I hate how most recent venom figures are exclusive to a store. It’s so stupid. You’d think they would make one of their most popular characters available everywhere
(Assumption) Unfortunately for collectors, it's business. Retailers know Venom is popular and offer Hasbro more money for exclusivity. Hasbro accepts the deal, pleasing their top executives and shareholders, and throw good guy Dan out to the wolves.
I actually like this venom a lot even with the limited range. I don’t have the other two, so it was a good way to get this body mold. I got this 100% to get that McFarlane head sculpt with that wonderful grin( surprised you didn’t notice). To me the new head is what made this figure more appealing. That tongue head is terrible and I hate the gapped teeth. It looks like he’s preparing to get veneers. I would have rather had a full black TAS head instead. Not like TAS Venom is on the box or anything.
3:36 We think your previous Venom's head just has some extra paint that seeped between the teeth causing them to appear thicker. We don't like that there's teeth missing under the tongue. We do like that the back spider symbol is bigger on the new figure.
We absolutely needed a Venom that was easily found on the shelves without having to pay extra. I pre-ordered early so I'm really happy with my little symbiote. Also, I did the neck mod on this guy (I bent the peg and made a small gap on the neck) and now he can look up pretty nicely. Definitely my favorite 6 inch Venom.
I appreciate getting a single packed comic Venom on this body at regular retail price. I don't buy three packs to get one figure anymore, that animated series version had the retro card con exclusive tax, and the Hasbro Pulse shipping cost. If you got your pre-order in, this Venom was just a regular price Marvel Legend.
Seriously. Now we just need that retro carnage on a new body with the same raised details and no damn toes. I really hate the Ahole that created that mess.
Yes it's exclusive and thank god I got mine pre-ordered and is set to arrive today. This was at normal price until noon AZ time when suddenly it jumped to $70 dollars. Like WTF is Walmart doing? They made this particular diaphragm set up all stupid where you have to crack the lower torso to be able to access the ball joint completely cutting off useful range. Legit feels like Hasbro is a spiteful petty company at times with it's engineering. The legs bug me all to hell. Gonna see if I can use movie or Knull Venoms legs and keep these non toed feet, just really hate that none had a calf cut. The new teeth look stupid as hell and goes back to my spiteful and petty company. The mouth part is totally different in a worse way. Really wish I got a spare to use as Sabretooth body as I hate the outdated body the last one came in.
My walmart didnt fet him. My walmsrt is years behind. Stillnhave a ton of misty knight. And tarantula ir shelf though. Never got the hobgoblin. Never got scarlet spider with red hoodie. Never got hallowes eve. Never got alot of lines
I found that this is the quintessential venom if you have the others to swap heads and hands at your discretion. Looooooove it!!!!!! Yes we needed it. Every figure should have ab crunch and torso rotation.
I ordered 2 of these at like 3pm Eastern for $25 each, checked my order like 1 hour later and it was out of stock. I then checked it again recently and it’s in stock for $70? What the hell is that all about? Am I gunna get mine you think?
Aside from the so-so diaphragm joint and no disk-hinge neck, what disappointed me is how cheap and flimsy this Venom felt in hand, when a lot of other MLs this year were a joy to mess around with. In particular, the arms and legs felt super-gummy. Alas, it still made me get a new Venom for the first time since 2006's 'symbiote blast' version.
As soon as I heard these were in stock I jumped on my rod and headed down the highway. But a passenger plane snowballed out of the sky and hit the freeway causing a semi carrying toxic acidic waste,jack knifed and spun out ahead causing the police to shut down the highway. I got out and saw the freeway was packed with people getting out of their cars to see what happened. And found amidst the burning debris,smoke and screaming people there were others headed to get this exclusive venom but due to the blockage most had decided to turn back and not venture further into the abyss of devastation and horror. I waited at a straw hat pizza,for hours for the highway to reopen and when it did i finally made it to Wally Mart but I knew they would be closed but to my surprise a outbreak of vandalism due to the highway closure had left wallymart nearly destroyed. But a sign on the door assured me that there was hope. The sign said ' no marvel exclusives at this location '😂
I’ve been trying to figure out if they all have a weird gap under the upper torso, there’s always a gap on the back or front on mine. you can straighten out the spider logo on one side but not both lol
Just checked 2 Walmarts near me with no luck. The associates are never helpful. I work at Target and go out of my way to check the back for people. They always tell me some bs. So idk if scalpers got to it or if it's just sitting in the stockroom
Great video and I'm happy with this new Venom retro figure because the first one is hard to get since it's always sold out. And the 3pk Amazon is too expensive. And since Walmart finally let me pre-order, I got mines two days ago. So to me this is the best Venom figure!
