Star Wars Vintage Collection May the 4th 2026 Reveals — Every Figure Announced
May the 4th 2026 turned out to be a genuinely great day to be a Vintage Collection collector. Hasbro’s livestream skipped the obvious path — leaning into the upcoming Mandalorian & Grogu movie — and instead pulled from all over Star Wars history. Prequels, original trilogy, Rogue One, Legends. There’s something here for almost everyone who collects at 3.75-inch, and a couple of these announcements have been a long time coming.
Here’s every TVC announcement from today’s reveal, broken down properly.
Bodhi Rook — Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Ten years. That’s how long Rogue One collectors have been waiting for this one.
Rogue One came out in 2016 and its TVC roster has been filled in gradually over the years — Jyn, Cassian, K-2SO, Chirrut, Baze, Krennic — but the man the entire film depends on has been missing the whole time. Without Bodhi Rook there is no Rogue One. He’s the Imperial cargo pilot who defected, who carried Galen Erso’s message to Saw Gerrera, who made the decision that set every single event in the film into motion. The Rebellion gets the Death Star plans because of him.
Riz Ahmed played Bodhi as a man barely holding it together — anxious, out of his depth, desperately trying to prove he made the right call. He’s not a fighter like Chirrut Imwe or Baze Malbus. He’s not a spy like Cassian. He’s just a pilot who did something that terrified him and then had to live with it in real time, surrounded by people who weren’t sure they could trust him. That tension runs through the whole film.
From a pure collecting standpoint, Bodhi finishes the Rogue One crew. You can finally build the complete team. That’s been a gap in TVC for the better part of a decade and it’s genuinely satisfying to see it closed. Fan Channel exclusive, pre-orders open May 4th at 10am PT.
Plo Koon — The Clone Wars / Attack of the Clones
Plo Koon has been on the want list for a long time and now he’s getting the TVC treatment he deserves.
He’s a Jedi Council member from the prequel era with one of the most recognisable designs in the whole saga — the Kel Dor breathing mask and goggles make him instantly identifiable on any shelf. But the reason people care about Plo Koon as a character rather than just a distinctive silhouette is almost entirely down to The Clone Wars series. The films gave him a handful of Council scenes. The series gave him a personality.
In The Clone Wars, Plo Koon is the Jedi who found Ahsoka Tano as a small child and brought her to the Order. If you follow modern Star Wars storytelling at all — the Ahsoka series, Rebels, everything Ahsoka’s arc has become — that connection traces directly back to Plo. He’s not a footnote. He’s the reason she exists in the story as a Jedi in the first place.
There’s also the Wolfpack, his clone unit, who gave him some of the better character moments in the series — a warmth and protectiveness toward his men that felt distinct from the more detached members of the Council. His death in Revenge of the Sith, shot down over Cato Neimoidia during Order 66 in a ship that can’t eject, lands harder if you’ve watched The Clone Wars. You know what’s being lost.
Fan Channel exclusive. A long-overdue addition to any Clone Wars display.
Luuke Skywalker — The Last Command (Legends)
Right, so — who is Luuke Skywalker, and why does that extra ‘u’ matter?
Before the prequel films, before The Clone Wars, before any of the Disney era, the continuation of the Star Wars saga lived in novels. Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy — Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command — published between 1991 and 1993 was, for a whole generation of fans, what Star Wars looked like after Return of the Jedi. These weren’t side stories. They were the next chapter. Zahn introduced Grand Admiral Thrawn, one of the best villains in the franchise’s history. He gave Han, Leia, and Luke room to grow as adults. He expanded the world in ways that felt true to what Lucas had built.
Luuke Skywalker shows up in The Last Command. Here’s the setup: when Luke lost his hand at Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back, that hand — and the lightsaber it was holding — fell into the shaft. Somebody recovered it. In Zahn’s story, Joruus C’baoth, a deranged Jedi clone, uses the cells from that hand to create a clone of Luke himself. The result is Luuke — spelled with the double ‘u’ to distinguish clones in Zahn’s Legends continuity. He wields the original blue lightsaber and is directed against Luke in the trilogy’s climax as a weapon.
It’s a brief fight, but the image of Luke facing a dark version of himself, fighting to reclaim his own lightsaber, is one of the most memorable moments in Legends fiction.
These novels were declared non-canon when Disney acquired Lucasfilm, which is why the Thrawn Trilogy now lives in the Legends category — the vast library of pre-Disney expanded universe material. But for collectors who grew up reading those Bantam paperbacks in the 90s, getting Luuke on a TVC card is something they genuinely never expected to see. Fan Channel exclusive.
Old Anakin Skywalker (Sebastian Shaw Force Ghost) — Return of the Jedi
This one has a bit of history attached to it, and Hasbro have made a very deliberate choice here.
At the end of Return of the Jedi as it was originally released and as it played in cinemas in 1983, the Force ghost of Anakin Skywalker was portrayed by Sebastian Shaw — the older British actor who also played the unmasked, dying Vader in the same film. Standing alongside Obi-Wan and Yoda at the Endor celebration, it was a quiet, earned conclusion to his redemption arc. For every viewer who saw that film in theatres, and for the home video generation who grew up with it through the 80s and 90s, Sebastian Shaw’s face is Anakin at peace.
