TERRY BOGARD

The King of Fighters never had a lot of merchadise despite being stuningly popular (like all no-Street Fighter fighting games), it only had one single action figures serires in the 2000, with 3 figures and he quality was pretty questionable even to back then standars, soo when Storm Collectibles anounced they pick the licence i was really excited. While my interest on Kyo and Iori is almost non existant and Rugal - the boss everyones hates - was an odd choice to start the serires, i was very happy when they show the prototype of Terry Bogard.

Terry from Fatal Fury was born just months after Ryu, Chun Li and Ken and is one of the blueprints of modern fighting games. He was participating (and winning) in the King of Figthers tournament years before Kyo and Iori existed soo he is now as relevant as he was mythical back in the 90s. It was pretty torublesome getting him thanks to the Covid thingy going on now but i was able to get him before his price tag started to rocket.

Terry comes in a pretty big box, his box is actually bigger than Kyo or Iori but it is because he is pretty loaded with accesoryes. He is in the same scale as the other Storm Collectible figures or NECA, a pretty descent size to give him weigth and presence but not too big. He can stand on his own perfectly tough many of his most iconic and dynamic poses demand a base but of course, he is NO Street Figther soo Storm didnt care to add a base.

He is super articulated: neck, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, chest, waist, legs, knes, ankles and feet. All this articulations have totaly freedom of movility since his chest piece and outfit are made with soft plastic, there is even certain movement to move his neck under the soft plastic skin. His legs are a little stiff tough, more exactly his knes, they dont bend as much as expected making some poses a little difficult to achive but is not too bad either.

Each section is cast in its main color soo theres not much painting application in here, this gives him a pretty clean and natural look and a little cartoony too, all the shadows on the figure are natural and the painting is at the minimum: the star on his back, his snickers, his belt and some soft blue shades on his jeans and of course, his face.

All paint is perfect but the paint on his face is just unreal. The paint appilcation is trully perfect, his mouth, his eyebrows, his blue eyes are even weet looking and when he opens his mouth you cans ee every single teeth sculpted and perfectly painted, including his tongue. Really, his face is just beautyfull despite being hidden all the time under his cap or the shadow the cap cast on his face, wich gives him a pretty misteryous look.

The sculpt is perfect as well, he is really handsome tough not femenine, pretty realistic looking but still stylish with a little bit of anime, pretty close to the design of Shinkiro. The rest of the body us also very good, specially on the chest area and those sexy pecs under the tigth shirt, but despite of that theres not a whole of details to notice here aside of the nice and soft texture he have. Terry is actually a pretty simple design, a character that screems 90s cartoon.

He has a lot of accesoryes, like a full army of hands. This hands are extremelly easy the swap unlike Ryu´s, whos ball joints keep falling appart and moving around while changing his hands, for some reason Terry´s wrists articulations are pretty strong and easy to handle.

He also have four different heands, no face plate, but whole heads!! A serious one, another one with a soft smirk, another one with a fierce look and a last one screaming. The last two make Storm sculptors and painters really shine and all heads can be exchanged pretty easy as well. Another accesoryes for his head are his horse tale hair. He have four different tough i cant see the difference in two of them....two are his hair hanging naturally and another two are his hair suspended on the hair for dynamic posing. I find thise hair pieces kinda anoying but they are very helpfull for the display.

For some reason he also have an extra jacket/vest, one with the ends sections moving, again for dynamic poses. The process to change the jackets is kinda stressfull tough since his arms must be removed completelly from his joints and adding them back is kinda dangerous since the joints inside his torso are conected only by small plastic rods. Broke one and is game over. Not only that but i have the feeling the joints themselves will be all lose and soft if i keep removing over and over his arms soo i suggest dont change the jacket too often.

One of the best parts of the Storm figures are the attack effect they add as accesoryes, from Hadokens to actuall skeletons or blood for Mortal Kombat characters. Thsi time tough, Terry have 3 different effects and i dont think any other figure had this much before. First of all he got his Burn Knukle; a piece of blue transluscent effect that fits perfectly on any of his fist soo he can throw himself full power to punch his rivals.

The second effect is the Power Wave, a yellow and orange spark thingy that goes on ground level. Since this attack moves is not neccesary to fit on Terry´s hands. And the third one is the Power Geyser, a much more bigger and stronger version of the second attack and is trully is big!! A huge explosion coming from the ground, this piece is taller than Terry himself and is one of the reasons why his box is soo huge!!

All 3 effects comes in transluscent plastic soo the catch the light ´retty nicelly and the Power Geyser is completelly hollow soo it would be easy to add a led light inside!! I really do love this attack effects Storm produce, they are a dream come tru for this kind of figures. Also, there is one single extra effect: 1/4 of Rugal´s Gravity Smash. I cant say much about it and dont even take photos because is very incomplete and is for Rugal soo i dont plan to get the whole thing.

And lastly, the last accesory that is tradition of Storm Collectibles: a printed background image. The background is the first battle version of the Spain stage, on the Court of the Lions in the Alhambra. I got mixed feelings about it being super pixelated but i guess its OK, true to KOF 98 tough i never associated Terry with this stage before.

This is the most expensive Storm Collectibles figure i ever got but is also the most loaded with accesoryes and while he is kinda simplistic looking he looks fantastic battling Ryu´s figure. I wish really wish Storm do a Joe Higashi but i doubt they ever touch him but it seems they will make Orochi and Geese Howard and i am really REALLY interested on a Geese to make some company to this Terry.