It looks like the mystery of the Spiderman Power Ranger might be solved. A while back I posted a picture of a toy play set I found at a dollar store. It was a set of five Power Rangers with Spiderman as the Red Ranger. The toy was made in China so I figured it was a knock off of either the Power Rangers or Spiderman, it didn’t matter which, it’s not something you see in North America.
Anyway, I happened to come across an opening video for a live action Spiderman from Japan back in the 70’s. He has a motorcycle, instead of the scooter from the movie, and he even has a Megazord!!!
So it looks like the toy was not a North American Spiderman knock off, it was based on the Japanese Spiderman. It still might be some form of knock off since the show was not Spiderman and Power Rangers. Well that’s not true, it could have said that, I don’t know. I can’t read Japanese. If I could, I would be too busy playing all the awesome video games that are never translated.
Sure, the TV show is pretty cheesy, but give it some slack. It was made in the 70’s. Besides, is it really worse than the Italian Spiderman?
Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Mike
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I thought this was an amusing post since many of the dollar store Spiderman toys, all the ones I have reviewed so far, come from China. It seems they get Spiderman to do many wacky things there. It might explain some of the toys that I found at the dollar store.
Take a look at these pictures of Spiderman washing windows in China. Actually, if you look carefully, in the first picture you can see a second set of Spiderman hands washing the windows. I guess they got several workers to put on the Spiderman costumes for the cleaning. It would’ve been really neat to see the Spidermen cleaning the windows from the inside or outside. Apparently, having the workers wear the Spiderman costumes was done for a guest to make the cleaning more interesting. Not bad, but it makes me wonder what task they would get their workers to dress up as Batman for?
But, if that wasn’t enough, there’s a link off that post to a young man in Singapore named Batman Bin Suparman(with picture of the birth certificate). Can you imagine growing up with that kind of name? Other than it being an oddity that both names end with “man”, you probably wouldn’t get made fun of. It’s not clear what the parent’s last name is and I am not sure how naming goes in Singapore, but wouldn’t the last name need to be the last name of the parents? I doubt the last name is Suparman.
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Mike
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The Spiderman dollar store toys haven’t run out yet! Spiderman is back and this time he’s riding a skateboard. Oh yes, Spiderman is riding a skateboard. This toy from the dollar store features everyone’s favorite webslinger riding on one of those long skateboards. Actually, it also looks like a surfboard with wheels. A turbo skateboard or surfboard judging by the boxed compartment around the back wheels. But, this isn’t just a skateboard with Spiderman on it you push around, it has a special feature that many toys from the dollar store have.
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Posted on May 21st, 2008 by Mike
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It has been a while since I have posted a Spiderman dollar store toy and it’s the first time in a long time I have posted a racing toy. Yeah, you thought you could forget about the new concept bike, but I brought it back. You can thank me later.
So without further delay, let’s take a look at the Spiderman Car.
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Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Mike
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China has the Power Rangers recruiting Spiderman to be the red Ranger in this 5 pack action figure set. He can’t be the blue Ranger since there is already a blue one. Sure, there are slight differences in the Spiderman costume, like the white spider on his chest instead of black, but it’s Spiderman. I don’t watch the Power Rangers to know which series these comes from, let alone if they’re even correct.
This is a set of five action figures. The arms are movable and maybe their heads but the legs are fixed.
“Go Go Peter Parker”
Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Mike
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No matter how hard they try to make something look new and original, sometimes it just does not work. Worse is the name they give these altered Spiderman toy action figures. What kind of name is City Nimrod? All I can say is poor Spiderman. I don’t know what Spiderman did to deserve this. Maybe people were disappointed with Spiderman 3.
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Posted on November 19th, 2007 by Mike
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Spiderman is fighting back by releasing his own better, safer model of toy phone. Anyway, this is another find at the same dollar store, the Spiderman cellular flip phone. Unlike the toy mobile phone, this one is not painted. It is just colored plastic but they colored it with the Spiderman colors blue and red. No paint means no lead paint. It also has just the cutest little pink wrist strap.
Ok, why is “Spider-Man” in the title dripping blood?
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Posted on November 11th, 2007 by Mike
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