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Jada Toys Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers P2 Player 2 Guile Action Figure Review
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00:00Just when we thought the fight was over, another player plugs in.
00:04Here's a look at the Jada toys. This is the Street Fighter 2 The Final Challengers, the P2 Player 2 Target Exclusive.
00:30This 6-inch Guile action figure captures the essence of the Street Fighter 2 hero, features distinctive flat-top haircut and combat-ready military attire.
00:39The exclusive Player 2 variant, exclusive version of Guile, in its alternate color scheme, making it a must-have for collectors and fans of Street Fighter.
00:48I guess we'll get this review underway by taking the tape measure and seeing how tall the Player 2 version of Guile stands.
00:54Questions, I'm sure, are already abroad of you guys asking, how would you have gotten your hands on this if this is a Target exclusive?
01:00The answer to that question, though, is Papa the Toy Man.
01:02Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop.
01:05He actually had one available over on his Facebook selling group, and I grabbed him right away.
01:09I'm not sure, though, how many of these Player 2 characters I really would like to get.
01:13I did, though, at the same time of getting this Guile.
01:15I also got my hands on the other version of Bison, so we're going to be looking at him in an upcoming review.
01:20But if, in the meantime, though, you guys are interested and would like to get this one for yourself,
01:23and you're nowhere near, though, a Target store, best thing I would certainly suggest is checking online.
01:29Facebook selling groups are a good place to grab figures like this that normally you wouldn't be able to grab.
01:34Back, though, to Guile and his flat top.
01:36You're looking at the figure standing 6 1⁄4 inches in height or roughly 16 centimeters tall.
01:41If you had picked out your player already as Guile, then the game would have picked out this color.
01:46The defaulted green color would have been the regular release of the figure,
01:50and then the Player 2 release that we're looking at in this review, again, is a Target exclusive.
01:54From the build of the body and the molding, they seem to be the same.
01:57Speaking, though, of Bison, even though we aren't looking at him just yet,
02:01here's the regular version of Bison, as you probably can already see.
02:03He, unfortunately, is relegated to a display stand.
02:06Still can't quite get that figure to stand properly.
02:09As for other figures we can also bring in as well,
02:11here's what the Player 2 version of Guile, obviously, yeah, looks like next to Chung Li and Cammy.
02:16And hey, why not?
02:17Here's also, even though Player 2 was also available for Ken,
02:21one thing that was interesting, though, about Ken is not just that the colors changed of him,
02:24but he also got an additional energy effect.
02:27Ryu has had many rounds as well when it comes to different costume colors.
02:31I still stick, though, with the white one.
02:32I'm not really sure, though, how many color variations of Ryu I really need to get.
02:36Unfortunately, doing things in blue is about the only things that Guile does differently than the original.
02:41In fact, all the actual lay of the land is exactly the same between the two figures.
02:45Like, for example, he does come included with a clear acrylic display stand,
02:48and it does have an adjustable neck that adjusts, actually, in two different knuckle joints.
02:53Take the two and plug them together.
02:55And once you get those together, the figure does also come included with a sonic boom attack.
02:59Now, looking at this, it's the exact same one as, let's just grab off to the one side here and just bring in the other one.
03:06They're exactly the same.
03:08Looking at this also, it doesn't look like a shell cracker, like if you got yourself a lobster or crab at a very fancy restaurant.
03:14Even buffets do this as well.
03:15You get yourself the little cracker thing, and it basically cracks the shells.
03:18And they generally kind of look like a lobster, like a lobster claw.
03:21Now, I don't know why I'm segwaying off to thinking about buffets and crab claws, but, yeah, looking at the two, though, they're exactly the same.
03:28There's nothing at all that's been done differently.
03:30I mean, short of just the fact that this one has to be attached onto the display stand.
03:35Look for the hole, and then the hole basically just, yeah, plugs onto the end like that.
03:39And they're now exactly the same.
