So, while this figure’s sculpt certainly has an impressive amount of detail, it’s far from movie accurate. Topher Grace’s Venom wasn’t anywhere near as big as the comics version, but all the SM3 Venoms seemed to go with a more comics-inspired sizing. It’s a rather sizeable sculpt to be sure, though it’s more than a little off from the movie Venom. Of the eight figures in the series, Venom was one of the four to get a new sculpt. Venom stands just over 7 inches tall and has 30 points of articulation. The series was released at roughly the same time as the Fantastic Four-themed “Ronan Series,” which was between Series 2 and 3 of the main line (The SM3 and FF series served to discontinue attempts at referring to Hasbro Legends by numbered series from there on). Venom was released in the “Sandman Series” of Hasbro’s first go at Marvel Legends. Most of the heavy hitters from the films were covered, including the third film’s (somewhat maligned) version of Venom, whose figure I’ll be looking at today. Fortunately, Hasbro recognized the frustration, and put together a series of Marvel Legends based on the Spider-Man trilogy. The end result was a large number of fans boycotting the smaller line (I didn’t boycott it I just happened to not get many of the figures). It was a really odd move, and it wasn’t helped by the fact that the overall quality of the toys fell pretty steeply too. Despite the prior two Spider-Man films (and pretty much everything else Marvel-related from the early 2000s on) having been pretty much exclusively 6-inch scale, Hasbro opted to release the Spider-Man 3 figures in 5-inch scale. Spider-Man 3 came out in 2007, which was the year that Marvel toys switched from Toy Biz to Hasbro. I actually don’t own a ton of toys from Spider-Man 3, though (apart from the Minimates), because of some general weirdness surrounding the tie-in figures. It still entertains me, and that’s really all I can ask. Honestly, it’s probably aged the worst of the three Raimi films, and even Sam Raimi’s said he feels it could have been better. Spider-Man 3 is a movie that a lot of people don’t care for.
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