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review: spiderman origins signature series - spiderman black

and so i stumbled into this new figure in Toys'R'Us, with the intention to utilize the uniform for a Shadowman-bash ... but alas, this Spiderman Origins Signature Series figure left me wanting ... read my short review here on my multiply

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and there's a few more shots of the Venom Deluxe figure too here ~ *heh*
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  1. demort3/12/2007 12:16:00 pm

    Whoa that Deluxe Venom is pretty much what I think of when the name "Venom" comes up, so I'm kind of looking at the upcoming Spiderman movie with a mixed response. I mean the hate for Peter Parker is there, but what about the build/mass? That Venom is a hulking mass of anger!

    Eddie Brock's no Peter Parker, and I'm hoping Topher Grace's transformation to Venom will bulk the guy up a bit.

    Or maybe the director specifically chose Topher because he wants to create some metaphor for hate in Peter Parker, which would make sense to have the two have the same build...

    I'm thinking to much, hah!

    I'm going to wander over to ToysRUs tomorrow and see if I can't find this Deluxe Venom.

    Thanks for the heads up!

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  2. toysrevil3/12/2007 12:24:00 pm

    dude, thinking a lot is good! LOL

    i'd like to think the Venom-symbiote is "fueled" by the person's capacity to/of "hate", conscious and/or subconscious ... Peter's a nice bloke, but every nice bloke has anger issues too, maybe more surpressed than others ... and maybe that's why Venom inevitably leaves Peter, becoz he was holding back his potiential? LOL

    now you've gotten me thinking too much too LOL

    btw: i got that Deluxe Venom at a second-hand salvation-ish shop a week or so back ... don't see it on toysheleves so far tho ... but im liking it way loads, compared to the current 12"-ers series from marvel that is waaaaaaaay too detailed and wannabe-McFarlene, IMHO :p

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  3. demort3/12/2007 01:12:00 pm

    It sounds like you found a serious winner then man, and probably at a fraction of the cost too!

    I've got to agree with you, McFarlane can certainly be celebrated for the amount of detail his artists put into the toys, but I think sometimes it is a bit too much. Toys can be collected, but I've got a few old McFarlane toys I can't even think about opening because they just seem so...artsy. Marvel going down this path is a far cry from the old school days when toys were meant to be open and played with, or (with forethought) be left alone to gather dust and sentimental value. Now it's like "Yo, don't open me or you are a fool!"

    I mean, look at that Venom you scored. Wouldn't it be too much if you saw every pulsing vein, or more "points of articulation" that forces toymakers to add nasty visible "joints?"

    That Venom is a relic. New or old, I see it as a throwback to when simplicity was enjoyable and celebrated. I can't wait to "not open" the transformers movie figures! :D

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  4. toysrevil3/12/2007 05:31:00 pm

    hahaha i dunno man, i haven't checked the "origins" of the 12"-er Venom Deluxe tho ... i found him in the most unlikeliest of places, right place right time perhaps :p ... those are the best treasure-hunts, finding stufff you're not looking for LOL

    and yeh, i admit i used to be a huge fan of McFarlene's hyper-detail (in someways "spiritually", i still am LOL) - but when everyone else ups their game and the details come at you in every conceivable size (6"/12"/18"!!!), it kinds gets way out of hand and frankly/personally, if there are so much details in the first place, maybe they'd just NOT articulated the figures, and pass them off as cheaper (but not in terms of "quality") alternatives to Cold Cast Statues, innit?

    for every pulsating vein, everytime i try to twist/turn the arm/leg, the joints are not aligned and everything else looks a mish-mash of moulded-plastic, IMHO.

    the 12"-er Marvel legends (i think?) figures turned me off totally, hyper-detail, contorted forms and a general caricature of a comicbook character (quite the irony)

    simplicity can be so overlooked and under-acknowlegded most times ... and even taken advantage of LOL

    frankly, i couldnt afford the Venom Deluxe when i saw it (hadda borrow $$$ *sigh*) but i enjoy it thoproughly now ... yeh sure, more articulation would be great, but if it's at the expense of it's FORM? i'll pass anytime, IMHO :p

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