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SDCC '12: Square Enix Play Arts Kai
Mass Effect, Street Fighter, Tekken, Batman,
Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, Dead Space, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Halo,
Hitman and More
Square Enix continues its goal is to make figures
from every major videogame property. They have so many videogame properties
under the Play Arts Kai flag now and it felt like they had more figures on
display than any other year. If games from other companies' sell more than
Square Enix's, well they'll just make a couple Play Arts Kai figures from the
competing games and make money anyway. Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid,
Tekken, Devil May Cry, Dead Space, Halo, Resident Evil, Uncharted, and God of
War are all games Square Enix doesn't own, but are still making money on. That
seems like a pretty sound strategy. Also, now that Square Enix is making Tekken
figures, there are Street fighter and Tekken figures in the same scale and with
the same look, so there can be cool SF X T displays.
Square Enix just isn't making videogame
characters into Play Arts Kai, but characters from anime and movies. I am
excited to finally see Cowboy Bebop figures, starting with an awesome Spike
figure. I'm sure the rest of the Bebop crew is on the way. They had better make
an Ein to include with one of the figures, though, maybe with Ed. The team would
feel incomplete without Ein. Square Enix also has The Dark Knight Rises figures
coming to go along with their Arkham Asylum/City figures. There's also some kind
of version of The Dark Knight Returns Batman coming out. It's not exactly the
comics version, but maybe the skin from the Arkham games or the upcoming
animated feature.
There were three exclusives for SDCC; a red
Cyborg Ninja, and black & white versions of the Arkham Asylum Batman and Joker.
The red Cyborg ninja was a great exclusive and sold out fairly quickly. Anyway,
check out the ton of Play Arts Kai figures that were on display.
- Shawn - 7/29/12
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I love that the only
thing painted on the Kazuya prototype is his red eye. |
Is Play Arts Kai Jun her
appearance before or after she birthed Jin? |
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Finally we'll see some
quality Cowboy Bebop figures. Spike here is looking fantastic. |
I would've liked to have
seen one of the other Cowboy Bebop characters before Vicious, but this
gives Spike someone to fight. |
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Play Arts Kai Garrus is
calibrated just right. |
Tali looks great for a
mystery alien. |
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To me, FemShep is just
regular Shepard, but here's her default look in Play Arts Kai. |
Ashley, your favorite
space racist. |
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It's easy to tell Meryl
form the other Play Arts Kai figures from the way she walks. |
Default Male Shepard is
ready to |
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Raiden is such a bigger
and better bad ass as a cyber ninja. |
Kojima was right, the
Solidus figure is huge. |
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Cyborg Ninja in regular
colors... |
...and the SDCC exclusive
red Cyborg Ninja. |
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Snake! You sold out!
Snnaaaake! |
A Dead Space 3 Isaac
figure? Awesome. |
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Lara Croft's new look
gets a figure, but will we ever see her older look as a Play Arts Kai? |
So, Resident Evil:
Operation Raccoon City's Lupo goes to Square Enix, while NECA got Vector.
Kind of difficult to have a complete team in either scale. |
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Guile's theme goes with
anything, even his action figure. |
Ibuki is the next Street
Fighter female to go Play Arts Kai. |
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Chun Li in black looks
good, but that knee joint is atrocious. |
For those that want their
Cammy covered in white. |
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Why not just make this n
Evil Ryu version? |
Akuma in white and the
other three alternate colored Street Fighters are Square Enix Shop
exclusives. |
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Some kind of version of
The Dark Knight Returns Batman. |
Play Arts Kai Catwoman
doesn't have a uni-brow like the DC Direct version. |
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Arkham City Robin is much
better than a normal Robin. |
The black & white
exclusive Arkham Asylum Batman. |
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Arkham Asylum's Harley
Quinn. |
Joker in black & white is
somehow creepier than in color. |
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The Dark Knight Rises is
even getting Play Arts Kai. Also, Catwoman is in development. |
Now I want to see a more
regular Bane. |
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Arkham Asylum Batman on
display again... |
...along with the armored
version. |
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Dante evens include his
guitar. Amazing. |
Vergil goes Play Arts
Kai. |
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Master Chief from Halo 4
going Play Arts Kai |
The Halo 4 random
Spartans begin. |
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In case you missed them
the other times, red Spartan... |
...and a blue Spartan. |
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Lightning is more
dynamically posed this year. |
Hitman won't hit on Lara. |
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Once again, Uncharted 3's
Nathan Drake... |
...and God of War's
Kratos. |
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Square Enix had more than
just Play Arts Kai. |
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