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Street Date: Officially 2022-02-16
MSRP: $20
Price I Paid: $20
Scale: 7-inch (or 1/10)

Amazon.com had Gotham Knights Red Hood and Nightwing listed briefly in December 2021, but their product pages are no longer live. I was able to get Red Hood from GameStop.com, but Nightwing is basically nowhere in sight unless you happen to find him in a brick and mortar store.

Amazon is delivering Batgirl and Tim Drake Robin as of today, February 17, 2022.

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This version of Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) is based on her character design from the video game Gotham Knights, which was announced for 2021 but then delayed to 2022.

In the plastic tray, there's one main plastic tie around Batgirl's torso. The cape fits through a slot in the plastic tray so that it's tucked behind the tray rather than underneath the figure.

In addition to an information card and a base stand, Batgirl comes with one accessory, a tonfa with pink highlights (presumably because she can use them to deliver electrical shocks in the game). McFarlane should've included two tonfas as shown in the video game previews, and the handle should've been cylindrical rather than a rectangular block.

This Batgirl stands about 6.75-inches tall. She's "cute", but waaaaay too petite. I mean, she's taller than the Three Jokers Batgirl but almost looks like she's about to disappear when they're standing next to each other. I would not be surprised if she was designed around the same time as Red Dress Princess Buttercup or even used the same parts because she's similarly tiny. This downsizing is so extreme that the soft rubber diaper is a tad too small for her overall proportions; the hips don't even really fit into the diapers, lol.

On the plus side, this figure has excellent articulation, possibly the best of any McFarlane figure I've bought so far. The cape doesn't get in the shoulders' way of moving. The head and lower torso both rotate 360 degrees. She can do a truly flat 180 leg split. You can even arch her back so that she's falling through the sky.

The right hand has a trigger finger, so she can hold guns from other McFarlane lines. She looks good wielding swords and grapnels, too.

I'm really, really happy about the articulation, but this Batgirl's too thin!

Areas of concern:
-- The diaper should've been bigger.
-- The tonfa handle should've been cylindrical rather than a rectangular block, and McFarlane should've included two instead of only one.
-- On my copy, the face sculpt wasn't molded cleanly.

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McFarlane also made unpainted versions of this Batgirl. They're mixed with the regular painted versions in the shipping cases.





Final note: I wonder if they'll make variants? Batgirl is shown wearing a different armor when fighting Mr. Freeze, and for some reason, she wears a Court of Owls mask.

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Got a replacement from Amazon that doesn't have a weird mold line across the face near the nose.