McFarlane Toys The Amazing Spider-Man Issue #316 Venom 1:10 Scale Statue

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00:00Brock is now back. Does that make this Spider-Man beat? Here's a look at the

00:04McFarlane toys. The Amazing Spider-Man number 316 Venom 1 10th scale

00:07collectible scene statue.

00:20Venom's back and ready to tear Spider-Man a new one. But why does Venom

00:24hate Spidey so much? With Todd McFarlane on pencils the real question is who

00:28cares? Be sure to add this figure to your Marvel collection today. Maybe I

00:32might be safer around the symbiote if he's only a statue. Before though I find

00:36that out the hard way let's take the tape measure shall we and see how tall

00:39the Amazing Spider-Man number 316 1 10th scale statue of Venom stands. That's a

00:44mouthful. What also I've left off right now at least is the cardboard background.

00:48I'll be bringing that in. I'll also be bringing in the Amazing Spider-Man

00:51statue we've already had a look at. More things to come but at least for what's

00:55coming right now is the measurements of Venom. He's standing at four and three

00:58quarters of an inch in height or roughly about eleven and a half centimeters tall.

01:02One thing though that's become a bit apparent to me is the fact that the

01:06scaling of these aren't the same size. I mean clearly is the case when you bring

01:09in the Amazing Spider-Man statue we've already had a look at. This was I believe

01:12based on Amazing Spider-Man 301 even though the comment that came included with

01:16Spider-Man was 302. When you're looking at him and then you're looking at him

01:19and then you also realize there's a difference of price about $20. I feel

01:23like this guy could have been shrunk down in size and released about the same

01:26size as Venom. I like really the idea that McFarlane and his team are doing

01:30comic covers but I feel like the size should all be the same. When you're

01:34getting a character this big of Spider-Man then you're getting a Venom

01:37of this size and then there's a difference clearly of prices. Had they

01:40all been maybe this size and all sort of had the same idea to them not only would

01:44they take up a whole lot less space on the shelf but there would be a little

01:47bit more affordable if you're looking to collect the entire line as well. Speaking

01:50of collecting make sure you collect the following things before you discard the

01:52box. The Venom statue does come included with a trading card of Amazing Spider-Man

01:55number 316. When we had to look at Spider-Man's statue he came included

01:58with a trading card of issue 301. Spider-Man's also came included with a

02:02comic and though right away thinking was at issue 301 in actual fact it's 302.

02:06It's only really the comic cover that's on the back of the comic but the actual

02:11story itself was taken from issue 302. The Venom by the size alone will tell

02:15you that he's not going to come included with a comic. At least he does come

02:17included with the accurate card. There is no way to store the card. I mean I kind

02:21of wish that they could have included again a display stand something so that

02:24you could at least prop the card inside of that and have it resting alongside

02:28the display stand. I guess if anything you probably could put this against the

02:30backdrop and kind of just resting like that but I think at the very least a

02:34Venom if you look at the back of his there's no place at all in his display

02:38stand that could have also accommodated the card. Again if they had just put a

02:41slot right there for example you could have pegged it there. I mean obviously

02:44you don't want to block in front of Venom's sculpting but somewhere on the

02:47display stand or even just a standalone stand would have been fine just a place

02:50to put the card. Let's move that off to the side. Venom also does come of

02:54course included with this cardboard background. The background is already

02:57kind of fully assembled for you so you don't have to fold anything when you get

03:00this out of the box. The back is finished at least nicely. It's the same image that

03:04they actually use for the Spider-Man statue too. Just to show you guys what

03:07that actually looks like. Even though there doesn't seem to be at all Venom

03:11anywhere on here, it's mostly just the Avengers, at least they include something

03:14on the back so it looks just as finished on the front or finished on the back as

03:17it looks finished to the front. The actual image though is nicely done here.

03:21You've got some cobwebs, I guess spider webs there in the background. I do like

03:24the coloring of the red there in the back. It really will complement the

03:27darker colors of Venom. And again this is all fully assembled. It's a laminated

03:30cardboard at least too and of course when it comes to displaying this you can

03:34either display here front and center. I might just end up just twisting it

03:37slightly to the side so when I'm displaying it I can kind of display it

03:40more on a corner than just completely flat like that. Let's move this out of

03:44the way. We'll get a closer look though at now Venom. Short of maybe just the

03:48size being the biggest issue, I like this size better I think than I like the

03:52Amazing Spider-Man's size. They all really I feel should have been this size.

03:55The other ones that were available at the time that I would pick up Venom was

03:58also a Magneto. There was a Wolverine. I might still go back and pick a lot of

04:01these up because I really do like the look of them. There are statues, there's

04:04staction. Staction just means that you can't move anything on the figures at

04:08all. Even though some of the advertisements listed in a line call

04:11these figures, they're not figures at all. They're clearly just statues. But if

04:14you were to look at this and then you look at the source material, the only

04:17thing that's really actually missing here is the inclusion of Spider-Man. So

04:21if we kind of get the pose about just right, Venom's hand is about curved the

04:25same. You can see his face, although his face looks more angled down here in the

04:29comic, but clearly he's looking at something else. I mean here you have to

04:32have the face a little bit more front and center. But overall it does

04:35look a lot like the source material. The comic actual issue does have some

04:40blue highlights there on the top of his skin. I mean what they've done here

04:43instead, they clearly can't just run a line of blue around this because

04:46depending on where you look at it, you'd basically just see a line of blue. So

04:49what they've done instead of met in the middle, what they've done is they've

04:52painted on it some additional blues just to give those highlights on this on the

04:55coloring of the symbiote skin. Of course you got the symbiote symbol there on the

