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Background...

This is a re-release of Funtastic Activity Pack/Pad & Crayons, but with a movie-tie cover.

Then when movie madness hit, Funtastic re-released their latest series of Spider-Man coloring and activity books with updated "Movie" covers... featuring the new look Spidey and Green Goblin. The interior was basically untouched, although a few of the drawings were swapped around, some were replaced by blank "Draw a Picture" pages. Also, some of the text and graphics were replaced with updated "movie-style" equivalents. The Funtastic Paint With Water Book appears to have been dropped for the second run.

In Detail...

Funtastic Activity Pack/Pad & Crayons (Movie Version)
Publisher:  Funtastic Publishing
 
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No Month 2002 : SM Title : Spider-Man Color/Activity Books (Funtastic)

This is a tweaked version of the original, with the new cover being the most notable change.

Half-sized, top-hinged activity pad. 24 pages featuring a few spot-the-difference pages, and a few coloring pages with the same art as the coloring/bumper books. Comes in a bagged pack along with the bigger coloring book, and a set of four crayons. The movie version gave me four colors, red + blue, naturally. It also gave me green + purple, presumably so I could draw the Green Goblin! Sadly, none of the pictures in the activity pad showed the Green Goblin!

In General...

The covers on the movie-look versions are all very pretty, but inside, it's just the same old sad dross. This really was a pretty cheap effort to cash in on the movie-generated hysteria. Quality and variety were both pretty far down on the list of priorities.

Overall Rating...

Disappointing really. Two webs.

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