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Jada Toys Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers M. Bison Action Figure Review
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00:00Surprisingly, the shipping wasn't too bad when he was sent over from Shadaloo.
00:03Here's a look at the Jaded Toys as the Ultra Street Fighter 2 The Final Challengers, M. Bison.
00:26Get ready for the ultimate showdown in a world where street fighting is the main event.
00:30Revisit the world of your favorite characters from the Street Fighter 2 video game now as 1-12 scale action figures by Jaded Toys.
00:36The big boss is here, and he only has one thing in mind, world domination.
00:40And Bison comes equipped with alternate hands, head, and purple fire accessory.
00:44This 6-inch figure comes in arcade-style packaging and features inspired from the game.
00:49Are you ready to join forces with evil?
00:51I don't know about any of you, but I think it would be smart to start with measuring before Bison summons his psycho powers.
00:57Let's take the tape measure now, as promised, and see how tall the figure stands.
01:00Bison, M. Bison, stands in fact at 6 1⁄4 inches in height, working out to be a figure that's 16 centimeters tall.
01:07As for how he stacks up, he actually is a little shorter than I was expecting him to be.
01:12I wasn't really wanting him to necessarily be the size of Sagats, but at the very least, though,
01:16I feel like Bison should have been just maybe a head taller than what we got with here Ryu and Ken.
01:22Of course, he is a lot taller, though, than both Chung Lee and Cammy.
01:26That should really go without saying.
01:27Here's also what the figure looks like with Guile.
01:29I still feel, though, that Bison is way too short.
01:32He certainly is a lot shorter when you compare him with the likes of Sagat or even for Blanca.
01:36Along with Bison, you get yourself an instruction sheet.
01:39It really is only printed on the one side, and on that one side, it shows you only how to change out the shoulder pads.
01:45But this is something that the person behind the camera hopefully will be successful to show you.
01:49They don't necessarily need the paper pamphlet.
01:52Discard that right away.
01:53The figure does come in clear with some swappable hands.
01:56Okay.
01:57Those hands themselves, by the way, are more dynamic hands.
02:00Kind of even looks like he's wanting to take somebody's head and squish it like a melon.
02:05These hands then can be swapped out with the hands he currently has on the ends of his forearms.
02:09Just yank, yank, pop, pop, and replace him with these hands instead.
02:13You may not want to do just yet that, because the figure does also come in clear with a Psycho Power Beam.
02:18This ball of energy that he has actually goes on the ends of his hands, so you don't want to be swapping them out just yet.
02:23As these hands that he has, really, as you can see, aren't the best suited for holding them.
02:29No, what you'll do instead, though, is you'll take this translucent ball of purple and just fit it over top of his fist.
02:35That's all that's really required.
02:37Don't really like it on this side?
02:38Little too choosy, are we?
02:40Well, that's fine. You can choose to actually have the ball of energy on the other side instead.
02:45I like the fact the figure does come included with that.
02:48Bison does also have swappable shoulder options.
02:51We're already going to be talking about that.
02:52Yeah, why not?
02:53Actually, just before doing that, I'm going to swap out one of the hands just to show you guys how easy it is to change.
02:59The plastic still for these are very forgiving, and I really want to say, like, Jada Toys has some of the best plastic around when it comes to their action figures.
03:06But again, you get yourself, like, a gestured hand.
03:08It kind of looks like he's got world domination in mind, and he hopes to have the planet in his hands.
03:14That's very cool.
03:16But yeah, to go back to what I was saying before, the figure does have some swappable shoulders.
03:19To be really fair, though, these weren't the shoulders that the figure came with when he came out of the packaging.
03:23In fact, the shoulders that he had, getting him just to stand here for a second, Bison, I will say, has a real hard time to stand.
03:31He did technically come out of the packaging already with cape attached onto the back.
03:35Now, the cape attaches only by the shoulder pads alone.
03:39The cape really is a nice material.
03:42Looking at this, it would be hard to describe the color.
03:44It's like a very dark, dark, dark, dark green.
03:49The interior, though, of it is all done here in black.
