street fighter's slowly approaching 40 with each passing day, and like any vintage series that went viral, it has enough merch for a man to live off of it for a year or two. from cards to statues to figurines to plushies to the 5,000 pornographic statues and pins i keep seeing that are definitely third party or fanmade, this series has it all. not as varied as NGE, however. where does one begin with such a rabbithole? simple,
ah, the entire dedicated street fighter exhibition from last year. the time where for a moment, you were able to have either of these stunning beauties in your house, staring at you while you sleep or while you cook. besides the obvious jacked up prices of the items in that exhibition nowadays, and the exhibition being unlike it's name [it's not international it's just in some japanese cities], not much was shown here. some acrylic stands, some stickers, postcards, a cute sumo toy with E. honda, zangief, ken, ryu, akuma, and chun-li, pins, it's just trinkets. still worth looking at, though! plus i intend to buy one the actual book for the exhibition explicitly just to scan it in the future.
also, ryu purse and bison running over ryu sticker.
this is where this article actually just turns into ''i show you oddities on online sites'', but what else is this site about? sharing things with the world, that's what. you can't back out of this. i will tell you about stupid things that have been made.
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the most hyperspecific thing i've seen. do you want to tell the time or want to be waken up but it specifically has to be by a akira-looking ryu and a guile claude van damme? this is the item for you.
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have you ever wanted to hold a tiny kylie in your hands? have you ever wanted to frame raul julia in your house? do you want to tape van damme on the ceiling right over your bed so you see him whenever you wake up? you can with the only merch that has been ever released for this film!
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are you old enough to remember that there were action figures for x-men V.S. street fighter??? yeah!!! there were!!! to keep up with the theme of this site having some odd looking bisons going around, have 80's hooker M. bison!!! i know he usually does wear uniform that's tight at the top and loose at the bottom but why is he wearing such fucking tight clothing!!! you are cutting off your blood circulation master!!! you are going to die!!!! why do you have a cocked collar my lord!!! why you showing off your cleavage!!!
also, have this funny error'd packaging i found on the while.
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on another note, street fighter V, from what i've seen, to accompany it trying to be the biggest game, has quite the oddball merch. like these little lid holders! [or glass decor if you wanna drink a glass of the beverage of your choice, alcoholic or otherwise, with a tiny vega hanging off of it.]
or, if you're feeling a little more luxurious, you can have bumfuck large leather wallets with the main of your choice. comes in the following colors: M. bison, karin, akuma, guile, and plenty more.
wanna put these little hangers on something? once upon a time, street fighter V had a collab with red bull, forever cementing it as a e-sports game. these cans had codes for costumes too! thing is, the UK and the US got some boring recolor skins but japan got some unique ones. who the fuck wants to drink edible gasoline while playing a game that only became good at the end of it's life?
and if you feel particularly hungry, pocky also sponsored this game. because who does pocky NOT sponsor? though that's not all-because capcom, with the help of glico, also made a entire pocky web browser game that's basically SF2 but with three changes: the healthbar colors are brown and yellow instead of red and yellow, only ryu and chun-li are playable from the original roster, and deplete your health bar just enough and you'll get a 'pocky chance', which basically does nothing except if you K.O. someone within a literal inch of your life then you both get to pose with pocky boxes in-game. it's cute! it also contains a japanese comedian if you're into that! his name is eiko kano! check him out or something! not the first time any capcom-related fighting game had a japanese comedian show up as a playable character though! unfortunately, this is one of these cases where it's a game you can't play anymore. may it live on in our memories...
shown above: said japanese comedian.
but that's not all though! don't pick up that damn yam-yam just yet, you're not done with your pocky packet, because they also made STREET FIGHTER V: POCKY EDITION. WHICH WAS PLAYED EXCLUSIVELY AT A TOURNAMENT. WITH THE SAME POCKY MECHANIC. IT IS AS STUPID AS IT SOUNDS. I WONDER IF IT CAN BE FOUND AGAIN CONSIDERING CURRENT LOST MEDIA EFFORTS NOWADAYS.
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have you, for some reason, watched legend of chun-li and saw chun-li's little bird necklace and thought to yourself: ''damn, i want that''? well now you can, but in turn nobody will know where it even came from and will think that it's just some stuff you got off of a online store.
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wished that some of the characters were biblically accurate? this is for you, straight from grape brain. this is actually kinda right up my alley because i like interesting little figures instead of ''here's the character'', still won't refrain from getting the usual jada though.
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you ever wanted to hug a fireball? no? now you can! this is a weird, weird little plush thing-but if you ever wanted to throw hadoukens for real, this is it.
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official. tsum tsum. plushies. from the capcom cafe. there's ryu, ken, and kimberly-BUT JUST LOOK AT THIS KIMBERLY.
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little street fighter spintops! these will die at the hands of actual beyblades, though.
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street fighter had a collab with hello kitty, as goes the laws of the universe. the plushies are also stupidly adorable, as goes the laws of the universe. i need that fucking bison kitty ASAP, as goes the laws of the universe.
there is far, far more, but covering them all would crash neocities, so i'm stopping there. if the world was more fair, we would have 'lewd' statues of the male characters in promiscious or revealling clothing to match the ones of the female characters, but we do not live in a fair world.