Amazing set.
Posted by
daniel c.
in United States
on
08 May 2008
The first year of exo-force saw the most kits of all three years, most likely due to TLC wanting a huge introductory lineup. One of the most impressive kits of 2006 was the enormous Striking Venom, a kit that was both menacing and well designed.
The Striking Venom’s most noticeable quality it it’s size – a huge 18 inches from one leg to another. It’s especially surprising considering that the kit was only 50 dollars when it first was sold – many kits twice the price weren’t nearly as big. The Striking venom also has many neat details and features - some obvious on the box, others not.
The head and cockpit of the Striking Venom is designed to look like a robot head, using trans-red bionicle eyes and an angled canopy to produce the effect. The legs each have an armed Iron Drone attached to a mechanism that lowers them from a hanging position onto the ground. The large central area has two Iron Drones attached to tubes – probably acting as guidance computers for the Striking Venom’s complex systems. On top, a giant weapons array with a Devastator head wired into the system gives the Striking Venom its main firepower. Other various weapons are attached onto the head and the central dome.
All these details incorporated into the Striking Venom show that the designer were having a lot of fun designing this monster of a mech. Even the poorly made disk launcher doesn’t look bad on it, and the color scheme is terrific.
Piecewise, Striking Venom is largely technic, but there are goodies to be found within. A total of SIXTEEN dark green wedge plates and EIGHT specialized dark green slopes will be very useful, as will be all the black cannons and some lime green detail pieces. Even better is the minifig count – 6 Iron Drones and half a Meca One figure. Yes, strangely Meca One comes without legs, even though the box advertises him as having legs in the kit. Some readers will remember hearing about what a fiasco this turned into.
Striking Venom is by far one of the best Exo-force kits of 2006, if not all three years. It’s not for everyone, especially considering that its size will make it difficult to display. However, any Exo-force fan will get enormous amounts of fun from it, and a MOC’er could find it useful for parts. I highly recommend it. 5/5
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