03:52And then with the shoulder pads, you've actually got yourself an R and an L.
03:56So you kind of get an idea at least which side it's supposed to be going.
03:58If you know, really, that the cape is supposed to always go on the back of the figure's body,
04:02then you really won't have any chance at all of mixing this up.
04:05I suppose you probably could put it around the front.
04:06You would be wrong, though, if you wanted to do that.
04:09The figure does have, though, like I said, two swappable ways of displaying his shoulder pads.
04:14I did kind of really want to start the review with the way that he's looking right now.
04:17In the early days of playing Street Fighter II, just generally was the way that Bison looked,
04:22with these large silver discs, shoulder pads, on the tops of his body.
04:26Now, if you did want to change these out, though, all you have to really do, though, is...
04:30If you look at the bottom, by the way, of these,
04:32you can see that the shoulder pad actually consists of two parts.
04:35The piece that you will exchange and the piece that you won't.
04:38This piece that you won't actually attaches on the inside of his arm.
04:42See that?
04:43So, if you did want to swap the arms out or swap the shoulder pads out,
04:46basically just take the shoulder pad and pull it forward.
04:49And when it pulls it forward, actually what it does is it detaches itself from the front clip.
04:55It isn't even really so much a clip.
04:56There's a little ledge right here, and that's the thing that sits back on the shoulder.
05:00So, when you put it back in place, put it in from the front, snap it into the back,
05:04and now the shoulder pad, oh, dare I say, dare I say, will stay in place.
05:08So, what we're going to do is just we're going to pop these forward,
05:11just to remove them like that, just like that.
05:15And then you're going to take yourself the cape,
05:17and the cape basically works the exact same way.
05:19So, kind of put them...
05:21I don't really even say put them from the front,
05:23but if you put them in, you can kind of just snap them in place.
05:27This actually, again, might be a little bit easier if we just snap them in.
05:31So, again, yeah, okay, it's probably the best to do it from the front.
05:34Just because it does have to sit along that ledge.
05:37Put them in from the front, snap them into the back.
05:40Yeah, the same rule applies.
05:42Basically, just do that, and now the cape is going to stay in place.
05:45Some prefer to have, really, the cape on bison.
05:48I actually kind of really like to have them without it.
05:50Now, bison does get released, actually, in two different colors.
05:53The primary, the basic colors are the red for bison,
05:55and then there's also that teal color, alternate player color for bison,
05:59which I've actually also picked up as well.
06:01What I might just end up doing, though, is have bison displayed with the two different ways
06:05of his cape on one and shoulder pads on the other,
06:07and then because the figure does also have two swappable heads,
06:11that's one way as well I'll differentiate between the two characters.
06:14So, like, bison has regular, just a stoic pose, a neutral expression,
06:18and then he has an angrier expression.
06:21Really nice portraits on both.
06:23To change out the head, by the way, is just holding onto the torso,
06:25popping it very easily off the ball joint,
06:28and then pop the new head in place, just to make sure it's all the way on there.
06:32Satisfying snap.
06:33And that's what bison's going to look like, then, with the angrier head.
06:36The head looks good, though.
06:38I may have gone, though, in there and probably darkened some of the areas around his eyes.
06:42It does seem like he really has almost, like, unfinished paint on his face.
06:46In the only way that I can really best describe, let's bring in Ken, for example.
06:50Ken really had a lot of the darker colors because he had the eyebrows,
06:52but because bison really doesn't have eyebrows, not to draw your attention to that,
06:57I feel like then they could probably have gone in there and just darkened the area around his eyes,
07:00just to kind of give him a more ominous look.
07:04As for, though, the rest of the figure's body,
07:06whether you do get this one or the teal-colored bison,
07:08they're essentially going to be the exact same.
07:10I guess it's not really even a teal.
07:11It's kind of like an aquamarine blue.
07:13You'll see, obviously, when we do that figure in an upcoming review.
07:17But, yeah, for the rest of his body, I mean, again, I like the classic colors of the red.
07:21And he's got the nice painted blue stripe down the front of his chest.