I have the Amazon exclusive Venom and got this for the neutral head and the body without the tendrils molded in. I would have preferred a Venom with a completely smooth body.
Even tho i already have the Knull 2 Pack Venom & Monster Venom...i pre-ordered this Venom & should be getting it any day now..i wanted a more traditional MacFarlane version in my collection. Anyways great video brother..im looking forward to more of your Marvel Legends reviews 👑
Careful with that sticky paint. It won't take heat well, in case you wanna give your figure a hot bath. The guy from Tuggernaut Collectables did that and it got smudged pretty bad.
Neck joints really annoying but I like the torso but I don't know. The movie venom moves really well but really needed butterfly joints. I have this on pre-order like the warbird but both are leaving me a bit meh, if they'd got Carole's scale right I'd have been really happy with her. But also they need to find a way of doing long haired characters hair so it doesn't reduce neck mobility. Great review.
The McFarland style grin head was enough for me to get this figure. Recently, they try to give Venom white whites and all that, passss. Just a solid black suit, bulky bod and a crazy menacing grin like Todd’s or Bagleys back in the day
I like the look of it. A shame Hasbro still muck up ball joints. If it had a ball jointed waist, ball joint at the base of the neck with a dumbell joint that wasn't entombed, and could do the splits, it'd be amazing.
I'll never stop regretting not immediately pulling the trigger on the Amazon 3-pack when it went on clearance for like $50. I wish they'd just reissue that. I hate this torso set up going back to the DC Icons range, everytime Hasbro has done it, it has worse range than the classic crunch, except in the one direction of the waist crunch half the time. Great if I need everyone just trying to touch their toes
I think that Hasbro simply changed the mouth insert for the tongue out head. I also think the grinning head, which is my favorite because it is McFarlane inspired, originally came with the Absorbing man BAF Venom.
We’ve gotten Walmart exclusives of: Venom Animated Spider-Man Kraven Lizard Prowler Meanwhile characters like Hallow’s Eve and MJ are released everywhere💀
I had big hopes for this figure, sadly it's somewhat a let down. Omega red buck is one of the best hasbro ML bucks we have, the frozen neck ball peg and super limited diaghram joint is a let down. They could've done well but the hasbro engineering team lacks knowledge/skillset. Hopefully they do better.
For me, I hate waist swivel. I hate how when used, it looks horrible. So with that being said, I love the newer torso articulation. Plus I don't have a decent venom and this one is gonna be it. Plus I got an extra one to use that new articulation for sabertooth. I turned a retro spiderman into Gambit, Scarlet spider into Deadpool all because I hate that old waist swivel. Lol
@@Jay-hy6rlyea I get that. I don't understand why Hasbro doesn't make all they figures like g I. Joes.... It's like they almost competing with themselves. It's effing stupid
Shame about the neck, also wished they gave him new forearms alongside the new torso as the veiny arms are exclusive to the TAS design Also it wouldve been SO easy for them to make him pinless, but its lazy ass Hasbro were talking about so I digress
Its a WALMART EXCLUSIVE, and walmarts own web site shows its out of stock, yet COINCIDENTALLY, they have it for sale for 69.99 from a second party seller ...in otherwords, either walmart is ripping ppl off, or some scumbag bought as many as they cld to sell at 3x retail. Either way, the fact that Walmart's own website is allowing people to sell it for that much when it's their own exclusive just shows exactly what's wrong with exclusives in the first place. Plus it'll say out of stock every other day but then magically they'll still have stock, so either they're getting shipments in on Santa's personal sleigh, or they're withholding stock to create false rarity and demand. It's predatory business practices in exactly what should be outlawed when it comes to people collecting things
It's an okay figure there's stuff that pisses me off about it though if you compare the new Sabertooth to the new Venom you will notice that the arms on sabertooth are much better and shoulders they are updated, these were a big point of contention for me as there's a lot of gapping between the shoulder and the upper arm they fixed it on Sabertooth I also didn't like the proportion of the tricep on the inside of the arm and they fix that too so they gave Sabertooth better arms and they gave Venom the better torso, why couldn't they give both these figures both of these new upgrades? Why do you keep doing this to us hasbro?
