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On today's Spot, we'll be having a look at the Marvel Legends Spider-man "Sandman Series" Doc Ock

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00:00This is a toy spot on the Spider-Man movie Marvel Legends line from the Sandman series.
00:06Today we're looking at Doc Ock.
00:20Now similar to Green Goblin, Dr. Octopus here didn't actually appear in Spider-Man 3,
00:28but I guess they really wanted to fill out the line.
00:31Certainly if they only had the characters from Spider-Man 3 in it,
00:34you probably would have only had about five, maybe six figures in the line.
00:39So they wanted to fill it out, and because of that they threw in Doc Ock.
00:44Now I didn't personally mind.
00:46Doc Ock was actually one of the first figures I picked up from this line,
00:49because I didn't actually pick up Dr. Octopus from the Spider-Man 2 movie figures.
00:55Now it ended up working itself out, good or bad,
00:59that I picked up Doc Ock as a figure on its own.
01:02I really didn't want to get the set.
01:04And then as I got more and more figures, I finally just said,
01:07ah, screw it, I'll just buy the whole set.
01:09Luckily they were buy one, get one free, so it wasn't a total loss.
01:14As you can see, we've got Doc Ock down the side here.
01:21Scenes from Spider-Man 2.
01:28I like Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2.
01:31He's not really what I would have picked as the actor for Spider-Man 2.
01:34Personally, if anyone cares, I probably would have picked Larry Drake.
01:38Anybody who watches Dark Man, you'll know exactly who Larry Drake is, or Dr. Giggles.
01:43Personally, he would have been my pick for Doc Octopus.
01:45He would have been perfect, but...
01:47Still a pretty good Doc Ock, though.
01:50On the back of the package, the other figures in this wave,
01:54we've got Mary Jane, we've got New Goblin, Doc Ock, Green Goblin,
01:58Spider-Man, Sandman, Black-suited Spider-Man, and finally, Venom.
02:04Read-up says,
02:06From the first time he used his cybernetic manipulator arms,
02:09Dr. Otto Octavius knew the risks.
02:12Giving such an advanced and powerful artificial intelligence direct access to his brain
02:17was an almost unjustifiable gamble.
02:19The combination of hardwired software limitations and his own force of will,
02:25however, was more than enough for him to maintain perfect control,
02:29until both were destroyed in an instant.
02:31His life shattered and his mind broken.
02:33He became the criminal known as Doc Ock.
02:35A deadly dangerous fusion of man and machine,
02:38he's the most formidable foe Spider-Man has ever faced,
02:41and his madness threatens the entire city.
02:44Thank you!
02:46For a good read-up.
02:48That's fine.
02:49I like that.
02:50Real name.
02:51Otto Octavius.
02:52Occupation, mad scientist, bank robber.
02:54Maybe not bank robber, but...
02:56Super strength, genius intellect, weapons, indestructible robot arms.
03:01Goal, to build a fusion reactor that doesn't explode.
03:05Oh, I'm shaking my head.
03:07Base of operations, and abandoned warehouse.
03:11So there we go.
03:12That is packaging on Dr. Octavius.
03:17What we're going to do is we're going to get this opened up,
03:19and the camera wasn't focusing for a second.
03:21We're going to open this guy up,
03:22and we will have a better look at Doc Ock.
03:27Don't go anywhere.
03:29And the piece that Doc Ock comes with is the arm of Sandman.
03:35Just get that in place,
03:37and we will take the arm,
03:39plug it into place,
03:42and there we've got...
03:44Oh, look at how wonderful it's becoming.
03:48It's turning out to be a great figure.
03:50There we have two pieces shy of a finished Sandman.
03:58So what we're going to do is move him out of the way,
04:01and get a good look at Dr. Octopus.
04:05Now, unfortunately, I don't have the original Dr. Octopus,
04:08as I was saying,
04:09so I can't do a comparison.
04:10I don't know.
04:11It does appear to me that it is the same body mold as the initial Dr. Octopus.
04:21Now, I'm just going by what I'm thinking here,
04:24and I may not be right,
04:26but the figure does,
04:28much like the Green Goblin,
04:30he does feel pretty light.
04:32He doesn't have a substantial weight to him.
04:39So, I don't know if it's the original Doc Ock was like that as well,
04:43but this one feels a little cheap.
04:46Speaking of cheap,
04:48he has these really neat tentacles,
04:50his arms, his robotic arms.
04:52You can actually open them up.
04:58And I'm not a fan of really how they painted the inside of these arms,
05:03or the hands here.
05:04They're individually articulated,
05:06which is nice.
05:10There is also a wire in the tentacles here
05:13that you can bend the arms every which way.
05:18However you so see fit to have them.
05:22Get the other one opened up here so you guys can see.
05:26Yeah, I don't like how that's painted on the inside.
05:29Speaking of cheap,
05:30and I don't know if the original Doc Ock had this or not,
05:33but the arms,
05:34the bottom arms,
05:36actually don't have wires.
05:37They're just loose,
05:42just loose rubberized pieces of plastic,
05:44which are a shame,
05:45because these are the arms that have the additional fingers.
05:49If you want to call them fingers,
05:51they're not really fingers,
05:52but they've got the additional pincers on them.
05:58You know,
05:58if it had been wired,
06:01you probably could have got enough
06:04to get the figure to stand on them,
06:07but because they're just these loose rubber,
06:10rubber pieces,
06:11you can't really do much with them.
