Batgirl photos: I don't get it.

[Teemu]

Never saw the advantages of the Mattel body; the hips are similar to the Megos, and the body shape, knock knees and floppy waist (painfully apparent in the pics above) make it worse than the Mego body to my eye. The torso detail is about the only advantage, and that's lost under the costume here.

But I don't think ANY body could help that head unless it was 10" scale. That's the worst oversizing yet, making Alfred look small headed by comparison. I may have to do something and replace it with a standard head or modded Barbara to make the figure even displayable. FTC should be ashamed of offering that...

I disagree....The Mattel body CLEARLY helps this figure (I have proved that in my pics and it looks great in person)

The FTC female hips are awfully oversized and the Mego's isn't that much better (it's better than FTC,but it's still hippy as I own an original WW)

I completely agree with Scott on this. Batgirl was the figure we've wanted most since wave 1, and this effort was poor at best. While we all would have had nerd rage if FTC had said "The figure just isn't where we need it to be yet, so we're delaying it one wave" we all would have appreciated the commitment to the product and the collector. And I know, they probably needed a 4th figure for the wave, but there had to be different options than this abomination.

The oversized Head complaints are exaggerated! Placing her on the Mattel body proves this.She is no different than the rest of the 66 batman figures I have displayed on my shelf and they look darn good and once on the better S type bodies,they got better and look better!

She is no abomination! Her costume is done very well (expect for the oversized cape) and her sculpt is better in person.I definitely recommend her if anyone plans to swap her out on a better body.It makes a HUGE difference.I get it,we shouldn't have to swap bodies (I agree),but if you want better,there is no choice other than not collect these.

66 Batman is FTC's BEST line and I am pretty happy with the 14 figures I have on my shelf including Batgirl

[lilbrosj66]

I've been looking on ebay for a custom Barbara Gordon 66 Batgirl head (the same one Jessica and a few others have used) but it isn't a current listing that I can find. Anyone have any resources? I'm guessing that it's a hot item right about now. If I can't find it, and I am really not happy with the FTC version when I get her, I will be doing my own, more in-scale head.

[rykerw1701]

Never saw the advantages of the Mattel body; the hips are similar to the Megos, and the body shape, knock knees and floppy waist (painfully apparent in the pics above) make it worse than the Mego body to my eye. The torso detail is about the only advantage, and that's lost under the costume here.

But I don't think ANY body could help that head unless it was 10" scale. That's the worst oversizing yet, making Alfred look small headed by comparison. I may have to do something and replace it with a standard head or modded Barbara to make the figure even displayable. FTC should be ashamed of offering that...

I completely agree with Scott on this. Batgirl was the figure we've wanted most since wave 1, and this effort was poor at best. While we all would have had nerd rage if FTC had said "The figure just isn't where we need it to be yet, so we're delaying it one wave" we all would have appreciated the commitment to the product and the collector. And I know, they probably needed a 4th figure for the wave, but there had to be different options than this abomination.

[scott metzger]

Never saw the advantages of the Mattel body; the hips are similar to the Megos, and the body shape, knock knees and floppy waist (painfully apparent in the pics above) make it worse than the Mego body to my eye. The torso detail is about the only advantage, and that's lost under the costume here.

But I don't think ANY body could help that head unless it was 10" scale. That's the worst oversizing yet, making Alfred look small headed by comparison. I may have to do something and replace it with a standard head or modded Barbara to make the figure even displayable. FTC should be ashamed of offering that...

[Robin NY]

I wanted this but the head just kills me, I would think that they would address this already.......

[The Bat]

That head is still freakin' HUGHE!!

[comicmike]

Are you going to try and shrink the head a bit?

oh yeah, goin' a-shrinkin' ! Incidentally, the back of Yvonne's mask also had more of a pointed-V design in the back at the hairline, so hoping I can redesign the back of the hair a bit too

[Teemu]

Really nice job Teemu. A huge improvement. Was the body swap difficult?

Not too bad....The gloved forearms needed to be swapped (I used the cheetah pins which corrects the looseness).The head peg on the cheetah body needs thickened,otherwise you have a really bad bobblehead.I highly recommend owning a hairdryer,it works wonders when dealing with the parts swap..

The figure looks really good after the swap and great in person

[Gumby01]

Really nice job Teemu. A huge improvement. Was the body swap difficult?

[Teemu]

Swap out the body......The loose arm fix goes away swapping them onto the mattel cheetah body using the pegs.You just need a hair dryer to soften the plastic,then push in the peg.The plastic will stretch once heated enough to get the peg in the hole and then once it cools,the plastic hardens back up and has a nice tight joint after.

[longscarf72]

I got my Batgirl yesterday and opened her up today. I'm ok with her head size to be honest (even though it might actually be a tad bigger than Batman's head), and an eventual mustache comb to her hair hopefully will improve the look. What I am greatly disappointed with is that her right elbow is EXTREMELY LOOSE. Like a limp piece of vermicelli. Can't pose it at all. I'm sure the factory was aware of this as she was set in her package at an angle, propping her elbow up in a kind of action pose. Refer to the pic below to see what I mean. Anyone else have this problem?

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Other than that she looks ok, but I was really hoping to say that she looks awesome--unfortunately that's not the case, especially with those God-awful hips. FTC should really look into fixing that issue.

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[MIB41]

used Mattel Cheetah

Here she is carded (my second one) on cheetah body,custom repackaged Mint on Card

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That looks excellent. So the problem here is the FTC body is too small because swapping it to the Mattel head seems to fix the scale issues nicely. Great work!!!

[dr_cyclops]

Maybe that person did swap the body?
Or the way the cape covers part of the body helps? And the way the belt covers her hips?
Or that person is such a great photographer that he can make look her better?

Maybe it's even a combination of all these things? I don't know.

I doubt the body swap. The rest sounds solid! When I saw said pic, I saw a slimmer full frontal head. Not smaller, just slimmer in the jaw-line. Sadly the profile and size is still an issue as shown in the other pics. Thank you fellow Mego Museum members for your honest opinions!

[Teemu]

Is there any adjusting the belt so it rides on the hips like it should?

Not really...the belt is made of a hard plastic and I notched the belt on the very last notch.You can tilt the belt a little for it to sit a little lower....It's possible that you could maybe modify the belt to open more in the back, allowing it to slide down more on the hips.Maybe using tape of some sort for more loose extension

[thunderbolt]

used Mattel Cheetah

Here she is carded (my second one) on cheetah body,custom repackaged Mint on Card

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Is there any adjusting the belt so it rides on the hips like it should?