KING

EXCITMENT!!! THRILL!! Thats what i felt when DHL arrive to my home with two huge boxes, the culmination of a two and a half year of waiting!!! Or maybe even more???? Since the longest time i seen a lot of hentai figures always based on female characters and i always desired something like that for male characters i like and sudenly, the chinese market answear just before the pandemic and started to produce MALE NSFW figures for a pretty high price since not only this figures were extremelly limited, but such project also bring an awfull lot of legal burdens in the chinese market.

Then i started to see NSFW figures based on Ryu, Chris Redfield or other guys i really liked and the only i could do was just watch and wish someday be able to get them. I really doubt i get them by now, but in 2023 i finally take the chance and decided to spent a crazy amount of money i never spent before on a figure and just....pre-order one of them that suited my liking: King from Tekken 8.

I love King, i loved him since the opening sequence of Tekken 3 in 1998 soo having something NSFW from him was quiet a fantasy for me for the longest time. Also, what i liked soo much from the figure is how it could be displayed in two ways: NSFW and a totally SFW mode that can be seen by anyone. Soo i spent way too more money than i ever spent on a figure before and waited for october 2024 for the release date. Then 2025 came and nothing.....then 2026 and i really tough i was scamed until a week ago.

Last year i had a taste of this kind of figures thanks to a friend who sent to me his Von Lycaon figure and i was really impresed but now this King is totally mine and just like with my friend figure i will post two reviews of King, the "normal" safe figure in here while the NSFW version will go to my other blog.

I really wanted to film an unboxing but i didnt had a chance since i did the unpacking completelly alone given the nature of the figure but i took some fotografic evidence of the package and theres two giant boxes with two compeltelly independant figures. Yes, two figures. This is not a figure with extra parts to build a nudy version....this is a porn figure and a safe figure that can be displayed together and thats not something i was expecting at all.

Hyperspace Studio are the ones behind this and while they release a few hentai figures as well, they also release a very nice Ryu NSFW figure that i wanted but since 2024 theres no updates about them soo i am not sure if the studio is still open or something happened. I am just grateful they finish this King.

I am sorry if i am yaping too much but this kind of item is not something i get everyday. While the box is really simple with just the title of the game misspelled for copyrigths issues (TEKEKN 8) and a very simple texture on it in the inside the figures comes extremelly well protected with a lot of foam and is divided in sections: the body and legs, the rigth arm, the left arm, the tail, the head, the cape and the base. Each part first perfectly and stay in place since they all have magnets soo they are easy to remove as well. The cape tough is a little tricky to put since it should be fited around the head/mask before put it on King soo the cape is just floating around his shoulders.

This is 1/6 scale, soo its a really tall figure that matches the Hot Toys, Sideshow, Threezero, Mondo figures and looks perfect along side Ryu from IconiQ and Haohmaru from Tunshi Studio and he can stand by himself just fine, the balance is really good tough e comes with a base with pegs for each boot and that makes it feel extra safe tough the base is quiet thick and make King to be even bigger than it really is.

This is a resin statue, soo the material is extra hard and really REALLY REAAAALLLLY HEAVY!!! He is heavy but the base is even more heavy and not only that makes it diffiult to move but also extra caution must be used with the place to display him. I dont know if a shelf or a bookcase can hold his weigth for a long time....and is evident a fall from any height is fatal for a resin statue.

This is based on the main Tekken 8 King CG artowork soo the pose is literally canon and easy to recognize and the sculpt is really really good. I mean the anatomy and volume is perfect. Given this is a pornographic figure they usually exagerate some elements to highligth the erotism of the figure but this time they didnt had to do it, the figure is completelly faithfull to the in game image and is erotic enough as it is with the huge chest, the thick waist and the abs and huge arms and legs.

The texture of the resign is extremelly smoth and soft to the touch and the way the abs are twisting is extremelly realistic. The pants tough have different textures, the black sections have a leather texture while the silver one have scales like a fish and the blue sections are completelly smooth. The boots also have a pretty strong leather texture and i love the loooong laces on it.

The mask is perfect. The fangs, the tongue, the hair texture without being overdone and more importantly, theres hair here!!! His eyebrows have some tiny golden hairs as well as his chin and of course, his whiskers, just like a cat!! I never before had a figure with hair on it!!! And thats something i really wanted to see on the Storm Collectibles figure tough i guess it was too much for them but it deffinetly is not for Hyperspace Studio.

