SOTA Toys

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SOTA Toys is a toy company, that makes action figures and other collectibles based on licensed properties. Its most popular product are Street Fighter action figures. Other licensed properties include Charmed and Tomb Raider

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[edit] Street Fighter

The SOTA Toys Street Fighter line is unique in that the line-ups for each round are voted on by fans. SOTA has tries to set up the voting so that popular characters are evenly distributed between the rounds of action figures. By delaying the release of the most popular characters, SOTA can produce more figures over a longer period of time, allowing obscure characters that would never sell on their own to be produced.

However, because of constant delays, loss of revenue, and the closure of many retail stores that carry Sota products, Sota Toys will no longer use the voting system for their Street Fighter line. The voting results for Round 6 was thrown out in favor of an internet exclusive series. Round 5 has also been cancelled. Instead, according to Jed (a SOTA employee,) the remaining cast from the original sf2 game will be released at the end of the 2007 year.

Furthermore, Sota has created another spinoff Street Fighter line (Street Fighter Beta) that will consist of retooled versions of previously made Street Fighter figures.

[edit] Action Figures

[edit] Round One

[edit] Round Two

[edit] Round Three

[edit] Round Four

==== Round Five ==== (Cancelled)

[edit] Street Fighter Beta

  • Ryu (as he appeared in SF3; a newly sculpted head for Ryu with Round 4 Akuma's body.)
  • Ken (as he appeared in SF3; a newly sculpted head for Ken with Round 4 Akuma's body.)
  • Akuma (Topless Gi version; Round 4 Akuma, with a newly sculpted head and a modified karate gi.)

[edit] 9" Rotocast Series

  • Ryu
  • Evil Ryu
  • Sagat
  • Sagat (orange trunks)

[edit] Statues

  • Ryu

[edit] Notable Exclusives

  • Evil Ryu vs Psycho Bision (SDCC 2004 exclusive)
  • Evil Ryu (Sota online exclusive; repaint of Round 1 Ryu)
  • All American Guile (SDCC 2005 exclusive; repaint of Round 3 Guile)
  • Cannon Spike Cammy (SDCC 2005 exclusive)
  • Ryu vs Sagat (xtreme toys exclusive;repackaged Round 1 figures)
  • Ryu vs Sagat Scarring blow set (Wizard exclusive. Believed to be cancelled by Capcom's request because of the depiction of blood on the toys. However, small quantities of the set was distributed online)
  • Shin Akuma (SOTA online only exclusive)
  • Gouken w/ "Battle Cry" head (SDCC 2006 exclusive)
  • Gouken (SDCC 2006 toyrockets.com exclusive)
  • Final Battle Gouken (Toyrocket.com exclusive)
  • Spirit of Gouken (Toyrocket.com exclusive)
  • Manga color Gouken (Sotatoys.com exclusive)

[edit] Darkstalkers

Darkstalkers will be the first line that Sota will sell only through the official SOTA Web Store in the United States.

===Series 1===(Cancelled)

As of recent, Sota Toys (under new management) will release two figures per wave. The first wave will consist of Dimitri and Lord Raptor. The first wave has a release date of Spring 2007.

They also produced a resin statue of Felica that will be under the same series as the upcoming Ryu statue.

===Series 1===(Revised)

[edit] Statues

Felica

[edit] The Chronicles of Riddick

[edit] Action Figures

[edit] Statues

  • Riddick 6 in. minibust

[edit] Trivia

At one point, round one from the Street Fighter series were considered rare for being underproduce. However, this shown changed when the factory that used to produce the Street Fighter figures (with the exception of Gouken) started to produce unofficial units from wave 1 that the request of certain online retailers. The unofficials figures are very identical to the originals except for small differences. They are: pixelated graphics on the card, a lower quality paper used for the cataloge, subtle differences in paint, and Japanese variants in American packaging. This caused the value of the round one figures to drop drastically in the third market.


[edit] External links

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