I had seen this Chun-Li variant leaked online a while back, so I don’t know why I was so surprised that they were releasing her as a SDCC exclusive. I think it’s because Ken was such an obvious continuation of the exclusive from last year, I didn’t expect expansion of the offerings.
I’m so glad that they decided to run the laughing portrait in Player 1 colors and include it with this set. That win pose was one of the things I missed in the first release of Chun-Li. The figure will be available at SDCC 2024 starting preview night 7/24/2024 and will go up online on 7/25/2024 at 9AM PT. Again, I’m crossing my fingers that they made enough of these for online sale. Ryu was fairly reasonable to get after the fact because they did a second run, so I hope that continues. I have no idea what the relative popularity of P2 Chun Li is to Evil Ryu, but I suspect since more people probably played as Pink Chun Li than ever did Evil Ryu there is more nostalgia for her.
Source: Fwoosh
