Jada Toys Ultra Street Fighter 2: The Final Challengers Dee Jay review

Dee Jay was my favorite of the new challengers to use in Super Street Fighter II. I loved his overall attack style from his spin kicks to his projectiles as well as his “all right” taunts. And it wasn’t like Street Fighter had a slew of black guys to use.

SOTA Toys released an awesome line of Street Fighter figures. They got to all of the main characters from the first two editions of SF2, but didn’t get to making a Dee Jay figure, which annoyed me to no end. Jada Toys quickly righted that wrong by rolling out a Dee Jay figure even before some of the series’ stalwarts.

This is a figure I’ve been wanting to add to my collection for decades. Let’s see if Dee Jay is all right or all bad.

Packaging: Like every other figure in the wave, Dee Jay has the arcade style cabinet presentation. There’s no need for Jada Toys to switch up the look now and it’s a pretty fun look for MOC collectors.

My big beef has always been the lack of any fun personalization with the packaging. The only unique aspect is the country of origin on the side and line about his fighting style. Over on the back, we get an action shot of Dee Jay (without any of his accessories) and the cross sell. That’s the one area where Jada absolutely could improve on with the line.

Likeness: Dee Jay stood out from most of the other World Warriors thanks to his physique. He was pretty well defined and taller than the average character. He stood out thanks to his kickboxing gloves and baggy pants along with his very unique braided mohawk.

He was portrayed as a happy, fun-loving character and the figure reflects that as well with his signature charismatic smile. The Jada sculptors did a great job on the head sculpt as it reflects the game art wonderfully. As usual, there’s some subtle tremendous details like the texturing of his kickboxing gloves and his loose pants.

Scale: In the game, Dee Jay is 6′ placing him taller than the 5’9″ Dhalsim, the 5’11” Ken and Ryu and the 5’8″ Fei Long. His torso is broader than Ken and Ryu and he looks very formidable compared to the smaller figures released so far.

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Paint: I’ve yet to see a Jada Toys figure with a shoddy paintjob. Dee Jay doesn’t break the trend as he features nice and clean work. That’s especially impressive as the MAXIMUM lettering on either side of his pants is strong without any of the navy-blue bleeding through.

There is a subtle lighter shade of orange that sparingly used throughout his pants, which helps to provide some depth and avoid them looking like a flat color. That’s commendable work and the little things you don’t see from a lot of companies.

While it’s not inaccurate, his skin tone could have been just a tad darker.

Articulation: The trick with any Jada Toys figure is the articulation. These figures have been phenomenal in terms of being able to pull off all of the moves the characters use in the game.

Dee Jay can convincingly hit his move set like the Double Dread Kick, the Jackknife Maximum, Machine Gun Upper and his Air Slasher projectile.

Like the other figures, Dee Jay is a lot of fun to pose and execute all of his moves. The center of balance is solid too so he can handle some one-legged balancing poses without immediately toppling over.

Dee Jay has

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

Accessories: Jada Toys stays consistent with the accessory roll out for all of the figures.

Dee Jay gets the requisite swappable set of hands — appropriately with his thumbs up.

He also gets his gold chain, which is made out of the small charm links you’d get with a carnival prize. That’s a smart use for this scale.

Additionally, Dee Jay gets a translucent orange-red plastic wave for his Air Slasher. It’s got a good size and also has the smaller stand to support it as if he launched it.

Finally, he gets an alternate head portrait. This one features an open mouth smiling sculpt as if he’s about to hit a wicked combo to finish off an opponent. That’s a good secondary option although with Dee Jay it’s hard to say for sure which one I’ll have as the main one and which will be on deck for the next month.

Worth It? The Jada Toys Street Fighter line has been pretty popular causing prices to frequently fluctuate. I was able to grab Dee Jay during a price drop where he was $21.24 down from the normal $24.99. This line’s base price is solid enough that I always feel like I get a good value with every figure. It’s when the prices rise to above $27 for the base figures that the value gets somewhat askew.

Rating: 10 out of 10

I’ve been waiting on a cool Dee Jay figure for years. Jada Toys delivered and he’s absolutely one of my favorite figures in the line so far.

Where to Get It? Dee Jay hasn’t made his way to my local GameStop or Target stores so I grabbed him from Amazon. He’s also available from Entertainment Earth.

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