Long time readers may remember me reporting on this series of Street Fighter Paper Foldables that appeared in the Street Fighter Tribute book way back in mid 2008 – well they are finally available at the Street Fighter site here.  (Hint: Let the page load and click the box in the bottom left or check out the Paper Foldables blog for a map).

Last night Capcom held their second(?) Capcom FIght Club in NYC.  Hit the jump for pics from the event.

The line wrapped around the block.  I was waaaaaaaaay back, about 2/3 of the way of the total line.  The above view is actually around the corner from the event (taken from my place in line.)

Marvel VS Capcom 2 and the US version of Tatsunoko VS Capcom were playable – Super Street Fighter seemed to be the reason most people came out – though from what I understand it was not playable.

The first level.

A mural on the wall as you entered the basement level.

The view as you entered the basements main area.

NOT PICTURED – The first 200 people or so in line received gift bags that included a small figure, TVC towel, Ryu headband, Ryu or C.Viper figure, CFC poster, SF comic and a Juri T-Shirt.  A friend of mine had gotten their an hour earlier than I and snagged a bag – I’m sure you can find pics on Capcom Unity or SRK forums but I’ll see if I can update later with pics of his haul.

People seemed to have a good time all-in-all.  I am getting pumped for the US release of Tatsunoko VS Capcom.  They’ve added 4 new characters – Frank West from Dead Rising, Tekkaman Blade (who I was kinda surprised wasn’t in the original), Joe the Condor (So now they have 3/5 Gatchaman characters… kinda feel bad for the 2 that got left out…), and Zero from Megaman X.  The game plays a bit different from other fighters in that there are are basically only 3 attack buttons (versus 3 for punch and 3 for kick).  I found it to be pretty intuitive though.  It feels very much like the spiritual successor to the Marvel VS Capcom games which I was a big fan of.

Thanks Mark!

If you played SF3 and know about how parrying works and haven’t seen this already you need to watch it (it doesn’t get really good till about 2:30 btw.)

Redic.

Grab him here.

I have designed a Blanka Cubeecraft (based on the character from the Street Fighter game series) and entered it into a contest over at Don’t Panic.

Check him out here. Please take a moment to vote for it while you are there. You should be able to download the enlarged image to print out and build yourself ; ).

Definitely take a look at the other entries as well, there is some really great work being submitted!

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Friend and illustrator Khary Randolph (kharupt.com -some images on his site might be NSFW) has let me know about a friend of his who runs this site: http://www.paperfoldables.com/

He has a handful of great original designs to download and build.  (Unfortunately the Street Fighters seen above are not available!  The image appeared in the recent Udon Street Fighter Tribute artbook.)

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