The last thing I ever expected was to start collecting a new Vinyl figure line. Funko provided me many years of fantastic products. I was an early adopter with the first Funko Force line in 2010 (coincidentally my first purchase was that 2010 SDCC Exclusive silver Batgirl) and I continued gleefully until recently in the last few years when the character selection just stopped being appealing to me (or were so scarce I couldn't obtain them). So I had checked out of the vinyl market and thought I would focus on true action figures going forward. But then at NYCC last October I walked by the Thrilljoy booth and saw this convention exclusive Batgirl '66 figure. Regular readers will know I'm a total sucker for a Yvonne Craig Batgirl. There was miraculously no line and I spontaneously bought her. And within a few months I also bought a She-Ra. I currently only own five Thrilljoy products (one purchased today at Box Lunch), and I'm kind of excited to see what random characters might come next. Let's check out Batgirl below!
These figures come with an outer white box that contains the inner black packaging.
You can't tell the Chase status until you open the outer box and see inside.
In a bizarre choice, the chase figures for Batgirl are entirely different characters. The Chase is Robin and the Super Chase is Penguin. I tend to think Chases should be alternate versions of the same character. Personally, if I got home from NYC and opened this to find one of the chases, I would have been severely disappointed. (Plus I'm sure the more serious Thrilljoy collectors would hate to have two core characters be so hard to get - a blind chase as well as a convention exclusive).
Time for some Comparison Pics!
Here is the larger Batgirl PIX figure with the smaller Batgirl PIXL blindbox figure.
Cheers!
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