07:23Now, the top of his chest is a harder plastic.
07:27However, though, the skirting at the bottom is all a softer plastic.
07:30It makes things certainly a whole lot easier when it comes to the possibility on the figure
07:33that you don't have to worry about these flaps being in the way of things,
07:36especially when you're trying to move the figure's legs.
07:39Speaking of the figure's legs, walking our way down the legs,
07:41actually one of the biggest problems I really have facing bison
07:44isn't so much the fact that Ryu and other people wanted to throw him,
07:47but that the figure does have some difficulty when it comes to standing.
07:51If you look at the way his ankles are,
07:54he has basically these guards that cover over the tops of his boots.
07:57I've noticed, though, and you probably can see it for yourself,
07:59if you try to have the feet in a normal flat position so the figure can obviously stand,
08:04when I go to let this go, can you see how the foot wants to angle down?
08:10There is technically a joint in there, but the joint is covered over,
08:13and the joint really isn't all that long anyways,
08:15so even if really the boot guards weren't in the way of things,
08:19I don't really feel like I'd be able to bend the feet so they'd be completely flat.
08:22Luckily, at least for Bison and really all the other Street Fighter figures,
08:26there are technically pegles on the bottoms of his boots,
08:29so even though the figure doesn't come in clear with the display stand,
08:31most definitely, though, you could use a stand from another figure company.
08:34I might just end up doing that, though, because, again,
08:36if you try to get Bison a stand, like, look the way he's leaning backwards.
08:39Again, you may want to just kind of lean him forward just a little bit,
08:44kind of bring up his head, but even then, though,
08:46Bison has a real hard time to stand.
08:48He's actually one of the hardest figures of the Street Fighter line we've looked at so far.
08:53When it comes to standing, you can even kind of see for yourself,
08:57he's leaning, he's leaning, maybe he might not even fall.
09:01This would be the perfect time, of course, for him to fall when I'm saying that.
09:04For the figure's articulation, though, Bison's head is going to be on a ball joint,
09:07so not only can it rotate all the way around and hinge up and hinge down
09:11and all the things in between,
09:13but, in fact, actually, Bison, if you look a little further down,
09:16does also have a ball joint attaches to the neck,
09:18so between those two, Bison has quite the range of motion.
09:22The range of motion continues, though, when it comes to his torso.
09:25The top of his torso, there goes one of the shoulder pads,
09:27let's just snap that back in place.
09:29The top of the shoulder, the top of the torso, thank you,
09:32is on a ball joint, so you can fairly freely move that around,
09:35and also he has the same for his abdomen.
09:38His arms do come out, and there's enough clearance, at least,
09:40underneath the shoulders, whether you want to use these ones
09:42or the ones that we started with,
09:44that you can easily pull off a T-pose or that 90-degree angle bend.
09:48The figure's the arms technically also lunge outward as well,
09:51where you can also bring them forward closer together.
09:54There's a bicep swivel there on the top.
09:56The figure does also have a double hinge on the elbow,
09:58and Bison's hands do rotate all the way around with a hinge back and forth.
10:02For his legs, because we discussed this already,
10:05remember we had this discussion?
10:07Not that long ago.
10:08You don't really have to rewind the video,
10:10but softer plastic gets used, at least, for the top of his jacket.
10:14That's what comes to splitting his legs.
10:15He shouldn't really have much of an issue,
10:17though I don't think Raoul Julia could have really split his legs as much as Van Damme,
10:21but, yeah, you can pull off somewhat of a believable splits for Bison.
10:25Three-quarters of the way up the thigh, there's a swivel cut,
10:27so you can rotate that all the way around.
10:28The figure does also have a double hinge on the knee.
10:30Now, it does lose a little of the illusion,
10:33being the fact that the double hinge does then break up his kneecap,
10:36but the kneecap, at least, though,
10:37finishes off everything, actually, rather nicely,
10:40to the point when looking at it,
10:42you don't think that there's actually knee articulation at all on the figure.
