Anakin Skywalker (The Phantom Menace) — Star Wars The Black Series #TPM 02
The Black Series Anakin Skywalker in Phantom Menace child configuration — Phase 4 TPM Collection #02, 2024. The young Jake Lloyd portrait with lightsaber. Fan Channel exclusive. Collector guide.
Overview
Phase 4 TPM Collection #02 is Anakin Skywalker in his Phantom Menace configuration — the child from Tatooine, discovered by Qui-Gon Jinn as a nine-year-old slave who builds pod racers and has Force midi-chlorian levels the Jedi have never recorded. This is the youngest Anakin in the Black Series catalogue — younger than the AOTC Padawan at Red Line #110, younger than any previous configuration. The child who will become Darth Vader, at the moment before his story properly begins.
Fan Channel exclusive. Lightsaber. $24.99. 2024.
The Child Anakin
The specific quality of TPM’s Anakin — a child with extraordinary ability who has grown up in servitude, who understands kindness from Qui-Gon as something unusual rather than expected, whose farewell to his mother is one of the prequel trilogy’s most genuinely affecting moments — is the configuration this figure covers. The lightsaber is technically from later in TPM and AOTC; at the Tatooine introduction, Anakin has no weapon. The figure represents the full TPM Anakin arc rather than a specific scene.
The Jake Lloyd portrait at Phase 4 Photo Real production standard captures the specific young face of the character — the wide eyes, the Padawan braid, the specific child-appropriate proportions that distinguish this figure from all subsequent Anakin releases.
The Most Complete Anakin Arc
The Black Series now covers Anakin Skywalker’s complete trajectory in plastic: TPM child (#TPM 02), AOTC Padawan (Red Line #110), Clone Wars animated (Phase 4), ROTS Dark Side (multiple), Darth Vader (multiple Phase configurations), and the Force Spirit. The TPM Collection #02 is the earliest chronological entry in that arc — the beginning before the beginning.
Fan Channel Exclusive
Available through Fan Channel retailers (GameStop, Entertainment Earth, and similar specialist stores) rather than mass retail. Fan Channel exclusives typically require more deliberate sourcing but remain available at secondary market prices consistent with their retail window.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices. No production variants documented.
Verdict
The youngest Anakin in the line. Buy for the complete TPM Tatooine display or the full Anakin biographical arc in plastic.
The Jake Lloyd Portrait at Photo Real Standard
The Jake Lloyd portrait at 2024 Photo Real production standards provides portrait accuracy for the specific nine-year-old face that the earlier Phase 3 production era couldn’t achieve. Photo Real at child portrait scale is technically demanding — the specific proportions of a child’s face, the eye size relative to head, the specific Jake Lloyd features — and the 2024 production represents the current ceiling for this specific configuration.
Anakin’s Tatooine Arc in TPM
TPM’s Anakin arc covers: the introduction as a slave child with extraordinary pod-racing ability; the Force midi-chlorian reading that shocks the Jedi Council; the farewell to Shmi that is the film’s most emotionally unguarded moment; the Battle of Naboo where he accidentally destroys the Droid Control Ship from inside it. The figure’s lightsaber references the Jedi arc that begins after Tatooine rather than the Tatooine introduction specifically, but the costume — the cream Tatooine clothes — is the specific configuration of the arc’s opening.
Child Anakin and the Weight of What Follows
Displaying this figure with knowledge of the complete Anakin arc — the Padawan at #110, the various ROTS and Vader configurations — creates the specific display argument of the character’s trajectory. The child here, nine years old, has made no choices yet. The choices are all ahead of him. This is Anakin before the story’s cost is paid.
Fan Channel Distribution
Available through specialist Fan Channel retailers. The exclusive distribution doesn’t substantially limit availability but requires more deliberate purchasing than mass retail.
Anakin Skywalker at #TPM 02 is the youngest Anakin configuration in the line’s history — the nine-year-old from Tatooine whose arrival in the Black Series was delayed until Phase 4’s dedicated TPM wave. Fan Channel exclusive. Verify the lightsaber on secondary market purchases. The Photo Real child portrait at 2024 standard. No production variants documented.
The complete TPM Collection display: Jar Jar (#TPM 01), Anakin (#TPM 02), Padmé (#TPM 03), Droideka (#TPM 04), Darth Maul (#TPM 05), Sebulba (#TPM 06). All six figures at 2020-2025 Phase 4 production quality. The child Anakin alongside Darth Maul — the protagonist and the antagonist of TPM’s Duel of the Fates arc — are the display’s most narratively charged pairing.
Child Anakin at #TPM 02 completes the production gap that had persisted since the line began in 2013 — twelve years after the original Phase 1 launch, the youngest Anakin configuration finally arrives. The Phase 4 TPM Collection’s commitment to the complete principal cast includes the character whose age made him technically challenging to produce at 6-inch scale.
The Fan Channel distribution adds acquisition effort; the Photo Real child portrait is the payoff. The specific Jake Lloyd face at 2024 production standards is worth sourcing through specialist channels.
No production variants documented. One release. The lightsaber must be present. Fan Channel sources for new stock.
The child Anakin also represents the only time in the franchise’s narrative where the character’s future is completely open. Every other configuration carries the weight of what happens: the Padawan with the braid knows he loses control on Tatooine; the ROTS Anakin is days from the betrayal; Vader is the betrayal fully realised. The TPM child is before all of it. That specific quality — a character before their story’s cost — is what the figure preserves in plastic.
Fan Channel for new stock; secondary market for immediate availability.
The TPM Collection at six figures is Phase 4’s most complete single-film wave. Child Anakin at #TPM 02 is its emotional centre.
Anakin Skywalker at #TPM 02 is the figure that completes the Phase 4 TPM Collection’s protagonist arc — the first numbered child Anakin, the youngest configuration in the catalogue, the starting point of everything.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 TPM Collection. Related: Jar Jar Binks P4-TPM-01 | Padmé Amidala P4-TPM-03 | The Phantom Menace.