RYU

 

Last century, while Street Fighter was the most succesfull Capcom production, there wasnt too much about the character in toy form. Actually there wasnt too much merchadise at all. There was a horrible G.I. Joe Sreet Fighter action figure series that was stuff of nightmares (Ryu and the rest had machineguns and swords) and that was all until the last days of the century, when a brand new company called ReSaurus release an action figure serires of Street Figther (along Crash Bandicot and other brands).

The figure were HUGE, bigger than any other action figure on the market and they came in this cool blister like canister that made them feel very special and premium. Also, the sculptor were sure to made them 100% accurate to the game designs, with the traditional Street Fighter anatomy.

The very first figure i got was my main man Ryu of course. He is based on his Street Fighter Zero version soo he is the young Ryu with the white bandana. He is almost as big as a Play Arts Kai and can stand perfectly tough they give him a base in the shape of a giant coing with the logo of Street Fighter on it and this is his only accesory.

Well, maybe for today standars he is not very impresive looking, but for the 90s he was terrific. The muscles are pretty close to how the Capcom artists drew them, the size of the hands and feet, everything transltaes pretty well the 2D art of Capcom. His face needs a little bit of deffinition on the mouth tough and theres no textures at all, just clean plastic wich is not bad considering the cartoon nature of Ryu.

The paint is at minimum, his hair, eyes, gloves and nails are pretty much the only painted parts on this figures since each of his elements is cast on flesh tone plastic. His uniform is made with soft pastic as well as his bandana and belt and this was pretty unique back then. With the years the paint of his brown hair has been chiping off a little but aside of that the paint is clean and detailes, he even got the golden kanjis on his belt.

He is not very articulated tough since they designed this figures to be like statues, sculpted on a single dynamic pose with very limited articulations for a couple of variants but thats it. He is articulated on his neck, shoulders, waist, legs and knes and while all articulations move perfectly, Ryu is permanently looking down, about to punch someone on the ground.

The pose is not that bad tough since the bandana and belt adds a lot of dinamism to an already pose full of movement. Actually, i always found this figure really sexy, much more than the Play Arts Kai. His silhouette is very stylish and i love how his uniform opens to show a lot of his chest and even a nipple. For many years this was actually my favorite Ryu figure, much better looking than the SOTA version.