There were two Willows in this wave, 'Chosen' and 'White Witch' - I picked up the Chosen figure as, to be honest, I don't think the white hair is a good look, or even very interesting. I prefer Willow with darker red hair anyway, but the very light copper the 'Chosen' version has is still okay.

As with Kennedy, Will has the same body as all the super-articulated Buffy figures: ball joint neck, shoulders, sternum, hips, double peg elbows and knees, swivel waist, swivel/peg wrists and ankles. Willow doesn't come with a jacket, but as you can see in the photos, she's fully compatible with the alternate arms and jackets used on the Faith and Kennedy figures I have (which is why the hands don't match her lighter skin tone - her normal arms do). Paint on the clothes is pretty good - there are a couple of slightly wonky applications of the stamped design on Will's top, including one on her arm that went over the edge of the painted sleeve and onto her bare skin at the wrist, but nothing you'd notice right away. Her pants are particularly good - just by colour and finish, they look really different to Kennedy's black pants, even though the sculpt is identical.

So far as the heads go, Willow is perfect - seriously, the photo just doesn't so her justice, she's a tiny little Alyson Hannigan. And not just that, but she's Aly playing Willow - her expression is full of character. Sculpt, paint, perfect. Her skin is a touch pale, but then Willow was hardly tanned bronze. There's a lot of fine detail in her hair, and a fairly minor highlight to it, and it works out pretty well. The only real issues with her are that her colour palette is all light colours and tans (not the figure's fault, but there you go), and her hair doesn't extend far enough over her shoulders to hide the ball joints. I eliminated both problems by swapping the jacket onto her - the jacket arm shoulders are much nicer, and the black against her light hair and tan pants looks great.

She comes with a fair few accessories, always a bonus in an age when accessories are the exception rather than the rule. First is the Not-A-Scythe, which Will used in the final episode because, evidently, no-one could figure out anything better than a 'Willow does a spell' deus ex machina ending - it's not really a very fitting accessory for her, but it's worth noting that her legs are versatile enough to have her sit more or less cross-legged, if you want her doing a Scythe spell - the pose doesn't look great, but it works. Besides the Not-A-Scythe she comes with a selection of candles of various designs - one of which is spherical apart from the top where the wick is, so it rolls around unless you stick it down with something - and a terrific laptop. It's white (which means it wouldn't work so well as a generic accessory for other figures), has a fully detailed screen - printed, not a sticker - painted sculpt elements for the keyboard and trackpad, comms ports, power port, and the separation lines for the hard drive and battery pack, and best of all the screen is on a hinge so it opens and closes perfectly. It may be just one accessory, but I'm really impressed by it. (The crate she's on isn't one of her accessories, by the way - it's actually from an earlier Anya figure, the counter of the Magic Box which I turned on its side for Will to kneel on for diorama purposes.)

Word is the Buffy action figure line is drawing to a close, due to poor reception. They were certainly guilty of choosing some odd characters to turn into figures, as well as very lacklustre articulation in the early days - and, when you get right down to it, regular humans in street clothes must have a tough time standing out on the shelves among costumed superheroes and suchlike, so I imagine it was only the real fans who bought many of these. But it'll be a shame to see them go, because Willow here proves that they could turn out truly excellent figures when they really tried.