SEGA has been slowly dropping reveals of new SEGA action figures from Jakks Pacific on social media, and thanks to SEGA employee Mike Cisneros it has been confirmed that the first wave of figures has been fully revealed. Releasing exclusively at Walmart stores, the characters are Axel Stone from Streets of Rage, Aiai from Super Monkey Ball and the Werewolf transformation from Altered Beast. In addition to multiple points of articulation, the figures will also come packed with accessories. While Axel has seen a premium figure released featuring his Streets of Rage 4 look, the upcoming figure from Jakks Pacific is the first time (to my knowledge) that his original Genesis/Mega Drive look has been given a figure. Aiai, meanwhile, is no stranger to action figures, as he and some of his monkey friends had figures released by GamePro and JoyRide Studios around 20 years ago. The Werewolf form from Altered Beast has seen statues and vinyl toys, but this would be his first action figure release.
We should be seeing these at stores and hopefully online in the coming weeks, and if they sell well enough we should see a wave two! In the comments, let us know what SEGA characters you’d like to see in action figure form!
These look great! I wonder how the werewolf will look from the side as all these shots are straight on.
I think it would be cool for there Super to be a Super Monkey Ball character in each wave, but I’m betting they’ll stick to one character per franchise for a bit. That older line by Joyride had the balls (no pun intended) included, but this could almost be like more recent Sonic figures with little action environments included.
The nice thing about Jakks is these should be available at a lower price point so people may be willing to pick up a lot of characters that they’re not already a huge fan of as long as the quality is there.
Would love to see:
Opa Opa, dragon rider and dragoon (Panzer Dragoon), and Temjin fro Virtual On.