Name: Venom
Year: 2008
Scale: 6in.
Made in China
I would like to share today the best looking/affordable Venom toy on the market. Unlike Eddie Brock, Gene Simmons comes with a scorpion tail! Some assembly is required, but not to worry, no tools will be needed in the tail assembly.
The venom symbiote has dropped onto the baby of Gene Simmons/Flex Wheeler and goes by the name Mac Gargan. The well placed black-gloss paint covers the very durable plastic, emphasizing detailed muscle striations and veins. It’s very ribbed for any collector’s pleasure… The hands or “clarz” are very sharp, so I’d avoid those if possible. His hands are very impressive “detail” wise. His fingers are “jointed”, even though there’s no articulation in them, they still look real for the scale of the figure. I can finally understand Shannon Tweed’s reason for love, this incredible tongue! The tongue is longer than Gene’s torso and is colored beautifully with fiery-reds and pussy-pinks.
Venom is packaged traditionally, but the packaging graphics are dog-shit! They should have had themed packaging for every villain in the line to better suit the image of the characters persona. The best thing about it is the back. The image of Gene holding spidey by the waist, mouth-opened, with a scorpion tail that wouldn’t reach past his own head was well worth the purchase!
This was definitely a series you don’t need to collect. The only other tolerable figure is GREEN GOBLIN; the CARNAGE toy had bigger hands then Kate Beckinsale!
In closing, if you want a bomb-ass Venom figure/toy check out the KOTOBUKIYA figure; if you want a body-builder /KISS star, look no further.