[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by jmurray90720

I'm dying for that Kitana. Unbelievable that this is only her third figure ever and first in the 6 inch scale. They really should have led with her IMO.

This is one of the things that I really feel Mezco is getting right with this line. While the first wave of figures is pretty much par for the course and what to expect in terms of character selection at launch, the second wave really thought outside the box and gave us three characters that I would not have expected to see until waves 4 or 5, if they would have ever gotten that far.

It's been one of the things that plagues toy lines based off of popular video games (staring at you Street Fighter.) Many of these lines don't survive in the long run, or even get off the ground for that matter because they give us the same rehashed characters over and over again in a dreadfully predictable manner. We have seen this happen time and time again to Street Fighter (most recently with Capo Toys failed Kickstarter campaigns) where people just don't want to pluck down more money for yet another Ryu, Akuma, or Ken figure, not especially when there are almost 100 characters throughout the game's history that they could choose at this point (with SF 4 having over 40 by itself...)

I would have expected to get Kano, Kung Lao, Johnny (or Cassie) Cage or some sort of variant SZ or Scorpion in the second wave, but instead, Mezco thought a little bit outside the box here, giving us two characters never immortalized in plastic before, one of them being new to the series, along with a fan favorite who has been passed over time and time again in the past. Hopefully the line takes off and does well, so they can fully flesh out the roster the way that SOTA did so many years ago with Street Fighter.