@Maxbricks14 said:
"I always found it odd that Lego put licensed themes in the studio theme like Jurassic Park III instead of making normal sets."

Weirder still is that he had nothing to do with any Spiderman film, but the Studios theme bore his name. At least with JP3, there was a chair with his name on it, even if he never sat in it once during production.

I liked the camera and lights build. Othar than that the set didn't appeal to me.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"I always found it odd that Lego put licensed themes in the studio theme like Jurassic Park III instead of making normal sets."

It's like for a time all LEGO sets apart from LEGO Star Wars had to take place in the same "real world" timeline.

@Maxbricks14 said:
"I always found it odd that Lego put licensed themes in the studio theme like Jurassic Park III instead of making normal sets."

I’m guessing they felt it was easier to fold things under an existing theme than it was producing one or two sets for a new, separate brand. They seem to have no problem doing that these days, so maybe it wasn’t so effective

I genuinely feel offended by the car and Bank ground floor. It’s more than terrible.

Random 2002 x2

@Maxbricks14 said:
"I always found it odd that Lego put licensed themes in the studio theme like Jurassic Park III instead of making normal sets."

Maybe the thought was to enhance sales of the basic line sets by throwing in these? Also it's odd how few actual new parts were in both Spider-Man and JP3 sets, considering what was "normal" for the time.
Also note they began doing similar stuff with the Racers line in 2002, throwing in a few licensed sets each year amongst the regular ones.

This set could combine with the other Set (Green Goblin) and the cancelled "Wrestling Scene" set to form the balcony scene from the movie. The missing pieces required from the wrestling set were then put in a Shop-at-Home exclusive "Addon Set", so the scene could still be built. It left a few questionmarks though, since the cardboard parts used still had the wrestling crowd printed on the backs...

This set also contained a CD which included an expansion to the Movie Maker program I guess? I wonder what the contents were.

Plain arms and legs aside, this is still my favorite Spidey minifig (alongside the darker re-color in 2004).

@yamaki said:
"I genuinely feel offended by the car and Bank ground floor. It’s more than terrible."

Yes, the car is about as awful as can be, with the only thing that could make it worse is if it was Jack Stone-style building!

@Maxbricks14 said:
"I always found it odd that Lego put licensed themes in the studio theme like Jurassic Park III instead of making normal sets."

I think at this point, Lego wasn't sure how they wanted to handle licensed products yet. Star Wars and Potter had been their own themes, but I feel like Lego back then were more cautious than they are now of getting over-many obvious licensed themes in their portfolio. I wonder if folding the licenses into an existing theme, then, was their way of benefitting from the partnership while still maintaining what looked like a majority of original themes.

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So. I've not seen the Raimi Spider-Man movies, so this may be covered by the films. But according to this set's minifigure page, the distant guy in a blue jacket, just under the Spider-Man's right hand, is Peter Parker. So is he in two places at once in this picture, or is that actually someone else in the Spider-Man suit...?

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Also, this was clearly the middle of Rock Raider Sparks' brief-but-busy acting career, since he's playing the bank robber here!

I never really cared much for this one, but I must say, I like the upper floor of the bank building.

The lower floor is literally cardboard wedged between Jack Stone pillars. They did that in 1381 Vampire Crypt too.

I also always associate this set with mystery because back in the day I couldn't find its instructions online in the usual places. I wonder why that was.

I just read the instructions and I think this might be the first time I ever managed to do so. That felt so good. Apparently the top of the buildings are two modules. And the backside uses tan parts and what is used on top of 10075 as the background of the bank.

I always considered this the mysterious donor of the majority of parts for 10075 and now I know how. I also just read the instructions for that one and it's very simple and basically uses the same core as this set, just without interior and turned around and using the background from the cancelled wrestling scene set.

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"So. I've not seen the Raimi Spider-Man movies, so this may be covered by the films. But according to this set's minifigure page, the distant guy in a blue jacket, just under the Spider-Man's right hand, is Peter Parker. So is he in two places at once in this picture, or is that actually someone else in the Spider-Man suit...?"

This is far from the only set two have two versions of the same character. It's not even the only Spider-Man set; 4851 did it twice over!

