After making so many Warhammer 40k Action figures over past two years, Joytoy finally decide to expand their portfolio starting with SNK’s popular IP, King of Fighters! Obviously the first pick goes to the main protagonist no other than KOF series poster boy, Kyo Kusanagi! In this batch, Joytoy decide to create a 1/18 Rendition for Kyo Kusanagi in his KOF 98 version and tagged along with his Japan Team teammates, Benimaru Nikaido and Goro Daimon. Scheduled for August 2025 release, Joytoy Kyo Kusanagi will be sold for 30 USD.
As expected by Joytoy with their experience in handling popular IPs, their rendition of Kyo Kusanagi is a well made one as it pretty much includes the effect parts for the Kyo’s signature moves including the finishers. Joytoy probably had the ability to go for the extra miles with this particular series compared to Figma lineup. While there are several manufacturers like Storm Toys made plenty of action figures for SNK popular characters with great quality before, Joytoy open a new avenue for affordable SNK series collectibles with decent quality. This is a great news for casual fighting game like me who are interested with collectibles from popular 2D fighting series but not too eager to shelf out 80 USD per character. If this lineup goes well, I am quite sure that Joytoy could expand to other SNK popular series like Samurai Showdown or Metal Slug and might even expand to Capcom series which 52Toys didn’t quite manage to achieve any success.
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