Review: LEGO Marvel 10784 Spider-Man's Webquarters Hangout

Today we are quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Marvel set 10784 Spider-Man's Webquarters Hangout, a small box of 155 pieces marketed at the public price of €49.99 since January 1, 2022. As usual with products stamped 4+ and therefore intended for a very young audience tired of large DUPLO bricks, there is no point in relate the reduced inventory of the product to its high retail price. LEGO targets a very specific clientele: that of parents who absolutely want to offer the best toys to their children and not regret later having deprived them of these high-end products which could have helped them to succeed in their lives.

To put this set in context, this is a spin-off from the anime series. Marvel's Spidey and his Amazing Friends broadcast since 2021 on the American channel Disney Junior. Peter Parker (Spidey), Gwen Stacy (Ghost Spider), Spin (Miles Morales), Hulk, Ms. Marvel and Black Panther confront a few super villains like Green Goblin, Doc Ock and Rhino over the course of the episodes. A few 5/6 minute animated shorts introducing the series and its characters are already available on Disney+ under the title Marvel meets Spidey and his Extraordinary Friends, the full 24-minute first season episodes are expected to follow shortly.

We therefore have 155 pieces left to assemble in this box and unsurprisingly these are mostly very large items. LEGO dissects the process over three separate booklets which allow the passage to share the very short experience with several people, the whole thing is assembled in a few minutes. The result obtained: a somewhat basic playset but which offers rather interesting gameplay for the youngest with two slides, a basketball hoop and two vehicles.

LEGO takes advantage of this mini-range to introduce a large handful of new elements. Most of these parts will have a hard time finding a place in the "classic" ranges, but they may find a use for MOCers who know how to make good use of them. I really like the cobwebs that can be clipped to eventually make a hanging cell or a hammock, hard to imagine better. The large claws hung on the sides of Gwen Stacy's speeder are pink, it will be necessary to imagine for example a mech taking up the very acid colors to integrate them. A slightly more versatile blue version of this element is present in the set 10783 Spider-Man at Doc Ock's Lab (29.99 €).

If you missed the defunct VIDIYO range, here you have a new opportunity to recover the pink guitar already seen in the sets 43102 Candy Mermaid Beatbox (19.99 €) and 43111 Candy Castle Stage (23.99 €), even if the massive destocking currently underway on VIDIYO references pleads in favor of the two sets mentioned. LEGO could have made the effort to stamp Green Goblin's pumpkin to transform it into a slightly more aggressive explosive and the WEB-STER AI would have deserved a larger screen but we will do with these aesthetic approximations.

The real advantage of these sets intended for a very young audience: everything is pad-printed, not the shadow of a sticker in the box. We therefore obtain a few elements that could possibly come to flesh out a diorama, as long as the motif concerned is not too childish or irrelevant. The big half-globe with the head of Spidey is well in the series, it also refers to the format of the characters of the animated series with their oversized head.

As for the five minifigs provided, it should be kept in mind that this is the LEGO version of a cartoon interpretation of the different characters. Short but articulated legs for everyone, exaggerated facial expressions and somewhat symbolic designs, we often border on caricature for these variants which should however interest collectors. LEGO also misses the opportunity to add the colored watches worn on the screen by the different characters. The least successful minifig of the lot remains in my opinion that of Green Goblin, it lacks some details seen in the series on the headdress and shoulders of the character and LEGO recycles here in the state the element already seen in 2019 on the minifigure head from the set 76133 Spider-Man Car Chase. The use of neutral legs only reinforces the somewhat "empty" side of the figurine as is also the case for Ms. Marvel who loses her pretty pair of sneakers and her cape during her adaptation as a LEGO minifig.

This set is the most expensive of the range currently made up of four references and so there are other more economical opportunities to obtain some of the never-before-seen minifigs provided in this box if you do not want Miss Marvel: Gwen Stacy is also in the set 10783 Spider-Man at Doc Ock's Lab (29.99 €), Miles Morales and Green Goblin are in the set 10781 Spider-Man's Techno Trike (9.99 €) and Spidey comes in the sets 10782 Hulk vs. Rhino Truck Showdown (19.99 €) and 10783 Spider-Man at Doc Ock's Lab (29.99 €). LEGO makes the effort to provide us with Trace-E, the little mechanical spider that accompanies Spidey in the series. The piece would have deserved to be more accomplished with pad-printed tabs, but it will do the trick.

On the one hand, LEGO goes there frankly by offering us new versions of the different characters and on the other hand makes the inevitable savings of candle ends by sacrificing the pad printing of the legs. It's a bit of a shame, all the characters have big boots which reinforce the cartoon effect on the screen, it will be necessary to do without them with LEGO derivative products. The torsos seem successful to me, they are not as detailed as some of the minifigs usually available in the Marvel range but the minimalist spirit of the animated series is there. We can also regret that LEGO does not offer us the faces of the different characters, they nevertheless appear quite often on the screen and the possibility of choosing between the "masked" version and the face of each of the protagonists with for example a half mask - put on in the form of a pad-printed beanie would have been a real plus.

This set is a derivative product intended for the youngest who enter the Marvel universe through the animated series Marvel's Spidey and his Amazing Friends and these new fans are bound to be more forgiving than we are of the few approximations and shortcuts used by LEGO. As a never-happy adult fan, however, I remain satisfied to be able to add a few superhero variants to my collection, the minifigs offered here being in my eyes quite acceptable. The retail price set at €49.99 is totally disconnected from my reality, it is probably much less so from that of the parents I was telling you about at the start of this review. Know that we already find this box at 41.99 € at Amazon Germany. Patience will surely be rewarded in the weeks and months to come.

Note: The set presented here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at 1er February 2022 next at 23pm.

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.