Jada Toys Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers Fei Long review

Fei Long was one of my main four characters I used in playing Ultra Street Fighter II. I alternated between him, Ryu, Ken and Dee Jay (oooh-rah). While Storm Collectibles was dragging its feet in terms of completing the Final Challengers, Jada Toys arrived on the scene with a far more focused Ultra Street Fighter II line. And coincidentally, Fei Long was among the first reveals.

This line has earned rave reviews from collectors. It took me a while to finally get a couple so I’m curious to see if they warrant all the hype.

Let’s see if Jada’s Fei Long gets me fired up for more SF II figures or extinguishes my hopes for this line.

Packaging: I really love the packaging. It’s set up like an arcade cabinet complete with player 1 and player 2 joystick and buttons.

The front features Fei Long’s artwork from the game with a decreasing health bar for 1P and 2P. Either side features some of The Final Challengers with Cammy, Dee Jay, T. Hawk, Vega and Ryu visible.

The back seemed like a wasted opportunity to place Fei Long’s game notes with his likes/dislikes. Instead, it’s just a basic cross sell with images of the Chun-Li and Ryu figures. Along the bottom is the game art featuring the 19 playable characters. Jada is making solid headway with nine revealed/available already.

Likeness: Fei Long is my first Jada figure and he made a tremendous impression. I’m floored with how the sculpt just so beautifully captures his video game design. He’s ripped!

The sculpt shows off his musculature while feeding smoothly into the articulation. Fei Long’s pants have the appropriate level of flared bagginess. The pants also have a very nice texture to them. And his slipper shoes top portion is actually sculpted instead of just painted on.

My only other Fei Long figure is the SOTA Toys version. I’d had these figures in a box for years. I loved that line at the time despite not getting a Dee Jay and was shocked how much more advanced this figure looks in comparison.

His head sculpt is also great with the frowning, intense expression. The hair is styled just like the game to capture that resemblance of Bruce Lee without being an outright caricature.

Paint: Jada did above and beyond what I was expecting with Fei Long. His skin tone has an airbrushed paintjob to help bring out the details in the sculpt. It seems like Jada implemented some measure of printing for the paintwork on the face.

This work is very clean and crisp. The only gripes here are the paint gets too thickly applied around his ankle, elbow and shoulder joints resulting in some flaking.

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Scale:  Fei Long is one of the shorter members of the World Warriors. So far, the line hasn’t really done any of them larger, taller scale characters. For now, he’s scaled properly.

Articulation: This is really where Fei Long shines. The articulation engineering is phenomenal throughout. It’s not so much that all of the expected joints are here so much as the range each one has.

This allows Fei Long to crouch into deep stances, get positioned firmly to support one leg stances and easily take flying kick poses.

Jada’s rocker torso has fantastic side to side movement. This helps provide some personality to the poses, which makes setting up poses far more fun than frustrating.

Posing Fei Long was just as — if not more so — satisfying to pose as a Storm Collectibles figure. It’s not a matter of if a pose is able to be done, but how deep you can position the figure to really nail it.

Fei Long has

• head
• neck
• shoulders (butterfly)
• elbow (double-jointed)
• wrist
• wrist hinge
• mid-torso
• torso
• hips (ball-jointed)
• thigh
• knees (double-jointed)
• ankles

Accessories:  Jada did a solid job of getting most of the essential accessories for Fei Long for under $30.

He’s got an alternate set of hands with the index and middle fingers close together in a standard Bruce Lee positioning.

Additionally, he’s got an alternate portrait with his mouth slightly open. It’s the best secondary option short of an “ooooow” Lee-style head sculpt.

Finally, he’s got a translucent orange and yellow flaming effect for his Shienkyaku finishing move.

It’s made of a slightly rubbery material that slips over Fei’s leg with no trouble at all. Best of all, each of the various accessories pop off very easily to switching the parts is fun instead of stressful.

The only thing that would have been cool to add were nunchaku, but that would require a gripping set of hands as well.

Worth It?  I’m impressed that Jada could get this highly articulated line with a generous amount of accessories out for $25. Sure, Hasbro is able to cram more accessories in detailing into the G.I. Joe Classified Series line, but Jada delivers all the essential elements for a strong Fei Long figure.

Rating:  9.7 out of 10

The flaking paint is my “biggest” issue with Fei Long. It’s great getting such a well-articulated for a fraction of the Storm Collectibles price.

Where to Get It?  I never found these figures at retail, but you can get him from my affiliates Amazon or Entertainment Earth.

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