Got the 2 Tekken figures during the forum outage, and they are surprisingly solid for lower priced Bandai figures. I had Kazuya posed up with a super-high kick on one foot for a week straight and he never toppled, even during the massive heat wave we had out here in my area. Heihachi's gi seems to be the same or similar material to Jada Ryu's, which is great. Overall, hella fun figures and I can't wait to get more Tekken characters!
Hopefully other Namco games get represented in the future as well.
Dunno about this line. I watched reviews on both figures, and my main issue is that both of them have really mediocre head sculpts. Kazuya in particular has a face that's really blah. Articulation is OK but not great.
Both of them look WAY worse than Jada Toys stuff, but also worse than Legends or DC Multiverse. My son has the Bandai Naruto cheap figures, and they're not great either. Decent, but really basic and I've had to put shock oil on about a dozen joints due to excessive squeaking that usually leads to joint breaks. Not wild about having to oil every one of those Naruto figures up and I'm expecting these Tekken figures to have the same issue.
Nah, I’ve actually been SUPER impressed with the joints on these. Of any complaints you could have about them, their joints aren’t it. Each one is perfect tightness and super smooth to pose. (I DID have to shock oil the ab joints on Ryu and Fei Long)
I got them both as well. I know nothing really about Tekken and if Kazuya wasn’t in Smash, I’d probably have just gotten Heihachi for some Tekken representation on the shelf. I think his figure is a bit overall nicer. Face works better, he scales about perfectly with Jada Street Fighter. Kazuya is where the soft paint apps really shine through and he’s like a 1/3 of an inch taller than Heihachi. The sculpts on both are there and I expect someone to come in with a custom paint job that’ll make them both look amazing. Like the detail on the cloth pieces of their attires is begging to be brought out somehow.
I got my email about both figures' preorders processing soon. I'm pretty excited! Everything I've seen about both especially from JHernandez has me excited. Definitely excited for the line and hoping it shows decent success, it looks to be a solid improvement over Bandai's other lines.
With Tekken 8 on the Horizon, and my fave Claudio being in there, I have some hope for a dream figure happening should that final star align.
I'll be painting up at least the clothing and scars on my copies, I'll post the results in here once I'm done. Both figures are a bit pale as well, so I do hope to paint the skin tones eventually. Maybe after I get through a few more customs and get more pride with my face painting, though.
Everything I've seen about both especially from JHernandez has me excited.
Do you recall where you saw whatever it is you're referring to from JHernandez? He doesn't have dedicated reviews up for either figure. Was it in the middle of one of his long streams?
Everything I've seen about both especially from JHernandez has me excited.Do you recall where you saw whatever it is you're referring to from JHernandez? He doesn't have dedicated reviews up for either figure. Was it in the middle of one of his long streams?
He's been taking a bunch of photos and posting his opinions on Twitter
https://twitter.com/toyjawn1/status/1688969588925468682?t=XgOiGT3QzDOKMPjlSBbpqQ&s=19
JHernandez convinced me to try these two guys, and WOW, was I wrong about them--they're awesome. WAY better than their recent Naruto figures in terms of joint tightness and QC, and just great in almost every way. I thought Kazuya looked bland in pics, and I guess he is, but the detailing on him is sublime and it's more about Kazuya's design and colors that makes him look bland than Bandai's choices with the figure.
Articulation is better than Legends/McFarlane/GI Joe Classified/Star Wars/etc. I'm guessing they're not up to Jada Toys articulation, but I don't really know because I just shipped Ryu and Fei Long from my Pile of Loot after they'd been sitting there a few months. I'm just amazed at how good the engineering on these figures is for the sub-$30 price level. I feel like I can easily let my little kids play with these and have no issues.
Question--I see a Game Dimensions King online that looks like it was released in the past in some places and in others it looks like he's forthcoming. Anyone know about past or future figures in this line? I'm all in after Kazuya and Heihachi, love 'em both.
@enigmaticclarity Dude I'm glad to hear! I just shipped my Kazuya and Heihachi from my pile of loot two days ago, so hopefully I'll have them at the start of the week.
King and Jin should be the next wave, to my knowledge. Hopefully we get some announcements of the next wave or two soon!
Tekken is by far my favorite fighting game, but I can't say I'm enamored enough with all of the characters to necessarily get them all. But they definitely all will get my attention. I've always looked at the Tekken character designs as mostly inferior to Capcom's Street Fighter character designs, but the depth of the Tekken gameplay is what raises it over Street Fighter for me.
But I'm FAR more likely to get all of the Street Fighter figures than the Tekken figures because I find the SF figures more likeable, and that matters a lot when talking about buying them as action figures. You can go through and pick a lot of Tekken characters where Namco just straight up ripped off some semi-equivalent Street Fighter character (Kazuya = Ryu, Jack = Zangief, and a few others), so I never fully respected the Tekken characters due to that. But the gameplay won me over, and there are quite a few unique characters in Tekken like King, Hwoarang, Lei Wulong, Eddy Gordo, and plenty of others, so ripping off Street Fighter on some characters isn't an big criticism of mine, just a minor one.
Even though I'm unlikely to buy them all if they keep going through the roster there are still plenty of Tekken figures I'd love. Devil Jin, King, Hwoarang, Eddy Gordo, Lei Wulong, Bryan Fury, and Yoshimitsu are all insta-buys for me if they're done decently. King was always my favorite along with Eddy Gordo, Hwoarang, and Lei Wulong, and I already own the Storm King.
I wouldn't quite say so many of the Tekken characters are straight up Street Fighter rip-offs as they just fall into gameplay archetypes that were well established and used across the genre by the time Tekken came out. Personality and design-wise, characters like Jack/Zangief and Kazuya/Ryu couldn't be more different. But I do get what you're saying.
I think the Street Fighter characters have much more easily approachable designs and easier to understand backstories and personalities by even just their designs alone, but overall I prefer the Tekken roster.
I'll probably go all in on this line. Claudio and Eliza are my top two to get figures of, but Lei, Lee, Hwoarang, Mokujin, etc I'd all buy out of characters we don't already have listed.
Just got in Heihachi and Kazuya in, and I'm really impressed. I have Bandai's previous figure of Ace from the One Piece line, and these completely blow it out of the water. Very buttery smooth feel all around. The faces are a bit cartoony, but I don't really mind, they still look good. The only big complaints are that there's no double ball joint at the top of the neck, so looking up is a little limited, and that out of all the sculpted scars on both, only the ones on Kazuya's chest are painted.
I do hope future waves opt to drop the round 1/ready/etc signs in favor of including an extra accessory or pair of hands for each figure.
Bandai better keep in this direction, if I'm to describe these as anything I'd probably call them budget Figuarts. If Anime Heroes was more like this I think the line would actually sell anything.
These mesh really well with Jada's Street Fighter figures as well, so I can't wait to get a small collection of both. Now if only someone would start a similar King of Fighters line so we can have the holy trinity!
I want to like king ... but the head is just so tiny. I get that the body is an exaggerated size in the game - but I just think it looks stupid with such a tiny pin head. I felt the same way about the Storm Collectibles version, though, so I guess it's me.
How do these scale with Jada Street Fighter?
Thinking of picking up King.
@marvellegendsman Ryu's a bit taller than Heihachi, but shorter than Kazuya. The lines mesh pretty well together!
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