ML Hobgoblin BAF: Anti-Venom

Ah yes! The Hobgoblin BAF set of the Amazing Spider-Man line. I'm not sure how I feel about the BAF and a couple of the figures, but I do know there are some I want to get like Anti-Venom over here. So it's Eddie Brock after surviving cancer and gaining a new symbiote. Not 100% about his story but here we are with a figure of him in the 6in scale! What to say about this guy?!

So here's the box and the set that come with him. Some good figures here and there that I really like but for the most part I'm still ambivalent about getting the entire set.

Just off the get go, I will say for someone who is as feral as Anti-Venom, his paint job looks slightly too clean. As hasbro will go, paint details lack aside from minor things like the black logo and the orange contrast in his mouth and eyes. Despite the bland coloring, it fits this negative Venom. I mean, I have the Select version and as far as Marvel Select goes, they are fantastic in details and paint jobs but we have come to know Hasbro for lacking so I suppose this one is sort of expected. It's not an ugly paint, it's just not above what Hasbro does. Mold wise, I'm content. He can be a bit bigger since it is the former Venom we are talking about, but it's good enough. The hands are recycled from Carnage and Hasbro's Toxin; was hoping for alternate hands. I was just hoping some sculpts of symbioses protruding from him here and there but alas, not so much.

He comes with one of Hobgoblin's leg which again, I'm not so sure I will be buying him. Oh and one lackluster accessory that really does very little to add to the figure:

Yeah, it does very little to nothing.

His articulation came to no surprise as well. It doesn't do him injustice, but it doesn't do him as much advantage since as far as I recall, while he is a big character, Brock had some agility thanks to the symbiote's duplication of Parker's spider abilities. The 'big man' mold we have seen lacks that pose ability so I can say that there are certain things that are deterred. Though he still has some good range of articulation that allows him some posture that I would imagine this Venom would be in. The fun factor of his range of movement still exists and a bit more natural than Drax, I would say.

Superior Spider-Man

And I don't know why, there is just something fun about the photo shoot with having Anti-Venom pose with a bunch of other Spider-Men related/Symbiote related figures that I own! I didn't pose him with any red and blue Spideys but here he is with his symbiote clan:

Symbiote party!

"They all left and didn't help me clean up!"

In conclusion, I love this figure despite my qualms with it. It's a nice contrast to my symbiote collection with how white he is. He is so vibrant and just cool to look at. While I may not say that he is Brock's best symbiote suit(apparently he is now the new Toxin too....?), I will say that I'm still a Symbiote junkie as I was when I first started liking Marvel hardcore(way back when). Still, I'm not sure I'm convinced with buying Hobgoblin Set. We'll see.