Wednesday, June 18, 2025

THIRTY SEVEN DOLLS #26: S.H. Figuarts Tekken 8 King (Vacation Haul)

NO KING(S)

Let’s start with the pic. I know No Kings was four days, one arrestec comptroller, and one brink of Iran War ago, but what the hell. Most “political” “art” is outdated and bad and it’s never not fun to have Hobie kick someone square in the nutzzzzzzz.

The background is for some weird beat-em-up, UI tweaked to become a fighting game. I’m shocked that more fighting games don’t include a White House stage, at least according to search results.

The figure! I bought this at Yodobashi Camera Shinjuku, which is very different from other Yodobashi Cameras, but I didn’t know that at the time. He’s good! He was absolutely the most “impulse buy” figure of the trip, though. I’m not saying I regret him, I’m saying a somber, non-vacation analysis would have revealed that I did not really NEED him. I have the domestic, much cheaper, GameDimensions King from Bandai and I think on average they move about as well as each other.

This King does have more fancy, though. He’s got that collar and the tassels and just generally murders the cheaper one from a sculp, paint and details point of view. But, full disclosure, at least 50% of why I bought him is because it was a pain in the ass finding the store and the good toy section thereof and very much didn’t want to walk away empty handed. 

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