[Trivial Psychic]

Wait...these things weren't a go to begin with and need a kickstarter?

*sighs. As a huge fan of the Street Fighter series, It pains me to say this...but I'm not dropping a single penny for yet another Ryu. At this point, it's like dropping a large sum of cash on another Snake Eyes, Iron Man, or Wolverine figure.

I know Ryu's important, and the most easily recognizable character, but if I had been in Capo Toy's shoes and was starting a kickstarter, as crazy as it would sound, I would have started with some characters that SOTA missed out on the first time around, like Deejay, Rolento, Rose, Juli, Charlie, and some of the newer characters such as Juri, Seth, and El Fuerte. I'm willing to bet that those of us with the holes in our collection from Sota's sudden demise would have been more than enough to get them up and running. But like other lines that have tried before it, I think this line either lives or dies with Ryu, and being that Ryu has been done as many times as he has, it's a steep hill to climb. Its a shame too, because the sculpts they have look tremendous. Hopefully good things will come to them from the rest of the community.

Just a thought, the timing of their decision to announce this kickstarter was absolutely terrible. EVO was just this past week, and had they announced it at the beginning of the tournament on last Friday night, both online and on site in Las Vegas, I'm willing to bet that they could have gotten all they needed to get going by the end of the tournament, considering the fanaticism and attendance of the event (both attendees and contestants), not to mention the amount of people who were streaming it live this year.