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Spider-Boy has been a joyous breath of fresh air in an increasingly grim Marvel Comics universe since Dan Slott retconned him into existence in 2023. Bailey Briggs has quickly leapt into my favorite non-X characters to read about, so I’m hyped to also make him the subject of my first toy review of the year! The 2025 Marvel Legends Spider-Boy figure is now starting to ship out: Should Spider-Man’s kid sidekick join *your* action figure collection?
Miles Morales has kind of aged out of “child superhero” at this point, and even he was a teen when he got his Spider-Man powers. Alternatively, Bailey Briggs is a legit kid sidekick to Spidey, being just 10 years old. We don’t see honest to God pre-teen child superheroes in the 616 very much these days (sorry Power Pack), so Spider-Boy is something *really* different from every other comic book Marvel is publishing today.
And thus, it feels good to see Hasbro embracing the different and delivering to fans a super-articulated Marvel Legends action figure of this character that was only created less than two years ago (even if he has been on a million adventures with Spider-Man that no one remembers).
Spider-Boy is part of this year’s Spider-Man Legends Retro series, which feels both awkward and suitable for a character with a lot of history that’s just been retconned into canon. The clean look of the packaging looks nice, and I like Bailey being part of a wave that should have wide distribution.
The cardback is basic, but shows off the awesome lineup of this wave and does a relatively solid job of summarizing Spider-Boy in one sentence (as much as you can in that amount of words, anyway).
It’s always a real shame having to rip apart the lovely retro packages, but I review toys, so sacrifices must be made.
ML Spider-Boy comes with four accessories, and two of them are top-notch (and the other two baffling). The star extra here is the monster form head, giving Bailey a horrifying fanged open-mouth expression. This head looks really dynamic and expressive, even though Spider-Boy doesn’t like being seen as monstrous.
The other really good accessory is the “Bug-Pack” backpack that pegs into Bailey’s back. Its paint deco adds some extra color to the figure as a whole, and I’m a mite surprised Hasbro remembered this unique element of Bailey’s costume.
The last two accessories are swap-out web-shooting hands, which are a bizarre inclusion since Spider-Boy isn’t permitted by Peter to have web-shooters.
The 10 eyes on Spider-Boy’s heads definitely give you an uneasy feeling and set him apart from your typical Spider-Man-adjacent character. The red-outlined gold eyes really pop on the blue head.
If you couldn’t already tell this super hero was a kiddo, his sneakers do a good job of driving that point home. Their lack of any kind of rocker or usable movement is my biggest complaint about this Spider-Boy figure’s articulation set, though.
He’s also sadly missing the butterfly swivel shoulders that are quickly becoming standard, although he does feature double-hinged knees and elbows; ball-hinge head and shoulders; ball hips; swivel-hinge wrists; and swivel waist, biceps and thighs. Lots of fun poses are achievable—the articulation scheme just isn’t perfect, though.
Overall: I would’ve really liked an unmasked head and wall-crawling hands since we are not likely to see Bailey again from Hasbro anytime soon, but the first (and very possibly only) Marvel Legends Spider-Boy is a fresh, fun and different addition to the overwhelming number of 6” Spider-Man variants that Hasbro has released.
The pin-less body mold looks fantastic, the “monster” head and Bug-Pack are excellent pack-ins and the articulation set is sturdy and reasonably extensive (he could really use rockers on his sneakers and butterfly swivel shoulders). There is a bit of room for improvement if Hasbro ever tackles a Marvel Legends Spider-Boy figure again someday, but I’m really glad to have this one in my collection.