The 2004 DVD release replaced Shaw with Hayden Christensen, and that change has never stopped being divisive. The argument for it is that Anakin was redeemed from the fall he took as a young man, so his spirit should return to that age. The argument against it is that it removes the weight of Shaw’s face — the old man who turned back at the very last second — and breaks the visual continuity with the unmasking scene that happened minutes earlier in the same film. Both sides have a genuine case and neither is going away.
This figure is the Shaw version. The theatrical original. For collectors who want the film as they first watched it represented on their shelves — and there are a lot of them — this is the definitive Anakin Force ghost. Fan Channel exclusive.
Clone Commander Phase I — Attack of the Clones / The Clone Wars
Not every announcement needs a ten-year backstory. Sometimes you just need the right figure to finish the display, and the Phase I Clone Commander with yellow markings is exactly that.
The colour-coded clone armour from Attack of the Clones established rank and unit at a glance. Yellow means commander. Phase I is the rounder, bulkier armour design from the very beginning of the Clone War — predating the sleeker Phase II look that dominates later Clone Wars seasons and Revenge of the Sith. It’s the armour from the Geonosis arena. It’s the aesthetic of the Clone War at its start, before the grinding years of conflict changed everything.
For army builders and anyone putting together an AotC-era Geonosis display, a super-articulated Phase I Commander in TVC format is a practical, necessary release. He’s the officer. The figure your standard troopers are supposed to be answering to. The Vintage Collection has always been particularly good at serving army builders — the clone trooper iterations in this line are some of its most celebrated releases — and this Commander slots directly into that tradition.
It’s also worth noting the timing. The Geonosian Warrior 4-pack is in the same wave, and the Republic Gunship is due later this year. A Phase I Commander with yellow markings beside Geonosian Warriors in front of that Gunship is a very good shelf.
Fan Channel exclusive. Pre-orders open May 4th at 10am PT.
Geonosian Warrior 4-Pack — Attack of the Clones / The Clone Wars
The Geonosian Warrior 4-pack is a HasbroPulse exclusive and the most obvious army-builder release in this whole wave.
The set includes multiple Geonosian Warriors with different configurations — winged and wingless variants. That detail is worth a moment: Geonosians have a caste system, and wings reflect it. The warrior caste has them. The lower castes don’t. Having both variants in one set isn’t just visual variety, it’s accurate to how the species actually works in the lore, and it makes for a more convincing Geonosis arena scene when everything is spread out.
The timing relative to the Republic Gunship is deliberate. That vehicle is coming later in 2026. It defines the visual of the Geonosis battle — the first major Clone Wars engagement, the moment the Republic’s army revealed itself to the galaxy. Geonosian Warriors are what the gunship was deployed to fight. Getting these figures into collectors’ hands ahead of that vehicle makes sense, and pairing them with a Phase I Clone Commander from the same wave gets you very close to a shelf-ready Geonosis diorama.
If you collect Clone Wars-era material at all, this set is a straightforward get. Multiple figures, variant builds, a clear display purpose, and well-timed to a major vehicle release. HasbroPulse exclusive. Pre-orders open May 4th at 10am PT.
Anakin Skywalker & Asajj Ventress 2-Pack — SDCC 2026 Exclusive
The San Diego Comic-Con 2026 exclusive is an Anakin Skywalker and Asajj Ventress 2-pack, and this pairing has genuine dramatic weight behind it.
Anakin and Ventress have one of the best rivalries in The Clone Wars. She’s sent repeatedly by Dooku to kill him. He’s the Jedi who keeps stopping her. But what makes their fights compelling isn’t just the combat — it’s that Ventress understands something about Anakin that makes him visibly uncomfortable. He fights like someone who has everything to lose. He fights angry. And Ventress, who was already betrayed by her own master, recognises what that anger means before most people around Anakin do.
Their confrontations in the series are some of the best action sequences The Clone Wars produced, but they’re also two characters who bring out the edges in each other in ways their other battles don’t. Getting both of them in a single TVC 2-pack, in their Clone Wars configurations, is a pairing that’s been worth doing for a long time.
SDCC exclusives always come with limited availability and secondary market pressure, but Hasbro have confirmed a quantity will be offered through HasbroPulse after the convention. If you can’t make San Diego — and most of us can’t — watch the Pulse drops carefully. These will go quickly.
The Full Picture
Look at this wave as a whole and it covers a lot of ground. Legends continuity, a decade-overdue Rogue One character, original trilogy variant debate, prequel-era army building, Clone Wars rivalries. Hasbro didn’t play it safe and stick to whatever the current Disney+ release cycle is pushing.
Bodhi Rook alone would have made this a good May the 4th for TVC collectors. Everything else alongside him makes it one of the stronger single-day reveals in recent memory. Pre-orders are live now through Fan Channel retailers and HasbroPulse. The Fan Channel figures especially — get in early.
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