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Today, Hasbro announced its latest addition to its line of Marvel Legends prop replicas with a hell of a bang—new toys inspired by Willem Dafoe’s iconic take on the Green Goblin, in the form of a new replica mask and pumpkin bomb. Inspired by their re-appearances in Spider-Man: No Way Home, they’re pricey, lavish, and very cool… but they’re missing the ultimate feature.
The helmet should talk to you! Alas, there are no electronic sound features in the Legends Goblin helmet at all. The sold-separate pumpkin bomb, meanwhile, includes light and sound FX for $40, including, of all things, Dafoe’s manic cackle. But the helmet itself? Not a single extra feature, save for being a 1:1 replica that comes with its own stand.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s very cool, but come on. The whole deal with the mask was Norman seeing it as his Goblin persona talking to him directly! It would’ve been perfect if, like several of Hasbro’s other roleplay helmets, it lifted a few lines from the films to hauntingly sneer at you while this giant green helmet sits on your shelf.
Maybe it was a licensing issue—after all, Hasbro has to call it a No Way Home Green Goblin helmet, rather than invoking the Raimi Spider-Man films. Maybe the cackle in the pumpkin bomb is all they could use, rather than actual dialogue. But then why put it in the pumpkin bomb over the helmet? At an already lofty $125, would the price on the helmet have gone up that much with a sound FX feature?
It’s still a very cool helmet. But it could’ve been so much cooler. Both the Marvel Legends Roleplay Green Goblin Helmet and the Electronic Pumpkin will be available to preorder starting tomorrow, ahead of a release this fall.
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