The efathers on the cape are really really food, really pointy and very delicate i asume as the whole cape under them since it smade of resign but is very thin soo this part is the one that demands more care to be handled tough the flow of the cape is perfect and King´s tail fits perfectly in the middle opening.

Theres two elements that are not screen accurate and that exacerbate them a lot given pretty much everything else is perfect: first the strips coming out from King´s gloves and the biceps straps and i am guessing thats because the resin would make them extra delicate and easy to brake to the point  they could brake even in the box. The again they could have made them with real clothe soo i am actually tempted to make them myself.

Secondly the necklace. In the game this item is really big and covered in blue and red crystals with a jaguar in the center and looks really festive but here its just a chain with a circular design and a kind of kanji in the center that i am not sure it have any meaning at all. The nacklace is metalic as well as the chain and the chain is actually way too long soo i had to make a knot on it and put it under between the cape and the mask soo the necklace hangs just on his chest area. It dosnt looks bad at all but it looks kinda simple comapred to the game. I wonder why the changue?

The paint job is magmifiscent. The skin color is perfect and os full of different soft and darker airbushes that makes the muscles to stand out a lot in any kind of litght on a very natural way. The nipples are very sexy looking while the mask also have a mix of orange with darker orange in some areas and a soft yellow on the lower half. The paint job on the little pointy fangs is magnifiscent as well as the black lips and inside tongue. The green eyes looks perfect as well as the black dots.

Each pathern in the gloves and pants are perfectly painted, from the intense sky blue in the hands mixing with black and metalic grey to the dark blue pants mixed with orange, yellow, silver and red. The name KING on one of his legs and one of his knee pads with the little crown on it looks perfect and the boots have an orange airbush aplyed to the yellow boot while the blue have a black airbush that looks quiet nice. 

The pathern on the wrists bands and the biceps straps is more than perfect but even more impresive are the lace on those boots.....every single black tiny mini lace is perfectly painted in black and not a single section mix with the yellow or blue of the boots. The paint work done here is beyond perfect, more soo than any standar figures i every seen.....actually i only seen a handfull of figures with this level of paint but theres not too many with only the Hot Toys or Sideshow figures show such mastery on color.

The fetahers have a mix of dark pink with purple on the outside while the aztec motif underneath is painted in white, dark green, blue and yellow on top of black. The cape is just black with the tribal design painted in white and the logo of KING ANGER OF THE BEAST with a little crown on top taking center stage. Looks good but kind of simple comapred to the spectacular front view.

Liek i already say the base is HUGE and EXTREMELLY HEAVY and have a very simple yet elegant design on it with the Tekken 8 logo in front (no misspelled this time!). I must say the sculpt of the logo looks really good and the white and red paint on it are the only colored sectiosn of the base since this is almost entir black. Theres two columns in the sides behing King with a connection in bewteen them because this is based on the Arena stage.

Columns shoudl be taller and the floor should be grid to be screen acurate but the design can be perfectly asociated with that stage in the game, specially with the big dark blue lines on the clumns and the line in the conection and theres another one on all the perimeter around the base and under the logo. I saw....a little C conection in the back soo i used my cellphone charguer and it lit!!! The whole blue line aroudn th base as well as the big blue sections on the columns are blue led ligths and the effect is extremelly intense!!! It iluminates the entire room and the effect is quiet dramatic  and spectacular, perfect for King.

Another item included here is an acrylic standee with the picture of the figure itself on it. Its a very nice detail since i love standees and looks quiet good and is easy to asemble. And theres anothe two accesorys included in this first box: a flacid and an erect penises with pieces of his pants all around to make it look like his pants are ripped. This have magnets too and can be attached pretty easy but i wont show them in here but in the review of the second box.

This is deffinely the higher quality Tekken collectible i own and aside of the First4Figure statues i doubt theres something more luxury than this and i am positivelly convinced this is pretty much the best King figure to be produced soo far and is one of the finest pieces of my collection and deffinetly the most expensive. For a fan of King this is pure bliss and is was deffinetly worth the wait and worth the price i pay for it.

