Soulsync has posted new images of the Venom figure from the upcoming 3-3/4″ Spiderman line. Venom and other popular villains from the Spiderman universe have been noticeably absent from the popular Marvel Universe line, and something else is noticeably absent on this figure; full articulation!
This figure has ball joints shoulders, elbows, and hips along with a thigh swivel, but no knee joints! That’s not all, many of the figures in the 1st waves of this line lack full articulation as well. While the preferred route would have been Marvel Universe style figures, what we get instead is something definitely geared more towards kids. Perhaps us collectors will get 3-3/4″ Spideyverse figures geared towards us later on in the line, but for now, click on the title bar to get an idea of what you’re in for.
pic from Soulsync
That is incredibly sweet, but I thought the Spidey line wasn't supposed to be out until next year.
Damn,... Might be worth overlooking the lack of articulation
Is it me or is there no knee articulation?
I think though you have to give Hasbro the benefit of the doubt that their action figures for the MU/ 3.34 line will have more then average articulation considering what we have seen so far
we've seen production images already. There are no knees.
edit: Forgot it does have elbows
How could they think about doing that?
There is no good answer to that.
I'd be willing to bet that there is knee articulation in the final release if not in the actual figure in the picture, as well.
Not a bad sculpt, articulation is lacking a shade. I'll give this line more credit once it covers his other renditions, like 2099, Anti-Venom, Web of Shadows Symbiote heroes, Or a black cat or other heroes that first appeared in spidey, like night thrasher, rocket racer, Silver Sable, Nova, DarkHawk, and anyone else I missed. Right now the line is kind of a pass still though for me.
So far, venom might be all I get.
I'll probably get Venom. And once I see that wave 2 Rhino, maybe him too. Rhino however has an action feature.
So far, venom might be all I get.
This Venom looks nice but without some of the more modern articulation is worthless. Maybe I can stick that head on my Showdown version.
I'm just happy he's not the tongue-wagging slobbermouth version that unfortunately seems to be very popular these days. I like this head sculpt much better, as he looks more menacing.
Shame about the articulation, though.
I love the sculpt detail especially the backbone looks really cool, but what kills it for me is there's like no articulation, no elbow, knee and what looks like no upper torso joint looks like its just a statue with exceptions of the shoulder and hip joints...I hope that this isn't true and were just not seeing the joints due to the black color of the figure cause if not its like the MU line took a giant leap backwards in their figure design.
I think knee articulation is the only mystery. From the limited view of the pics, it looks like there are joints for the elbows, as well as a bicep swivel. And I'm pretty sure he has ankle joints, which makes me think he's got knees but we can't see it due to the black plastic.
I still think that they are going to give it articulation later on, if this is supposed to be out so far from now. At least I hope. There haven't been a whole lot of great Venom figures in awhile.
Wouldn't surprise me if knees are retooled in eventually but in any case, this isn't for me. I'd much prefer a Marvel Universe style Venom.
To be honest I find it weird that Hasbro is making an under articulated Spidey line along with the Armored Adventures Iron Man figures. The Animated Wolverine line hasn't done that well and it seems that Armored Adventures isn't doing so hot too. Might as well make a MU style Spiderman line to sell alongside MU without taking up spots that other characters should have in MU.
It really just doesn't make sense, especially after the well-articulated X-Men Origins line's success, why wouldn't they try to maintain a steady compliment line to the MU? Perhaps it is because they want to focus on MU and IM2, and so they're leaving S-M4 behind?
Wouldn't surprise me if knees are retooled in eventually but in any case, this isn't for me. I'd much prefer a Marvel Universe style Venom.
To be honest I find it weird that Hasbro is making an under articulated Spidey line along with the Armored Adventures Iron Man figures. The Animated Wolverine line hasn't done that well and it seems that Armored Adventures isn't doing so hot too. Might as well make a MU style Spiderman line to sell alongside MU without taking up spots that other characters should have in MU.
Wouldn't surprise me if knees are retooled in eventually but in any case, this isn't for me. I'd much prefer a Marvel Universe style Venom.
To be honest I find it weird that Hasbro is making an under articulated Spidey line along with the Armored Adventures Iron Man figures. The Animated Wolverine line hasn't done that well and it seems that Armored Adventures isn't doing so hot too. Might as well make a MU style Spiderman line to sell alongside MU without taking up spots that other characters should have in MU.
No ankle, knee, wrist and chest articulation CONFIRMED. Milneruk posted pics over at Marvelous. These are out in the UK.
Venom Pics
I hit the floor when the ML line came out, at first it was consistent in scale and offered articulation unheard of at the time. A true innovation in the toy biz industry but later they started slacking off and the line began to suffer. I loved the build a figure idea and actually thought of it as a child but when they started making you buy variants of the same toy in the same sires just to complete the larger one it bothered me. I think it was brilliant to give us the option to buy a few more figures we might not get because we wanted the larger one, but to then make us buy a variant... Not cool. all this forced me out of collecting ML. It simply was no longer worth the price to build my collection.
I would really like to see hasbro start paying more attention to scale and articulation. I've been collecting almost all my life and remember when action figures like the original 90's Batman movie figures came out and couldn't move at the knees and elbows. I quickly switched to Toy Biz's X-men line that did so. Now we see the de-evolution of figures going back 20 years..? Venom is like Spiderman, he's supposed to be a flexible villain.
I know it's easy for so many of you to overlook these problems, but you know it bothers you. Now with MU line I find myself interested but all the same problems are present. A little quality control goes a long way!
I know this has turned into a rant but if I've not earned the right to express my opinion than I know I've bought it! I would be happy to offer some free consultation to Hasbro if they wanted to improve there line with little effort. Somehow I don't think they are interested in what I or you have to say in the matter. We only make it possible for them to exists.
I would really like to see hasbro start paying more attention to scale and articulation. I've been collecting almost all my life and remember when action figures like the original 90's Batman movie figures came out and couldn't move at the knees and elbows. I quickly switched to Toy Biz's X-men line that did so. Now we see the de-evolution of figures going back 20 years..? Venom is like Spiderman, he's supposed to be a flexible villain.
I know it's easy for so many of you to overlook these problems, but you know it bothers you. Now with MU line I find myself interested but all the same problems are present. A little quality control goes a long way!
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