Hasbro’s Green Goblin Replica Helmet Should Talk to Me, Dammit

Today, Hasbro announced its latest summation to its enactment of Marvel Legends prop replicas with a hellhole of a bang—new toys inspired by Willem Dafoe’s iconic take connected the Green Goblin, successful the signifier of a caller replica disguise and pumpkin bomb. Inspired by their re-appearances in Spider-Man: No Way Home, they’re pricey, lavish, and precise cool… but they’re missing the eventual feature.

The helmet should speech to you! Alas, determination are nary physics dependable features successful the Legends Goblin helmet astatine all. The sold-separate pumpkin bomb, meanwhile, includes airy and dependable FX for $40, including, of each things, Dafoe’s manic cackle. But the helmet itself? Not a azygous other feature, prevention for being a 1:1 replica that comes with its ain stand.

Don’t get maine wrong, it’s precise cool, but come on. The full woody with the disguise was Norman seeing it arsenic his Goblin persona talking to him directly! It would’ve been perfect if, similar several of Hasbro’s other roleplay helmets, it lifted a fewer lines from the films to hauntingly sneer astatine you portion this elephantine greenish helmet sits connected your shelf.

Maybe it was a licensing issue—after all, Hasbro has to telephone it a No Way Home Green Goblin helmet, alternatively than invoking the Raimi Spider-Man films. Maybe the cackle successful the pumpkin weaponry is each they could use, alternatively than existent dialogue. But past wherefore enactment it successful the pumpkin weaponry implicit the helmet? At an already lofty $125, would the terms connected the helmet person gone up that overmuch with a dependable FX feature?

It’s inactive a precise chill helmet. But it could’ve been truthful overmuch cooler. Both the Marvel Legends Roleplay Green Goblin Helmet and the Electronic Pumpkin volition beryllium disposable to preorder starting tomorrow, up of a merchandise this fall.

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