In 2004 LEGO released 8 Spider-Man sets. The largest Spider-Man set from 2004 was
65572 Spider-Man Combined Set with a piece count of 1022 and a retail price of $199.99. The current estimated value of all these Spider-Man sets from this year is about $4,460.56 which represents a 1101.6% growth.
The LEGO Spider-Man theme is the original Spider-Man series based on the first two movies. The theme was introduced in 2002 with the release of the first Spider-Man movie and was a sub-brand of the LEGO Studios theme. The frist series of sets released in 2003 were under the LEGO Studios branding. In 2004, in order to tie into the Spider-Man 2 movie, 7 new sets were released under the Spider-Man theme. After this series the theme was discontinued and LEGO lost the license to Spider-Man 3 to Mega Bloks. Spider-Man returned in the Marvel sub-theme LEGO Super Heroes.
2004 LEGO Sets
2004 was a shakeup year at LEGO, coming off of 2003 with record losses. Some significant events include the release of the QUATRO System for very young children, and most notably the replacement of many long-standing LEGO colors including gray, dark gray, brown and violet and the introduction of some new colors like light nougat which ultimately became the skin tone for many minifigures. In 2004, The LEGO Group created a partnership with Ferrari and a number of LEGO Ferrari sets were released that year based on Ferrari’s Formula 1 racing cars. New themes released in 2004 included Maersk, Knight's Kingdom II and Ferrari under the Racers theme. LEGO discontinued the Adventurers Orient Expedition, the original Spider-Man theme, LEGO World City and Gravity Games.