Hasbro’s newly released Marvel Legends Spider-Man wave is a great way to kick off 2025, and includes The Chameleon (inspired from Spider-Man The Animated Series), Spider-Boy, Electro (Francine Frye), Agent Venom (Flash Thompson), Spider-Man Unlimited and Marvel’s Kaine.
Kaine is a clone of Peter Parker and was the first clone created by The Jackal, before Ben Rielly. Francine Frye possesses similar or the same powers as Electro, and had absorbed his power after contact with him.
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Availability: March 2025 at BigBadToyStore
Kaine and Electro are packaged on blister cards, with Kaine’s inspired from Spider-Man The Animated Series line by ToyBiz in the 1990’s, and Electro’s given a comic-inspired design. The back includes images of the characters, a bio and a look a the rest of the wave. Kaine being on this blister card does feel off as he did not make an appearance in Spider-Man The Animated Series, but the character was introduced in 1994 in the comics around the time the cartoon came out. Ideally, Hasbro needs to save this style of packaging (ToyBiz retro) for modern updates to figures that ToyBiz themselves put out from this cartoon, and not use it whenever they want because they can. To the fans that know Marvel during this era, it doesn’t look right, but at least the packaging does look cool regardless of the character they put inside in.
Kaine is inspired from his appearance in 1994’s Web of Spider-Man Vol. 1 #119, and he pays a great likeness to the source material. Kaine is a clone of Peter Parker, and is given an all-new outfit that looks nothing like Spider-Man. He comes mostly in black, with blue webbing all through the sculpt, blue spikes on the forearms and lower legs, some pink on the chest, and a soft plastic torn cape placed over his torso. The blue webbing is sculpted over the black, which is a nice touch.
HIs head sculpt is masked, with the black and blue webbing, white eyes, and long light brown hair that’s sculpted.
Kaine includes two sets of interchangeable hands, closed fisted, and neutral.
His articulation includes a ball jointed head and hinged neck, butterfly shoulders, ball hinged shoulders, swivel biceps, double-hinged elbows, swivel-hinged wrists, ab crunch, waist rotation, ball joined hips, swivel thighs, double-hinged knees, hinged and rocker ankles.
Electro (Francine Frye) made her debut in Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 3) #9 in 2014, and got her powers in Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 4) #17 in 2016, which is why she comes in more modern looking packaging. Her outfit looks exactly like Electro’s, with the yellow, green and black, and the lightning bolt mask covering her face, with a black mask over most of her head. She also has a lightning bolt design in yellow over the green and black part on the torso, sculpted pouches on her hips with yellow stripes beside them. Her head sculpt also has some nicely done facial details, including green eyes showing through the lightning bolt mask, painted lips and teeth, and the nose is just below the lightning bolt.
Electro includes two sets of interchangeable hands, closed fisted and neutral, and two electricity effects. These have clips that can connect to her forearms, with also works with either hand.
Her articulation includes a ball jointed head and hinged neck, ball hinged shoulders, swivel biceps, double-hinged elbows, swivel-hinged wrists, ball jointed torso, ball joined hips, swivel thighs, double-hinged knees, hinged and rocker ankles.
Overall, Kaine and Electro are excellent figures and a really good likeness to the source material. This is also one great Spider-Man wave, so make sure to grab these and additional figures now at BigBadToyStore!
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