in Spider-Man 2, which hit theaters two months after this assortment was released), who made his Minimate debut here, alongside unmasked Spider-Man, the sort of Spider-Man variant that wouldn’t really be a proper variant in this day and age. The second series of the line had given us Spidey and three of his best known foes, but there was definitely a major one missing, and that was Dr. Marvel Minimates hit shelves again their second year in early March, kicking off their sophomore efforts with a return to the world of everyone’s favorite wall-crawler.
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