04:59back. He also has the same here in the front a little bit smaller. The face is

05:02really well done though. I mean Todd knows a little something about Venom

05:06after all anyways. I think he's done a really nice job, at least of his team,

05:09sculpting this to look a lot like the comic. Of course the small little fangs

05:13that make up his teeth. He does also have his tongue, although with the comic it

05:18seems like they made the actual image of Venom a lot lighter. So his teeth are

05:22more just a solid white. His tongue seems more of a vibrant pink. It went more of a

05:26darker color clearly when it comes to painting the statue. It still looks quite

05:29good though. I again really like the use of the additional blue that they

05:33added. He's in more of a squat position too. You know it's hard when you take a

05:37thing like this and you're looking at the original source material. I mean for

05:40Spider-Man not to be included in this, I mean obviously that would mean some

05:43additional tooling was required, but it does sort of just look like Venom's squat

05:47and kind of coming towards you. I guess which isn't a bad thing at all. They have

05:50to kind of really be selective with what they're using for subject matter. You

05:53can't just have a character leaping in action fighting somebody else because if

05:56you leave that character off, that character that you're then using for the

06:00statue is just gonna seem so out of place. What isn't though out of place is

06:03the fact they've also included a little Venom symbol down below here as well. I

06:06really like the way they've outlined that nicely in bold and black and of

06:09course you also have yourself part of the bell at the back. You don't really

06:12see it as much from this side, but if you kind of tilt it up this way, you can see

06:15the remains of the bell. Nice little added touches there too. Of course you've

06:18got the ropes there. They're painted well in brown. The bottom though of the

06:21display base is completely hollow, but you know the only thing you're really

06:25gonna be seeing though is front and center though Venom. It is also some

06:28fairly weighted plastic too. Like it's a lot heavier than you may think it

06:31actually is. Just again like this is solid hard plastic. It doesn't feel like

06:36it's hollow at all. Just again a really nice sculpted statue. Put him down

06:40right here for example. Let's bring in his background too and we'll also bring

06:45back in spider-man which again like I still feel like the spider-man if we

06:48were to kind of keep the sizing. Let's bring in the background that came in

06:51clue with his and again I've already done the review of these if you wanted

06:54to see the review of spider-man. You know again like I like the idea that they had.

06:58This is like one of those cases where I know like in the beginning days of

07:02McFarlane toys when they were first acquiring like the licensing for DC and

07:06even now with the Marvel stuff at the beginning they were sort of like

07:09throwing things against the wall to see what would stick. I think now they're

07:11really kind of getting an idea honing in on what they really want to do with the

07:14collection line. These are good ideas. I think if anything I would say is

07:18probably I just wish would wish that the size was not as much big to what they

07:23got for the spider-man. A little bit smaller in size I think would make a

07:25little bit more sense. I mean if you're looking at this to display these on the

07:28shelf clearly they don't look like they are of the same line or at least this

07:32would be the larger scale statue line and then the venom would be the smaller

07:35scale. I just feel like honestly all of them being this size would have worked

07:39so much better. Take a whole lot less space and still in the end of it too

07:43like it's the difference of about $20. Spider-man here I think one set me back

07:47like $54. The venom though was more closer to $30. I think even on top of

07:52that Amazon had a sale going on for them around Boxing Day so I picked up venom. I

07:57want to say even for like $24 or $25 but that's a good size. I think that's the

08:01size that they should stick with. It seems like they've also seemed to do

08:04that a lot more with the statues that they're keeping more to that scale than

08:07they are to the larger spider-man. You know I feel like while I do really like

08:10the line the size class really need to be consistent with one another. I mean

08:15it's fine and good to release these as like decorative detailed statues. They

08:18have no posability at all. They're not intended at all to be figures but I

08:22think if you're gonna be releasing it, release it as one scale size class so

08:26that if somebody's going in and collecting a line from the start. I'm

08:29only really like two statues in already and I'm planning to pick up more. I would

08:32really like if they were all like the same size as venom and I have sporadic

08:36sizes depending on the comic cover. Checking around online the price of

08:40venom and the other 110 scale statues of this size will set you back about $20 to

08:43$30 a piece. In fact right now venom most online sites show him as $29.99 so

08:49about $30 for that asking price alone. I don't think you're getting that bad of a

08:52statue. It's a really neat looking venom. Well sculpted and equally well painted.

08:57Not to mention like the spider-man before you also get a cardboard

09:01background that takes a scene from the issue involved. Speaking of the

09:05issue involved, unlike the spider-man from issue 301 where he was front and

09:08center, venom from issue 316 had to share the spotlight with spider-man and yet

09:13though the mold works well enough that even leaving the wall crawler off I

09:18don't feel like venom's a half of a whole. Speaking though of issue 316,

09:22unlike though the spider-man, venom doesn't come included with a comic and I

09:26think if that's way to keep the cost down I don't mind at all that an issue

09:29isn't included. I think in fact if anything all the statues of a 110 scale

09:34should all be this size. The spider-man was good and I still like to have it on

09:37display but I think this size class works a little bit better and have them

09:41all this same size. It'll keep the size class consistent. What do you guys think

09:46of Venom? Let me know down below in the comment section. If you guys have picked

09:49up any of the 110 scale statues that McFarlane and his team are putting out, let me know

09:52in the comments below which ones you have in your collection. If you in the

09:56meantime did enjoy this video do it a solid throw it a like. You guys want to

09:59stick around for more so? I hope so. We might be wrapping up things right now

10:03with Brock and the symbiote but there will be more McFarlane toys reviews

10:06coming your way during the rest of this week so as always thanks for watching

10:09See you guys next time!

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