Spider-Man Classics



Launched in 2000, Spider-Man Classics, also simply titled The Amazing Spider-Man over the years, was Toybiz's first major forray into the super articulated 6" scale that would eventually become the standardized scale for Marvel action figures going forward. Spider-Man Classics were created with the intention of creating definitive versions of the characters by providing enough articulation to recreate any comic pose, and detailed sculpts based more closely on comic artwork than the simpler 5" scale figures that pre-dated them. Each figure included a base of some kind, often a wall-mountable display piece, and were sold in large clamshell packaging.

The initial run of Spider-Man Classics was a major hit immediately, and served as the prototype for Toybiz's next major Marvel toyline, Marvel Legends, which would carry forward many of the innovations and core design principals established in Classics. After Legends launched, Spider-Man Classics was rebooted to run alongside as a companion toyline focused on filling out a Legends scale collection for Spider-Man characters, with each wave including numerous variants of Spider-Man, often in increasingly ridiculous costumes such as Scuba Diver or Cyber-Ninja, and often including one new villain per wave.

After Hasbro took over the Marvel license, the Spider-Man Classics line was ended and rebooted again in 2007 as Spider-Man: Origins.