In 2003 LEGO released 3 Spider-Man sets. The largest Spider-Man set from 2003 was
4852 Spider-Man vs. Green Goblin -- The final showdown with a piece count of 360 and a retail price of $49.99. The current estimated value of all these Spider-Man sets from this year is about $1,427.12 which represents a 1427.5% 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.
2003 LEGO Sets
While 2003 proved to be a financial disaster for LEGO we did see a number of signification events that set the tone for future LEGO recovery and investments. Most important, LEGO introduced new realistic minifigure skin tones that affected licensed themes including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Basketball, Ferrari and Spider-Man, but kept yellow skin tones for all other minifigures. In 2003, the LEGO minifigure celebrated its 25th birthday with just under four billion minifigures being produced. LEGO that year introduced a number of new themes including Clikits, Designer, Sports which consisted of hokey, basketball and Gravity Games, World City and 4 Juniors which replaced the Jack Stone theme.