The advent of Ben 10 as a kid who finds a watch allowing him to change into different aliens to fight off bad guys was a bit of a revelation a few years ago. More recently, there has been a further development, picking up the characters' stories a few years later, with Ben and his cousin Gwen now in their mid to late teens. Naturally, along with this comes new aliens, and this time they've been given a bit more detail.

One such alien is Spidermonkey, and this figurine represents the character as you see him on screen. As the character is pretty much a cross between the two animals in its name, it's an intriguing figurine as opposed to another generic humoid one with two legs and two arms. Spider Monkey has six limbs, and I hesitate to label which are arms and which are legs. Essentially, the stance is one of a monkey, and I suppose the upper limbs are the arms, the lower the legs, and the middle ones a cross between the two.

As you rotate the limbs, they are slightly flexible, so can do a full 360 movement and manage to get past any other limbs that might be in the way. It's hard plastic though, and there isn't a great deal of flexibility in the rest of the figurine. I like the fact that his head comes off, and the tail as well, although I will say that the tail comes off far too easily. The limbs are also removable, although putting them back on is rather limited due to the holes.

Playability is quite high, and the main focus for this figurine is going to be more about the interaction with the other characters available than how individual a toy it is to play with on its own. It's probably about 4 inches long, although hard to tell as the hunched over monkey stance doesn't allow full stretching. The detail is as good as it can be really, and is very closely done with regards to the character on screen.

The other thing you get with the figurine (in some cases) is a smaller, see through plastic model of Spider Monkey, on a see through base. This has lugs on the bottom, and is for use solely with a special watch you can buy. This watch allows you to slot the lugs into the top of the watch, and based on where the lugs go in, it recognises which character it is and the watch makes an appropriate noise, announcing the alien's name.

This is a nice addition to the main figurine, and the price of around £10 or so for the two in a well packaged box is a fair price. My 6 year old son enjoys both, although he uses the watch less and the characters more, often in combination with a bunch of other toys he has. It's well designed on the whole, and I recommend it for any Ben 10 fan.