This is all included on the King A box, for those interested on the content of the King B box please come to [ fight and fear ]

KING

As a Tekken enthusiast since 1998 i always wondered why theres not much of the series on the toys department, specialy considering Street Fighter rivals with DC or Marvel in the amount of action figures, toys and collectibles they have but for Tekken the scenario has been always dry. Epoch did an amazing job releasing a very complete Tekken 3 action figures set back in 1998 and we had to wait more than 12 years for the very short Play Arts Kai line for Tekken Tag Tournament 2. Five years later Storm Collectibles made our dreams come true with theyr high quality Tekken 7 action figures (tough still, they leave an awfull lot of characters out of it).

To my surprise, Bandai took the licence last year for the Tekken 8 series but for some reason i wasnt very excited when they release theyr Kazuya and Jin (maybe because of my apathy for the characters??) but that changed this year when they release Nina Williams and King. I do LOVE King, he has been my favorite character since Tekken 3 and i had no choice but to get him despite my limited experience with this S.H. Figuarts line. I only got Shampoo, Rashid and Zood on my collection.

In 1/12 scale, this King is shorter than his Storm Collectibles version tough he still one whole head shorter than Zodd (i wonder if in fact Zood is that big considering King is 200cm) but sadly i have no other Tekken charactet to measure King´s height but yhea, this figure is small.

He can stand on his own perfectly....unless he have his stupid and awfull cape on, in thsi scenario he wont stand at all since the idiotic cape is soo heavy it completelly broke King´s balance and the only way to make him stand in hunching him over the front or with a base, but given the cape size and shape i am sure a base wont work either. Anyway, just remove the cape soo King can stand perfectly.

He is articulated on the head, the neck (where the mask ends), the abs, waist, whoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, legs, knees, ankles, half feet, tail, the two yellow thingys hanging from his arms, base of the cape and theres two articulations in the midle of the sape. Thats a whole lot considering how simple is his design rigth?

Both the head and neck have ball joints soo they can move pretty good up and down and to the sides, tough the pink feathers get in the way of the sides movement a little bit, the amount of movement is really good, same for the ball joint on his abs and waist. The shoulders have ball joints and a butterfly articulation soo he can join his arms in the front but given all the pieces are made of hard plastic and how big his muscles are, this section is more restricted than i was expecting. The biceps rotate and the elbows have a double articulation and they move witha  good range of movement. The wrists tough are very restricted by the yellow bands around them soo while they rotate, they dont move to much to the sides.

The two yellow ornaments hanging from his biceps are ball jointed, just like his tail, soo they have a very good range of movement and his legs can be "disjointed" down soo they hae more freedom of movement and they can be back up in any moment. This system is pretty weird....i dont think i ever have a figure with this kind of mobile ball joint system, certainlly Zood dont have it. Still, the ass prevent the legs to go back at all. The thigh rotate and his knees have a double articulation soo they bend really good and since the knee pads are part of it is pretty confortable move them. The ankles ball joints are kind of limited tough and i have no idea why tough the half feet articulation works really good.

Now the cape...it have a hole on the top of the back side that conects with an ugly, black rod with a ball on the back of King (hidden under his ornamented collar), i think it may works as a ball joint but problem is it dosnt, the cape is just hanging there like a portrait on the nail in a wall soo the cape not only cant be possed, but each time King is touched the damn thing fall to the ground. This ugly thing also have two ball joints in the middle but the material is hard plastic, soo this ball joints cant move at all.

Sculpt is really good, the jaguar mask looks perfect, specially on the fangs parts, tough it have no texture at all. The muscle build is fantastic and the butterfly structure around his arms have the musulature sculpted in the front and the back soo the articulation is hidden most of the time. The pecs have nipples sculpted as well as veins, just like on his shoulders and biceps. pretty realistuc.

The collar is extremelly ornamented in front while the feathers have a fantastic sculpt on theyr own and can be removed, but the collar section canot be, since theres pretty obnoxious pegs on King´s shoulders that penetrates the collar piece and conect with the feathers, soo remove them whill leave King with two weird hornis coming our from his shoulders. I am not sure i like this but i guess the figure wasnt designed to be displayed without this ornaments.

One of the gloves and legs have a porous texture while the bots with the leaces sculpted independently look really nice, my favorite part is the sole that have cat paws printed on them, something i always loved from this man. The paint is perfect tough theres a lot here: a dark blue boot and a yellow boot with black leaces and some grey details while the blue pants have yellow, black and gret designs and the title KING on them. This is a very intrincate design and the paint is perfectly applied, same foe the silver ornament on his biceps with red and blue jewekks and the blue gove on his other arm with the yellow wlbow pad that reads "Anger of the beast King" in very tiny text. 

