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| Jason
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|  "Re(5):SOTA SF Series 2!"
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In the end, I think I've figured out why T. Hawk won by such a sizeable margin.
T. Hawk = SF2 character
Birdie, Dudley, Oro = Not SF2 characters.
How strange, it seems like all of the eventual winners share a similar trait ie: every one of them is the chracter in their catagory who has been playable for the longest
Category 1: Vega has been playable since CE, akuma not until ST, and Adon and Rolento not until Alpah 1 & 2.
Category 2: Cammy appeared in SSF2, followed by Rose in a1, sak in a2 and ibuki in sf3.
Category 3: 3 originally playable characters here, all of whom beat Balrog, who wasn't selectable until CE.
Category 4: already covered, but again, birdie from alpha, beats both sf3 characters.
A couple of small discrepancies, namely adon losing to rolento, which I chalk up to 'we already got a mui thai figure' thinking, and rose losing to everyone, because . . . uhh, I dunno, the 'she's not a school girl like sak and ibuki and a lot of those who voted love that japanese-style perversion' factor. Still, kind of interesting.
sigh, there's never going to be a Q figure, is there?
I knew I would do it and I know this I know what I am doing now that I am doing something both beautiful but gruesome because I am destroying its beauty by knowing that it might be beautiful know that if I know that I am dong something beautiful that it's no longer beautiful. - Dave Eggers A.H.W.O.S.G.
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| hikarutilmitt
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| "Re(7):SOTA SF Series 2!" , posted Thu 25 Mar 02:36
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A couple of small discrepancies, namely adon losing to rolento, which I chalk up to 'we already got a mui thai figure' thinking
I'm thinking Rolento simply may have more recognition factor than Adon, due to his appearances in the Final Fight series (FF & FF2, specifically). At first, I was thinking that his recognizability has come about in spite of his absence from the SF/SNES port of FF -- but now I'm wondering if it's come about (in part) because of it. The removal of Rolento and his elevator stage was, after all, the largest and most obvious change from arcade to SF/SNES. I guess Adon just hasn't paid his dues like Rolento has.
Now if somebody would just do action figures of Heidern (KOF) and Bobby (Martial Champion), I could put 'em together with Rolento to see if they fight. : P
--Chris
True, though at least they put him back in (though not his stage) for FF2. Hell, they put the industrial stage back in for FF3.
Oh and I'd love to see Martial Champion figures, especially for Racheal and Salamander.
Maybe if I'm lucky the next wave will have Sakura as the female (she WAS the second highest in the rankings) followed by Ibuki. That'd make me happy indeed.
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| TiamatRoar 679th Post
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| "Re(1):News on Obscure Character avaliblity" , posted Fri 26 Mar 20:27:
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If you visit the "Give SOTA SF Feedback" thread over at Action-Figures.com, you'll find out you're likely to never the likes of Gen, Gill, or Karin in stores.
It seems stores already aren't too keen on Sodom, so future waves will be made better known characters.
Lesser known ones however will still get made, in limited quanities granted, as web-sale exclusives.
Sigh. I had a bad feeling about this after the observation of the whole "Only SF2 characters won the vote, even someone like Thunder Hawk" observation. If someone like Thunder Hawk could win (come on, even if you like his design, the amount of "Thunder Hawk SUCKS!" posts I've seen on message boards throughout the history of Street Fighter really should have said something) most likely due to being an SF2 character, that kinda says something about the sales and market size for various Street Fighter figures (basically, SF2 = Yes, everyone else = No)
This also kinda makes me kinda worried about the Street Fighter comic, come to think of it (I predict sales plummetting once Street Fighter 3 starts...). Ah well, all Doll related stuff will most likely be over by then, anyways.
Course, admittingly, maybe it'll be more the fault of the retailers than the fans *glance at SF comic being woefully understocked* but either way, it wouldn't be good.
http://kattuggla.oru.se/dmd01/dm0103/test/faqs/SFplotguide40.txt
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. Well I guess who aren't fimiliar with Alpha would probably think the same thing when seeing Sodom's name. I am pretty sure an average toy store like Kay-bee's wouldn't like to see such a name on their shelves.
