NOMAD202
Well-Known Member
Hey fellas,
The only reviews I've seen for the officially licensed costume are on amazon. This is the $200 adult version, with molded plastic lenses and rubber web shooters. Since it's too close to Halloween to even consider a suit commission, I decided to give this a shot. When it arrived, it came in a very nice plastic case with a zipper and hanger. The mask was put in a seperate plastic pocket within the plastic covering. The webbing on the suit is slightly raised, the amazon reviews said it was latex webbing but in my opinion it looked and felt more like some kind of nylon material that was glued onto the spandex suit. The spider on the front is some kind of vinyl, very shiny. The spider emblem on the back of the suit is also vinyl but It's made more durable somehow (probably because of the zipper). you WILL need help zipping this suit up. The mask does come seperate, and the suit zips up to the base of your neck. The footies are a little baggy, I'm going to try the glue-shoe-sole method that people have done with the custom spidey suits. The bodysuit itself fits very nice, I'm 6'1 155lbs and a pretty thin guy so I ordered a medium.
I've read the reviews on the mask on amazon, that it was VERY tight and the plastic lenses have zero padding, which when compressed to your face is very uncomfortable. And they were correct. The plastic lenses are attached like sunglasses to one another (a plastic bar that runs across the bridge of your nose) and they are also VERY hard to see out of. Maybe I'll try to use my dremel and cut the plastic bar off since the lenses are glued onto the mask itself, as well as glue a foamie base around the lenses on the inside for comfortable issues. The reviews also said that they heard threads start to break/pop when putting the mask on and off, I would have to say that I'm pretty positive it was the glued on raised webbing. The mask stretches around your heads and the raised webbing is glued on, it starts to "pop" after being stretched over your noggin'. So I'm not worried about the mask falling apart.
I'd give this suit a 7/10. I'll post pictures when I get home from work.
The only reviews I've seen for the officially licensed costume are on amazon. This is the $200 adult version, with molded plastic lenses and rubber web shooters. Since it's too close to Halloween to even consider a suit commission, I decided to give this a shot. When it arrived, it came in a very nice plastic case with a zipper and hanger. The mask was put in a seperate plastic pocket within the plastic covering. The webbing on the suit is slightly raised, the amazon reviews said it was latex webbing but in my opinion it looked and felt more like some kind of nylon material that was glued onto the spandex suit. The spider on the front is some kind of vinyl, very shiny. The spider emblem on the back of the suit is also vinyl but It's made more durable somehow (probably because of the zipper). you WILL need help zipping this suit up. The mask does come seperate, and the suit zips up to the base of your neck. The footies are a little baggy, I'm going to try the glue-shoe-sole method that people have done with the custom spidey suits. The bodysuit itself fits very nice, I'm 6'1 155lbs and a pretty thin guy so I ordered a medium.
I've read the reviews on the mask on amazon, that it was VERY tight and the plastic lenses have zero padding, which when compressed to your face is very uncomfortable. And they were correct. The plastic lenses are attached like sunglasses to one another (a plastic bar that runs across the bridge of your nose) and they are also VERY hard to see out of. Maybe I'll try to use my dremel and cut the plastic bar off since the lenses are glued onto the mask itself, as well as glue a foamie base around the lenses on the inside for comfortable issues. The reviews also said that they heard threads start to break/pop when putting the mask on and off, I would have to say that I'm pretty positive it was the glued on raised webbing. The mask stretches around your heads and the raised webbing is glued on, it starts to "pop" after being stretched over your noggin'. So I'm not worried about the mask falling apart.
I'd give this suit a 7/10. I'll post pictures when I get home from work.
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