@TheOtherMike said:
" @ThatBionicleGuy said:
"So. I've not seen the Raimi Spider-Man movies, so this may be covered by the films. But according to this set's minifigure page, the distant guy in a blue jacket, just under the Spider-Man's right hand, is Peter Parker. So is he in two places at once in this picture, or is that actually someone else in the Spider-Man suit...?"

This is far from the only set two have two versions of the same character. It's not even the only Spider-Man set; 4851 did it twice over!"

Other people who've worn the Spider-Man outfit, not counting variants of Peter Parker:

- Ben Reilly
- Harry Osborn
- Norman Osborn
- "Rekrap", a low-ranking demon with heroic aspirations
- John Jameson Jr.
- Kraven
- Doc Ock
- Miles Morales, before he got his own snazzy suit
- Scorpion
- Flash Thompson
- Nightcrawler

I mean, at this point, it could be anyone. It could be YOU. Take off that mask, you menace!

Wasn't that era notorious for using cardboard or plastic fillers? I recall some HP sets also utilizing that aspect.

I was in my dark ages at this time, so it was all a retrospective look.

This is also the era when they were about to go bankrupt right? SW kept them afloat for a bit, but wasn't it like 2004 when they made some big changes?

@Sethro3 said:
"Wasn't that era notorious for using cardboard or plastic fillers? I recall some HP sets also utilizing that aspect.

I was in my dark ages at this time, so it was all a retrospective look.

This is also the era when they were about to go bankrupt right? SW kept them afloat for a bit, but wasn't it like 2004 when they made some big changes?"

SW earned its keep, as did HP. Bionicle kept them afloat.

@Atuin said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"I always found it odd that Lego put licensed themes in the studio theme like Jurassic Park III instead of making normal sets."

Maybe the thought was to enhance sales of the basic line sets by throwing in these? Also it's odd how few actual new parts were in both Spider-Man and JP3 sets, considering what was "normal" for the time.
Also note they began doing similar stuff with the Racers line in 2002, throwing in a few licensed sets each year amongst the regular ones.

This set could combine with the other Set (Green Goblin) and the cancelled "Wrestling Scene" set to form the balcony scene from the movie. The missing pieces required from the wrestling set were then put in a Shop-at-Home exclusive "Addon Set", so the scene could still be built. It left a few questionmarks though, since the cardboard parts used still had the wrestling crowd printed on the backs...

This set also contained a CD which included an expansion to the Movie Maker program I guess? I wonder what the contents were.

Plain arms and legs aside, this is still my favorite Spidey minifig (alongside the darker re-color in 2004)."

The add on parts that year were to connect 1374 Green Goblin Attack for a balcony scene.

@Rimefang said:
" @Atuin said:
" @Maxbricks14 said:
"I always found it odd that Lego put licensed themes in the studio theme like Jurassic Park III instead of making normal sets."

Maybe the thought was to enhance sales of the basic line sets by throwing in these? Also it's odd how few actual new parts were in both Spider-Man and JP3 sets, considering what was "normal" for the time.
Also note they began doing similar stuff with the Racers line in 2002, throwing in a few licensed sets each year amongst the regular ones.

This set could combine with the other Set (Green Goblin) and the cancelled "Wrestling Scene" set to form the balcony scene from the movie. The missing pieces required from the wrestling set were then put in a Shop-at-Home exclusive "Addon Set", so the scene could still be built. It left a few questionmarks though, since the cardboard parts used still had the wrestling crowd printed on the backs...

This set also contained a CD which included an expansion to the Movie Maker program I guess? I wonder what the contents were.

Plain arms and legs aside, this is still my favorite Spidey minifig (alongside the darker re-color in 2004)."

The add on parts that year were to connect 1374 Green Goblin Attack for a balcony scene."

As mentioned :D

The story behind it is just that this addon pack would have never existed, if they didn't cancel the Wrestling Scene AFTER they came up with the combiner model.

Man, when kid me saw the first ever LEGO Spider-Man, I was just OVER THE MOON. Nowadays, LEGO Spider-Men are pretty common, but it was a big deal at the time. It was the first time a licensed big-name superhero got the LEGO treatment. Spider-Man beat Batman by a few years.