Toy Review: SOTA Street Fighter Fei Long

 

SOTA's Street Fighter Fei Long is Street Fighter's (Capcom) tribute to Bruce Lee. If you don't know this character or was too young to get to play him here is bits about him:

Fei-Long is a tribute to the Kung Fu movie legend Bruce Lee. Not only do the two look alike and come from the same city, Fei-Long also lets out similar battle cries to Lee, and is just as furious and fast. Also, Fei Long is Mandarin for "flying dragon", as well as a type of kick. Bruce Lee's Chinese screen name was 李 小龍 (Li Xiao-Long) or "little dragon." He was one of the early Bruce Lee look-alike characters in fighting games, after Kim Dragon from World Heroes and Liu Kang from Mortal Kombat, but predating Marshall Law and his son Forrest Law from the Tekken series, Li Long and Maxi from the Soul series, and Jann Lee from the Dead or Alive series. 

His flaming dragon kick, while having no range, is deadly in the damage department. His lunging punch combo can take down slower fighters in seconds and is by far Fei Long's best attack. His five-hit dizzy combo is the deadliest ever seen in the tournaments since Guile's four-hit wonder.

Fei Long's similarity to Bruce Lee goes down to every bit of detail: from his hair, interchangeable hands, the nunchucks the leg Gi and his Chinese slip-ons. For some time I was using this character in Street Fighter alpha because of the uniqueness he brings as a physical combatant.

He has double hinged elbows and knees, pivot on the ankles, shins, waist, torso hinge, palms and wrist joints. In spite of those the proportion between the joints near the crotch and his waist is a bit off. In a pose, this is more evident. What turned me off is his extra head which looks like a blow-up sex doll. Excuse me.

Accessory count which I almost forgot to mention are: two fists (default), one (left hand) pointing and as I mentioned, nunchucks. The two open hands surprised me because of the groves that held the nunchucks, and it fit perfectly without compromise to complete ala Enter the Dragon look (from what I recall, maybe I'm wrong about my Bruce Lee filmography). It's a more naturalistic way of holding the weapon, and really looks nice.

Just like any of my 4-year-old SF Sota collection, the paint does come off especially below the shoulders. Don't get me wrong, I took great care of my SF Sota Collection. It is just inevitable they all end up the same.

Fei Long in the long run is worth getting. It is also because as I remember, this is the only Fei Long figure (with the same number of artculation) available in the market. If you are tired of looking at a blue pants Fei-Long, there are other variant colors. But that is it. Only for the Street Fighter fan.

See my video Review below: