By Cat Eldridge: A few years back, I really liked the Miles Morales Spider-Man after seeing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse during a extended hospital stay as I was looking for something entertaining to watch and I heard very good things about this film. It turned out that it is a fantastic film that if you are a Spider-Man fan you should see now as Miles Morales is an amazing Spider-Man and the rest of the Spider-Beings are equally amazing. Yes, it won a well deserved Hugo at Dublin 2019. And yes I’m looking forward to seeing the sequel. 

I’m was reasonably sure that this is by no means an authorised figure but it turned out that indeed it was as Kotobukiya does a vast array of DC, Marvel and Star Wars merchandise. It originated in Hong Kong, there’s a vast market in pop culture products around those characters, especially if there’s been a film out with the character in question.  So this appeared just a few short months after the film was released. 

So finding a figure that I liked was a matter of a search on eBay, I found a number of possibilities from the usual action figures, some pretty badly done, to high-end collector figures way, way out of my budget. This one interested me because of the dynamic pose. Now it is not an action figure. It’s a statue, as nothing moves on it all. And it’s only just about four inches tall. When it came it was it in four parts with the head and arms separate which was a bit of a surprise. They attached very nicely, so no fuss there. 

The color is sharp, with no sloppy edges, and once he’s assembled, you wouldn’t know that he came in multiple pieces. Unlike many statues, the poses is quite dynamic.

In theory, you could display him sans base but it really isn’t a great idea as he doesn’t sit right without it, as he’s got magnets in his feet that allowed him to balance as you see him here. I really, really like the pose that they did for him.

If you’re interested in him, he’ll run you around a hundred dollars. Not bad at all in the world of such collectibles.