Never one to buck a trend

I really shouldn't be posting any more Street Fighter toys, but still...

Anyone who knows me will know I often get put off by highly articulated figures, thinking the joints to be ugly and opting for a more static model. These however look really good, Ryu & Ken especially. They're a bargain too, at a pre-order price of $44.99 for the three from BigBadToystore.

The Zangief Chronicles

Zangief genius brought to my attention earlier today by Cr0nt: Zangief Chronicles



An insightful look at Zangief's attempts at love and human interaction. This is a look at a private life I know we've all wondered about.

Go my friends, laugh out loud at this awesome site and it's videos. I'm sure the wallpapers will be adorning your monitors within minutes^^.

Splitscreen book club?

Knowing many of us enjoy the odd art book and seeing how Street Fighter IV has been making up a large part of our time over the last few months I thought I'd share this, in case anyone has missed it.



There's a cool video on Amazon of a reviewer flicking through the pages here. At 320 pages and with the variety of images, artists and styles this seems a steal at 22.49- although amazon have only 4 left left in stock as I'm typing this. Go now!

Justtherightbullets

Super Duper Hyper Ultra Omni Combo!!!!!!!

While on my daily visit to one of my favourite game websites I managed to come across this little gem of a video uploaded into the user section, not to mention that it also fits in nicely with a certain tournement currently taking place and one which I will (COUGH) WIN! (COUGH) .....sorry about that might be swine flu. Anyway this video was created and presented at the recent EVO 2k9 Street Fighter Tournement and it clearly shows a hardcore veteran who goes by the alias of "Mej" peforming some unbelieveably high combos with Ryu in the majority of games he's appeared in from the original Street Fighter to some of the less loved games of the series such as the 3D Street Fighter EX series. If theres one thing I've learned from this video after watching it is that I have bearly began to even scratch the surface of what some of these characters are capable of and I dont know about the rest of you but I hope I never run into this person on Xbox Live. See for yourselfs!!

Video Games | Ryu Combos Evo 2k9

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Bojack85

Toys are (not) for kids.

What do you do when you come in under your games budget? What in the name of Black Adder's codpiece are you going to spend all that extra money on? Surely not food? I don't know about you, but I've spent the best part of 25 years training my body to survive on cups of tea and sugar... not food. Not DVDs or Music all that stuff falls out of the TV or PC these days, so what? As you've guessed this long intro was a waste of both your time and mine as the answer is in the title. TOYS.

Is the street fighter tournament over for another week? Fully articulated figures can sustain you! Revoltech to the rescue again as their figures all have a guaranteed 4 million movable parts and you can mash them together recreating your most famous victories. Here are 2, a little over stylized in the faces possibly but badass nonetheless. Around $20 each.

If you've got a little (HA) more money to spend and are looking to hype yourself even further for Final Fantasy XIII by revisiting your old favorite characters a mere $300-$400 will get you a 54cm (1/4) Sephiroth. Made from cold cast resin, pvc, real fabric clothes, real leather belt and shoes, with many metal decals @_@. Oh, and only if you can find one in stock.

Alternatively, for less than a third of the Sephiroth price you could pre-order a 33cm PVC Cloud model. To be released towards the end of the year, looking as chiseled as usual in one of his signature poses the model is classic Cloud and a welcome addition to any collection.


Coming soon- Final Fantasy XIII toys. Hooray! Picture comes from Square Enix's figure project diary.



JTRB