03:40And I suppose maybe if you wanted to, you could have more than one attached or displayed alongside a guile.
03:46I really think that this could have also been an opportunity.
03:48Now, I don't know how far down, really, when it comes to Jada toys and what they're really wanting to do with Street Fighter,
03:53if a deluxe version of guile could maybe be something in a foreseeable future.
03:58If that was the case, I would love to see them be released with other attack powers, as opposed to just always using the sonic boom.
04:05I think, really, with the blue version of guile as a certainly a nudge in the direction of wanting to get a figure like this,
04:11if they had just, for example, included a different weapon or a different energy attack,
04:15I think that would sort of have been, again, a nudge that someone may have needed to get a figure that they had maybe no interest in it in the past.
04:22That being said, though, the figure does also come with some swappable hands, the exact same, for that matter, as the original guile.
04:28He comes with a hand for holding the comb, and he comes with a hand that's basically for styling his hair.
04:32To swap those hands out are super easy, as they always really are.
04:36Just take the hand and wiggle it off the provided post.
04:40Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle off the end of the forearm.
04:43And then swap the hands out.
04:45Now, the head is one thing.
04:46I realized I hadn't popped completely onto the ball joint.
04:50There we go.
04:51Yeah, to swap the hands out, they're super easy.
04:53The plastic is so forgiving on all of these figures.
04:56We're going to look at the Komen also in a second, but just to change out the hands first.
05:02There we go.
05:04Okay.
05:06Putting guile back down here for a second, I probably should have...
05:08Oh, you know what?
05:09I'll put on the dog tags as we change out the head sculpts.
05:13The figure does, as mentioned already, come and include with a comb.
05:16I'm surprised, actually, that I haven't yet lost the comb from the other guile, but you can see that they're exactly the same.
05:22Really, I don't expect the colors of the comb to be different.
05:24I mean, that wouldn't be the one thing I would really need this figure to be doing things differently than the original guile.
05:30Having the exact same color combs, I'm fine with that.
05:33The comb, by the way, does fit into his hands.
05:35And then you can basically just bend the elbow up like this.
05:38Take the other hand, as I was kind of doing with the other review of him, and just kind of make it look like he's styling his hair.
05:45I actually kind of thought it was cool that in the Street Fighter...
05:47Even though I really don't like...
05:49I like Street Fighter in some sense that it had Jean-Claude Van Damme, because I'm just a big Van Damme fan.
05:54But really, though, the Street Fighter movie was not really good.
05:56I think the Mortal Kombat movie was a lot better.
05:58But the thing that was kind of cool, though, about it in the final pose, even Van Damme was stopping to comb his hair.
06:04I don't really know how much he's able to comb his hair with so much product in his head.
06:08There goes the head again.
06:09But let's go ahead and just remove the comb.
06:10We'll put it off to the side here for a second.
06:13The head is one thing, though.
06:14I don't know why on the Player 2 release of it, it seems to come off way too easily.
06:19Really, it didn't have as much of the issue when it came to the original guile.
06:22I mean, like, the head does still come off, but it doesn't come off as easily as the Player 2.
06:27I don't think that has really anything to do with the fact that they've used the mold again.
06:30I mean, this is really only the second time that they've used this mold.
06:33Speaking of the mold, though, the defaulted head for guile is exactly the same.
06:37If you're expecting, though, that something was going to be done differently,
06:40no, same exact mold.
06:42This torso is also clearly the same.
06:44The arms, the lower legs, and even the boots are identical.
06:47I know one of the criticisms, though, of guile was the fact that his broad shoulders were a little too big.
06:52I don't think they're necessarily too large.
06:55I think really, though, depending on what game you're looking at for guile,
06:58guile's shoulders seem to have increased the same way that his hair has increased in subsequent sequels.
07:03If he did want to change out, though, the head, the figure does also have the grimmest face.
07:08Which is one thing, really, too.
