“The Kungfu Beat” from Disney Channel Asia is Ninja Pony’s current favourite “hit” song.  She can’t stop singing and humming it all day long since she learnt the song lyrics!  Though I can’t embed the music video on this blog (not allowed by YouTube and Disney), you can view it directly on YouTube.  The song lyrics are provided below, enjoy!

“The Kungfu Beat” song lyrics:

I can do kungfu,
Do the moves I do! 
(Kick Ha! Hoo Ha! Hit Ha! Hoo Ha!) 

I can play the master,
I’m the master blaster! 
(Kick Ha! Hoo Ha! Hit Ha! Hoo Ha!) 

Can you do it faster?
How long can you last here? 
(Kick Ha! Hoo Ha!) 

Chorus: [ Enter to the land of the rising sun,
Asia is the place where it all begun.
Look at all the fighters and the medals they’ve won...on,
Come and make karate fun...un!
Everybody kick to the kung fu beat!
Who will be the master?
Who will take the lead?
Everybody kick to the kung fu beat!
Who will be the master in the street? ]

[ Who will be the master?
Who will be the master in the street? ]

I can kick it high and low,
You can come and watch the show.
This is what I’ve learned to do,
You can also do kung fu!
If this is where you wanna be with me!

Following my blog post yesterday on my collection of Disney’s Mulan action figures, here are the rest of them posing with the magnificent and courageous steeds seen in the movie!

This is the Mulan action figure in her training attire and she came paired with Khan, her strong and bold horse.  I tied a red ribbon on his tail to replicate the red cloth that is tied on his tail as seen in the movie.  Mushu and Cri-Kee came with the single pack Mulan action figures that I posted about yesterday.  Together, they all make up Mulan’s personal winning team in the movie!

Next we have Mulan’s commanding officer and love interest Captain Li Shang, riding on his impressive Imperial Stallion.  Li Shang is also in his training attire and he came paired with this horse, which I have named “Feng”, meaning “wind” in Chinese.  Feng’s tail was not painted grey like his mane, so I wrapped it with red ribbon to replicate his bound up tail as seen in the movie.

Here we have both Mulan and Li Shang riding on their respective horses.  I think they look great riding side by side together.  Well in the movie, I don’t recall seeing them riding their horses while in training attires.  However these 2 action figures are more suited to ride on their horses because their legs are not inhibited by any armour.

However I still think that both Mulan and Li Shang look better posing with their horses while wearing their armour.  The only thing is that they can’t ride their horses while in armour.  Anyway here is Mulan, together with her inseparable animal ’sidekicks’ - Mushu, Cri-Kee and of course Khan!

This is Captain Li Shang in armour and posing with his horse “Feng”.  I think they both look so smart standing together!  I’m glad that the Mulan horses are made to scale with their riders, not like those horribly off-scale Barbie dolls and horse sets, where the dolls are obviously too big for their horses.

Now both Mulan and Li Shang in battle armour are standing with their respective horses.  Their battle armour are well designed and they do resemble ancient Chinese armour.  The Mulan horses are actually modelled after the Tang Dynasty-styled horse statues and paintings.  Most of them back then had bound up tails like “Feng” here.  Fortunately Khan still retains a nice flowing tail despite having a red cloth tied to it.

Last but not least, battle armour Mulan and Li Shang are seen here with their horses Khan and Feng respectively once more.  This time, Mushu and Cki-Kee have decided to join in and they sneaked up from the back to take the photo together.  If you have seen the straight-to-DVD-release Mulan movie sequel, Li Shang finally knows of Mushu’s existence and meets him too!  

As soon as the Disney Mulan toys hit the local stores back in the late 90’s when the movie was shown in the cinemas here, I went to hunt down most of the Mulan action figures sets.  I first saw the Mulan toys preview photos in the Toyfare magazine.  Hence I knew what and which Mulan toys were coming out.

There are the 2 versions of Mulan action figures, her as a lady and as a soldier.  These 2 Mulans were quite common at Toy R’ Us, together with the Chien Po action figure (coming up below).  However, they all disappeared from the racks soon after I bought mine.  Not sure if they were eventually bought by kids or toy collectors though.  That round yellow cookie-like accessory is actually an umbrella.

Next we have Mulan’s commanding officer and love interest Captain Li Shang, and the main villain Shan Yu.  These 2 action figures were impossible to find in the stores here and back then, only Toy R’ Us was selling this series of single pack Mulan action figures.  The other departmental stores only had the Barbie doll-sized Mulan dolls and some of the other variant action figures box sets. 

Here we have the so-called gang of 3, as referred to by the Disney production team.  They are Yao (short guy), Ling (slim guy) and Chien Po (huge guy).  Chien Po was always the one found and left in the stores.  I finally tracked down the Yao and Ling 2-pack; Li Shang and Shan Yu action figures at the then Clarke Quay flea market about 1-2 years after the Mulan movie!  Luckily I managed to get them all Mint-On-Card (MOC)!

See the all the above Mulan action figures in their original MOC packaging here!

I also have the Mulan action figures that came with the magnificent horses that starred in the movie.  I’ll post their photos here tomorrow!  Come back again to view them!