Jada Toys Ultra Street Fighter 2: The Final Challengers Blanka review (2025)

Blanka is the latest figure to join the Jada Toys’ outstanding line of Ultra Street Fighter II series. Jada hasn’t had a misfire yet and continues to impressive with the simple, but highly effective marriage of sculpt and articulation to make one of the best fighting game figure lines ever.

Smartly, Jada knocked out all of the medium sized characters and saved the larger/deluxe figures towards the end of the Ultra Street Fighter II roster. The first larger figure, Sagat, was a success. Will the most electrifying member of the SFII roster be the same?

Let’s find out if Blanka sparkles or if he just fizzles out.

Packaging: Blanka’s packaging isn’t terribly different from the smaller size figures with the arcade style cabinet setup. As a deluxe figure, his ‘cabinet’ is just bigger. Noticeably bigger. Everything else is the same including the game portrait of Blanka at the bottom and little personalization on the sides.

All that is distinct is Blanka’s very brief bio explaining his country of origin and fighting style.

Over on the back is a shot of the figure, which I’ll again mention also needs the accessories so customers know everything that should be in the box.

Likeness: Blanka is the most fearsome looking World Warrior thanks to his feral appearance. His base head sculpt features his wild, flared out hair with a sneering expression reminiscent of the Blanka image during the fight loading sequence.

Jada made him impressively formidable with an overall thicker frame than Sagat’s. His arms are a tad elongated to capture his bestial appearance. Naturally, Jada included the tufts of hair on his chest, his forearms and shins. Blanka’s shorts have ripped edges along the waist and legs and he also has his anklets for his chains.

Scale: In the game, Blanka is 6’4″ although he rarely stands upright preferring to fight from a crouched position. This makes him shorter than the 7′ Sagat but taller than the 5’11” Ken and Ryu, the 5’9″ Dhalsim, the 5’8″ Fei Long or 5’7″ Chun-Li.

Jada Toys has scale down perfectly so he is suitably compact when in a fighting stance but much taller and longer as he should be when he’s standing, which is rare.

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Paint: Jada Toys don’t have the most intricate paint job for their figures, but the paint applications are very clean allowing them to work in subtle enhancements to the base figure like a wash to bring out some of the sculpt details.

Blanka doesn’t fully maintain the streak as the ripped trim of his shorts have a little sloppy runoff along the edges. Otherwise, his fur, shorts and teeth are clean.

I appreciate not having to worry about seriously questionable paint applications with any Jada figure.

Articulation: Since the line’s inception, Jada Toys has delivered some of the best articulated figures in the 6″ to 7″ scale. It’s no coincidence that Storm Collectibles created a new scale to compete with them.

Blanka is a character who needs excellent range of motion in his articulation in order to pull off his base fighting stance and his ranged attack moves.

He’s able to hit a full deep crouch for his curled stance as well as those wider pouncing leaps and deep slashes.

It’s all in service of hitting those game poses precisely and this figure handles that with no problem.

Blanka 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 has a smart accessory plan so there’s no guesswork with what you’re getting from figure to figure.

Blanka has an alternate head sculpt with a yelling expression that can also double for him taking a chomp into his opponents.

He also has a separate set of open hands to aid in his slashing poses.

Finally, he gets two translucent yellow energy crackle effect pieces to convey his electric shock defense.

Worth It? As a deluxe figure, Blanka is more expensive than the standard $24.99 figure. His regular price is $31.99. Jada Toys Street Fighter line has been pretty popular, and the original prices don’t always stay locked in after the initial round of sell outs. I got Sagat for $31.99. Based on his size, it’s hard to knock the additional price tag. Of course, if there were a much smaller character who was the $25 price, I’d complain.

Rating: 10 out of 10

My era of few complaints with Jada’s Street Fighter line continues. Blanka is a sensational figure and so much more fun having in hand. This is one you’ll definitely need to get for your collection.

Where to Get It? Blanka has apparently shown up at a few Target stores, but I grabbed him from my affiliate Entertainment Earth. You can also get him from Amazon.

As an Amazon and Entertainment Earth affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases.