THIRTY SEVEN DOLLS #25: MAFEX Miles Morales (Vacation Haul)

Buckle up. This is gonna take a bit.Let’s start with the toy. This is the first fig I got in Japan, at the pre-researched Hakuhinkan Toy Park in Ginza, day one. And if I’m gonna get a Fancy from the source, it’s gonna be someone from my favoritest movie of all time. So MAFEX Miles it was.

The big draws here are the soft goods jacket and shorts, with wires and such where wires are needed (mostly the hood), and the full array of swappable heads, hands, and feet, including hands and feet with magnets, sneakers AND costume booties, and unmasked, mask-over-hair, and two full masked heads with different eye sculpts. Basically, this gives you a Miles you can use for any part of the final act of the movie. Nobody’s made a Pre-Powers Miles or, even more inexplicably, a Costume Shop Spidey Miles, so for now this’ll have to do.

It’s not perfect, but it’s very good. If I had to name a flaw, it’s the hip joints, which don't have a drop-down and, combined with a surprisingly limited ab crunch, means you’re not getting this Miles into a tight crouch or a ball. I don’t think any of my Marvel Legends Mileses can do that either, though.

Also, it’s a tiny import fig with narrow proportions, so the hands are prone to popping off at the slightest hint of rowdiness. And I put him through a LOT of rowdiness.

Oh, one other thing. Man, do I wish someone would make a No Texture Movie Miles figure. As with every other Miles on the market, the texture of the suit and the painted web lines on it, while to a large degree accurate for close-ups, don’t recreate the most common look of the suit in the movies, which is solid black with a bright, crisp, high-contrast orange symbol. As with others, I have to fix that in post.

So now, the pictures. To quote Aunt May, “what took you so long?” Well, I didn’t have the tools until now.  And that’s not just because the Marvel Legends Miles doesn’t have a wearable hood. A lot of what I’ve learned went into these, including using Spider-Man 2 Photo Mode for backgrounds, adjusting them to make them more Spider-Versy, lighting adjustments, the whole deal. So here’s an interpretation of the entire What’s Up Danger sequence, my favorite sequence from my favorite movie.