@@Jay-hy6rl No it actually didn't the three pack Venom uses the animated Venom buck Sabertooth has updated modified shoulders and arms if you compare them side-by-side you'll see what I'm talking about but the chest and legs are the same as the three pack Venom venom has the newly sculpted torso it is more plump front and back not as flat as the previous buck that was used for 3-pack Venom and Sabretooth I think Hasbro should have used both updates on both characters Venom and Sabertooth why just give one upgrade to one and one upgrade to the other
I hate how most recent venom figures are exclusive to a store. It’s so stupid. You’d think they would make one of their most popular characters available everywhere
I hate exclusives in general especially Walgreens in my area oh my gosh I don’t even walk in them anymore
Agreed. I hate exclusives But hey, look on the bright side. There's a bunch in stock. They're not selling out. 🤷♂️
Yep tried to Pre-order this and it wouldn't go through on Wal-Mart's site so now I have zero chance of getting one.
Since when has hasblo cared about collectors?
(Assumption) Unfortunately for collectors, it's business. Retailers know Venom is popular and offer Hasbro more money for exclusivity. Hasbro accepts the deal, pleasing their top executives and shareholders, and throw good guy Dan out to the wolves.
What u mean we didn’t need another venom? Of course we did, for the people who missed out on the 3 pack or didn’t wanna spend that much money on it
That animated series Venom with the shading was a Hasbro Pulse exclusive not Walmart exclusive 👍🏼
Reviewers always forget we mortals don't always have every figure ever that has come out. For a lot of people this is the first Venom they're getting.
That Todd McFarlane-ish head sculpt is the shit.
Not really once you get it in hand. The big teeth at the front are weird, select definitely executed it better in my opinion.
@@Venom-cd7tw that's more because its a different artist style, this is actually more bagley-based than mcfarlane
@HeliosSol183 the eyes don’t look Bagley at all. But I don’t have mine in hand yet. Looks a little Todd-ish to me.
I just saw another recent video of venom that crunched lower than yours. Weird.
I actually like this venom a lot even with the limited range. I don’t have the other two, so it was a good way to get this body mold. I got this 100% to get that McFarlane head sculpt with that wonderful grin( surprised you didn’t notice). To me the new head is what made this figure more appealing. That tongue head is terrible and I hate the gapped teeth. It looks like he’s preparing to get veneers. I would have rather had a full black TAS head instead. Not like TAS Venom is on the box or anything.
This is the best Venom figure for me. Shame about the head articulation but damn, he looks so great.
I hope I’ll get this figure.
This is my favourite venom figure
Good luck. My walmart idms years behind on legends and dint get recent lines. Tgey never got tgis 1
3:36 We think your previous Venom's head just has some extra paint that seeped between the teeth causing them to appear thicker. We don't like that there's teeth missing under the tongue. We do like that the back spider symbol is bigger on the new figure.
We absolutely needed a Venom that was easily found on the shelves without having to pay extra. I pre-ordered early so I'm really happy with my little symbiote. Also, I did the neck mod on this guy (I bent the peg and made a small gap on the neck) and now he can look up pretty nicely. Definitely my favorite 6 inch Venom.
Highlight is the new head sculpt for me. Also cool that is was so easily available
I appreciate getting a single packed comic Venom on this body at regular retail price. I don't buy three packs to get one figure anymore, that animated series version had the retro card con exclusive tax, and the Hasbro Pulse shipping cost. If you got your pre-order in, this Venom was just a regular price Marvel Legend.
I just swapped the head from Null 2 pack for some extra neck range.
i have the figure.. love it ..but they should have put a better neck peg...or atleast a hinge..zz
I'm finally getting a Venom WITHOUT toes!
Seriously. Now we just need that retro carnage on a new body with the same raised details and no damn toes. I really hate the Ahole that created that mess.
Yes it's exclusive and thank god I got mine pre-ordered and is set to arrive today. This was at normal price until noon AZ time when suddenly it jumped to $70 dollars. Like WTF is Walmart doing?
They made this particular diaphragm set up all stupid where you have to crack the lower torso to be able to access the ball joint completely cutting off useful range. Legit feels like Hasbro is a spiteful petty company at times with it's engineering.
The legs bug me all to hell. Gonna see if I can use movie or Knull Venoms legs and keep these non toed feet, just really hate that none had a calf cut.
The new teeth look stupid as hell and goes back to my spiteful and petty company. The mouth part is totally different in a worse way.
Really wish I got a spare to use as Sabretooth body as I hate the outdated body the last one came in.
All that complaining, yet you all continue to pre-order these figures. SMH. How about stop and see what Hasbro does.
It's on a card, must get.
is it in store
It is not
My walmart didnt fet him. My walmsrt is years behind. Stillnhave a ton of misty knight. And tarantula ir shelf though. Never got the hobgoblin. Never got scarlet spider with red hoodie. Never got hallowes eve. Never got alot of lines
Yeah the headsculpt with the tongue is definitely the same - just excess paint or plastic on the old one for sure
Awesome review 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I JUST GOT MINES YESTERDAY
Gold mines? Land mines?
