Star Wars Black Series May the 4th 2026 Reveals — Every Figure Announced
The Star Wars The Black Series side of Hasbro’s May the 4th 2026 livestream had a clear theme running through it: video games. A lot of this wave comes from KOTOR, The Old Republic, and Battlefront II — which, depending on how long you’ve been collecting, is either exactly what you wanted or a pleasant surprise. Either way, the line is digging into corners of the Star Wars universe that don’t get plastic very often, and a couple of these announcements are long overdue.
There were also two Target exclusive clone commanders that are going to sell out fast and an SDCC set that’s going to be the talking point of the whole reveal.
Here’s everything announced for the Black Series, broken down properly.
Commander Doom — The Clone Wars (Target Exclusive)
Commander Doom is one of the more obscure clone commanders in The Clone Wars roster, and that’s precisely why this announcement will mean a lot to the fans who remember him.
Clone commanders in the Black Series have always had a dedicated audience. The combination of unique markings, distinct personalities, and the tragedy baked into every clone’s story — knowing what Order 66 means for all of them — gives these figures a weight that generic trooper releases don’t always carry. Doom is no different. He commands the Coruscant Guard, the clone unit responsible for security on the Republic’s capital, and appears across several Clone Wars arcs in that capacity. He’s not a front-line battlefield commander in the way Cody or Rex are. He’s the kind of clone who works in the political heart of the Republic, close to the Senate, close to the Jedi Temple, and that positioning gives him a different texture.
His helmet design is sharp — clean white Coruscant Guard base armour with distinctive markings that make him immediately identifiable — and at 6-inch Black Series scale, that kind of detailed paintwork is where the line genuinely excels. Target exclusives can be frustrating to track down depending on where you live, but for Clone Wars completionists, Doom is the kind of figure you make the effort for.
Target exclusive. Pre-orders open May 4th at 10am PT.
Commander Thorn — The Clone Wars (Target Exclusive)
Commander Doom and Commander Thorn are being released together as a pair of Target exclusives, and putting them side by side on a shelf is very much the point.
Where Doom commands in the background, Thorn is one of the Clone Wars’ more memorable on-screen deaths. He appears in the episode Crisis on Naboo and later in The Soft War, but the moment people remember is his last stand — a single Coruscant Guard commander holding off an overwhelming force on his own, going down fighting rather than surrendering. It’s a brief appearance but it’s the kind of scene that sticks. The Clone Wars was good at giving relatively minor characters moments that made you feel their loss.
Like Doom, Thorn wears Coruscant Guard armour — the red-accented white that the unit is defined by — but his specific markings and the context of his death give him a distinct identity within that shared look. These two figures are clearly designed to be displayed together, and Hasbro releasing them simultaneously rather than staggering them is the right call. You don’t want to hunt one down six months after the other.
For clone collectors, this pair covers a corner of the Clone Wars that hasn’t had proper Black Series representation until now. The Coruscant Guard has been underserved at 6-inch scale and these two go a long way toward fixing that.
Target exclusive. Pre-orders open May 4th at 10am PT.
Clone Commando — Star Wars Battlefront II (Fan Channel)
The Clone Commando is described as an all-new sculpt from the ground up, and that matters more than it might sound.
Clone Commandos are the elite special forces of the Republic — small four-man squads, distinct from regular clone troopers, operating behind enemy lines on missions too sensitive or too dangerous for standard units. The Republic Commando video game from 2004 is where most people first met them properly, following RC-1138 “Boss” and his squad through a series of increasingly brutal Clone Wars engagements. That game has a devoted following and a legacy that punches well above its commercial footprint. It’s also the reason the Commando armour — bulkier, more heavily modified than standard clone armour, with the distinct visor — is so iconic to a specific generation of Star Wars fans.
This release is based on the Battlefront II version specifically, in a clean white configuration that strips back the faction-specific paintwork and presents the Commando armour in its base form. New sculpt, new blaster rifle, new backpack. The fact that it’s built from scratch rather than adapted from existing tooling means Hasbro has committed properly to getting the Commando silhouette right at 6-inch scale, and the clean white version is the versatile one — it works alongside Delta Squad, Omega Squad, or any other Commando unit without clashing with specific squad markings.
Fan Channel exclusive, $27.99. For Republic Commando fans who have been waiting for this to happen at Black Series scale, it’s finally here.
Mission Vao & Carth Onasi 2-Pack — Knights of the Old Republic (Amazon Exclusive)
This one is for the KOTOR fans, and if you know, you know.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — released by BioWare in 2003 — is one of the best Star Wars games ever made and one of the best RPGs of its era full stop. Set four thousand years before the films, it follows an amnesiac soldier uncovering a conspiracy that goes deeper than the Jedi-Sith war on the surface. The twist is one of gaming’s most memorable. The world-building is rich, the companions are genuinely well-written, and the game did more to expand what Star Wars could be as a story than almost anything outside the films at that point.