07:10With the player twos, and one thing to kind of make them unique from one another,
07:13is if you display, then, the figure with the grimmest face,
07:16and then you keep the original guile just with the regular face,
07:20then at least there's enough differences between the figures.
07:22While I'm actually taking off the head here, I'm going to stop for a second.
07:26I'm going to show you guys the dog tag.
07:28Because the dog tag really should be something that goes on the neck before you put the head back in place.
07:32The dog tag, the actual tags themselves are plastic, while the links of chains are real metal.
07:39Technically, it does open up.
07:41I don't really see their need for why they would have to have this open up.
07:45Because technically, really, I mean, it's not like you have to open up the necklace to get it around his neck.
07:49All you really need to do is just take off the head, and then put the necklace in place.
07:53It is one thing that kind of does make it look a little uglier.
07:57They probably did that, unfortunately, though, because in order to get the dog tags on there,
08:01there would, I guess, have to have been a place that they'd have to have the two parts of the necklace coming together.
08:06So that's probably why there is that connecting piece.
08:09I just think it would have looked a little bit nicer, a little more aesthetically pleasing,
08:13if they just left that off completely.
08:15So let's take ourselves the alternate head sculpt here.
08:18Pop it onto the neck.
08:20Just make sure it's all the way on there.
08:23I think this one holds a little bit better.
08:26But one thing, at least, though, is I've said this in the other review of Guile.
08:29Once you have the new head in place, whatever head you end up using,
08:32it is one thing, at least, to ensure that the necklace isn't going to fall off.
08:36Just to bring back in the original Guile here.
08:38Now, unfortunately, though, with this connecting piece for the necklace,
08:42I always just kind of feel myself having to fix it.
08:46It looks fine here, but the more you kind of turn the figure around,
08:49a lot of times the dog tags will come close to this,
08:51and it just looks a little ugly, to be honest.
08:54Again, like the bodies are going to be exactly the same.
08:55There's nothing at all different there.
08:57The joints, though, are also really quite tight.
08:59Even though I had a bit of an issue where the head was popping off frequently,
09:03the rest of the ball joints and everything else on this figure
09:05are super tight.
09:07The coloring, though, for the figure, again, you've got now blue instead of the green.
09:10The blue is actually surprisingly, even though,
09:13as one that really likes the original colors of these costumes,
09:16I would automatically default to the regular version of Guile.
09:20But there's something to be said for the fact that the blue,
09:22I think, just pops a little bit more using this mold.
09:25Again, if you're also a big fan of Jean-Claude Van Damme
09:28portraying the role of Guile in Street Fighter film,
09:30some may actually like the idea of having him displayed on your shelf instead of the blue.
09:33So, again, like if you look at the tattoos,
09:36they're also placed in the same spot on the same side there as well.
09:39And even though, like the camo, if you're looking at the two,
09:43the camo does look like it's almost the same pattern.
09:47But if you're looking really at the differences between the two,
09:50see how this shape, everybody, please look at the squiggle.
09:53If you look at this squiggle right here,
09:54see how it's a little bit closer to the pocket.
09:57This squiggle right here, which would be the same,
10:00is a little bit further back.
10:01I think it's just, it's, I would imagine it's probably just the way the figure came off the plant
10:06and that if you're looking at the camo on your different Guiles,
10:09they probably will be changing in, not necessarily in the pattern,
10:12but whereabouts the pattern makes its way onto the pants.
10:16For the figure's articulation, though, for Guile,
10:17head's going to be on a ball joint, all still the same as the original.
10:21The head rotates all the way around.
10:23The head looks down.
10:24The head looks up.
10:24And the moves back and forth.
10:26I'm kind of just really worried about taking and, like,
10:29well, moving the head around in the worry that the head's going to fall off.
10:32But, you know, this one seems to do a better job of actually surprisingly staying in place.
10:37Not only does he also have a ball joint that's attaching to the head,
10:40but Guile, as with most Street Fighter figures,
10:42there's also a ball joint at the base of the neck.
