Round 5 offers the take-home version of your favorite mixed martial arts personalities. With big names like Anderson Silva, Randy Couture, Quinton Jackson, Matt Hughes, Tito Ortiz, Andrei Arlovski and Wanderlei Silva; your bound to find the figure that suits you. Each collectible features character-traits unique to each fighter and is beautifully captured in every toy.
The President of Round 5 [Damon Lau] explains how each figurine is created and the extreme measures taken to avoid exaggeration or cartoonish features unbelievable to mma fans.
"We bring them in to do studio shots [fighters], and keep pushing them to get a facial shot that matches what we're trying to replicate," Lau continued. "So we ask Arlovski to do the screaming thing with his fangs - we keep shooting that over and over and over again. We literally morph an exact 360-degree sculpting of a person's head, and try to sculpt it exactly to the facial features of the person," said Lau.
Round 5 announced last month figures for Fedor Emelianenko, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, Cung Le, Dan Henderson and Gina Carano are in the works and could be ready before the broadcast of UFC 100. It hasn't to been difficult for Lau to sign fighters as he admits to giving a large chunk of royalty for every sale made. With a quality product and attractive offer; more big names are likely to step up. More than 30 mixed martial artists are already in the works for this summer.
Round 5 currently sells in the U.K. and Japan. France and Brazil are the next markets they plan to focus efforts on.
"I don't think they [fighters] got into this sport saying, wouldn't it be cool if someone made an action figure of me?" Lau said
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(Five Knuckles plans to give away figures for our Pro Pick 'Em fantasy game so stay tuned!)







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