LEGO Art 31209 The Amazing Spider-Man visual tour and gallery

28/06/202328/06/2023 Chris Wharfe 2682 Views 0 Comments

With great power comes great responsibility, and with a great new LEGO Art set there must also come an in-depth visual tour, in order to fully unpack everything that’s gone into 31209 The Amazing Spider-Man.

Swinging out of Billund and straight on to LEGO Store shelves in August, 31209 The Amazing Spider-Man marks the wall-crawler’s debut in the LEGO Art theme. Rather than a two-dimensional square portrait a la 31199 Iron Man or 31205 Jim Lee Batman Collection, however, this vertical canvas sees Spider-Man burst from the frame.

It’s a continuation of the approach first seen in 31208 Hokusai – The Great Wave, blending traditional framed artwork with a textured image. Scroll down to pore over all the details in this newly-revealed LEGO Art set.

31209 The Amazing Spider-Man build

Like most (but not all!) LEGO Art sets, 31209 The Amazing Spider-Man will involve painting (with bricks!) across a canvas surrounded by a monochromatic border. The LEGO Group is mixing things up a bit here, though, by having the three-dimensional web-slinger protrude from the frame, with a poseable head and hands.

31209 The Amazing Spider-Man details

As well as its dotted background (more on that below), 31209 The Amazing Spider-Man includes plenty of details to spot across the build. Those extend to several printed pieces, from red tiles decorated with Spidey’s webbing to the yellow tile in the bottom-right corner emblazoned with the Amazing Spider-Man logo. The press release claims this piece says ‘with great power there must also come great responsibility’ – maybe there’s an interchangeable tile in the box?

31209 The Amazing Spider-Man background

That green background isn’t just designed to provide contrast to the red and blue wall-crawler: it’s also paying homage to the Ben-Day dot printing technique, which was developed in the late 19th century by illustrator Benjamin Henry Day, Jr. The method uses tiny dots of different colours to create shading and backdrops in high-contrast images, and you’ll recognise it from the pages of plenty of classic comic books – and even the Spider-Verse movies.

31209 The Amazing Spider-Man references

No LEGO Marvel set would be complete without a few obscure nods to the source material, and that’s seemingly true even when superheroes branch out to other themes. 31209 The Amazing Spider-Man includes exactly 2,099 pieces, for example, in a nod to Spider-Man 2099 (who’s just made a name for himself in this summer’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse), while the frame is littered with exactly 15 tiny plastic spiders – referencing Spidey’s 1962 debut in Amazing Fantasy #15.

31209 The Amazing Spider-Man soundtrack

Every LEGO Art set is accompanied by a downloadable soundtrack to listen to while you build, and 31209 The Amazing Spider-Man is no exception. Exactly what that podcast will consist of is yet to be confirmed, but the product page at LEGO.com suggests it’s ‘tailor-made with content to enhance your time spent building this piece of superhero art’. Specific.

31209 The Amazing Spider-Man swings on to shelves on August 1, priced at £169.99 / $199.99 / €199.99. Click here for even more images.

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I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.