10:44So you can move it up and down that way as well.
10:46So there's a good bit of motion that you can go with Guile.
10:50The one thing, though, the figure is a little bit lacking in.
10:52Even though there really is a cut right here, just above his abdomen,
10:55it's the hardest thing to do where you can actually move the torso.
10:59You can't really turn it necessarily.
11:01I'm sure for obvious reasons that there's just so much sculpting in the way.
11:05But more so that the top of the torso is meant more, I'm guessing, for rocking back and forth.
11:09Turning it really is the issue.
11:11But moving it up and down this way and rocking it this way,
11:13you shouldn't have any issues at all.
11:15The arms rotate all the way around.
11:16And with addition to that, they also have these socketed joints.
11:20So you can actually bring the arms in more closer, or you can also arch them back.
11:25So if you want to have them kind of, I guess, being knocked back,
11:28you can do that, certainly display it in that way.
11:30The figure does have a bicep swivel.
11:32In addition to that, he also has a double hinge in the elbow,
11:34and the hands rotate all the way around.
11:37Guile's legs still are the same as the original one.
11:39So again, you've got your ball joints working behind the scenes.
11:42If we walk our way up the thigh about three quarters of the way,
11:45the figure does have a swivel cut, so you can rotate them all the way around.
11:48In addition, he does also have a double hinge in the elbow,
11:50or a double hinge, I should say, in the knee.
11:52I always really have a hard time bending that second joint.
11:55The top one is fine, but getting the second bend,
11:58always, always a hard thing to do.
12:00The boots are separate from one another,
12:02while they are separate from the rest of the calf,
12:04so you can rotate those all the way around.
12:05He has an ankle pivot.
12:07And this version of Guile, like the original one,
12:09also does have an ankle rocker.
12:11In case you are curious, nothing has changed at all.
12:14There's a placement also of pegs on the bombs of his boots.
12:17The original Guile also had that as well.
12:19Is it one of a Guile that I would replace with the original one?
12:21Like, if I had only the chance to pick up the one Guile,
12:24I think right away I would always go with the green.
12:27Just because when I think of Guile,
12:28and generally when I've played the games,
12:30unless there was a player or two,
12:32usually, though, I would always be playing as green Guile.
12:34For that reason, and that reason alone,
12:36I would have been happier just to have the one Guile,
12:38if I didn't come across getting the opportunity to get the second Guile.
12:42The one thing, though, at least about the second Guile,
12:44is with having two different head sculpts like this,
12:46that you can make them different from one another.
12:49I wish, though, the differences weren't just done in colors,
12:51that they also would have factored that in as well,
12:53with including different weapons,
12:55different energy effects,
12:56other than doubling up a sonic boom each time.
12:59Now, actually, the deluxe version of the player to Ken
13:03had actually an additional accessory,
13:06an energy attack that came included with the figure.
13:08I'm kind of surprised that they didn't do that also here with Guile,
13:10or just, again, swapping it out.
13:12Whether, though, we are going to be getting a deluxe version of Guile
13:15with a different color scheme down the road,
13:17time will, of course, only tell.
13:18Since we've seen, though, images of San Diego Comic-Con,
13:21for those that didn't get the chance to go and check out the convention,
13:24we already know that Jaded Toys still is going all in
13:26when it comes to Street Fighter figures,
13:27so we're getting a lot of cool ones that we didn't know
13:29we were necessarily getting.
13:32I'm sure, though, with that,
13:33we're also going to be getting probably a couple of other color variations.
13:36Not only, though, has Guile been the one that's been a color variation,
13:39Bison is one that we're going to be looking at.
13:41Not necessarily this week,
13:43but a Player 2 version of Bison will be coming also your way.
13:47There's been a couple of color variations,
13:50Player 2 costume colors for Chung-Li,
13:52and as well, there's also been Ryu and Ken.
13:55I think I'm kind of really happy just to stick with Guile.