@@AlanDavidDoane oh those too
I found that this is the quintessential venom if you have the others to swap heads and hands at your discretion.
Looooooove it!!!!!!
Yes we needed it. Every figure should have ab crunch and torso rotation.
This figure Is awesome Love the Smiling head. It works With the King n Black venom As well. Just a Great figure
Not even pinless??? SMH
I love you.
Still prefer the 3 pack over the new one. The diaphragm on the new one brakes up the logo too much for my liking. Looks cleaner with ab crunch.
Venom with Knull is better in this case, never like this Omega Red mold, neither for Venom, or Sabretooth.
Hard disagree dude hard l
@@Jay-hy6rl And your point is...
I ordered 2 of these at like 3pm Eastern for $25 each, checked my order like 1 hour later and it was out of stock. I then checked it again recently and it’s in stock for $70? What the hell is that all about? Am I gunna get mine you think?
You should get yours, yes
The only reason I got 2 was to get the free shipping. Im glad I did that now.
Aside from the so-so diaphragm joint and no disk-hinge neck, what disappointed me is how cheap and flimsy this Venom felt in hand, when a lot of other MLs this year were a joy to mess around with. In particular, the arms and legs felt super-gummy. Alas, it still made me get a new Venom for the first time since 2006's 'symbiote blast' version.
As soon as I heard these were in stock I jumped on my rod and headed down the highway. But a passenger plane snowballed out of the sky and hit the freeway causing a semi carrying toxic acidic waste,jack knifed and spun out ahead causing the police to shut down the highway. I got out and saw the freeway was packed with people getting out of their cars to see what happened. And found amidst the burning debris,smoke and screaming people there were others headed to get this exclusive venom but due to the blockage most had decided to turn back and not venture further into the abyss of devastation and horror. I waited at a straw hat pizza,for hours for the highway to reopen and when it did i finally made it to Wally Mart but I knew they would be closed but to my surprise a outbreak of vandalism due to the highway closure had left wallymart nearly destroyed. But a sign on the door assured me that there was hope. The sign said ' no marvel exclusives at this location '😂
I’ve been trying to figure out if they all have a weird gap under the upper torso, there’s always a gap on the back or front on mine. you can straighten out the spider logo on one side but not both lol
Taskmaster is awesome and my first of that character but I hate not really being able to move the head too much because it pops off very easily.
Just checked 2 Walmarts near me with no luck. The associates are never helpful. I work at Target and go out of my way to check the back for people. They always tell me some bs.
So idk if scalpers got to it or if it's just sitting in the stockroom
Great video and I'm happy with this new Venom retro figure because the first one is hard to get since it's always sold out. And the 3pk Amazon is too expensive. And since Walmart finally let me pre-order, I got mines two days ago. So to me this is the best Venom figure!
just got mine yesterday. Great figure
I have the Amazon exclusive Venom and got this for the neutral head and the body without the tendrils molded in.
I would have preferred a Venom with a completely smooth body.
Even tho i already have the Knull 2 Pack Venom & Monster Venom...i pre-ordered this Venom & should be getting it any day now..i wanted a more traditional MacFarlane version in my collection.
Anyways great video brother..im looking forward to more of your Marvel Legends reviews 👑
Just ordered mine 😁
The white on mine was also sticky. It’s like the paint isn’t fully finished curing
Mine just came in yesterday from Walmart I’m so pumped about this figure
Careful with that sticky paint. It won't take heat well, in case you wanna give your figure a hot bath. The guy from Tuggernaut Collectables did that and it got smudged pretty bad.
Well I miss out the chance to get the last 2 releases and I’m not paying the scalpers prices
Neck joints really annoying but I like the torso but I don't know. The movie venom moves really well but really needed butterfly joints. I have this on pre-order like the warbird but both are leaving me a bit meh, if they'd got Carole's scale right I'd have been really happy with her. But also they need to find a way of doing long haired characters hair so it doesn't reduce neck mobility. Great review.
The McFarland style grin head was enough for me to get this figure. Recently, they try to give Venom white whites and all that, passss. Just a solid black suit, bulky bod and a crazy menacing grin like Todd’s or Bagleys back in the day
Honestly I will buy all venoms I like the way he is build this is the venom
I like the look of it. A shame Hasbro still muck up ball joints. If it had a ball jointed waist, ball joint at the base of the neck with a dumbell joint that wasn't entombed, and could do the splits, it'd be amazing.
