Spidey Alarm

My Spider Sense is tingling telling me it's time to...get up out of bed!

Hey, Clock Fans…

Our spider sense is tingling, and you know why? It’s because, while researching new material to share with our Facebook Fans on our Online Alarm Clock Facebook Page, we discovered that there are a heap ‘o different Spiderman Alarm Clocks out there.

In the past, while doing research for our Alarm Clock Blog and for our Facebook Page, we’ve discovered alarm clocks on just about any kind of subject or theme: Sonic the Hedgehog Alarm Clocks, Coca Cola Alarm Clocks, Mr. Peanut Alarm Clocks, Pirates of the Caribbean Alarm Clocks – you name it, if it exists or existed as a popular TV show, comic or film character, you can certainly purchase it as an Alarm Clock.

But why in the heck are there so many Spiderman Alarm Clocks out there?

Don’t get us wrong – we love Spiderman and especially Marvel Comics (though the recent purchase of Marvel Comics by Disney has us a little worried that the more adult comics will perhaps be made a little too clean-cut and sanitized in the future). But why is it that we’ve found up to a dozen different alarm clocks with a Spiderman theme?! That’s a whole lot of clocks, even for a popular web slinger who’s set out to save the planet!

Because there are so many Spiderman Alarm Clocks, and because several of them are really quite cool, we decided to collect some of the more interesting models here and present them all together to you, Clock Fans, in one blog post, making it easy for you to check them all out.

So, without much further ado, let us commence with attempting to create the most definitive Spider Man Alarm Clock post ever published on the world wide web!

Its Web swingin’ time!…I’m just your friendly neighborhood Spiderman…With great power comes great responsibility.

Those are some of the words of wisdom this Spiderman Alarm Clock says, when the alarm is activated. He has some cool web-slinging sound effects, too. This Spiderman figure stands atop a square pedestal with a neat spider motive on it, and the figure is nicely animated. Cool clock!

He couldn’t do anything with his eyes webbed shut, Ha, Ha, Ha, the Green Goblin thought he had it. His time is running out (referring to the Green Goblin).

This Spiderman Alarm Clock has a personal grudge to settle with the Green Goblin. He stands atop a rotating triangle-like city scene and it appears as if the alarm consists of various Spiderman sayings that are rotated randomly, each time the alarm goes off. Unlike the Spiderman figure in the previous clock, this figure isn’t really animated. Instead, it’s the round base on which Spidey stands that moves around. Bonus points for the cool web-slinging, whip-like sound effects in this clock!

Spiderman, Help!…My Spiderman senses are tingling…Then come and get me, if you can, Spiderman…It’s Web-swing time…You’ll never catch me, Web-head, Ha, ha, ha, ha.

A little more unique than the other two, this Spiderman Alarm Clock takes place in a Clock Tower. The Green Goblin goads Spiderman into climbing up the building’s face and going after him, and there is dialog back and forth between Spiderman and the Green Goblin. The fact that there’s a dialog back and forth between Spidey and his arch nemesis, combined with the fact that there is an actual chase scene here, makes this clock a little special: it’s kind of like a mini scene out of a Spiderman comic or film. So far, this one’s our favorite!

Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can…Spins a web, any size, catches thieves just like flies. Look out! Here comes the Spiderman!

This Spiderman Alarm Clock looks nice but unfortunately isn’t animated in any way. No matter: it redeems itself by playing the groovy Spiderman theme song (remember this song from the animated Spiderman Saturday morning cartoon series?). Still, we like the Ramones’ cover version of this song much better. And points off for the total lack of animation in this clock.

And our collection of Spiderman Alarm Clocks wouldn’t be complete without mentioning…the Lexibook Spiderman Alarm Clock Radio.

Besides being a fully functioning alarm clock radio, this cool clock projects the Spiderman symbol onto your ceiling in the dark, together with the current time. That’s pretty neat. Looking like a giant Spiderman head, this is one killer clock radio!

You can find a video about the Spiderman Alarm Clock radio, together with information on all the other clocks mentioned here, in our Spiderman Alarm Clock Video Playlist which we’ve created on YouTube. If you’re a true Clock Fan, or a Spiderman Fan, or both, you’ll want to check it out.

So there you have it, Clock Fans: several different Spiderman Alarm Clocks, and each of them very different and unique.

Personally, we like them all and that’s why we wrote this blog post…if it’s not fun for us to write about, it’s probably not a whole lot of fun for you to read…so we’re keeping it real.

Several of these alarm clocks are surely no longer manufactured.

For this reason, your best bet on buying them might be on eBay, if you no longer find them on Amazon.

We wish all of you happy hunting, either for yourselves or for the aspiring young web slingers in your families!

Now, where did that Green Goblin run off to?!

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