About halfway up, he stopped. Then he turned around to face the crowd, held the pose for a beat, and fired off a few webs into the dark. The noise from the ground at that moment was the loudest it got all night. Pure comic-book instinct, and it landed.
So how tall is the Dubai Frame?
The Frame stands 150 metres tall and roughly 95 metres wide, and holds the record for the largest picture frame in the world. Its whole design premise is the view it holds: old Dubai, with its coral-stone houses and creekside neighbourhoods, sits on one side, while the towers of the modern city fill the other.
So when Spidey reached the top, the shot behind him was the skyline itself. Not a green screen in sight. With great height comes a great camera roll, and everyone there knew it.
Then the drones took over
The moment he made it up, the sky filled in around him.