Mission Vao and Carth Onasi are two of your earliest companions. Mission is a young Twi’lek street kid from the Undercity of Taris — sharp, quick, scrappy, somebody who survived on the worst streets in the galaxy through wit and stubbornness. Carth is the Republic soldier who can’t trust anyone because the last person he trusted got his family killed, and he makes sure you know about it at length, but there’s a reason he’s still beloved by the fanbase — the writing eventually earns the trauma. Both characters are from the very beginning of the game and both are essential to what KOTOR is as an experience.
Amazon exclusive 2-pack, $55.99. Pre-orders opening at a later date. For anyone who played KOTOR, this is the kind of announcement that makes you put down whatever you’re doing.
Satele Shan — Star Wars: The Old Republic (Fan Channel)
Satele Shan is from a different era of the Old Republic story — not KOTOR itself, but the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, which launched in 2011 and is still running today.
She’s the Grand Master of the Jedi Order during the events of that game, descended from Bastila Shan — another KOTOR character and one of the most significant Jedi in the Legends continuity. Bastila and Carth’s story in KOTOR ends with them together, and Satele is the result of that lineage, which gives her a direct ancestral connection to the companions in the Mission Vao and Carth Onasi 2-pack being released in the same wave. Displaying them together on a shelf tells a story across thousands of years of in-universe history.
As Grand Master, Satele is one of the central figures of The Old Republic’s Jedi faction story. She’s involved in the peace treaty with the Sith Empire, the return of the Republic’s forces, and the broader conflict that the game’s various class stories play out within. She’s also one of the characters whose story is told in The Old Republic’s promotional cinematic trailers — some of the best-produced Star Wars animation that’s not part of the main canon — which is where a lot of people who haven’t played the MMO know her from.
Fan Channel exclusive, $27.99. Pre-orders open May 4th at 10am PT.
Republic Trooper — Star Wars: The Old Republic (Fan Channel)
The Republic Trooper is the soldier of the Old Republic era, and as a design it’s one of the more interesting pieces of Star Wars military visual history.
The armour sits in a deliberate middle ground between the clone trooper aesthetic of the prequel era and the Rebel trooper look of the original trilogy. This is intentional — the Republic Trooper design was created to show the visual evolution of the Republic military across thousands of years, suggesting a continuity of design language that connects the Old Republic soldiers to the clone troopers who would come later. The rounded helmet, the white-and-grey plating, the general silhouette — it’s recognisably Star Wars military without being any specific era’s signature look, which makes it fascinating as a design artefact.
As a playable class in The Old Republic, the Republic Trooper is one of the game’s most fully developed stories, following an elite special forces soldier through the kind of military campaign that the Star Wars films have always gestured at but rarely shown in detail. The class story is genuinely good and the armour design is one of the most distinctive the game produced.
For army builders and Old Republic era collectors, the Republic Trooper is also a figure that begs to be bought in multiples. The design is generic enough to work as a unit rather than a specific named character, and a squad of these alongside Satele Shan makes for a strong TOR shelf.
Fan Channel exclusive, $27.99. Pre-orders open May 4th at 10am PT.
501st Legion ARF Trooper & AT-RT Vehicle Set — SDCC 2026 Exclusive
This is the one that closed the livestream, and it’s the right choice for that slot.
The 501st Legion is Anakin Skywalker’s clone unit — the blue-marked troopers who appear across the later Clone Wars arcs, in Revenge of the Sith, and whose history in the Battlefront games gave them a fanbase well beyond their screen time. The blue armour markings are iconic. There’s a reason the 501st has one of the most active cosplay and fan communities in Star Wars. These are the clones people know.
The ARF Trooper — Advanced Recon Force — is a lightweight scout variant, wearing a modified helmet and a leaner armour configuration designed for reconnaissance rather than front-line combat. In Clone Wars-era lore they operate ahead of main forces, gathering intelligence, and their more stripped-back look compared to standard clone armour makes them visually interesting at figure scale. A 501st ARF Trooper specifically — the blue markings on the scout configuration — is a combination that works really well.
The AT-RT is the vehicle that makes this set. The All Terrain Recon Transport is a one-man walker, open-cockpit, designed for fast-moving reconnaissance and fire support in terrain too difficult for larger vehicles. You see them throughout The Clone Wars and they’re all over the Battle of Kashyyyk in Revenge of the Sith. At Black Series scale, a properly sized AT-RT with a 501st ARF Trooper rider is a genuinely impressive shelf piece.
SDCC 2026 exclusive, $79.99. Limited quantity on HasbroPulse after the convention. This will be the most in-demand release from today’s entire livestream — plan accordingly.
The Full Picture
The video game focus of this wave is notable. KOTOR, The Old Republic, Battlefront II — Hasbro is going to corners of Star Wars that don’t often get 6-inch treatment, and doing it in a single wave rather than drip-feeding over years. For fans of that era of Star Wars gaming, this is a serious acknowledgement that the audience for those figures exists and is worth serving.
The two Target clone commanders alongside the SDCC AT-RT set means clone collectors also have plenty to work with. And if the Mission Vao and Carth Onasi 2-pack was the last thing you expected to see on a Black Series card this year — same.
Pre-orders are live now through Target for Doom and Thorn, and through Fan Channel retailers and HasbroPulse for the rest. The SDCC set date is San Diego Comic-Con 2026, with HasbroPulse drops to follow.
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