Articulation is pretty standard for the Movie Masters line – they almost all have the same body. The ball-jointed neck works great, there’s another ball-joint at the shoulders, swivels at the biceps, wrists, waist, mid-thigh, hinges at the elbows, knees, and ankles, the 4H hips, and an ab crunch. Everything works like you’d expect and the trench coat is pliable enough that the leg articulation will hold the pose against it.

Gordon sports two accessories. The first one is the same gun sculpt that was included in the original. The 2pk Gordon’s gun was very soft and while this one isn’t that bad, it’s still not as solid as I’d like (you can see the warped barrel in the pic above). Still, it does count as an improvement, I guess. The gun fits into his left hand decently, but it’s not as tight a fit as I would like.

Gordon’s new accessory this time around is an axe! The inclusion of an axe makes me chuckle. It makes sense given the Batsignal piece, but it’s still a funny accessory for him. I’m not knocking it though. Gordon does hold an axe in the second film, so it’s movie accurate, and it means this Movie Masters figure has TWO accessories. The world might just end…

Gordon’s primary selling point is his Batsignal piece. I haven’t gotten to build my Batsignal yet – I’m holding out for a KMart Batman (with the blueprints) and all the stores near me have oddly run out of Bane figures these last couple weeks. I love the idea of the Build-A-Batsignal so I will get around to those two figures (along with the final two when released). I actually wish I could get a non-movie front for it because I think it’s one of the best Batsignals we’ve seen over the years to use for 6″ figures. It’s easily going to get me to pick up a couple MMs I might’ve otherwise passed on.

So, back to Gordon. Walmart exclusives are usually annoyingly cheap, so I have to credit Mattel for not just including a repeat piece (or no piece at all) with this exclusive. That’d be par for the course frankly. But Mattel did us right. They gave Gordon an alternate piece: a shattered front for the Batsignal. Now granted, I’ll be displaying the thing pristine, but that doesn’t make this less fun. It’s a way for me to change up the display and this is something I would’ve absolutely loved as a kid. It’s genius. In addition to the shattered glass front, the ‘metal’ Bat-logo is also included with bits of clear plastic still clinging to it. Which… *gasp* I guess means this Movie Master has three accessories.

Overall, Mattel did a good enough job with this figure that they basically proved their prior 2pk worthless. At this point, I paid $28 to get that Bruce Wayne head for my Batman (never mind that the SS Bruce is still at my TRU for $13 or the fact that the Gordon 2pk is at Walmart for $15 on clearance). That said, it isn’t the first time a later release has given me buyer’s remorse and it won’t be the last either.

Being a Walmart exclusive, this is the only one I’ve seen so far, but it wasn’t a hard decision to pick up. This Gordon trumps the 2pk one all around. The colors are better, the glasses are clear, there are more accessories, and a fun build-a-batsignal piece. I do wish the head sculpt were better and the line on the mouth is begging for removal, but this is the Gordon figure going on my Batman movie shelf. Now if I could just figure out how to get Mattel to make a comic-based Gordon as a Classics figure…