I was never much of an arcade game player, so my Street Fighter II experience is based on the old Super Nintendo version of it - which, of course, had only Chun Li representing the fairer sex. As a consequence, Cammy's always been kind of fascinating to me - the fact that she was the first new female fighter I'd ever seen in the game, that she had that highly eccentric and unforgettable costume, that (due to the aforementioned distaste for pouring money into coin-op machines) I never really learned to play the game with her, and (believe it or not) that I actually enjoyed Kylie Minogue's portrayal of her in the godawful Van Damme Street Fighter movie. Hey, there wasn't much to enjoy in that film (at least, on purpose), I had to grasp at what I could find. So naturally I snapped her up when she appeared in SOTA's Street Fighter II action figure line. The SOTA articulation layout is very, very complex, and Cammy hasn't got a lot of costume to hide her joints with, so she's a real case of seeing exactly what you get. All over her body her articulation is visible, and it's quite a clever effort on SOTA's part that she doesn't look awful as a result - indeed, they've quite cleverly managed to incorporate the shapes of much of the articulation into the general body shape, so that even though you see the joint, it doesn't really look bad. The hip ball joints are the sore point, unavoidably for a character wearing a high-waisted thong swimsuit - they're as smooth as the designers could make them, but there's no disguising the joint. Otherwise though she's very visually appealing - the skin colour is bright and smooth, the costume sculpt and colours are clear and slanted towards a kind of semi-realism, and the head and face are really good, capturing her look exactly. When they first designed Cammy they were clearly going for instant eye-catching recognisability, and she's still got it - the central green costume, the long bare limbs, the heavy black boots, and the long twin braids are all faithfully reproduced. She's even got the faint scar down her left cheek. The up side of all that articulation is that she can do most anything. She has a ball joint neck, ball joint shoulders, double peg elbows, swivel/peg wrists, a sternum peg joint, a swivel waist, ball joint hips, double peg knees, peg ankles, mid-foot swivels, and a peg joint for the toes. A boot-top swivel would have been nice, but it's pretty difficult to complain about her versatility - she can take all sorts of poses, from static postures to dramatic fighting stances, and it all works. Whether you're just finding a good pose to display her in, or you just want to revert to childhood and play with her, she's a bucket of fun. She has a few swappable parts for variation. There are three alternate hands: as well as the clenched fists you get a pair of open hands, for karate chopping and suchlike, and in addition another right hand giving the V-for-victory/peace sign (or, if you prefer, the 'up yours'). This hand and her alternate head, sans commando earpiece and doing a wink, recreate her victory pose, and along with the kung fu chop hands can give her a variety of extra options besides in general-purpose posing. There's also a variant Cammy, available as an exclusive, from her appearance in the Cannon Spike game - in this version she's got a shoulder holster and a variety of weapons, and grasping hands to hold them, plus (I'm serious) rocket-powered roller skates. It's been a while since there was a new Street Fighter series out - you'll have to look in shops with good stock to find a Cammy nowadays, or scour the internet for online shops or eBay sales. The delay in series has been attributed to various factors, including perhaps the line not doing very well financially - difficult to imagine considering the quality, but then again the merits of the actual figures count for nothing against the vagaries of distribution and toy shop buyers who don't know what the heck they're doing. And really, looking at Cammy and the other Street Fighter figures I have (Chun Li and Sakura - I missed out on Ibuki) I can imagine that SOTA's cutting their profit margin thin - for the price being asked, these are high quality figures, and no doubt they're quite costly to make. The line is returning soon, renamed Street Fighter Revolutions - unfortunately the female fighter in the first Revolutions series is R. Mika, whose costume is utterly ridiculous, but I may get her anyway just because the design of these toys is so much fun.