If you're looking to go beyond video games, and happen to be a fan of both Street Fighter and TMNT, you might be interested in the Street fighter vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figure sets launching later this year.
In celebration of the 35th anniversary of Street Fighter, Playmates Toys will be releasing four SF vs TMNT sets. Here's the full lineup (via Game Informer):
- Ryu vs. Leonardo
- Chun-Li vs. Michelangelo
- Guile vs Raphael
- Ken Masters vs. Donatello
Ryu vs. Leonardo and Chun-Li vs. Michelangelo will launch this Fall in the US, and the other two will launch at a later date. So far the press shots include the first two sets. Here's a bit of extra detail about what you can expect from these figures:
“Each figure in the collection stands six inches tall and is highly poseable with multiple points of articulation – from ball joints at the head, shoulders and hips, to split joint elbows and knees, and at the wrist, ankles, upper arms, and thighs,” a press release reads. “Authentically detailed and decorated as seen in the Street Fighter II video game, Street Fighter vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is packed out in an ‘80s video game console-shaped window box packaging.”
Would you be interested in any of these sets? Leave a comment down below.
[source gameinformer.com]
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Looks like something from Robot Chicken, only ugly as hell, their necks look very wonky. The turtles I had 25+ years ago looked better.
The Turtles just look off.
I find it funny that the article mentions '80s video game packaging when SFII came out in the '90s.
Do Ryu and Chun Li try to compete in a secret Beatuy Contest ?
I am not a Fan of the Paintings on the Turtles Bodies and the Faces of the Street Fighters look like they took Inspiration from Barby and Ken.
Bodies seem nice.
Damn these look horrible
Those are the 87 Classic Collection Turtles with new headsculpts and a ton of blackwash...neither do the sculpts any favours. They looked great when they were based on the cartoon. Mikey's new head isn't too bad - it's very Mirage-like, but there's something off about Leo...might be the pose though.
When your real 90s Turtles looked way better than the 2022 one...
My originals look way better... Thanks, but no thanks.
The Street Fighter figures don't look horrendous, but man, why the Turtles gotta be lookin so goofy?
the turtles look horrible, chun li is also wrong, shes not supposed to have skinny legs, and her face, looks completely off
Could we not just have the actual video game instead? Preferably on the Switch as well?
they look awful...they really haven't captured the coolness of the Turtles. Roll on Shredders revenge and Cowabunga collection
Those look like repacks of two completely different lines. The Turtles are seemingly original comic ones (especially with all the small paint details), but are way oversized and in a completely different style and proportions from the Street Fighter figures. And those seem too dainty and lacking any detail definition.
If I was six, I would be all over this. Now though, I am curious as to why this is a thing.
❗️The 2003 TMNT Figures were the best ones.
Ugh, Playmates. Why couldn't it be ANY other company? They are like the Kemco of action figures. There was a lot of unhappiness in the Godzilla community when Playmates picked up the G license previously held by NECA. Their figures are straight garbage.
People saying the turtles look bad - they are more in the style of the Kevin Eastman original comic run imo.
Aren't Guile players always accused of "turtling" due to how his moves charge? Now we can see who does it better. Also, I don't see how fighters with weapons and protective shells lose to humans. Shredder knew only to do battle with them with blades and armor. Donatello is the second worst fighter based on the '87 cartoon and so could conceivably lose his bout against Ken's hadouken. But he's got range, too, so that fight would be fought pretty zoomed out. Maybe Ken vaporizes his bo staff with his hadouken to even the odds?
@brianvgplayer It's part of a celebration of the 35th anniversary of Street Fighter (1987) - hence the '80s packaging. Still things you find it hard to wrap your head around?
Those Turtle necks tho.
I feel they were going for a look closer to the original comics rather than the 87 cartoon.
I'd rather get the Power Ranger versions of the Turtles. Those look way better than whatever these are
Those turtles look awful (and no, they don't look the original Eastman/Laird at all).
Ouch! These don't look good.
Not a fan of the figures, but this would've been a pretty cool 1v1 fighting game crossover.
Figures look great, the turtles look a lot like their comic book incarnations, and Ryu and Chun Li look exactly like they looked in game on SF II. Looking forward to get them.
@Spideron 35th anniversary of SF, but with artwork celebrating the second game, which came out in the '90s. The first game did come out in the '80s, but SFII is when the series really took off.
Not a fan of the Turtles figures, trying too hard to look like the Mirage Turtles.
@Sinton You can find links to dozens of Eastman turtles with elongated necks and scratched up, exaggerated shells. Just like this figure.
Also: Real turtles have long necks too.
The dumb letters with the bad typeface belts look terrible though.
These look bad. Like.... pound shop bad
@Sonos The necks and scratched shells are not the problem. The heads (what's up with those faces - looks like a charicature of a sex offender and a dinosaur) are clearly the worst. Then you throw in the strange body types and the combination of different incarnations of the turtles (L/R/D/M on the belt, blue/red/purple/orange headbands but black (wtf?) paddings), and you get this. It's neither here, nor there.
These look like somebody created them from other figures. God awful looking.
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