One of the coolest things the internet brings us isn’t just all the information on what is happening, but also what could have been.

As we look toward this summer’s release of The Amazing Spider-Man, the big reboot of the webswinger franchise, it’s probably a great time to look back at 2002’s Spider-Man, directed by Sam Raimi.  While it maybe hasn’t aged too well, it’s still one of my favorite movie experiences of all time.  One of the things that hasn’t aged great, besides Macy Grey, is the somewhat odd Green Goblin costume.  With a big clunky helmet, it feels Power Rangers-esq at times.

But, at one time, we almost had something VERY close to the comic book original. As the above YouTube video shows, special effects masters Amalgamated Dynamics actually had a working makeup/animatronic model which would have made Willem DeFoe look much like the Norman Osborn of the page.

Personally, I would have loved to see this design in action, but I suppose the remote control aspects may have proven too difficult for action scenes. Maybe we’ll see something like this in Amazing Spider-Man 2?