Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Doppelgangland Willow

The action figure is quite nice, and in very good condition. Only minor complaint is it looks bigger in the picture than I expected, but overall, pretty nice.

It makes me smile every time I look at it and remember that episode. Oh, poor, hilarious Willow, you just can't catch a break.

I currently have nine 6-inch figures of Willow Rosenberg from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," including one where she is wearing a Dingos Ate My Baby t-shirt. What we have here is Willow dressed up as Vampire Willow from the fun filled season three episode "Dopplegangland." There is also a Vampire Willow figure from that episode, and "The Wish," with both decked out in that memorable tight leather outfit ("Wow. Look at those"). The difference between the two is simply the head on top of the figure. Here we have the human face of Willow while the other has Willow in vamp face, fangs bared in an open mouth with blood dripping down her chin.Joss Whedon worte and directed that "Dopplegangland," while Marti Noxon created Vampire Willow when she wrote "The Wish." "Dopplegangland" is probably my favorite Willow episode due entirely to watching Willow pretend to be Vampire Willow with her clandestine high sign to Oz being one of her all time cutest moments (and the look of love he gives her is pretty good too). I also like it when she shows up at the library and wants to know who died (and finds out it was her). There there is also the Vampire Willow moments when she realizes Xander is alive alive, recruits the vampire thugs sent by the Mayor to be her minions, enduring the lecture from Cordelia on stealing boyfriends, and, of course, those priceless moments when she is shot with the tranquilizer gun by the real Willow and then set back to her own dimension at a really, really bad time.Willow has a pretty serious face and her red hair is straighter than what Hannigan was wearing that season, which is my biggest complaint about this particular figure. Beyond that the face is just not as cute as Hannigan. The figure has limited articulation (neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips and knees) and stands on a faux wooden base. There is a hole in the right heel that goes on the blood-covered peg so that the figure stands up right (which is proving to be a problem with the new deluxe action figures of Buffy and Faith). In terms of accessories there is a pair of manacles, a bullwhip, and a box of matches, just like with the Vampire Willow action figure. I was thinking maybe the hands came off so that you could put the manacles on the figure, but that did not prove to be the case. The key thing here is that you have Willow in leather. Besides, you do not have to choose between these two Willows, you can go get them both.