Rounding out the lineup was Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Liu Kang, and Sonya. The six figure set included one new MK figure, Mileena, as well as yet another different take on Shang-Tsung. According to the Mortal Kombat Wiki, these figures were based more on the characters’ visual design in the Mortal Kombat comic book series than the games themselves. In 1999, short-lived company Infinite Concepts took a stab at it with their series of 7-inch figures.
The 12-inch series brought back Johnny Cage, Liu-Kang, Sub-Zero (masked version), Scorpion, Cyrax, and Jade, and expanded the MK toy universe to include Sektor and Kitana.
The second series introduced Jax, Cyrax, Jade, and Shao Khan into the world of plastic. Johnny Cage, Raiden, Scorpion, and Sonya from the first series of 6-inch figures looked almost like replicas of their Hasbro counterparts, and only Liu Kang and Sub-Zero (unmasked MK3 version) stood apart. Their line was based on Mortal Kombat Trilogy, and they released both 6- and 12-inch figure lines. In 1996, UK company Toy Island took over MK action figure duty. The following year, Hasbro released new variations on their MK figures to tie in with their movie counterparts, with Shang-Tsung and Raiden getting the most drastic makeovers. There were also additional variants of Johnny Cage (bundled as a 2-pack with Goro, the only way to get the Goro figure), Shang-Tsung (included with the Dragon Wing vehicle), and Kano (included with the Kombat Cycle). All seven original playable kombatants were featured, plus Goro, Shang-Tsung, Reptile, and Smoke. Joe molds as the basis for the MK characters. However, like the Street Fighter figures, Hasbro used existing G.I. Joe and are not considered a part of the line. Joe line, Hasbro’s Mortal Kombat figures were their own separate entity, with packaging that made no mention of G.I. Unlike the previous year’s Street Fighter II figures, which were released as an official part of the G.I. The first MK toys appeared in 1994 courtesy of Hasbro, the company that brought us G.I. Here is a look at MK toys and collectible figures through the years, with Sub-Zero used to represent each toy line in order to best illustrate the changes between them (he is the only character to have been represented in each and every company’s line). The Mortal Kombat series only existed for about two years before the first action figures were released based on the characters, and they’ve been accompanying the franchise ever since. “ Mortal Monday” was a weekly feature about all things Mortal Kombat– the most popular and longest-running video game franchise developed in Chicago–from back when Chi-Scroller was a Chicago-focused blog.
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