The necklace on the front is painted in silver with shiny blue, red and yellow and the golden and blue patther on the black section is perfect. The feathers have a shade of pink and white that makes them looks shine and the mask have a soft wash of white in the bottom half and black dots and yellow eyes perfectly painted, as well as the black noce, lips, pink inside of the mouth and white fangs. I deffinetly have no complaings over the pain job.

Also, the msucles have a really good soft wash of darker tones that makes the muscles stand out pretty nicelly specially under direct light, they looks very defined and even wet like a true wrestler and the skin tines is darker and sexyer than Zodd´s. The ugly cape is just black, wich is dissapointing since in the game it shines like oil, with a rainbow of blues and reds but here is just plain black, tough the silver design on the back side with the King logo looks good i guess.

He comes with two extra pair of hands as well as a single left hand: aside of the closed fist he have relaxed open hands, claw shaped hands for holds and a single left hand with his finger pointing. The sculpt and paint is perfect, with the blue and black gloves that helps make them looks different tough they are made with hard plastic.

At first i tough changue the hands would be difficult, since, aside of the yellow band around the wrists, it also have black strips hornaments that fits in between the hands and the yellow bands but for my surprise, this dosnt move too much and make the hands wap pretty easy. As a side note i gate this black strips are not articulated like the ones on the biceps, they are always pointing at the dies and they are pretty obnoxious even if they cna rotate along the hands.

Sadly, thats it, no more accesoryes than the hands. I know King dont use weapons but its rpetty dissapointing they didnt add attack effects or something...i dunno, maybe Storm Collectibles really spoiled me but i cant stop feeling there missing potential here.

There is also a background made of cardboard and have the image of the King of Iron Fist arena on it. The printing is very high quality and the color palette with electric blues and vibrant reds is really spectacular and makes King stand out pretty good and at the same time, matches the character perfectly. Its a shame tough the background comes divided in two, soo you will always have an anoying division just ain the middle. Oh well, it was the same with Rashid background.

I got the feeling this figure would be my favorite thing in the world a few years ago, before Storm release theyr own King. I hate compare them, specially because this guy is half the price of the Storm one but not only this guy is shorter, but the materials dosnt feel as good and the lakc of accesorys is really odd.

Plus that cape...i really suffered taking this picture thanks to the cape. Make it with fabric would have fixed it or soft plastic, but the cape really ruins the overall experience of this figure and thats odd given how small it is.

But aside of that, articulations are brillant, sculpt and paint are magnifisscent and this is the most festive and spectacular King we seen soo far soo its imposible for me not liking him. I guess the more Kings we get, the better and it dosnt mather the sacle or price, its imposible to go wrong with King. Problem is, now i dont know if i should get Nina, Jin and Kazuya as well....

PAUL PHOENIX

 Storm Collectibles release a non-Street Fgther/Mortal Kombat once every year soo the wait for The King of Figthers or Darkstalkers figures is pretty deadly and looong, really looong...in 2017 they show a catalog with lots of figures and most of them arent out yet fuve years later, tough all of a sudden King, Devil Jin and Paul Phoenix all come out in two months!!!

This is deffinetly the year of Tekken for Stor Collectibles, we never had soo many figures in one single year...or maybe Storm just want to move forward. Wathever the reason, Pual Phoenix is out and he is one of the manlyest figures to date,a kinf of fusion between Cuck Norris and Guile, Paul is one of the most clasics and iconc characters from Tekken, one of the verey few that has been on the games since the very first one and the only no-Mishima to ever win The King of Iron Fist Tournament!!!

He is an extremelly notable character from Tekken despite all the mocking from the no Tekken playersand is not surprise he cames out before Nina Willaims, Hwoarang, Xiaoyu or other more modern Tekken characters. 

He is taller than the other characters!!! And thanks to his hair he manages to be taller even than King. He can stand on his own perfectly, tough a base wouldnt be a bad idea tough i am really tired of expect bases fromStorm. He is articulated on the head, chest, waist, shulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, legs, knes, ankles and half feet. Eevery articulations works wonderfully, with  abig range of movement and they move pretty smothly too, specially the arms since they dont make those weird sounds of plastic scratching plastic the other figures does.

