I read the first couple of volumes of the Batgirl comics when she moved to trendy hipster Burnside and changed costumes, but I wasn't really a fan. But I do like the costume. The purple body with yellow accents is the same color scheme as the Yvonne Craig Batgirl in the old Adam West TV show, though the all-black cowl is different. I like it better than the ones that basically look like Batman's costume only for a girl.
There was a DC Multiverse figure out years ago but the one I have isn't that. It's a DC Essentials version, something only sold online not in stores like the other one ostensibly was--not that you could find most of them in stores. On Amazon this version was actually cheaper than the other one, which was nice. The Multiverse one looks more blue than purple anyway.
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| Burnside version on the left, Yvonne Craig version on the right |
The figure has good articulation and I think it's a decent likeness. The left foot looks a little weird a lot of the time, where the foot and upper part of the boot don't really seem to go together. The hair is pretty good, though maybe it could be redder.
A year or so ago they changed her costume and there's a McFarlane figure of it but I don't like that one, at least from the neck up. I mean that "mask" covers like 1% of her face and those stupid ears sticking up through her hair. How is that going to conceal anything? How does her father not recognize her in like two seconds? Ugh. It'd be better to take the body of that figure and the head of an older figure with the full cowl to look more like the costume in the comics back in the 70s and/or 80s, basically until she got shot by the Joker.
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