It's been a busy week for
Spider-Man: No Way Home with the official first trailer for the movie
officially being revealed last nite, after it had leaked the day before. This weekend we told you how reports were circulating that there was seemingly a
Hasbro Titan Hero Tobey Maguire figure someone had found at a
Target store. At the time we warned of the possibility it could be fake but that we didn't know. We also said because the images that surfaced suggested it was a
Target exclusive. This meant we would be able to determine one way or another fairly easy by checking the
Target system. It made it even easier when better quality images of the figure surfaced revealing the back of the box and the figures barcode.
As it turns out...
THE FIGURE APPEARS TO BE FAKE, an elaborate custom job. We checked and there is no indication of any such figure or exclusive in the Target store system. This appears to be someone who was bored looking for attention and decided to make a custom, put it on the shelf, take a picture and then post it online. As we mentioned before, some people apparently just have way to much time on their hands.
Of course it's not the first time a
Hasbro toy has led to MCU spoilers. After all it was a
Hasbro Titan Hero figure that gave us our first look at
Sam Wilson as Captain America earlier this year well before he debuted in his new outfit in the show. Never-the-less this time it would seem this one was nothing more than an elaborate ruse. Of course being the figure is FAKE doesn't automatically mean the rumors that Maguire will be in the movie are wrong, but it certainly doesn't confirm them either. My guess at this point whether Maquire is actually in the movie or not, people are going to think he is regardless of any real proof, and if he's not in the movie people will simply get upset and take to the internet to complain about it after-the-fact. Thats how it goes.
Spider-Man News isn't done for the week because we do have the official
Spider-Man themed Marvel Legends wave coming this
Thursday during Hasbro's next live-stream. While that wave itself I don't think will contain any major
movie surprises and that we have likely already seen the movie figures in it, who knows maybe
Hasbro will surprise us . With
Doc Ock now officially revealed from the trailer and there also being
hints of Green Goblin's return as well, you know those guys will get action figures sooner rather than later. I could see
Doc Ock either being a
Build-A-Figure or even more likely offered as some kind of
stand-alone figure. If it's a stand-alone and one they reveal this week then that would most likely mean he will be a store exclusive. There is no way we would get a
Green Goblin reveal this week since he was only teased in the trailer, but perhaps
Hasbro will simply do a second wave of
Spider-Man movie figures after the movie comes out featuring both these guys and anything else yet to be seen. Only time will tell what
Hasbro has planned, but of course when that is revealed we will be sure to pass the info on to you.