His chest piece is made with soft plastic as well as his red gi, soo theres literally nothing that can stop his movement and make him a lot of fun to pose him and play thanks to his good balance.

The sculpt is good, despite the simplicity of his design, the texture of his pants matches the texture of his gi and muscular proportions are perfect as well as feet and hands. His face is incrediblly realistic....really, he looks much better than the Jin´s and Kazuya. This is a perfect translation to the game model, his jaw, his nose, his eye size and the shape of his mouth, he is REALLY good looking.

His hair looks great too, with the division on the back of his head and each strand of hair perfectly deffined. His beard also have a pretty good texture and thats impresive since this is the part they usually mess when making figures (rigth, SquareEnix??).

Paint matches the sculpt nicelly and is keep at minimum. Of course every skin section is cast in flesh color soo it looks natural except his chest piece. The chest piece made with soft plastic is actually painted to match the rest of the skin color and have some very soft brushes to high ligth the great pecs of Paul tough, soft plastic and paint dosnt match....the paint is chipping away at the sides of his torso and while this is hidden by the gi, i hope his chest dosnt chip away.

I love the vibrant red color of his uniform...stands out soo much with the Mishimas and it also have some grey tones to show how dusty and dirty is. Just like Ryu, Paul seems to be very smelly (pretty comon on figthers it seems). On his black belt there is a P. PHOENIX in red, its difficut to see but i love this detail!!

And i love the yellow kanji on the chest and his back and the strandy texture they have!The bandages on his arms tough are missing some realism, they are just plain withe and strangelly clean compared to the rest of the outfit and the scoprion tatto on his arms looks perfect.

The blue eyes are beautifull as well as the tiny hairs on his eyebrows and beard, both blonde but ina  darker shade than the kanji on his gi. His hair have a darker yellow tone but still is ligth enough to look natural. The darker yellow flows with the strands of hair and makes it looks incredible realistic.

Accesorys wise he is much much better loeaded than Devil Jin. Aside of the closed fist, he comes with 3 extra pairs of hands: totaslly open hands, half open palms and hands to hold an item. Each can be exchanged pretty easy, the bandages on his arms are tigth and dosnt get in the way and are super cute with that puffy pillow on the nuckles tough the holding item hands puzzle me....i dont have any use for that pair...actually i think i didnt even take pictures of it.

There is two extra heads that cna be exchanged easy as well: one with tigth teetsh and one smiling. The sculpt and paint is exactly as the base head, the only difference is the mouth soo the quality on both is top notch.

The sculpt of the teeth and paint on them is really spectacular on both and while one is perfect for battle poses, the smiling one looks very dorkish. Paul looks soo stupid with that smile, is soo cute and sexy, just like in the game.

There is an effect piece for his Burning Fist attack, that one that is capable of instant kill his oponent (i think Paul is the only character in Takken capable of this??) and consist on an energy ball with swirling power on both ends, like small tornados. The effect is cast on transluscent plastic with dark and ligth orange shade and looks really fantastic. It fits perfectly on Paul´s fist tough is a little heavy and needs extra balancing.

And lastly a background....a cloned background from Jin Kazama. This is the first time one of this figure comes with a background i already have, its soo weird....at first i tough it was a factory mistake but looking online, it seems all Paul´s have this same Jin background and thats really dissapointing. Its not like Tekken 7 dosnt have a lot of scenarios...

Aside of the background print, this figure is oustanding, more soo than Devil Jin. The quality on the sculpt, paint and movement as well as accesorys is amazing and he is actually way too handsome for a figure, i mean, his gi can be removed soo i could not help but make Paul play a little bit with King. This is a very sexy figure.

And now i wonder waths goint to happend with Tekken and Storm? I really want Miguel, Nina and Anna, Hwoarang, Lei Wuolong but since 2017 Storm hasnt show any other prototype beyond Paul. Its going to take centurys to see other Tekken figure or maybe Storm is closing the serires with Paul?? I wish they didnt but soo far this has been the second longest runing figures serires of Tekken, soo i am pretty satisfied as it is now and asking for the entire cast is a little too unrealistic.

Maybe we will see the Soul Calibut figures from now on?? I dont know, i just really wish a couple of more Tekken figures if thats ask too much.