Customer Reviews

Spider-Man: Classic Stunt System Playset

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I recently purchased the Spider-Man Stunt System for my son at Toys R Us for Christmas.

Let me just start off by saying that your company has a lot of nerve for even attempting to sell this toy. It is really not a toy at all, but rather the equivalent of being robbed. The toy does NOT work as advertised, AT ALL. I have a 6 year old who day in and day out wanted this piece of CRAP toy since September and whose heart was broken when it simply DID NOT WORK AT ALL. I am not the only person to have the same issues. Other disgruntled parents are having the same issues. [...]

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MUCH THANKS FOR RUINING MY 6 year olds Christmas morning. We will be sure we never buy a TOY BIZ product ever again.

I also happen to be a mechanical engineer incase you are wondering if it is "just me."

Save yourself some $$$. This toy sucks. I bought it for my son for Christmas 04. Let me tell you that this thing sucks plain and simple. 1. Spiderman actually goes from post to post 1 out of 20 times. 2. The so called traps that come with this toy such as the web dropping and the platform in which the bad guy is supposed to stand on is crap. Complete CRAP. It hardly stays up and when it does a little tiny tap will make it fall down again. This will ONLY frustrate the living crap out of your child. I wish I did not even purchase this and spent my money on something else like a game for his Playstation 2 or XBox.

This toy had a lot of promise. My Kids and I love Spiderman! This was to be an assembled toy for Christmas morning for my 9 yr and 4 yr old boys. I spent 2 hours Christmas eve taking the toy out of the box, assembling it and attempting to get spidey to travel from lamp post to lamp post. Even my Mechanical engineering degree did not help. I finally took one of the lamp post completly out of spidey's path and made several adjustements to the plastic joints. Spidey began traveling all the way to the target on about 1 out of 10 attempts. Then, when he did hit the target most of the time the ledge or net would not fall and capute the bad guy. I didn't even attempt the landing on the car. I boxed it all up and will be returning it. This toy is headed back to the manufacturer!!

I think that this stunt system is a great toy. I bought this for my nephew who is four. I will admit that he has a hard time by himself making spiderman swing from web to web, but you can tell by looking at the toy that it is for older kids (like me Im 25). The day after christmas we played with this toy for hours on the kitchen table, we set up all kind of different stunts, we even made up our own stunts with things from around the kitchen. Did the stunts work out every time? No! nothing is perfect. but we had loads of fun. If you are patient and follow the DIRECTIONS (if your stunt system is not working read the directions, dont just look at them or glance over them, acutally read them) it will work between 70-80% of the time. As for the parents that bought this toy for your kids for Christmas, be patient and play with your children. Parents this is a great toy if you want to spend more time with your children. Parents remember this is a plastic toy, not a german engineered automobile. Have fun!!!!!

My four year old son asked for this for christmas 2004. This is all he ever said he wanted. We were so dissapointed to see his face when it would not work. After about 20 tries spiderman managed to make it half way down the lamposts. Toy makers pay attention!! Santa brings these toys. Would you want your child realizing the toy he asked santa for, and talked about for two months, does not work? I gave five stars for the educational value because he learned a valuable lesson to not judge a toy by what you see on tv. I gave it two stars because it was not a total bust. He loves the little figures that came with it, and uses his imagination when he plays with it. But for forty bucks it should do what it says it will do.

Nothing else to say, it has all been said. Do not waste your money!

We received this for Christmas and was very disappointed with this item. After putting it together, the platform that is supposed to drop down when a button is pushed would not latch to hold the figure in the first place. The net that is supposed to fall wouldn't latch either. We could only get Spiderman to go around swinging one whole time without him falling off midway. This is a very disappointing toy and I would not advise parents to get it for their Spiderman loving kids.

this is one of the most elaborate, brilliantly designed toys I have ever seen and therein lies the problem. There is simply too much to it to make it very effective as a toy. It took me about two hours to apply the stickers, set it up and make it work and fortunately I did that when my 6-year-old wasn't around. I guarantee he would not have had the patience for that tedious process. I think it is a fascinating toy to watch when it works but it is just by pure luck that the thing works very often. If you line up the street lamps just right and really attempt to make Spidey land on the car, you can sometimes get it to work, but this is the exception and not very regularly. My son enjoyed it for a while and sometimes comes back to it, but to be honest the frustration factor here is pretty great and that's a shame. Somebody worked very hard to make this stunt set do a whole lot of things but it is, I think, over-designed. It doesn't leave a lot for the imagination either, but we have been enjoying playing with it when we can get it to work.

We got this for my then 4 year old last Christmas who likes Spider-man. He tried playing with it one or two times and quickly lost interest. It takes up a lot of room, and is definitely not worth the money.

I like playing with this and it is fun, but it breaks too easily.