A Spider-Man fan has released a YouTube video showing off the fully-functional webshooters based on Andrew Garfield's The Amazing Spider-Man movies. Some of the most iconic scenes in any Spider-Man comic or movie feature the hero shooting his webs and swinging across New York City. This ability/tech became a staple that was consistent across all three live action Spider-Man movies, from Sam Rami's Spider-Man trilogy starring Tobey Maguire, to the Garfield-led Amazing Spider-Man movies, and Tom Holland's MCU "Homecoming" Spider-Man trilogy. The hero's webshooters even inspired an interactive ride at Disneyland, and Spider-Man can also be seen swinging webs in real life in Disneyland's Avengers Campus.
In Raimi's Maguire Spider-Man films, the radioactive spider that bit Peter Parker gave him the ability to shoot webs from his wrist. However, in both the Garfield and Holland films, the actors' respective Spider-Men have to use external webshooter devices in order to make the webs appear. The webshooters have proved a point of contention between Spider-Man actors before, however, with Holland joking last year that Garfield's devices were "so small and so compact" that they "didn't really make much sense" to him, compared to the Tony Stark-made webshooters that Holland's Peter Parker sported.
The HeroTech YouTube channel recently released a video in which they create fully-functional and retractable Spider-Man webshooters. Created within two months, the devices are based off the tech in Garfield's Amazing Spider-Man films. The impressive shooters include green and red LED lights, an interchangeable web cartridge and watch cartridge, which can tell the time. In the video, it's announced that a follow-up tutorial video will be released to help fans to create these retractable devices for themselves. Check out the video below:
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In the video, the HeroTech host shows off the webshooters in action. After first showing the shooters' ability to reach an impressive height by projecting webs onto a roof, he then makes a fun reference to Raimi's Spider-Man films. Aiming at a picture of Alfred Molina's Doc Ock from Spider-Man 2 (and now Spider-Man: No Way Home) on a camera stand, the host uses his webshooter to make it fall onto the ground. The webshooters are also shown being projected onto a garage door, highlighting the tech's ability to stick the webs onto multiple surfaces. The last shot of the video also seems to be a veiled Spidey reference, as the host walks off into a city skyline with the webshooter on his wrist, as if he were Spider-Man in New York City.
Fan-made tech like this functional webshooter is certainly fun to see, not to mention skilful. With Spider-Man: No Way Home's recent phenomenal success, it's clear that the web-slinging hero is still at the forefront of popular culture, and many fans of all ages would no doubt be interested in creating devices like this of their own. While cool designs like HeroTech's webshooters are masterly nods to the original Spider-Man films, however, they are simply meant to be played with, and unfortunately wouldn't be very useful in fighting crime.
Source: HeroTech