Pulse con was the self shaded genome I know for a fact because I bought it twice
The Eddie Brock head from the Monster Venom wave looks great on the new Venom
I've gotten the almost the entire Marvel Legends 85th Anniversary wave.. except for Superior Spider Man..im still waiting on Hulkbuster & Odin
I'll never stop regretting not immediately pulling the trigger on the Amazon 3-pack when it went on clearance for like $50. I wish they'd just reissue that.
I hate this torso set up going back to the DC Icons range, everytime Hasbro has done it, it has worse range than the classic crunch, except in the one direction of the waist crunch half the time. Great if I need everyone just trying to touch their toes
The highlight of this Venom is the new Headsculpt.
I think that Hasbro simply changed the mouth insert for the tongue out head. I also think the grinning head, which is my favorite because it is McFarlane inspired, originally came with the Absorbing man BAF Venom.
It’s a new head sculpt. Not the same from that early venom figure
Why did no one think to mention Venom's arms can't come in front of him anymore?
I'm waiting until theuy give us a McFarlane Venom that is pinless.
I want this so bad but it's gonnnnne
We’ve gotten Walmart exclusives of:
Venom
Animated Spider-Man
Kraven
Lizard
Prowler
Meanwhile characters like Hallow’s Eve and MJ are released everywhere💀
I meant MCU MJ btw
I had big hopes for this figure, sadly it's somewhat a let down. Omega red buck is one of the best hasbro ML bucks we have, the frozen neck ball peg and super limited diaghram joint is a let down. They could've done well but the hasbro engineering team lacks knowledge/skillset. Hopefully they do better.
A fellow collector put his Venom in hot water and the white from the spider symbol ran so be careful
For me, I hate waist swivel. I hate how when used, it looks horrible. So with that being said, I love the newer torso articulation. Plus I don't have a decent venom and this one is gonna be it. Plus I got an extra one to use that new articulation for sabertooth. I turned a retro spiderman into Gambit, Scarlet spider into Deadpool all because I hate that old waist swivel. Lol
Dude reverse ab crunch sucks it doesn't turn at the waist making posing shit that is why double diaphragm is far better than this crap from hasbro
Hard disagree double diaphragm joint is so much better what the fuck are you smoking on
@@Jay-hy6rlyea I get that. I don't understand why Hasbro doesn't make all they figures like g I. Joes....
It's like they almost competing with themselves. It's effing stupid
@nostrathomas8057 they own GI Joe so those figures are cheaper to produce.
Shame about the neck, also wished they gave him new forearms alongside the new torso as the veiny arms are exclusive to the TAS design
Also it wouldve been SO easy for them to make him pinless, but its lazy ass Hasbro were talking about so I digress
Beautiful Figure, but Terrible Articulation
next venom will be pinless
Its a WALMART EXCLUSIVE, and walmarts own web site shows its out of stock, yet COINCIDENTALLY, they have it for sale for 69.99 from a second party seller ...in otherwords, either walmart is ripping ppl off, or some scumbag bought as many as they cld to sell at 3x retail.
Either way, the fact that Walmart's own website is allowing people to sell it for that much when it's their own exclusive just shows exactly what's wrong with exclusives in the first place. Plus it'll say out of stock every other day but then magically they'll still have stock, so either they're getting shipments in on Santa's personal sleigh, or they're withholding stock to create false rarity and demand. It's predatory business practices in exactly what should be outlawed when it comes to people collecting things
Still pissed, I’ve bought 3 Venoms & still don’t have an Eddie Brock head
The absorbing man BAF wave has one
It's an okay figure there's stuff that pisses me off about it though if you compare the new Sabertooth to the new Venom you will notice that the arms on sabertooth are much better and shoulders they are updated, these were a big point of contention for me as there's a lot of gapping between the shoulder and the upper arm they fixed it on Sabertooth I also didn't like the proportion of the tricep on the inside of the arm and they fix that too so they gave Sabertooth better arms and they gave Venom the better torso, why couldn't they give both these figures both of these new upgrades? Why do you keep doing this to us hasbro?
Also didn't the 3 pack venom used the same buck as sabertooth because the proportions on that on looks better than this one
@@Jay-hy6rl
No it actually didn't the three pack Venom uses the animated Venom buck Sabertooth has updated modified shoulders and arms if you compare them side-by-side you'll see what I'm talking about but the chest and legs are the same as the three pack Venom venom has the newly sculpted torso it is more plump front and back not as flat as the previous buck that was used for 3-pack Venom and Sabretooth I think Hasbro should have used both updates on both characters Venom and Sabertooth why just give one upgrade to one and one upgrade to the other
Honestly I will buy all venoms I like the way he is build this is the venom