10:45Again, the only really thing that stumbles Bison
10:47is the fact that he just doesn't have the proper means to bend his feet.
10:52Again, every time that I do want to bend his feet,
10:54I just don't feel like they're flat enough to get the figure to properly stand.
10:57Yes, he does have the ankle rocker.
10:59Yes, the figure does have bend back and forth.
11:02But, again, like, it comes at the expense, though,
11:04with the boot cut the way that it is, the boot guard.
11:06Bison always really does feel like he wants to lean backwards.
11:09Now, I guess if you really did want to,
11:11you can also bend the leg and have him kind of more in an arched position,
11:14like I certainly had at the beginning of this review.
11:17Funny, though, enough that Bison does have,
11:19when you get him in a proper pose,
11:20a means to stand fine.
11:21He doesn't really have an issue, really,
11:23because, again, like, his feet are going to be wider apart.
11:25The moment, though, that you bring his legs together
11:27seems to be the time that Bison has the hardest time to stand.
11:31It so far is, of the Street Fighter figures that we've had a look at,
11:34he's so far the hardest figure that I've had,
11:36as you can see, to stand straight.
11:38I don't know why they would really choose to stand with Bison,
11:41when Bison can't even stand on his own.
11:43Unfortunately, though, the ruler of Shadaloo
11:45does have some difficult time to stand.
11:47In the end of wrapping up this review,
11:49I chose just to use a display stand.
11:50It doesn't come technically included with Bison,
11:52but because at least the figure does have a universally-sized hole
11:56on the bottom of his boot,
11:57the same really could be said for all the other Street Fighter figures
11:59we've also looked at,
12:00you can at least use a display stand from another figure company.
12:03Come to the rescue again as Todd and his team
12:06in McFarlane Toys' DC Multiverse display stands.
12:08I tell you, though,
12:09I have often, at times, used a lot more of these stands
12:12for other figure companies,
12:14or other figure releases,
12:15than I actually have used for DC Multiverse.
12:18Still, in the end, though,
12:19it will at least ensure that Bison's not going to take a tumble,
12:21especially when he's got this cool-looking cape
12:23on the back of his body.
12:25I'm not really sure, though.
12:26I know initially I kind of said
12:27that I liked the idea of him not having the cape
12:29because it reminds me more of the way
12:31that Bison was depicted in Street Fighter 2.
12:33Yet, though,
12:34looking at the way that the cape is handled here,
12:36the good quality of material,
12:38and the fact that the wire is sewn into it,
12:40I might just choose to leave that in there.
12:42Now, with two different head sculpts,
12:43it leaves options available.
12:45If you are lucky enough, for example,
12:47to get the other color variation of his costume,
12:49then, of course, you can display Bison
12:51in the two different ways.
12:52One without the cape,
12:53one with the cape,
12:54one with the regular neutral head,
12:56and then one with the angrier face
12:58that we're seeing right now.
12:59The face looks good.
13:00I do kind of wish, though,
13:01that a little bit more darker colors
13:02could have been done,
13:04kind of looking as if, like,
13:05the rim of the hat
13:06cast the shadow down all across his face.
13:08I think that would have really been a nice touch.
13:10Something I'm sure, though,
13:11that Jaded Toys could consider to do
13:13if they ever release another version
13:14of this figure down in the pipeline.
13:16What do you guys, though, think of Bison?
13:17Let me know down below in the comment section.
13:19Have you had, also, the chance
13:20to pick this figure up?
13:21And do you also have a difficult time
13:23to get the ruler of Shadaloo
13:24to stand properly?
13:27If, hey, now, you guys did enjoy this video,
13:29do it a solid throw to like.
13:30You guys want to stick around for more so?
13:32I hope so.
13:33Speaking of alternate colors and costumes,
13:36there, in fact, will be another one
13:37coming your way from Street Fighter
13:39and from Jaded Toys.
13:41It may not, though, be Bison,
13:42but it will be another character
13:44from Street Fighter.
13:45So I hope you guys are going to be
13:46coming back for that.
13:46As always, thanks for watching.
13:48See you guys next time.
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