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Originally Posted by GizmoTron

He's identical to the release from the Space Venom wave, except the 2-pack version comes with a few less hands I believe.

Not really except that it's on the same mold. The colors are much more pronounced and he doesn't have the red stripes on the outside of his arms which also means that his elbow hinge pegs are blue so we don't get that annoying red dots on the inside thing. He does include less hands (only has one web shooting hand and one fist instead of sets of both) and also has no alternate Peter head. I personally like the look of this version much more than the Space-Venom wave figure but to each their own.





So I managed to order a Moon Knight for $19.99 prime on Amazon a week ago and he finally got delivered (it was a back-order). I love the crap out of Moon Knight (he's easily my favorite comic character) so I knew I'd get this but being such a fan does damper my liking this toy just a little. So first I'll say as a Marvel Legends toy it's pretty fantastic. The colors are very striking (what little variety there is) and sharply done, the articulation scheme is great thanks to the addition of ankle swivels and dice-rolling hinges on his weapon holding hands, and he has a nice assortment of accessories. Those features aren't without flaws though. The shoulder hinge on mine's right shoulder doesn't work 100% because of the armor and the left ankle swivel is stuck while also then being a little hard to work with because of the rest of the ankle articulation. In the accessory department then while the smaller moon blades are nicely done and the feature where they fit into the fist hands is cool they can be hard to fit in without knocking another out of place and then with their tiny size I feel like I'll lose them unless I put them away safely. Everything else though is great. The cape, the hood, the larger crescent, and alternate hands are nicely handled. Even the truncheons which are often goofy looking when combined into their "staff" form work much better here than they have before thanks to the new wrist joints.
So it's a really cool and well done toy but as a Moon Knight fan I can't help but feel a tad disappointed because of the costume they chose to make such a good figure of. This costume isn't a badly designed look or anything but it's just not at all what I think of when I think Moon Knight off the top of my head. I think of the classic all silver and white costume, or his incredibly awesome Mr Knight look from recent years, hell I even think of the gold accessorized semi-classic look or his Secret Avengers armored suit before this "crescents everywhere!" suit comes to mind. A big part of that is because this suit doesn't really appear all that much in the comics. This suit was introduced around 2014 and in all the time from then to now he's only worn it like 8 or so times, it's pretty much just been Mr Knight or even the classic suit as of late. He did wear this in the Spidey cartoon so this will be the look that kids will more likely know but it's clear that these figures aren't just given the looks that show up in the cartoons so it's not like Moon Knight had to have this look. Also maybe had he not used this look then the shoulders would have total access to their movement. My only other note is that the bio on the back feels really dumbed down to me, too much so, like it's been made overly safe or something. Instead of saying that he died and was brought back by an Egyptian god to be Moon Knight it just says that he had a vision which led him to do it. Is dying and coming back too edgy for toys to mention now? It's not 100% wrong but it bothers me for some reason. I don't even mind the lack of mentioning his mental condition compared to the way they worded his origin.