Featured several times here on MAN-E-TOYS, Jeff Lamm‘s latest modular kaiju toy, the mutant spider Spike Wad is finally readying to drop this weekend. Available in “Black Hole”, “Bloo”, “Absinthe”, “Satsuma” and “Claw” colourways, the super-limited vinyl figure will be making an appearance on the Unbox Industries web store at various times today (April 8th) for just $45 (£28) plus shipping. Anyone interested in grabbing a specific colour is going to have to stay locked onto the shop as these little critters won’t be around for long!
“Spike Wad is a fairly new large mutant spider. It’s origins are unknown, some say it first appeared in the area of the Large Hadron Collider on the border of France and Switzerland. It was given the military nomenclature “Spider Quad” which was shortened to “Spi-Quad” and finally “Spike Wad”.
The gender is unknown. Currently it has not been observed making a web or shooting silk. The volcano-like protrusions on it’s back appear to be a defensive mechanism, the larger ones can extend and shoot gelatinous balls of a gooey substance. The gelatinous balls are extremely thick and sticky, and they have a slight numbing effect on human skin.
The three large eyes give it excellent nocturnal vision, with a sort of thermal imaging view. The teeth can deliver a paralyzing venom if a bite is made, although the teeth are too big to penetrate a human being.
Spike Wad’s four arms make him/her an excellent climber, it has been observed climbing tall buildings and towers with alarming speed. The arms are covered in a sort of armored exoskeleton.
The body is covered in a thick fuzzy hair, which is impervious to fire. A single hair is about the width of a Bavarian weisswurst.
Spike Wad has no known weaknesses, but it has been noted that he/she seems to bypass cultural icons, cheese shops and boulangeries when rampaging.”
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