13:57And Bison, unless I just happen to come across a fairly inexpensive,
14:01Chung-Li, or decently priced Ryu,
14:03then I might just decide to pick that up.
14:04One thing, though, just before we actually wrap up this review,
14:07and one thing I always keep kind of forgetting,
14:09I did this also when we looked at Bison,
14:11I always seem to forget the inside box art.
14:14Now, when we looked, though, at Guile,
14:16Guile had the exact same background of the kind of,
14:19I guess, is that the top of an aircraft carrier?
14:22And, of course, you can always have your figures display that way,
14:24inside the boxes.
14:25That is to say, of course, if you have the necessary space,
14:28I know some people probably don't have a lot of accommodating space
14:31to have on the shelf where you have,
14:33well, I mean, again, like how much space is really required,
14:35and then you have to do that every single figure.
14:37I don't ever really use these backgrounds,
14:39but I like the fact that Jada always takes the time to include it
14:42with all of their releases.
14:43Really loved it.
14:44This Guile could have come included with a flash kick
14:46or a somersault kick,
14:47similar in the way that Kami came included
14:49with an energy effect piece that went onto the end of her leg.
14:51The thing, though, about Guile is that when he does the somersault kick,
14:55he leaps in the air.
14:56He does a full flip.
14:57That's not something that could easily have just been done
14:59by attaching a plastic piece on the end of his leg.
15:02I think in order to pull that off,
15:04they probably would have had to put a hole in Guile's leg
15:06and taken somewhat of a similar stand that holds the sonic boom
15:09and attached it on that way.
15:11I think by that,
15:13you're also having to deal with a brand new, stronger post.
15:16The way that the neck is adjusted now,
15:17I don't think it would have been strong enough to hold Guile
15:20if he's flipping in the air.
15:22And probably one of the reasons why they chose the safer route
15:25of including the sonic boom.
15:27Usually, though,
15:27when you get yourself a color variation of a character,
15:30head sculpts don't change all that much.
15:32I know McFarlane does that with his.
15:33But when usually, though,
15:34figures are released
15:35and they're just in a different color scheme,
15:37usually a lot of times the accessories stay the same.
15:40I can't fault necessarily that Jada Toys
15:42went the safer route,
15:43and the cheaper route, obviously,
15:45of just releasing this figure.
15:46If he's going to be a target exclusive,
15:48really what makes him the exclusive
15:49is not what he comes included with.
15:51It's the fact that his colors are different than the original.
15:54Would this necessarily replace the OG colors of Guile?
15:57I would say no.
15:58If I only had the budget
15:59and I was only able to get the one Guile,
16:01still I would want to get the green Guile.
16:03By far, that would be my favorite look to the character.
16:06There's still something to be said about the blue Guile.
16:09The extra little bit of pop of color
16:11that the blue brings to the table
16:12actually gives this color or this mold
16:15a little more life than the green one before.
16:18I can certainly understand why people are getting
16:19the color variations of the Player 2 versions of these figures.
16:22It's just a shame, though,
16:23that there are target exclusives.
16:25Anybody who knows me by now
16:26knows that as a Canadian collector,
16:28we don't have target stores anywhere in our areas.
16:31Again, if you guys are interested
16:33and get this one for yourself,
16:34and let's say you're a Canadian collector,
16:36your best bets would likely be
16:38to check places like eBay,
16:39or if you can luck out,
16:41go to places like the Facebook selling group.
16:43I happen to stumble across
16:44one of the listings of Popeye the Toy Man.
16:46Luckily, he had the Player 2 version of Guile.
16:49I was kind of on the fence.
16:50Do I really need to get necessarily a Guile?
16:52Now, seeing how good he looks in hand,
16:55the answer is yes.
16:55I did need to get another version,
16:57a Player 2 version of Guile.
16:59What do you guys think of this figure?
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17:02the P2 Player 2 versions of these figures,
17:05or are you just kind of happy to stick with the OGs?
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