Amazing Spider-Man Building Blocks Confirm A Spoiler Rumour

[Brendon Connelly]

It's not Lego but Mega Bloks, their legally permitted imitators, who have scooped the Amazing Spider-Man licensing deal. Here are the box designs for three of the sets due to launch ahead of the movie.

This set...



...replicates this scene from the movie...



Just with a slightly less handsome Peter Parker.

And this next set reveals a sewer lab, a longstanding part of Lizard lore...

But the next two sets confirm a pair of spoilers that we've heard about.

First up, a bridge battle that C. Thomas Howell rapped about<b></b>:



Howell said:

I play a construction worker who?s son is caught in the middle of a battle between the Lizard and Spider-Man on the Manhattan bridge. Spider-Man helps me get my son back from this perilous situation. There is some payback there at the end of the movie. Spider-man is kind of hurting. I help him when all of the other people won?t.

So, the bridge scene comes earlier in the story but is a key bit of set up. The next set shows something rather more climactic, and even more spoilery... Here's what we were told about the scene in question:

One action set-piece towards the end of the film sees the Lizard transform a whole Swat team into scaly mutants that look like him. Then there's a huge battle. Some of the scene is based upon the famous issue of the comic in which Gwen Stacy died.

Incidentally, I enquired of our tipster if this was their way of saying Gwen Stacy was going to meet her sticky, neck-snappy end but they had no idea of her eventual fate, being a sneaky observer and not part of the production... but more than this we cannot say.

A cursory check of the Bleeding Cool archives revealed that the SWAT rumour was also showing up elsewhere. Put it in the bank.

So, once again, some licensed merchandise reveals key plot points.

[Maniacmatt]

WHAT?! NO!!!!!!



I assumed LEGO would be making these!

[Static-Pulse]

I assumed LEGO would be making these!

I am not a lawyer, just a guy with a huge construction toy hobby, but I think LEGO got the Avengers rights while Mega Bloks gets to keep Spider-Man by way of Sony having the movie rights. I say this because:

1. The series 3 Marvel figures coming out (with Reed Richards, Iceman, etc.) will be the last of those, even though these aren't out until 2012.

2. Most of the Marvel LEGO sets are Avengers related.

[The Xenos]

Yeah. Lego has the Marvel proper liscwnce. I am guessing Mega Block struck a deal wth Sony and their Spiderman movie rights.

Meanwhile, I hope they don't kill Gwen with the Lizard in this one. You need to build up to that. MAybe Dennis Leary as her dad or even then wait for a seoncd film of a trilogy.

[Maniacmatt]

I am not a lawyer, just a guy with a huge construction toy hobby, but I think LEGO got the Avengers rights while Mega Bloks gets to keep Spider-Man by way of Sony having the movie rights. I say this because:

1. The series 3 Marvel figures coming out (with Reed Richards, Iceman, etc.) will be the last of those, even though these aren't out until 2012.

2. Most of the Marvel LEGO sets are Avengers related.

I'm by no means a die-hard fan, but this says "the LEGO SUPER HEROES Marvel collection will spotlight three Marvel franchises – Marvel’s The Avengers movie, and X-Men and Spider-Man classic characters."

I suppose it's possible that they have the rights to the Spider-Man comic character, but not the rights to specifically merchandise for the movie. That just seems convoluted though.

[kidinsidethefilmmaker]

I'm by no means a die-hard fan, but this says "the LEGO SUPER HEROES Marvel collection will spotlight three Marvel franchises – Marvel’s The Avengers movie, and X-Men and Spider-Man classic characters."

I suppose it's possible that they have the rights to the Spider-Man comic character, but not the rights to specifically merchandise for the movie. That just seems convoluted though.

Welcome to the Marvel movie rights discussion.

[MWEDMER]

Sony has the right only to the film versions of the character. Only they can license the movie version of him. MArvel can only do the comic and cartoon variations of him. Its the same with FOX and X-Men, but I think to a lesser degree.

[Maniacmatt]

Sony has the right only to the film versions of the character. Only they can license the movie version of him. MArvel can only do the comic and cartoon variations of him. Its the same with FOX and X-Men, but I think to a lesser degree.

I wonder if that's at least part of the reasoning behind making the costume so different.

[Dans07sti]

Those actually look pretty cool I didnt even know another company besides leggo made building sets like that.

[Hollow]

Wow, the other LEGO rip-off companies (Kubricks et al) at least TRY to make their toys look a little bit different than LEGO but this "Mega Bloks" stuff looks like a perfect copy of LEGO (aside from the figures - those look like a nice improvment)). No wonder that LEGO won in the Dutch courts.