06:12They kind of just sit on your shelf,
06:16or wherever you've got it displayed.
06:18They just kind of sit to the side.
06:21I'll give you guys a view of the back here.
06:26I did like the fact that he had the trench coat on.
06:28I thought that was a nice touch.
06:32Now,
06:32the face,
06:36Alfred Molina,
06:37is that the guy that played him?
06:39I'm trying to think here.
06:40But it does look like him.
06:44And again,
06:45if this is reusing the same body
06:47and same sculpt
06:48as the Spider-Man 2 figures,
06:50then,
06:50of course,
06:51it's going to be really detailed,
06:53because I did like the original sculpt
06:55on the Spider-Man 2 figures.
06:56Very well detailed,
06:58very well sculpted.
07:00Probably just makes sense
07:01that they would reuse the same body.
07:03Similar also to the original
07:06Doc Ock
07:07figure,
07:07he does also come with glasses.
07:09That we'll try to put into place here.
07:14I feel like I'm all thumbs in this video.
07:17I'm not getting these
07:18pieces on here.
07:24And is there an actual area?
07:27Hold on.
07:27Wait for it.
07:28I'm just trying to see if there's an actual area
07:30where you can
07:31pin these
07:32glasses on.
07:36Unless you just kind of
07:37tuck them above the ears.
07:41No,
07:42I can't get the glasses on.
07:46You think there would be
07:48some
07:48easy way,
07:49like there would be a hole.
07:56Bear with me, guys.
07:58I'm trying to get these glasses on here.
08:01No,
08:02these glasses just don't want to stay.
08:03They're not,
08:04I don't know how they're supposed to,
08:06unless you're supposed to just
08:07tuck them above the ears.
08:09But they don't want to stay.
08:13That's very interesting.
08:16Well,
08:17at any rate,
08:17he does come with his glasses.
08:19Which I had
08:20the toughest time
08:21to try to get on.
08:22I'll just
08:22put him to the side for now.
08:25His jacket,
08:26as you can see,
08:27it's not removable.
08:29It might be removable,
08:30but his sleeves,
08:31obviously his arm sleeves,
08:32would still be there.
08:33As you can see,
08:34the interior of Doc Ock.
08:37In the way of his articulation,
08:39he has the ball-jointed head.
08:42He has a ball-jointed shoulder.
08:44You can rotate the arms
08:46at the bicep.
08:47Bend the elbows
08:48two points in the knee.
08:50Or two points in the knee.
08:51You can bend the elbows
08:53at two points.
08:54You can rotate the arm.
08:56The hand,
08:57you can bend at the fingers.
08:59If you want to give him that.
09:00So he can wave.
09:01Hello.
09:04No articulation in the waist.
09:06The legs are ball-jointed.
09:09Surprisingly loose, too.
09:11You can bend the knees
09:12at two points.
09:13You can rotate the calf.
09:15You can swivel the foot.
09:17You can also bend the foot
09:18back and forth.
09:19And you can also bend
09:19at the toe.
09:24I guess also I'll note
09:25the articulation in the hand.
09:27In the individual claws.
09:29He's got one joint
09:31in the finger or claw end of it.
09:38And he's also got the articulation
09:39in the second point
09:43in the finger as well.
09:48The bottom hands,
09:49as I was mentioning earlier as well,
09:51seem to have, what,
09:53three points of articulation?
09:55We've got one.
09:56Yeah, we've got one,
09:57two,
09:59three.
10:00Three points.
10:05It's a nice figure.
10:06And I almost feel like
10:07the same way I felt
10:08with the Green Goblin.
10:12I don't know.
10:12I just feel like
10:14they took what I believe
10:16to be the same mold.
10:18They just kind of tweaked it
10:20ever so slightly.
10:21But then they just did
10:21a sloppy job on some points
10:23on the,
10:24like,
10:25in the fingers here.
10:27It just seems a little crude.
10:29I also don't like the fact
10:30that there's no wire
10:31in his lower tentacles.
10:34Had it been the case,
10:35you probably could have
10:36had him standing on them.
10:37I don't know how heavy
10:38he would have been,
10:39but I guess the,
10:41as a backup,
10:42you could have probably
10:43just get him on a stand
10:44or something
10:44and have him look
10:45like he's levitating.
10:46But I don't know.
10:48He's just a bit disappointing.
10:49Can't get the glasses on either.
10:51But really,
10:53with paint and everything aside,
10:54the lack of the wires here,
10:56he is a decent figure.
10:57And I am glad
10:58I picked him up.
10:59I might still want to go back
11:00and get the original
11:01Doc Ock from Spider-Man 2
11:03because I'm feeling like
11:05he is the better
11:06of the figures
11:07between this guy
11:08and the original.
11:11But this guy,
11:12the Doc Ock,
11:13I'm going to give a 7 to.
11:16He hasn't redeemed
11:17the line at all,
11:18but he is still
11:19a pretty good figure.
11:21Hope you guys enjoyed it.
11:22That was a toy spot.
11:24Today we were looking
11:24at the Marvel Legends
11:25Spider-Man movie line
11:27of figures
11:27from the Sandman series.
11:29Today we were looking
11:30at Doc Ock.
11:33Hope you guys enjoyed it
11:34and I'll see you guys
11:35next time.
11:36Later.
11:51I'll see you guys next time.
11:53See you next time.
11:53See you next time.
11:55You

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