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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Not sure if anyone is interested...but for those of you who missed out on the Space Knight Venom and were hoping that this re-release would be your upgraded ticket...well...buyer beware. You might want to hunt down that original figure. Mine ended up looking like an AliExpress bootleg compared to the original. Paint bleed, overlapping tampos that bleed into each other, black showing through the white, gummy legs, fuzzy line work and some really bad paint chipping on the back of the heel and his back made this supposed "upgrade" hot trash compared to the original BAF.

Thankfully all of the heads and weapons included with the figure work on my original BAF, and my Mania figure came out nearly flawless paint-wise, otherwise I would have just returned the set altogether. Mania surprised the hell out of me and is a sleeper top 5 female figure for this year in a year in which we've had some good ones, and although I have no feelings for her as a character, the figure rocks!

I read this yesterday after receiving my 2pack, but didn’t respond until now because I hadn’t really inspected the figs. Like you, I have the BAF and was hoping for improvements, however slight they might be. My S. Venom’s paint job wasn’t as bad as yours, but there were a few imperfections of a similar type. I’ll have to pull out the BAF for a one-to-one comparison of the paint apps, but these re-packed BAF 2packs with one new character in tow are proving to be hit or miss, especially on the paints. I noticed the paints were different with Terrax, pointing out the greater shading for the reissue, but also bemoaning the pixelated dot-matrix pattern visible on mine. We'll see which BAF get’s this treatment next, but I’m leaning towards skipping if the QC issues continue.

Hey, Triv, do you remember years ago when we were discussing the likelihood of all Venoms being made? I was complaining (shocking to no one) about their presence on fan polls and how they were wasted slots given the Hasbro team’s obvious love for the character and the likelihood of them all being made regardless of polling. You (at least, I think it was you) shared with me the centaur-werewolf, Marcus, as an example of how deep down the rabbit hole they could go. Well, the rabbit hole is where we find ourselves now with this character. Do you think we’ll get Marcus?